You decide to proceed into the next room and walk to the north end of the room and tug on the handle for the door, at first nothing happens and then you tug harder, there is a faint grinding noise and the door starts to rise into the ceiling. You raise your torch high and approach the slowly opening door. Inside you can see a large chamber measuring some forty feet wide and stretching north beyond the twenty foot radius your torchlight sheds, you feel a faint draft much as you had in the great hall upstairs and straining your eyesight you think you can make out a stone grating set in the ceiling, although this one is not at the right height to be the underside of the one set in the floor above, possibly they are linked by a shaft.

You can see from where you are standing that the room contains at least two long stone tables, both of which seem to be bare of any contents, you can't be sure but you think there may be two more tables further back in the darkness of the room. At the very edge of your torchlight you think you can make out doors set into both the east and west walls of the chamber.

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