The doll Laleh stabbed retroactively comes back to life, not even visibly damaged by her attack.
Kael's proves to be equally resilient.
Sneferka drops his whip and draws his rapier, stabbing it at the doll that's all in his face.
The slippery doll just barely manages to dodge Sneferka's blade.
Ptolem delays.
"You guys have this, right?"
Talos tries to smash the puppets again
"I'll axe you again, PISS OFF!"
The dolls continue their assault, each attacking their respective targets twice.
The one attacking Kael manages to land two particularly solid blows, and the round-headed priest collapses.
Talos, enraged by the sight of his fallen companion, brings his axe down hard on the doll that brutalized Kael, reducing it to splinters!
Sneferka steps gingerly over to Kael and lays his hand on Kael's forehead, pulsing a Cure Spell as he does so. "It's not like I needed Shield of Faith today anyways...
Kael's wounds heal slightly. He is still unconscious, but no longer bleeding to death.
"What the hell? What are these things?!"
Laleh tries to re-enacts her childhood. [It's a joke about breaking dolls. She did that a lot.]
Ptolem actually withdraws to the opposite corner of the room.
Laleh misses.
Ptolem retreats to let his servants clean up this mess.
The dolls that were attacking Kael and Sneferka move to Laleh and Talos respectively, since they seem to be the biggest threats now. You all swat at them as they move...
...and Sneferka connects with the one attacking Laleh! One more solid hit should finish that one.
They do their thing.
"If you just swing a little harder, that should do the trick."
Talos swings at the puppets again.
Laleh mentally kicks herself for not bringing a drink potent enough to be flammable.
Talos whacks the one that came after him. Now they both look equally beat up.
Laleh misses again. Maybe she should have a drink to steady her aim.
Sneferka stabs at the one attacking Laleh again.
Talos continues hacking at the dolls
The three remaining fighters miss. The dolls keep attacking...
...and all miss horribly! Perhaps your awful luck is rubbing off on them.
Talos swings once more
"These wankers are hard to hit!"
Sneferka swings his rapier.
Laleh mentally compares Rapier length with Sneferka as she attacks the nearest doll.
Laleh's doll is EVEN ALMOSTER dead!
Talos's doll lightly taps him once.
"WHY YOU LITTLE....."
Stab stab stab
"DIE ALREADY!"
MOAR STAB
Laleh continues to nimbly dodge her doll, while Talos keeps getting beaten up.
"And then there were one...."
Talos backs away from his doll, forcing it to divide its attention between him and Sneferka. With this distraction, the hunter is able to line up a solid hit with his axe, sending the doll sprawling across the floor!
Stab stab stab.
Laleh stabs it through the neck, and it goes limp.
Against all odds, you've finally defeated the terrifying doll menace! Tales of this epic battle will be told for generations to come.
With that out of the way, you're free to examine the room in more detail. Aside from the diorama (now mostly ashes) on the north side of the room, there are three shields displayed on the east wall. The name "Akhentepi" is written beneath the light wooden shield on the right in Ancient Osiriani hieroglyphs. The light wooden shield on the left doesn't appear to be Osirian in design, but none of you know enough about geography to determine its exact origin.
The center shield is a light steel shield shaped like a scarab; it matches the one borne by Akhentepi in the engravings on the doors in the previous rooms. Anyone casting Detect Magic sees that it is magical.
To the south is a rack which holds a composite shortbow, a khopesh, and a spear. The khopesh and spear are masterwork quality, and likely belonged to Akhentepi himself. The shortbow is serviceable, but its string is deteriorated, and will need to be repaired before it can be used.
There are five small chests and a clay urn arrayed around the room.
Talos goes over to each one and checks for traps
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Talos can also caste mending on the broke stuff once they get out of the tomb.
Ptolem tries to see what manner of magic the shield holds.
"Someone stop him from bleeding before he damages some of the artwork." Ptolem says, waving his hand in Kael's direction.
Talos tries casting close light wounds to heal kael up.
Talos doesn't see any traps.
The shield is a Scarab Shield.
Once per day on command, a scarab shield grants its wielder a +2 sacred bonus on saving throws against fear and death effects for 3 minutes. At any time while this bonus is in effect, the wielder can end the effect as a swift action for a burst of healing energy. The wielder loses the saving throw bonus, but is healed of 1d8+3 points of damage.
In addition, a scarab shield can protect its wielder from swarms. If a mindless swarm attempts to enter the wield er's space, the swarm must attempt a DC 11 Will save. If the save succeeds, the swarm can enter the wielder's space and attack the wielder normally. If the save fails, the swarm instinctively avoids the space occupied by the wielder, completely ignoring the wielder for 3 rounds. This effect ends if the wielder makes any attacks, but the wielder may use non-attack spells or otherwise act without ending the effect. This ability functions once per day.