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Athan reached the top of the stairs just as Dzan dropped down into the hole, leaving Athan all alone at the top of the palace.

It definetly looked like there had been some sort of scuffle going on, or a whole lot of horrible luck. There weren't any bodies, but there was a ton of collateral damage.

"So..."

Athan reached up and pulled off his helmet, finding it easier to investigate whatever the hell just happened with a full field of vision.

"Guess we better start going up."

And Athan started walking, pretty much following step-for-step the crew of the Sabre as they went on their looting spree from earlier.

Athan donned his helmet once he found an appropriate path through the upper reaches of the dome. And, barring any sort of traps or super distracting shiny objects, he'd probably just make a rather uninteresting arrival at the top of the palace, where all sorts of scorch marks, holes, and molten treasure waited for him.

Reaching into his sash Draug pulled out the stolen drugs and looked at them. It was very tempting to just shoot up now; but there was the potential for a fight and he didn't want to be numb for that.

Something interesting was needed or Draug was going to shoot up.

The splashes were faint enough, but Athan was the next room over, just stepping in through a hole in the wall. The hole in the floor went largely unnoticed as Athan went about his little detective work. The current room looked like someone had let off a bomb inside of it, with slagged treasure and giant holes littering the place.

"Well, looks like this is where the party went down."

He'd peek his head into the next room over and, barring anything interesting going on there, he'd turn his attention back to the hole in the floor.

"Nope."

Athan turned away from the second hole in the wall and dropped to one knee at the hole in the floor's edge. Not being a particular fan of heights, Athan peeked over the edge and looked down the hole.

He could definetly hear things going on down there, the echoing alone was pretty intense. Unfortunately, it was dark outside and Athan couldn't see that far into the hole, so he stood up and disappeared into the rooms they had just come from.

Athan came back carting a certain golden shield, and without making a huge deal of the thing, just tossed the shield into the hole.

That image in Vahn's eye was going to get bigger. Because Athan was coming.

"Party time."

Swallowing his pride and his fear, Athan dubbed the distance to be safe enough to fall. He locked his sword in place, stepped over the hole, then dropped down.

The fit was a pretty tight squeeze for someone like Athan, especially in full armor and carrying his sword. Thankfully the tight squeeze was doing wonders for slowing his descent, so it didn't feel like he was going to die any time soon as he plummeted to the sewers below.