Littering the tiled floor of this archaic museum are hundreds of

statues, artifacts, and oddities, all ruined or smashed. Anything of

value was stolen long ago from this gloomy hall. All that remains of

the museum's fineries are decaying ceiling paintings. In the centre of

the chamber here is a conspicuous bare patch of floor, the rubble

apparantly having been cleared away. Soot finely coats the patch, and

a strange exotic smell fills the air.