41. Sitting Room

The first thing you notice about this room is the sound of music... though you can't identify the source, you can plainly hear stringed instruments playing a stately march. This room is furnished as a sitting room, with several comfortable chairs, a small table with a book lying on it, a large rug, and a variety of paintings and wall hangings. In addition, you see a pair of statues depicting a curly-haired little girl playing with a hound dog. The statues are a girl, Shiali, daughter of the sculptor Lirekos, and one of the Duke's hunting dogs. They were petrified by Khaadk's magic. The music is coming from an enchanted painting of string quartet that plays when you clap and say "Play" and stops when you clap and say "Stop." It's been playing since the occupants were turned to stone. The instructions for starting and stopping the music are written on a piece of paper glued to the back of the painting. The book on the table is a romance novel, of no particular value to the adventurers.