*I enter and see blood and ichor on the floor from the doorway* *I curse, and brake into a run across the cavern* *monsters and humans alike lie dead on the floor* *I break into a sprint, and pass many caverns, the scene the same* *I see a light, and sprint towards it* *it comes from a door that was left ajar, and I enter* *a man lays burnt and asphyxiated on the bed in the room* *a stone altar is present in the corner of the room* *the item it bore is missing* *I throw a table across the room* Dammit! He got here before me! Zec, he has taken Thoron. I must be after him at once! *I run out the door, out of the cave, back to the bar*