Dragon quickstep

[Anastasia]

With a soft sigh the soul passes by and is gone.

Rest peacefully.

[Corwin]

It might've seemed a diversion at the time, but ended up being worthwhile on its own, Seira muses as she waits for the profane graveyard to be cleared.

[Anastasia]

It is quickly cleared.

Yet one piece remains. A glistening, golden scale. A heartscale, a key piece of a dragon's power. It lingers against all odds.

[Corwin]

Seira picks the scale up! It probably represents the draconic spirit that was able to pass, she muses, making her way back up again.

[Anastasia]

You return back. Where are you going now?

[Corwin]

There was a third room in the standard progression of them that she scouted out before. Now it is time to proceed into it and methodically clean that up!

Besides, since that's where the three azer came from, there might be more for her to deal with.

[Anastasia]

Save for the animal heads, the room seems empty. There's two doors ahead, one north and one east.

[Corwin]

Seira confirms that the animal heads are not blocking any sort of trap door, floor rune or the like, as well as checking room for magic. If nothing is out of the ordinary, she proceeds to check the door to the north for traps and then listens next to it to try and tell whether someone is on the other side.

[Anastasia]

The room's normal. The door to the north and east are both blocked with alarm spells to alert others that they've been opened, unless opened by a fire subtype creature.

Both doors are quiet.

[Corwin]

Seira is a fire subtype, as it happens, so she opens the northern door and keeps an eye out to take down any sneaky alarms that exist beyond the obvious.

[Anastasia]

The next room is small - just a stairway going up. No guard or anything, but an ancient plaque is hung on the wall near it.  Several other doors are here - one north, one east and one west.

[Corwin]

Seira covers herself with a Veil of the last azer she came across, and then glances at the plaque.

[Anastasia]

It reads: Do not go further below without a guide.

[Corwin]

Donald, the plaque says not to go below without a guide, but the stairs only go up. What do you think's up with that? Seira queries, even as she checks the remaining doors in the small space for traps.

[Anastasia]

That means there's stairs hidden somewhere here, or in a nearby room.

The doors all have the same fire subtype alarm on them.