Dungeon 23 Project - The Ruins of Mount Auyán (Day 047)

As you make your way back to the stairway through the massive ruins you run across several skeletons (not animated), giant skeletons that would have been about 20' tall in life. That makes you wonder even more about the stairway, since these fellows could not have used it.

Everything about these ruins appears to have been well picked over. You wonder what killed these giants and brought down these ruins. It is what it is, just another mystery, like so many others you have come across, you wonder if there is anyone who knows these tales of long ago. If only the stones could speak. (hint)

Back to the stairway (see this post for info about this stairway). Again you are on Level 100 (UP).

Heading back down the stairway you come to Level 99 (UP) which has one of the landings with eight doors leading away from it. The eight doors are equally spaced around a circular landing.

What do you do? Explore here or continue on down the stairway?

As you pause to think about it, something strikes you as odd and you go back up the stairway, but there is no landings and no ruins, because the stairway now continues on up and it looks like it goes up for a very long way. From where you are you see only stone walls extending up around the stairway and if you go up the stairway 40', 80' 100' there are no landing and the stairway continues much farther than you can see.

What do you do? Up or Down?

If you go up, you will climb for days, perhaps as much as a week, to get to the top and to the ruins you were in just a short time ago. If you go down you will return to Level 99, you can explore there or continue on down the stairway.

What do you do? If you stop at Level 99 for a bit, you will smell a strong reptilian smell and hear the hissing of large snakes.

As you continue on down the stairway, at each Level you will hear sounds or smell smells or both. Eventually you reach ground level again. It is late, so you camp wondering if the stairway will be there in the morning.