Hmmm...I think my knife won't be very useful against sand...
for Rameth charges with his club in two hands, dropping his dagger as he charges.
burning last 2 inspiration
Azubah gathers his wits quickly and reaches out his hand to touch Albus on the should. "Aroden guide you" he says. His touch sends a brief warm sensation through Albus's arm.
Rameth's club flies past the sandling, but Dwalindor's hammer hits it with a meaty thump, causing ripples and cracks to appear throughout the elemental's form.
Albus steps to Rameth's side and strikes at the elemental.
Now we kill it! If we can.
The sandling shifts its bulk away from Albus's swing and then seems to collapse, receding into the cracks in the floor of the staircase where it rose from.
After several heavy breaths and a long pause following the melee, Azubah says "If that thing could move through small cracks then it would not have needed to make these tunnels. There might be other things here, lurking about." He turns to the dwarf and asks "Dwalindor, can you tell how long ago this tunneling work was done? If it was recent then the tunnelers might still be about."
I think this is still part of the old tomb complex. Couple of centuries would be my guess.
Rameth picks up his dagger and wax amines the next door
percep
Not trapped! he announces and pushes open the door.
The doors, as Rameth declares, are not trapped. In the next room a tapestry hangs from a frame against the south wall of this large chamber; it depicts an otherworldly vista where the souls of the dead, shepherded by strange beings, enter an ethereal river ambling through space toward a landscape dominated by an impossibly tall spire. Columns sculpted in the shape of Osirian warriors wielding khopeshes stand in all four corners of the room. The floor is tiled in a white spiral pattern on a black background, and this spiral pattern is repeated on the stone double doors to the north, east (which you are coming through), and west.
If you go to the doors to the north and west they are locked.
We will need your magic at those doors b... Rameth.
Rameth moves up to the north doors, examines them, then unlocks or disables them
Percep
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Rameth opens the door easily, and you see a staircase descending below into a new chamber. The center of this large octagonal room is a raised square platform a few inches above the floor, with a stone pillar at
each corner.
A gold-trimmed sarcophagus sits in the center of the platform, flanked by two statues of humanoid beings with canine heads, each of which holds an ankh in one of its crossed arms. Stone double doors exit the room to the north and south.
Albus steps into the room.
And casts detect magic.
Rameth steps to N8 though he checks the ground as he goes.
The sarcophagus*, statues and pillars enforce the gravity that the entombed represented in life. Surely those who constructed this tomb would guard him well against despoilers, with traps and retainers of some sort. Sensing danger in everything, Azubah takes up a position where he will not impede the warriors and also where he can use the pillars as cover with but a quick step.
Albus, you do detect a faint aura of transmutation on the coffin, similar to the diorama you encountered previously to the north east.
The ground itself does in the area around you seems normal enough to you Rameth, similar to the previous areas nearby.
Getting some energy from the coffin. Faint... transmutation.
Do you guys wanna poke it?
"Perhaps it would be best if we each stand to one side of it so that whatever guards it can only attack one of us at a time and the others will able to flank it. One of us could stand at the head, foot, left and right of it."
A good idea. Let me move to the head of it.
Rameth does so.
As you step foot on the platform, you hear the doors to the south slam shut, and you hear a clank at the doors.
You hear crackling as lightning begins to move up the pillars surrounding the coffin, but that's the least of your worries for the moment, because the doors to the north open and water begins to flood into the chamber.
At the same time, the sarcophagus begins to stir.
Reflex
Knowledge (Religion)
Spellcraft
"$@%^*!"
Azubah does not seems to move of his own accord as much as some unseen force tries to yank him to the side as the water rushes in. Perhaps the spirits who plague his every move care for his existence in their own way.
reflex
spellcraft
Spellcraft, Religion 20+
The sarcophagus in front of you is an animated trap favored by the Osiriani, and well insulated from most attacks. It is, however, slow and it's favored attack is to swallow its opponents and suffocate them.
However sarcophagi are very susceptible to cold, often breaking apart more easily when exposed to lower temperatures or ice.
Hit the thing with ice!
We could... u'know... start looking for traps as we go insted of activating them. Where is that #@$% halfling when we need him.
Albus casts enlarge person on himself.
"I have no power over ice!" Azubah replies, wondering if it is his fate to drown here.
Me neither. How do we disable this thing?
This sarcophagus is going to try to kill us! smash it quick.
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Rameth slams his dagger into the Sarcophogous
Not knowing what else to do, Azubah swings his morningstar at the sarcophagus. The wet floor makes for an unsteady footing, though, and he nearly falls over with his momentum.
Attack
Damage
Rameth's dagger hits hard, gouging deep into sarcophagus.
Dwalindor and Azubah both miss the sarcophagus, avoiding the rush or water and the random sparks from the pillars.
Albus swings his oversized sword at the sarcophagus producing a loud "CLANK" as sparks flies into the air.
The sarcophagus lurches under the blow from Albus, chips of stone flying from its side.
The sarcophagus turns and lungs at Albus in response.
Rameth frowns at the pooling water, and at the creature.
At least there isn't a mummy coming out of it! Not happy about this water though, thats going to make getting our loot out hard...hope Sumak already has it.
Rameth lets that dagger fall, and pops one out of his wrist, his last sharpened one and he slams it into the construct
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