Zohreh admires the loot. "Perhaps this is why Shelyn wanted me in the ruins," she says, following Varisia and casting Guidance on herself.
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'As long as no one asks us to throw anything, I think we'll be alright. Shall we?' Varisia doesn't wait for a reply before pressing in to the small outbuilding attached to the main structure.
"Hey Varisia - Catch! It's your share of the loot."
Jandar tosses a pouch containing some of the coins to the Scarab-man.
Varisia turns to snatch the bag out of the air
'Thanks, maybe I can get us a block and tackle and hire a team to get that chariot out of the other tomb.' He turns back to checking out the room.
As you look around, you notice that Zariya and Nenet appear to have been swallowed by a giant dung beetle that winks at you before disappearing. Perhaps Khepri (the god of dung beetles and peasants) disapproved of his namesakes being burned and covered with acid?
rolling stealthy stealth . Varisia notices a giant ugly spider thing on the ceiling.
link ugly camel spider
The room is a pantry lost to the ages of Martha Stewart.
Oh yeah xp is at 3000 at this point.
Varisia attempts to back out of the room without being set upon by the spider. He wracks his brain trying to determine if the spider might remain docile if left alone.
'There's a spider on the ceiling, .' He says, attempting to keep his voice down.
Nope they eat anything they can catch.
The spider just kind of hangs out. It's smaller then any of you are and you have a dog bigger then it is.
"Aw, it's not doing anything. It probably eats those beetles. Unless it attacks us, I say we leave it."
Zohreh hefts her glaive in a manner that suggests the spider will not like the consequences if it does try to attack.
'Hang back, let me see if there's any reason to dislodge it. I agree, no need to kill the thing if we don't have to. We are invading it's home after all.' Varisia creeps back towards the door of the room and scans the room for anything of interest, on guard in case the spider attacks.
Zohreh peers in as well.
There appears to be a door to the west, but nothing else other then the spider.
Varisia carefully backs away from the spider's abode.
'I think we can leave him be, hopefully we can find the other door there and be sure. Let's check one of these other entrances.' Varisia approaches the doors to the space below b19. He inspects the doors before attempting to open them.
You find nothing in front of the door.
Varisia opens the double doors and checks for trouble before entering the ruined building.
Varisia enters the small room and checks the room to the north .
Zohreh is impressed as Varisia melts away into the shadows. I'd just ruin that... She hangs back and keeps an eye out in case a hazard pops up.
Varisia has gone forward stealthed, yes. The rest of the group is in B10 at present.
For Varisia....
Two stone tables sit against the western wall of this room,
while a third occupies the southeastern corner. A small, square
wooden butcher's block stands in the northeast corner, now
almost collapsing under its own weight. A stone oven sits in the
middle of the north wall. A humanoid skeleton lies beneath the
northwestern table, surrounded by smashed crockery. A door to
the east and an open doorway to the south exit the room.
Varisia takes one more quick look around for any signs of danger.
He then retraces his steps to his companions.
'I think I found a kitchen just inside. Looked clear but might be worth poking around. Looks like someone was bludgeoned by some earthenware some time ago.' He says, before turning back to properly explore the room and waving for the group to follow him.
Looking more closely at the skeleton,(which doesn't animate), it appears it has a very rusty kitchen dagger shoved between its ribs. Otherwise the kitchen is clean.
'Looks like whoever bludgeoned him either started or finished him with this.' Varisia says while carefully removing the dagger from the bones. He gives it a quick look-see to determine if it's worth salvaging.
Nope, it's junk.
Varisia stands and moves to the oven. Using the rusted dagger, he pokes around in whatever detritus remains inside.
Looking up from his exploration he notices Jandar-Ki has moved off.
'Now, where'd that elf get off to?' The archaeologist begins searching for the time thief.
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The oven appears have not been used in over 2500 years. Varisia finds nothing.
Working on room description for Jandar-Ki.
Jandar-Ki sees this to the south.
Hieroglyphs and images of fantastic beings cover the walls of
this small room. A small stone shrine, dusty and thoroughly
defaced, stands against the eastern wall
Zohreh follows Jandar-Ki and tries to determine what god the shrine might have been dedicated to, with a little help from her girl Shelyn.
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"Maybe once we've done our rounds of this place, I should bring over some parchment to make etchings. I bet the girls at the church would love to see this."
After the combined research of Jandar and Zohreh, the hieroglyphs and images reveal the chamber is an ancient shrine to three of the chief gods of the ancient Osiriani pantheon: Osiris, Ra, and Maat (goddess of justice and law). It has been recently defaced and a number of angry scribblings have been made in an unknown language across the shrine.
'What's this I hear about Shelyn school girls?' The Archaeologist says as he enters the room.
'Well, well, well, what have we here?' He says making his way over to the hieroglyphs. He runs his hands over the carvings until he gets to the defaced parts and tuts softly to himself. 'Some people have no respect for history or art.'
He turns his attention to the scrawlings across the shrine. 'What were you so angry about?' He says studying the rough graffitti.
The gods! The cursed gods! May they burn in the pit of Abbadon forever! May their temples fall apart and be buried under the desert of despair! Burn! Pillage their priests and make bloody bones of all of their loved ones! Burn! Burn! Burn! and so on. It appears to be some angry variant of Infernal.
'You may not want to etch this part, Zohreh. Maybe try to recreate what it once was instead.' Varisia makes a halfhearted attempt to rub away the markings. He takes a quick look around the room...
before moving on to the room to the south.
Lucky you, Varisia. You have a found a privy, complete with a headless corpse that looks fairly recent.
Sitting up right no less on one of the privies.
"If you ever want an introduction to the clergy..." says Zohreh.
She frowns at the graffiti on the shrine and wipes at it.
"This is fairly new. Who could have done this?"
Following Varisia, she finds a possible answer to her own question. Wrinkling her nose, she steps closer to attempt to determine the cause of death.
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'Perhaps they'll be willing to help consult if we find anything really fantastic in here.' Varisia says as he moves into the next room.
'Hopefully we don't see any movement out of him.' He watches as Zohreh examines the corpse. The archaeologist moves to help manipulate the corpse as needed.
The corpse appears to have died from strangulation about 3 years ago, and the head severed by some form of circular object surrounding the neck.
Next on Osirian CSI: Headless corpse found in privy. Murder or tragic plumbing accident? You make the choice!
'Well, that do you think Zohreh? Did he die before or after his haircut?' He returns the corpse to it's sitting position and dusts off his hands.