+2 if this is a poison
"Gurgle, gurgle."
Ankhef stabs at the creature, ineffectually.
Teos swings wildly at the centipede, but fails to connect.
Seherab lays on the ground unconscious!
Harkuf ponders mortality and misses with his attack!
Arkhef stabs, but also misses the creature!
The centipede sinks its fangs into a prone Ankhef, the takes a swipe at Harkuf with its tail, but the dwarf hops over it!
Teos flurries again, and yet again fails to connect.
More gurgles.
Teos punches twice and misses twice, again!
Seherab appears to be stable, but unconscious!
As the creature's poison enters his bloodstream, Ankhef feels his movements become more clumsy. He stabs at the creature, but misses!
Harkuf swings and hits the centipede, cracking its hard, chitinous scales!
The creature sinks it's fangs into the druid, causing him to go unconscious! It swings its tail at Teos, but the craft monk dodge the strike!
Teos lashes out once again, calling upon the fire inside again!
+
Teos pounds the creature into the dirt!
Teos, breathing heavily, looks with concerned wrinkles upon his forehead at Ankhef.
Have healing? he signs.
Teos pulls out smelling salts and waves them under Harkuf's nose.
Ankhef has 1 CLW remaining.
on Harkuf
and
on Teos.
Someone gets the idea to feed Seherab one of his extracts:
Seherab wakes up, choking and coughing. He shakes his head and asks if we have more healing available.
Two charges from the company wand bring the scholar back to full health. "Well, that was a challenge. Good work bringing it down. Is there anything of interest in this sandy old courtyard do you think?"
Seherab takes his time scouring the courtyard, even digging through sand if necessary.
Thoroughly searching the courtyard, Seherab finds nothing of interest.
Teos rubs multiple wounds covering his party, looking anxious at the thought of continuing on. He begs more healing from Ankhef.
3 charges
Seherab leads the way to the next corner to peer around.
Teos moves to the front again, ready to dutifully protect his companions once again.
Peering around the corner, the party finds an alcove with a set of stairs leading up to a set of double doors.
Detect Magic.
While Ankhef casts his spell, Seherab moves along to the door of the outside building and checks along the seams for signs of traps before letting himself in.
A rectangular stone building sits in the northwest corner of the estate. At each corner stand columns carved to resemble men and women with their arms crossed over their chests. A set of stone doors stands in the southern face of the building, carved with bas-relief faces of two men. Hieroglyphs are carved into the doors just beneath the faces.
The Ancient Osiriani hieroglyphs identify the building as the “crypt of
the House of Pentheru”[i/] and warn, [i]“May defilers be cursed by the gods until their day of judgment.”
Seherab merely gives the lock a stern look and the doors open for him! Witin a set of stone stairs lead down.
Teos circles his fingers, indicating the remainder of the compound, and then shrugs questioningly.
Seherab nods to Teos. "Yes, let us finish the rest up here before looking in the crypts. I would hope that the gods do not view us as defilers."
Seherab leads the way back to the double doors, investigating them as usual, and then lets himself in.
Moving to the eastern double doors, Seherab finds no locks and the doors open easily.
Within, straight ahead, you see a courtyard, while corridors lead north and south.
Ankhef will continue to detect magic.
Ankhef detects no magic in the immediate vicinity, while Harkuf moves in a bit and looks around.
Straight ahead, he sees a tiled walkway surrounds a square patch of earth and sand in this high atrium. A balcony on the second floor overlooks the courtyard, and a square hole in the ceiling opens to the sky. Four columns in the corners of the atrium support the roof above, and the walls are decorated with symbols and hieroglyphs depicting animals, celestial creatures, and the sun and moon.
To the south, he sees a large staircase that climbs to the second floor from the room. Sand and dust cover the floor, and painted columns stand in all but one of the corners. Pieces of broken wood, shattered pottery, and disintegrating fabric litter the room’s perimeter.
To the north, he sees an enormous stone table, the marble top polished and smooth, runs parallel to the west wall of this large room. A much smaller stone table stands in the east side of the room. Splintered piles of dust and wood lie in the corners and along the walls—the only remains of chairs after untold years. A strong, fetid stench pervades the room.
Teos holds his palm open, indicating for the others to hold still.
He advances into the courtyard ahead of them, the hairs on the back of his neck raised nervous hackles.
Ankhef waits silently for Teos with spear and shield in hand.
Teos edges into the courtyard, peering around cautiously, but see nothing. Suddenly a pile of sand manifests into a humanoid shape and races toward the monk!
Teos leaps forward to grab the strange earthen creature.
+2 if aberration
Teos leaps at the creature and wraps it up in a grapple!
"It's a. . . a. . . sandman." Seherab then slumps over. "Hchhhhuuhhhhhhhhh, mee mee mee mee mee mee mee mee mee."