Talos dings it a little.
[Aiding intensifies]
Sneferka nods to Kael in thanks, then continues to try and distract the sarcophagus for Ptolem.
Coffy decides to stop choosing targets at random, instead focusing on the two guys who are actually attacking it.
It hits Talos like a truck, sending his unconscious body sprawling across the floor!
"Don't break my minions! I need those!" Ptolem roars, and slams his ranseur down, haft first.
Ptolem gives it one last thwack, and it finally stops moving.
"Well. That was an ordeal."
"...Can someone pick up Talos?"
Ptolem checks the sarcophagus.
Kael shuffles over to the Half-Elf and kneels down. "Oh jeez, yeah, I gotcher, mate." He gingerly puts Talos' head in a safer position and checks his vitals.
And his head flops back down, or a crack is heard or something. Realizing he has somehow done more harm than good, Kael freaks out internally
HAHA, OK, MAKE-BELIEVE TIME IS OVER!
OH GOD OH GOD OH GOD OH GOD OH GOD OH GOD OH GOD OH GOD OH GOD OH GOD OH GOD OH GOD OH GOD OH GOD OH GOD OH GOD OH GOD OH GOD OH GOD
And blows his load twice.
Kael showers everyone in divine energy. Talos regains consciousness, and you all feel rejuvenated...and a little sticky.
"I feel violated..." Laleh's skin briefly crawls.
"Man, that felt like when I had that "house special" drink in some shady bar....At least I'm not dead, so thanks, Kael!"
Ptolem doesn't find any goodies in the sarcophagus. However, when Talos was frantically searching the room for a way to disable the trap, he caught a glimpse of two secret doors in the east and west walls. The west door is locked, the east door is not.
Ptolem moves on to the east door and opens it.
"This crypt has so far been very disappointing. Where are the vast riches?"
This small room is filled with human-shaped bundles wrapped in linen. Each wears a small medallion around its neck. These are probably the slaves who built the tomb, having been killed to protect its secrets.
Those of you who have studied religion recognize Pharasma's spiral on the medallions. It's likely that the slaves were given all of the proper funerary rites when buried, thus ensuring that their souls would travel to the Boneyard and not be unjustly denied whatever afterlife they had earned.
"How boring, dead insects. Have any of you unlocked that other door yet?"
While Ptolem waits, he begins some weapon drills.
Nothing bad happens while Ptolem is preparing himself.
Sneferka is easily able to pick the lock in that time.
"Good work."
Ptolem opens the door.
The door opens to a hallway that leads west and then north, to a room with several neatly arrayed chests, boxes, and urns.
Ptolem looks around the room.
Nope.
Ptolem opens a chest.
"If there's nothing good in this I'm going to be quite cross."
None of the chests are trapped either. They contain a few items of value, including:
-Two vials of silversheen
-A masterwork longbow
-10 cold iron arrows
-A gold scarab clasp worth 50 gp
-An onyx and silver holy symbol of Pharasma worth 100 gp
-A silver hand mirror worth 35 gp
-A wax-sealed clay urn ofnard worth 75 gp.
However, the vast majority of their contents are things like once-fine clothing and sealed jars of food, which have no value after the passage of centuries. It's almost as if these goods were meant to be accessed easily and immediately after Akhentepi's burial.
Ptolem catches a glimpse of himself in the mirror.
"By the gods! I'm sweating!"
He angrily turns on the group.
"How could you let this happen?"
"You could use a better word for it. Like glistening, maybe. That makes it sound better."
"Or glowing, maybe? Although I suppose that might make people think you're pregnant."
Ptolem seems mollified.
"Yes. Of course, it should have been obvious. Even my sweat is noble." he allows himself a small smile.
Ptolem shoves the bow and arrows into Talos' hands, and pockets the silversheen (giving them out if anyone asks for them) and looks around for another door.
"Just like the rest, we'll come back for this other stuff."
Ptolem doesn't see any doors. He's not even sure how he got in this room!
Kael keeps looking around, a byproduct of averting his eyes from everyone else's; that's all he's been doing since embarrassing himself back there.
I-it happens to a lot of clerics!
Talos uses his eagle eyes to spot around
Talos sees a secret door in the eastern wall. He also notices that it has some sort of magic trap placed on it.
"Trap, magical, anyone know how to defeat it?" Talos asks, pointing to the wall/door.
Ptolem snaps his fingers.
"Sneferka."
"You actually said my name! That's a step up from your usual 'Minion-do this'."
Sneferka eyes the trap, trying to identify it.
He then gets to work.
The instant Sneferka's hand touches the door, a swarm of cockroaches appears in the 10-foot square in front of it!
(He manages to deduce that this is a Summon Swarm trap.)
They throw themselves at the unfortunate warpriest, gnawing at the flesh of his ankles.
Ptolem (18)
Laleh (11)
Talos (8)
Cockroach swarm (3)
Kael (3)
"Well, I have a vial of Alchemist's Fire, but if it's summoned, shouldn't it disappear soon? Everyone move back." Ptolem orders, and then does so himself.
Laleh decides to follow the leader's orders and run away from the incredibly disgusting swarm of cockroaches.
Talos also backs up from the bugs.
Sneferka backs away as quickly as he can, swallowing the vomit that arose in his mouth. "Shiiiiiiiiii..."
The swarm attacks the only remaining target: Kael!
Immediately afterward, it vanishes into thin air.
Ptolem opens the door.
Kael looks more miserable than usual when the roaches attack him, but he shakes it off a moment later.
You enter the REAL burial chamber. A sarcophagus covered in gold leaf rests on a raised stone platform in the center of this chamber. The casket's cover is carved the likeness of an adult man with his arms crossed over his chest, and covered in thick coat of dust. Two ornate chests sit beyond the dais in the northeast and southeast corners, and between them stand two large funerary urns.
"Someone inspect the coffin."