Tariq, you're fairly certain that the statue in question is of Isatemkhebet.
”I am pretty certain this is Isatemkhebet guys!”
”The General and servant of Hakotep. You know the one that was yelling in all caps over the city all like . . . I ISATEMKHEBET, HAVE SPOKEN IN THE NAME OF HAKOTEP THE UNDYING!"
Tariq looks for traps, but more importantly, treasure.
I wonder if it was just like, a programmed illusion that yells every so often so he can rest his voice and not go hoarse.
Tariq, you don't notice any traps or treasure connected to the statue, but like Dwalindor you're surprised at how sharp the carving remains given the weathered nature of the passageway around you.
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Very odd for old stone to be this detailed. he turns to Noonan
Any magic protecting this stone? Otherwise, I have heard tell of them there creatures which can freeze you to stone with their eyes or something. But I ain't sure those are real.
He thinks back a few years.
I remembers me and Rameth were gonna smash one. I think he called it a Medooza or something.
Anyhoo, it cast some spell on us and we both fell asleep, but it didn't turn us to stone or nothing. But Rameth said it could of.
Noonan used detect magic on the statue. It might be part of some mechanism that is part of this area.
Noonan, as you focus on the statue you believe that while it is not magic it is channeling the traces of magic that surround the pyramid deeper into the structure.
You feel a terrible power try to overwhelm you as you probe the power of statue, pressing you to obey it. You shake off the commanding aura of the statue and return to focus on the physical realm.
My goodness! This thing is channeling the magic that surround the pyramid. Plus it tried to take over my mind! Best we stay away from it
”Um, okay. If this thing is this magical the statue might be some kind of control or magic source for flying this thing. We can always smash it later I guess. . . But wait, Noonan, if it tried to take over your mind is it intelligent?”
Umm..I dunno. Perhaps make me obey the creator of the statue.
The passageway here shifts from worked stone to a strange, curving tunnel that shifts and coils into the darkness. The point at which the architecture changes from regular angles to this more organic shape is bordered by an archway carved in the shape of a gaping serpent’s mouth.
Three of the serpent’s teeth—one on the lower jaw, one in the back of the upper jaw, and what should be a fang at the front of the upper jaw, are missing; deep circular sockets mark their original locations.
I have a feeling that we will need to play 'find the tooth' in order to get past.
”Heh! We have the teeth. And their stone. Look at them Dwali!”
”Man, I don’t like messing with ancient technologies especially when we have no idea what they do or how to control them.”
”Should we just jam’em in and see what happens?”
What is the worst that could happen?
”Oh, well, now you’ve done it Noonan. Now you’ve jinxed us!”
As soon as Dwalindor places the tooth in the first socket the tunnel begins to writhe and grind and shifts itself, orienting towards a new location and you see the tunnel move, the dead end becoming a yawning entrance deeper into the pyramid.
Forwards!
”Uh. Let’s take the teeth with us so that it doesn’t get shut behind us.”
The snakelike passage opens out onto a hallway - doors to the north and south stand at the halfway point while beyond the hallway exits the stone walls of the tomb, becoming a ten-foot-wide catwalk suspended high above the ground in the open air. The sky above twinkles with panoply of stars, while wispy clouds move swiftly over a darkened world below. Approximately a hundred feet away, an opening in space seems to lead through a hole in the sky back into the pyramid.
”Guys . . . This is waaay better than any flying carpet or golden giant crab mount. We have to find a way to capture and control this thing. Wouldn’t that be sick!?”
”I mean, think of how many chicks we could bed with this thing!
”Oh, so your ex boyfriend had a real Samarian Wool Flying Carpet? That’s cute. Check out my flying pyramid—of love!”
He frames up the desert landscape below them with his fingers.
”Bring girls up here to look out over the desert, it’s a done deal.”
Dwal can bring his sweety pie up here. She will certainly pay attention to him this time.
We can always wind walk across
You see nothing flying around in the skies that looks threatening - but invisible monsters exist in the world.
”Uh. Man, that looks pretty exposed . . . You want to go back and try the other tunnel the snake tooth rotates too?”
Let us open the north door!
”Looks like it will be okay. Meh! Alright, let’s just cross.”
”besides, Noonan is on limited time so, yeah.”
This circular chamber encloses a small square vault made of black stone. An open archway leads inside this vault, which contains a sealed sarcophagus.
[ooc]Sooper secret room revealed in Roll20 so move on in!
Nothing moves but you can glyphs on the inner side of the wall surrounding the sarcophagus.
Will we disturb someone's beauty sleep?
I guess we just go through this place and whack everyone in it.