Grabbing the backpack strap and following Orion's lead through the winding tunnels, Tom decided that things would turn out better than he had thought. Sticking together was definitely the best way to progress through the maze.
Coming across the large room and feeling the backpack being yanked from his hand, he took a look around. Cobwebs and dust covered the once glorious tiled floor, now cracked, pieces missing from elaborate mozaics. Marble pillars reached to the ceiling; some with chunks missing, others broken completely, lying nearby like fallen trees. Walking up to the plinth, he examined the map that spread before him. A yellow square drew his gaze to a room that resembled the one they were standing in. He also noticed a red dot, and a green arrow pointing out of an open ended corridor - presumably the exit. The red dot must have been their starting point.
As for the location of the sceptre, no other markings could be seen. Perhaps it was at the exit, or even hidden somewhere in or beneath this room. He also noticed some text, scrawled in ancient Greek lettering. He couldn't make head or tail of it.
"Andromeda?" he called, remembering her familiarity with the ancient Greek myths painted on the first ceiling. "Do you think you can make sense of this writing here? It's all Greek to m..." the rest of his sentence trailed off into a fit of giggles at his own joke. "Sorry, that was terrible."
He turned back to the map and looked over it again. "It would be good if we can take this with us. I wonder if the game will allow that?" he thought aloud. Fumbling with the corners of the aged parchment, he found a nail holding it in place. Making sure everyone had finished looking at it, he prized it out with his thumb and forefinger, and peeled back the corner, anticipating something hidden underneath. He found nothing, and with a slightly disappointed sigh, he continued prizing the other three nails out. His task complete, he rolled up the map and put it under his arm.
"Let's go," he announced, bluntly. The sooner they were out of this dingy labyrinth, the better.