Inferis positions herself so that she can scan for magic on the new door and possibly inside said door.
Max digs into the assorted containers about the room, leaving no box unturned and no coin left behind. "Looks like they hid another stash through that wall." Once the looting is through, he heads to the stone outline and feels around for a catch to open it.
As Max touches the door, Inferis sees the door flare with magic. Before she has a chance to identify what's happening a swarm of cockroaches spills out from the door, crawling over anything in their path.
Order (ouch)
Lori
Roaches
Inferis
Cerastes
Max
Ra
Lori's Turn
Lori screams as she sees the roaches pouring out of the walls onto Max on the floor. She fires her pistol into the swarm hoping to hit something.
The bullet goes high and hits the wall instead of the swarm.
Swarm's Turn
The swarm scurries about the room always moving, looking for food. They attack Max in number
The feel of the hundreds of legs scrurrying over his flesh, the countless bites from the numerous mouths, the knowledge of what these insects are and what they carry can make any man sick if not careful.
Max succumbs to the feelings of nausea for a moment as the realization floods over him.
Inferis moves away from the swarm and shouts, "Shiz'koom!"
"Urk.." Max stumbles to the other side of the room.
As the flask shatters the roaches try to scurry away, while some succeed, others fail and melt in the green ooze. Inferis's missile strikes the swarm, but their diminutive size made it difficult for any damage to be done.
"Use torches and oil if you've got them. Steel'll do nothing." rasps Max as he claws the insects clinging to his body.
"Great, I suppose I'm the most useful lass here then," Lori says as she raises her pistol in frustration.
thee swarm, still hungry, attemps to find more food.
Coughing and sputtering, Inferis moves behind Ra.
"Lure em back to the sarcophagus room. Maybe we can drown the buggers." Max suggests. "Inferis, you were chucking acid about before. Don't stop now if you've got more." The halfling backs down the corridor from whence they came.
"Max, the acid only targets a single creature. With a mass as big as them, it would be as effective as my arcane blasts."
"As soon as Inferis and I are out of here, close the doors. I pray to Gozereh that keeps them." Lori says before running behind Cerastis and Ra.
No sooner does Lori sprint up the stairs does the swarm vanish from existence, as if the limit of its time in our plane had been used up.
Inferis stops cold, "Well, who wants to be brave and see if they come back?"
Lori shivers at the thought of those countless bugs returning. "Not me, one of you lads should take a look."
"Yeah, probably just some old spell." Max doesn't sound entirely confident. Despite his wounds, he puffs out his chest and marches back up the stairs to peek through the door.
Max creeps through the eerily silent room and reaches where the secret door lies without causing a stir. If he was noticed, nothing seemed to react to his presence.
"The coast is clear." he declares with a little more confidence. "Though if one of you magic detecty people could just confirm." Max ignores the door for the moment and proceeds to search through the crates and containers for anything of value.
Max finds that all the chests are unlocked and therefore open easily. Many of the items you find you can see are personal items of Akhentepi, once fine clothing and jars of preserves that would keep him fed in the afterlife, all now succumbed to time.
However, you are still able to find two vials of silversheen, a longbow that is crafted with masterwork quality alongside a quiver of ten cold iron arrows, a gold scarab hair clasp, an onyx and silver holy symbol of Pharasma, a silver hand mirror, and a wax-sealed clay urn of nard.
Inferis' eyes light up as she scans the contents as well as the door.
You see the faint aura of magic that wasn't there before. Whether this aura is residue from whatever summoned the roaches or something newly awakened you are unsure at the moment.
Max collects the valuables, then goes back to pondering the door. "Worst case, it summons another batch of bugs." he thinks out loud.
From behind the fighters, Max will cast Open/Close on it. If 30 lbs of force is enough to move the mechanism, it should open without being touched.
A door, a foot of solid stone thick, moves aside, revealing a long hallway.
Inferis focuses her energy before peering down the hallway.
you don't see anything magic.
Max scans the corridor for trouble.
you don't see anything out of the ordinary in the hallway.
The hall ends in a small room, fifteen by twenty. 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 hit 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 funerary urns.
"A clear view maybe." Max cranes his neck to see around Ra and Cerastes in the narrow corridor. He eventually crouches down and takes a gander into the room befrom between their legs. "Well, whaddaya think, is ol' Akhentepi going to pop out and start doing a little soft-shoe?"
While you may not see anything, you can definitely hear movement coming from the other side of the sarcophagus. Cerastis and Inferis also notice a few different auras coming from a couple different chests.
"Whatever you are, show yourself!" Max declares as he cocks his crossbow.