Eh, let's try another path.
The doors behind you are likewise unopened!
After a bit you open a door to find a lifelike mural of a vast lake surrounded on three sides by sandy shores has been painted on the floor of this large room. The image includes small depictions of lakeside villages, giving the impression of looking down on a society from the skies above. The roof arches to a height of 30 feet above, and has been painted as well to resemble a blue sky dotted with clouds. Only one object sits in this unusual chamber—a thirty-foot-long reed boat that appears to float on the waters of the lake.
Noonan uses Detect Magic. Hmm...Possible transportation magic?
Inside the rotting reed boat in the center you detect the aura of moderate transmutation magic.
Hmm Transmutation magic in the boat.
”Wow, this boat looks old.”
”Um, do we think this is the last room?”
Didn't have boats back then. We used rocks
Tariq crawls through the rotting ship and finds a small wooden box, 12 inches by six inches by six inches, covered in Ancient Osiriani runes.
”Hey guys! Look at this! I found a small wooden box covered in Ancient Osiriani runes!”
”Good thing I learned how to read it.”
Before he opens it he checks it out.
It is neither trapped nor edible.
Noonan gums the box to make sure.
Still not edible Noonan.
Noonan opens the box!
You open the box, and it unfolds into a larger box, and larger, and larger and larger.
After a while you find you have unfolded a large traditional Osirian reed boat, sitting on the stone floor in front of you - so large in fact that it could hold 6 people comfortable but amazingly it continues to expand until it could sit 20.
This is going to save us a lot of travel time!
”This is actually better than my giant animated golden crab. This thing is sick! Gonna pick up some hotties in burkinis and hit the dunes in this baby!”
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”What are you talking about? Boats don’t float on sand. Hotties? I think you have spent too much time in the sun already! “
Dwalindor doesn’t understand the folding boat
” But we ain’t gonna do any of that now. So focus and fold it up and let’s find this dead general or minions of the other dead pharaoh or whatever we are looking for.“
Well let us try going further down the hall
Nah. Save our strength.
The corridor twists around again, as it does you see a gorgon charging down the hall until it is cut off by the twisting, turning route of the tunnel and you hear a distant thud in the background - like a gorgon hitting a suddenly solid stone wall.
As you do you find yourself looking at another door.
The door has no discernible traps.
The door swings open and you see...three more doors.
One leading north, south and east.
Noonan stomps after.
The north corridor leads to a new room - every available space on the walls of this octagonal, domed chamber is decorated with complex hieroglyphs, many of which shimmer and glow and flash with blue light and sparks of electricity. In the center of the room stands a ten-foot-tall scale model of a pyramid, its southward face emblazoned with the image of a five-pointed sun.
Nothing appears to be amiss in this room aside from the magical artifact.
Do you approach it?
Hold up there. Noonan uses Detect Magic to check it out.
”This must be some sort of way to control this thing, or maybe a kind of combat map?”
You are unable to find the controlling nature of the pyramidal model but you do detect five auras of illusion sitting in the room, lurking almost for you to come in deeper.
Hmmm...On The holidays my granny gave to me, five invisible stalkers..
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Dwalindor stops reading the runes.
Invisible stalkers? Are they stalking us? Where are they?
He looks around, gripping Amanda.
I don't like no stalkers! Reminds me of my granny's saying':
The other day upon the stair
there were 5 stalkers which were not there.
They were not there again today,
Tariq, I wish you please make them go away!
If Noonan says they move towards the party, Dwalindor will rage and use scent to track them.
Hold on, there is something I've always wanted to try.
Noonan steps up 5' and lets out a thunderous belch.
The effects are cumulative and concurrent. A successful Will save reduces or eliminates these effects. Creatures affected by multiple effects make only one save and apply the result to all the effects.
Deafened: The creature is deafened for 1d4 rounds. Save negates.
Blinded: The creature is blinded for 2d4 rounds. Save reduces the blinded effect to 1d4 rounds.
Paralyzed: The creature is paralyzed and helpless for 1d10 minutes. Save reduces the paralyzed effect to 1 round.
Killed: Living creatures die. Undead creatures are destroyed. Save negates. If the save is successful, the creature instead takes 3d6 points of damage +1 point per caster level (maximum +25).
Furthermore, if you are on your home plane when you cast this spell, non-good extraplanar creatures within the area are instantly banished back to their home planes. Creatures so banished cannot return for at least 24 hours. This effect takes place regardless of whether or not the creatures hear the holy word. The banishment effect allows a Will save (at a -4 penalty) to negate.
Creatures whose HD exceed your caster level are unaffected by holy word.
”Wait, What!? You’ve always wanted to burp in the control room of a flying Pyramid?”