{"type":"location","location":{"title":"The Outer Vestibule","description":"You emerge from a narrow shaft carved through salt crystal, your eyes adjusting to the glow of chemical lamps strung along the cavern walls by the archaeological team. Before you stretches an enormous underground chamber, its vaulted ceiling lost in shadow forty feet above. The air is dry and cool, carrying the faint mineral scent of ancient salt.\n\nTo your left and right, towering shelves carved directly from the salt walls stretch into darkness, laden with clay tablets, papyrus rolls, and bound volumes whose materials you cannot immediately identify. The script covering every visible surface is unlike anything in your years of study—not cuneiform, not Arabic, not any Persian script you recognize. The symbols seem to shift slightly in the lamplight, as if reluctant to be fully observed.\n\nDirectly ahead, perhaps two hundred feet distant, the chamber opens into a vast central space. Even from this distance, you can make out a massive sealed door of black stone, utterly incongruous in the salt mountain. Even from here, you can see that warnings are carved across its surface in multiple languages. Your heart quickens.\n\nBehind you, the Kurdish team leader Nasrin checks her equipment before departing. 'You have three days,' she reminds you quietly. 'We cannot stay longer.' Her footsteps echo as she returns to the shaft, leaving you alone with the weight of centuries.","suggestedActions":["Examine the nearest shelf of texts to study the unknown script","Walk toward the central chamber and the sealed door","Search the vestibule for any items or clues left behind","Call out to see if anyone else is in the library"],"conversation":"tm62to4s1fohg2euajs8"},"conversationLength":1,"maxFreeConversationLength":10}