The room where you gain access to the under-crypt has changed. So has the words you must speak.

[Graveyard, Crypt]
This room is a square space with plain stone walls on three sides composed of virtually seamless granite blocks. The far wall draws your attention immediately. Before it stands a black onyx tablet, nearly tall enough to touch the flat ceiling.

Obvious exits: west

Present - The tablet is of black marble, streaked faintly with white veins. Engraved in the stone is a mystical symbol which is beyond your comprehension. Draped atop the slab, and wedged between it and the wall so it cannot be removed, is a long strand of modwir wood beads.

The beads are intricately carved and threaded on a thin length of spider silk. They are covered with the dust and cobwebs of the ages.

Past - There were some windak beads, which you could examine more closely.

This is one of the strands used by The Dark Path - the state cult created by Bandur. According to the Tomes, "Followers of The Dark Path engaged in many heinous ritual practices beneath a genteel facade of prayer, meditation, contemplation and cultivation of physical perfection. They were ostentatious in their devotions, carrying around long rosaries of windak beads and reciting out loud the Iylarian phrase `Kadaena Throk Farok.'

To gain access to the under-crypt you would have to speak that phrase.

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