Nope keep walking ignore the naked lady. Target not acquired. if there's a door that exits this room lets go to it.

Martha puts her arm up before Briella moves ahead. “We don’t know the terms of this one yet. If we walk blindly, something may happen. Let’s take a moment to think how to avoid it.”

As he approaches  the center Bors  collects some of the silk scraps, medium to large

"I can hear you.." A soft, calm, voice announces, slowly. "Come closer. Do not be afraid."

OOC: What, no picture of this to post?!  🤪

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OOC: What, no picture of this to post?!  🤪

“Before we do. What’s your schtick? The last two trapped us inside paintings, how do we know you won’t do the same?”

Standing far away, Imryll calls out to Chronia: “Hail and well met, madame. Are you per chance an oracle of time?”

The center of the beam of light that shines upon the pedestal shows Chronia resting on a stone, slowly drinking what appears to be a glass of wine.

"I am alone. So very alone. I wish no harm to anyone, merely to talk to another being. I am cursed since before this universe was created." She toys with a dress on the floor made of silk. She drapes it around her, only for it to deteriorate in less than a minute. "I am Chronia Torn. I am one of the Triarchy."

A very strange sensation can be felt being even this far from her presence. It's like nothing you've felt before.

“Oh! You’re one of the women that we heard about! The one that Strahd disposed and imprisoned! That right?”

"Chronia Torn?  As in, 'time torn'?  How is it that you're still alive, if you've been here since time immemorial?"

Who is she?  History check: 10

What's that weird tingling inside of me?  Insight check: 3

"I have been imprisoned here for a long time." She says. "I am older than all the stars in the sky, born in an age before reality and time as you understand it. Yet, there are creatures older still..the one who imprisoned me.." She remains quiet for a moment, remembering.

She picks up a book, shows it to you, and before you very eyes - it moulders and turns to dust, slowly.

"Come closer so I may see you more clearly. All I want is to know another being passing through. You cannot imagine my solitude."

You have never heard of a being or entity named Chronia Torn before. But the weird tingling you feel is difficult to put into words. It's as if she is radiating time itself. 

Next to her is a vial of glass. Inside are little beads. They look like tears.

“I’m sure, I’m sure. How about this. One of us takes one step closer, you have to answer one of our questions.That fair?”

"I will not harm you, and no harm can come to me. I agree to your terms."

“Great.” Martha takes one step forward. “What all is destroyed by your touch?”

OOC: Also, Crispy, how many steps away are we from being in touching distance?

At the next break in the discussion between Martha and Chronia, Imryll will ask Chronia (from a distance!) "Madam, I'm so sorry for your cursed existence.  I too understand loneliness, but I couldn't fathom the amount of loneliness you have had to endure.  Do you know how the curse could be lifted?"

You are well over 20 feet away. You are safe.

"It is not necessarily by touch." She explains. "My curse is that everything around me withers and decays. Everything. Think of it like an aura I constantly emanate and control."

“I see.” Martha waits for her to answer Imyrll.

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At the next break in the discussion between Martha and Chronia, Imryll will ask Chronia (from a distance!) "Madam, I'm so sorry for your cursed existence.  I too understand loneliness, but I couldn't fathom the amount of loneliness you have had to endure.  Do you know how the curse could be lifted?"

"Your sisters?  Perhaps we've run into them - what are their names?"