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Mistral looks up, startled by Larry's sudden speech. She had been pondering over this "simple game" and a smile had crept onto her lips. She walks over to him and points to the urns ~ "I don't think the riddles refer to real physical keys. You see, nightshade, being deadly in nature, is a poison. And mummies, as we all know, carry diseases which they contaminate others with."
Her eyes twinkle ~ "The key to this red urn would be to cure the poison, and the key to the black one would be to cure disease." ~ Pausing for a moment, she continues ~ "The riddle says to reverse the keys. So...let's see what happens..." ~ Fishes out a potion each of cure poison and cure disease. She places the cure disease potion in the red urn, and the cure poison potion in the black one.
For a moment, there is complete silence. Then, the wall directly behind the kneeling figures begins to rotate, the ground shaking violently all the while... the wall turns to a perpendicular angle to reveal another passage ahead.
"Shall we?"
[This message has been edited by mistral4543 (edited 10-28-2001).]
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