"Have fun exploring the ruins!" her total asshole of a Master shouts down. "Contact me when you've found something interesting!"

How about this extremely pointy collection of stones she's landed on? They've certainly grabbed her attention.

Probably her grumbled, muffled invective doesn't make it all the way up there, but her expression does a fine job.

"And the more interesting your find, the greater your reward will be."

Grrrr.

Sidious is lucky Salacis thinks she's so pretty.

Smirk.

"Remember what you've learned," she warns, still far too amused, and the ship begins lifting away from her apprentice.

Terrible. Horrible. Worst master ever.

Salacis starts wriggling free of her binds, then remembers that she has lightsabers. She summons one of her beskar-plated blades to her hand and snips through the connecting rope in a fuchsia blaze. Springing to her feet, she stretches out and starts looking around. (She's going to leave the gag in, just for fun.)

The area she's been dropped on is a red, dusty plain. There's ruins rising in the distance, the rubble of buildings of clay brick tumbled at the feet of an imposing black pyramid, so dark that it reflects none of the hazy light. It's not very tall - that feels odd, like this thing should dominate the landscape, the planet, not sit in a sea of clay dust.

There's not much else, especially not interesting. The scraggly outlines of what might be trees a good distance away from the ruins, some rock formations...

All right, well. That's probably a Clue. Not like she was dumped here randomly, after all. So something... inside the pyramid, probably. She's got some walking ahead of her.

She scoops up her other tonfa and heads pyramidwards.

The distance is farther (and hotter, and dustier) than it looks. Hopefully she remembers her training on pulling on the Force for endurance (or speed, even).

The ruins... Don't seem that interesting, really. Lots of crumbled bricks, some faded evidence of carvings in a script or with stylized motifs Salacis doesn't recognize, some small metal objects, fragments of broken pots... They're a bit weird, though. Like all the houses just folded in on themselves.

The pyramid doesn't have any glaringly obvious entrances, even once she gets closer.

Once it's clear how far she'll have to go, she does draw on the Force to get her there healthy and in good time. Free tanning session, given her lack of clothes.

She pokes idly at the ruins as she passes, memorizes a couple instances of the carvings just in case. She circles the base of the pyramid once, looking for doors. And if that doesn't yield results... she'll try climbing it.

No visible doors, no.

She's not really able to get purchase to climb it, though. It's pretty bizarrely smooth.

Hrrrmmm okay back to the base. Any kind of... carvings, suspicious indents, caves in the ground?

There's some differences in the rubble piles - and she gets a creeping sense of unease when she's exploring one particularly destroyed section, where it looks like the roads suffered a lot of damage, too, not just the buildings. The ground's uneven, almost sagging.

Hmmmm.

What if she back up a reasonable distance, levitates this handy chunk of rock over there and... drops it!

Thud!

And then there's a little shiver, a shake - and the ground starts collapsing.

She should maybe get a bit more distance. Maybe.

Yep! Back back back she is scrambling backwards.

The sinkhole stops eventually - and she gets clear of it.

That's a pretty massive hole, really. It goes straight to the edge of the pyramid, spreads most of the way along that edge, and then arcs out in a half circle. It looks deep, too - and she can see more of the pyramid now, though she can't see where the bottom of the edge of the sinkhole nearest her is, not when she's this far from it.

Ha! Just like she planned it. Time to see if there's anything more like a way in further down the hole.

Nothing in clear line of sight - but she can't see all the way to the bottom. She could jump in, though.

In she jumps!

She falls a very long way. (It's pretty lucky she just got a refresher on slowing herself with the Force, actually. That fall would've been fatal several times over otherwise.)

And the bottom is, of course, pitch black - she lands on a rough pile of clay dirt and shards of brick, going by the feel and also the sudden cloud of cloying dust.

That was probably predictable, given what was on the surface, now collapsed down here. Salacis coughs around her gag, waving the dust away from her face.

She spins her left-hand weapon around so the blade points away and ignites it, holding it high to use as a flashlight.

There's: a lot of rubble!

...And possibly an indent over there, at the base of the pyramid. Or the top of one; it's covered by rubble.

Perfect. Now all she has to do is clear enough rubble to get at it.

Which is, uh, a lot easier to say than do but there's no one to help but her so she'd best get to it.

The pile's pretty unsteady, and also extremely deep and contains a lot of small bits that look and feel like they should be more similar than they are, and every move sends up a cloud of clay dust. Her Master would probably call it a good exercise.

Salacis does, however, gradually get enough of the opening clear that she can see most of what's probably a set of double doors.