Seherab quickly raises and fires his crossbow, striking the statue!
Teos just manages to tumble past the statue, but fails to grab it!
Ankhef orders the huecava to distract the statue, which it does!
Ankhef then darts forward, dodges a swing from the statue, and then trips it!
Seherab also knows that graven guardians are resistant to magic, and can self repair.
Harkuf steps back and begins to summon an ally!
From the ground, the statue swings at the party with its staff, but only manages to hit Ankhef.
Seherab fired his crossbow through the crowd!
The dwarven monk stomps on the ground multiple times, hoping his interti can carry him through the creatures defenses.
Ankhef grunts in pain as the creature hit's Ankhef.
Ankhef commands his pet to aid his defense.
Ankhef himself stabs.
Seherab fires his crossbow, but misses!
Teos punches the statue twice, doing a little damage.
Ankhef's huecava distracts the statue, while Ankhef stabs at it, but his spear merely glances of the stone!
Harkuf's summons appears as an eagle and attacks the statue, but it fails to land a strike!
Harkuf swing the found flail(?)
The statue swings from the ground once more, and destroys the summoned eagle in one swipe!
As you watch, some of the stautes damage repairs itself!
Teos grunts, annoyed at his ineffectiveness. He swings at the thing once again.
Seherab fires another precious adamantine-blanched bolt at the statue!
Teos hits the statue twice, chipping away at it!
Seherab fires his crossbow, but can't find an open shoot on the prone statue!
Ankhef and his undead both aid Harkuf's next swing with the adamantine flail.
Harkuf swings, but misses!
Ankhef and his minion try to distract the statue!
The statue stands and swings again!
The staff swings in an arc and bashes Harkuf!
Teos attempts to grab the creature again.
Seherab fires another adamantine bolt!
This time Ankhef and his Huevica will help Teos in an attempt to subdue the critter.
When he next has a chance to dart in, Teos will attempt to grab the beast again.
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Teos punches the statue as it rises, but can't grab it!
Harkuf smashes the flail on the statue as it stands, but misses with his second swing!
Seherab fires and misses again!
Ankhef dstracts the statue!
Upon standing, the statue swings its staff, and manages to connect the second time, hitting Harkuf!
Teo takes advantage of the statue's distraction, and grapples it!
"Blast this contraption!"
Ankhef and his Hueveca help Teos pin the creature.
"Everybody hold it down!"
Harkuf heals himself, while Seherab fires another errant bolt.
Ankhef and his minion pile onto the statue, trying to aid in holding it down.
The statue drops it staff and begins trying to pound its stony fist into Teos' head, landing two heavy blows!
Teos reels under the blows but stands.
He goes for the pin.
Seherab fires again!
Teos slides his legs, then his arms around the statue, pinning it arms down!
Seherab steps up and places his crossbow against the thing's head and fires, blowing away half of it!
Harkuf steps up and smashes the other half with flail!
"That was nasty. I'll have to pick up some more adamantine blanch in town when we're done. Let's make some quick notes of this room and then head on."
Teods stands up, bloody but triumphant. He only staggers a little.
3 charges
Ankhef gets wanded as well.
After healing, the party moves through the eastern doors. Two halls strech out in front of you, one going east and one going south. Double doors can be seen at the end of each hall. Everyone notices a concealed door in the north wall, near Seherab.
Seherab looks over the concealed door for traps before leading the way in.
Seherab says, "Yes, I've used both of my curing extracts for the day. Let's rest after we see what is behind this door."
Ankhef nods.
Finding no traps, Seherab opens the concealed door. Inside, a stone effigy of a humanoid figure stands at the north end of this room, its arms spread in a gesture of supplication, or as if commanding an object to rise in the air. The figure’s face is devoid of detail, with only vague contours where the eyes and nose should be. An extensive series of hieroglyphs covers the western wall, opposite a stone bench that stands against the eastern wall.
The Ancient Osiriani hieroglyphs on the western wall are written in a poetic style in an ancient dialect and are particularly difficult to follow, but read as follows; Woe to you who would plunder the Reliquary of the Thrice-Divided Soul. Turn away, lest the harsh judgment of the Forgotten One fall upon you and your descendants for a thousand generations. Turn away, for his ka cannot be appeased and it shall call forth legions of the dead and the damned. Turn away, and may the All-Seeing Eye and the Lady of Graves take pity on you, for if not, the Forgotten Pharaoh shall consume you, body and soul.
Ankhef points to the recent bloodstains on the floor. "Whomever walked ahead of us here, did so recently and in great pain."
Seherab nods, "Yes. Perhaps they did not heed the warnings on the walls."
Seherab translates the hieroglyphs out loud and then explains, "The "ka" is one component of the ancient Osirion concept of the soul, which was divided into five parts. The ka contained a person's "vital spark", that which distinguishes the living from the dead."
Teos pauses as he squints at the door. He points out some faint traces of writing around the door.
"Writing" he signs.
"I don't recognize it," Seherab says as he squints beside his silent companion.
"As much as I would like rest," Seherab whispers, "we need to find the intruders. Let's keep going."
Unless he can find any tracks indicating where they went, Seherab moves along to the next door and checks it for traps before leading the way inside.
Ankhef and his hueveca nod.
Teos, as usual, defers to the wiser heads of his peers.
Moving to the doors to the east, Seherab opens them to reveal, a large silver summoning circle inlaid in the floor tiles near the center of this octagonal chamber. In the northeast corner of the room, a set of narrow steps leads up to a raised dais. A concave stone bench, almost a throne, perches atop the dais, flanked by two bronze braziers. Four columns carved in the form of fantastic creatures support the room’s vaulted ceiling, a hawk-winged woman, a decidedly feminine cloud, a skeletal spellcaster, and an angelic creature.
As everyone moves into the room, two of the coulmns begin moving toward the party!
The columns lumber forward and attack, one managing to land a blow on Seherab.