Sharing a look with Sienna signaling her readiness, Sādhanā cleanly severs the spawns head from it's body.
Sienna douses the head in holy water. "Alright, let's take a look at that last mausoleum."
Ylrhea nods and heads over to the doors of the large mausoleum. Expecting a trap, she takes her time inspecting.
Ylrhea determines the doors are locked and trapped with magic.
Ylrhea informs the group of what she discovered. "I can try to disarm it."
Celia steps forward to rest a hand on Ylrhea's shoulder whispering a prayer. "A little extra guidance never hurts." she says moving backward.
Ylrhea nods and gets to work.
Ylrhea manages to disable the trap and unlock the door. The doors swing open on their own revealing an ornate mausoleum. The walls are decorated with several stone reliefs and an imposing statue of a knight protecting a maiden occupies the center of the main room. You also see several niches under the reliefs, occupied by small clay urns. The mausoleum is lit by several standing candelabras, the candles sputtering as the outside air hits them. Toward the back, you see a raised platform, but it is empty. There is an iron door behind the platform.
"Anyone want to check for magical mojo?" the rogue asks.
Nodding, Sādhanā shifts her gaze into the magical spectrum, slowly scanning the room.
The statues glows brightly as Sādhanā looks over the room.
The statue appears to be part of a ritual, however, it is not arcane in nature.
"While investigating where our enemies might have gone is helpful, perhaps we should return our focus to the golem that will probably try to kill us again once it's reformed," Magestreia points out.
"Yeah these statues may have been part of some ritual but it can probably wait."
Sadhana can't quite put her finger on what the statue's significance is.
Celia peers into the room noting the statues and the dark rituals that may have taken place within.
"I'm going to take out the golem, I'll be right back!" the magus says, dashing back to cleave the shard remnant with Oblivion
Celia is as puzzled as Sadhana. The reforming golem explodes in a brilliant light and the magus sees a vision of several figures that look much like Thanagros, the Predecessor. A small brass object falls from where the golem was.
Cyna carefully enters the chamber keeping an eye out for danger as she goes.
Shaking off the now familiar disorientation that came with the shard visions, Sādhanā bends down to inspect the object released by the exploding golem.
Cyna is stumped by the statue as well. The ranger notices that this mausoleum is immaculately clean.
The brass object looks like a key of sorts.
The object looks similar to the cylinder you saw in the Anizari caves.
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"I'll keep this safe for now. We may need to take it to Brother Ulli to have a look at. The significance is a little outside my area of expertise." Sādhanā says after studying the object for a bit. "I'm thinking to destroy as much of the shard materials as I can for now, the tombstones and the other stuff, maybe consecrate the area should that ghost return then head back for now and come back later to finish up here once we've hat time to research or prepare. Maybe with someone who would understand this stuff better, and thoughts?"
Ylrhea shrugs. "Sounds like the best we can do for now."
Moving into the room, Celia begins to cast an intricate ritual, consecrating the area in the name of the forces of good, loosening evil's hold.
With a solemn nod, Sādhanā begins to destroy as much of the shard material as possible, striking the gravestones and other key items with Oblivion.
The walls seem to absorb Celia's spell and the urns rattle before shattering on the ground, spreading ashes everywhere. Unholy moans fill the mausoleum as Sadhana starts tearing the structures apart. Brilliant flashes of light fill the underground area as the Consecrate spell is disperse over the area. Soon, you feel the floor rumbling beneath you.
The ground gives way to a sinkhole which greedily consumes whatever is left from the magus' destructive rampage. The statue, which was not made from the shard, tumbles into the yawning abyss below. You can hear a monstrous growl as two flaming green orbs suddenly appear in the darkness, but your attention is soon turned to the fact that the floor is disappearing much faster than you can move.
Ylrhea leaps for her life, getting away from the large pit in the nick of time.
Sienna quickly rattles off her flight spell and flies above the pit, ready to catch anyone who falls.
Magestreia attempts to follow Ylrhea's lead but loses her footing. "Help!"
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Sienna quickly goes to catch the brawler. "Coming."
She grabs the Anizari by the arm. "Gotcha!"
Cyna isn't fast enough to get away and is forced to activate her own flight once more to avoid falling.
Caught off guard by the monumental response to her consecration spell, and still drained, Celia can barely register the sudden lurch as the ground disintegrates under her and she begins to fall.
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As the ground drops out from under her, Sādhanā calls out the command word for her boots, her fall arrested in a hover as the world collapses around her. Her eyes immediately dart to her love, her next breath not taken until she sees Ylrhea's lithe form leap free of the ravenous pit.
A sharp gasps and the beginning of a scream draw her attention down, the the sight of Celia plunging into the yawning pit. Launching into a dive, the magus sheathes Oblivion, reaching out to catch Celia's arm. "I've got you."
The catfolk is disconcerted as he begins to fall into the abyss.
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Cyna dives to catch the shield fighter before he is devoured by the abyss.
Sienna heads to where Ylrhea is and sets Magestreia down. "I guess pursuit is now out of the question."
"I'm more concerned with what lies in that abyss," Magestreia says.
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"Unless what's in there comes after us, I'd rather head back to town where it's safer," Ylrhea says. "I get the feeling we'll need more people to deal with whatever it is."