Certainly doesn't look like a people person. I figure that there will be a sudden but inevitable betrayal.
”She may know the secret of bringing the flying pyramids down?”
You hear muffled, urgent screams from within the sarcophagus Tariq.
Well let us spread out a bit and open it up, Dwal. Noonan takes a few steps back and gets ready to cast.
Tariq throws his hands up and looks for Desna in the sky.
”Well gee whiz we could try talking to people first before we just barge in or kill them—Um, again, but nope . . . That just happened and he’s opening it up. Well then here we go.”
He watched with interest to see what is revealed.
Noonan gives Tariq the Touch of Glory for +13 Diplomacy checks(Lasts 1 day or until used)
You push the lid of the sarcophagus off and a beautiful woman screams in pain and joy.
The inside of the coffin is lined with spikes that pierce her flesh and as the lid falls to the ground she tears herself free of the torture device and flings herself to the stone floor.
Red blood streams from wounds that slowly knit before your eyes as you behold a figure much like the one carved into the wall but who has obviously been changed to prolong her sufferring.
Four twisting sable colored horns rise from her head instead of hair and her skin is the pale blue of an outsider, no longer the human you assumed her to be.
Her eyes are wild and crazed with the pain and terror of isolation for thousands of years. She shivers in anticipation as you stare at each other.
Noonan is conflicted about the undead.
She looks at you and hisses in a garbled voice unable to focus on forming the words in a throat long dried by screams and pain.
"Hakotep...yesssss, he was supposed to make me his queeeen. But he, he betrayed me and locked me away in here."
Her eyes dart wildly to the door and back to you.
"The Akhumen trapped me! Trapped me here in this place for thousands of years after transforming me into this...undying form! The pain! The isolation"
She starts to sob angrily, her eyes dry from lack of fluids due to her torment.
Noonan is a softy. Is there a way to ease your pain?
”How about some water?!”
Tariq offers his water bag.
The woman hisses at you.
"H-h-how do I know you aren't servants of Hakotep sent to torment me?"
”Well, you have no idea the pains he went through to keep you in here. I mean look around. You’ve got all the decorations, his traps, spells and locks have been the same. No, we are not his servants. Also, that guy is such a Dick that he has turned many of his once loyal minions against him. Which is how we got directed to you in the first place.”
The tale of how we cam to oppose Hakotep is long and if need be, we can tell you as much as you wish. As our friend Tariq has said, we do indeed oppose him and seek a truce so we can keep him from using his magic from subjecting the lands like long ago.
She glances between you repeatedly, her eyes shifting in and out of focus.
"He betrayed me...betrayed me for that b*##%. I did so much and he-he-"
She starts to scream and cry as she remembers what the last few millenia were like.
Noonan creates water for her to sip and makes comfy noises .You're out now, things can start to get better. We can hea doutside so you can see the sun after so long and feel the wind.
”Well, you can have revenge by teaching us how to bring down his flying pyramids, or fly them.”
Tariq, you sense that she is incredibly emotionally disturbed and it's hard to get a read on her but you sense she's almost pathologically unable to lie due to her condition.
"The pyramids! They were my plan, my idea, my design! But he and that whore took them and threw me away!"
She lunges back into the coffin and pulls out a bow and quiver.
"I'll kill him, I swear it! His reign will end and his subjects will suffer as I have!"
"Then the Shory will pay! I'll tear their cities from the sky one by one...and then...then..."
She drifts off into a daze again.
One things at a time. First slay Hakotep and then the Shory!
"Yes! Where is he? Tell me!"
She advances towards Noonan eagerly.
”Well . . . I think we need to get through his loyal guards first.”
She hisses at you in rage.
"If you...you are going to fight him, I will help him with you! Yesssss."
Well let's go find him then. You know if he likes to stay in a throne room and point us in the right direction? We'll get to him quicker.
Yes, she will help us kill Hakotep.
"Yes, death to Hakotep!"
She gestures majestically towards the door directing you to traverse further into the guards' tomb.
Noonan follows Dwal, keeping the beefy dwarf between him and danger.
”Let me guess. More traps, horrendous danger and not enough treasure I would think. Heh.”
”I will look out for all of them.”
There's four unexplored paths left, one to the southeast, one to the northwest, one to south west and one to the south.
Northwest!
You move up a short hallway to discover a huge stone door decorated with crossed swords in front of a diamond-shaped shield.
The door faintly shimmers in the darkness with a familiar looking magical light.
Noonan tries to figure out how familiar it is
Checks for traps, checks for spell type, then —— he will try to read the ancient Orisanni.
Noonan guesses that it is an arcane lock similar to the one that was keeping your new companion's torture chamber locked.