SENTINEL - the tomb

Beni enters the Tomb 35 and meets the holographic avatar of the Tastan woman whose tomb it is. The mysterious people who created these amazing hi-tech tombs were able to upload the personality of the tomb's occupant into its defense system. Are these the occupants themselves, coded into the structures as actual entities, or just simulations? No-one can be sure.

The avatar of Tomb 35 - what is known as an 'intercept' - appears as a beautiful woman named Tamara. She has become something of a legend among Beni's people as the Dormeuse, or Sleeping Woman. Having teased Beni a little, even offering to let him go free if he turns back immediately, they introduce themselves to each other, though Beni knows that any such gentle and kindly behavior is also part of a careful defense strategy.

Like all Tastan tombs, Tomb 35 is a series of chambers connected by conventional doors and teleportation portals, and usually featuring 'samplings' of the special domains the owner cherished in life. Located within each arrangement of chambers will be a central 'chamber' where the occupant's actual remains are said to be housed. Because in life these sampled domains were inevitably different from owner to owner, no Tastan tomb is identical to another. It is because of the nature of the samplings in this particular tomb, and the legendary ruthlessness of the Dormeuse defense program itself, that Tomb 35 is so feared.