Other than the large sarcophagus, the seams also sealed in cold iron, you find nothing in the room. The door, such as it is, can’t act as much but a prop or facade however. You really had to bust it to bust it down.
The lower right door is arcane locked like the others (though not sealed in cold iron - only the Northeastern door is). Do you crash it?
Stelle stays quiet, gazing in horror at Jeshura's sarcophagus.
... she exposed herself to a potent supernatural disease of her own design. This contagion consumed her body and destroyed her flesh, but reincarnated her into the body of a powerful outsider ... Trapped within the sarcophagus and now undying, Jeshura could do nothing but wait and grow ever more insane ...
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"You think your flying friend from outside is gunna get mad at us if I try bashing this door down?”
Stelle finally gets around to answering Zilchus, having initially ignored him for calling out Tef Naju as her "friend".
"My friend?" she cries in outrage. "Why you bashed through this door!" she exclaims, trying to put a perspective on things. "I was just thinking they could have used a heavier material to bury this !" She points to the sarcophagus.
Like lead. Lead is heavier, isn't it?
She hurries out of the room ahead of Zilchus. "Let's just avoid doors sealed in cold iron from now on out, shall we? -- and seal this one back up as best we can!"
She moves to the lower right door as Zilchus does.
Zilchus grunts, content to let Stelle lead for the moment...but as they find themselves at the same door, he will examine then try to open it.
Perception
Neither Stelle nor Zilchus find anything unusual about this door - other than the arcane lock that keeps it firmly in place. Nidhi could try to unlock it, and with enough time she might succeed, or Florence can knock it for a short time.
Or you can bash it down as well.
Nidhi floats over and uses her luminous lockpicks to try to unlock the door. Her emerald green eyes stare at the door a moment before she begins to maneuver thye luminous lockpicks in her nimble hands.
If the first attempt fails, she tries again.
Nidhi moves up to the front a moment, whips out her tools, and takes a cursory glance at the challenge before her. Her skill is no match for the ancient magics however, as she pops the lock on the first try!
Within, the small room is bare, the walls devoid of carving… but shimmering with a green energy. It doesn’t take long for Florence to reveal that the cell is warded with some form of permanent dimensional lock! Anyone placed in this cell isn’t getting out easily as the back of the door is smooth and without feature as well. Definitely a prison of some sort.
In fact, you see a long dead skeleton of some previous explorer crumbling on the floor here. Most of the skeleton’s gear has rotted away, but there’s a bright yellow and gold cape, covered in dust and sand, draped over the body. Closer examination, and a little detect magic, reveals the cape to be a Cape of the Mountebank. Whoever the poor guest of the chamber was, they couldn’t get out.
”Nice work, Nidhi,” Zilchus smiles pleasantly as the woman’s quick fingers prevented minutes of him needing to bash and thrash through things. He will trod inside to the cape, handing it to whomever wants it. ”Nice cape through, huh?”
If there is nothing else here, Zilchus will move to the next door and examine it before trying to open it when others are ready.
Perception
The doors open easily, are not locked, nor barred in any way - from either side.
A dizzying pattern of indecipherable runes and glowing carvings adorns the walls of this very oddly shaped chamber. Interspersed among these runes are human-sized carvings of men and women with various animal heads in bas-relief. The angles of this room’s walls, including those where the ceiling rises and falls, are all strange and cause the mind to do a little number on itself - only the floor remains a single flat plane.
You see a single decrepit hanshepsu on the floor in a most disturbing, uh, pattern. From the looks of it, the hanshepsu was falling apart, perhaps from age. It is clear however that it was attempting to crawl, drag itself really, toward a strange looking alcove, of which there are three in the strange room. It must have taken some time to crumble though, and its willpower must be fierce, for the hanshepsu is spread out over many feet. It’s as if, as it fell apart, bits of it continued to strive for the arch, separated from the other bits. Makes for quite a macabre view - if only in stone.
It had a scorpion head when it died.
"If I get into trouble or need to get away fast, I'll just go invisible." Nidhi sounds confident.
"Ooh...this is...why did they design the room like this?"
"Ugh, the design is making me dizzy... And all the corners. It would be easy for someone to hide and pop out."
Zilchus blinks his eyes from the usual room, used to having his eyes hurt him during a bad hangover.
"This room reminds me of Nidhi drunk singing..." Zilchus grumbles, "...or was that my singing? Ah...same thing, pretty much."
He airwalks into the room, trying to keep his focus on one solid point rather than getting absorbed in the absurdities of the design.
Perception
Nidhi floats into the room, but can think of no reason for such a strange chamber. Zilchus follows after, and delves deeply into it, examining the alcoves more carefully. There is a glowing keystone above each arch, which seems to serve as the arches power or focus. Each one thrums softly and pulses lightly and slowly.
Presuming Florence follows along behind, searching for auras in the alcoves, she’ll find incredibly powerful transmutation magics in each. Further, she thinks she’s correct. Hanshepsu, at least, are repaired while within the arch. Possibly even rebuilt. Possibly even made. She’s pretty sure living creatures should not volunteer to enter an arch.
All of you find it difficult to move within the room due to the angles. Treat as difficult terrain because you just can’t get focused. Move too quickly, and you may become nauseated.
A dizzying pattern of indecipherable runes and glowing carvings adorns the walls of this very oddly shaped chamber.
Stelle glances into the room and winces at the remains of the desperate construct splayed on the floor.
"Just looking at this gives me a headache. Don't you feel that?! Don't go too far in there!"
Stelle waits outside the room until the others satisfy their curiosity.
Stelle guards the door while Florence takes a good look around, though she finds nothing new.
The door Florence references is arcane locked like many of the others. How do you proceed?
Still not sure what is up with the crazy room, Zilchus retreats to find the final door arcanically locked.
"These things are pissers. I mean, who does this? WHO!?" Zilchus grouses at the door and hopes Nidhi can open it or Kosei can bypass it.
But if they can't, he'll try bashing it down or breaking it open. He doesn't care what birdbeak thinks. He's done with these damn doors.
Kosei observes at the stout doors "Mmmm... the architect is certainly a wicked one. Perhaps breaking this will only cause doom to us..."
The Garundi observes if Nidhi can break through the magical lock, and if not, he will try to glide through the door or the wall and check if there is any means to open it from behind.
Nidhi floats at half speed as to avoid becoming nauseous and pulls out her luminous lock picks. She tinkers with the tools at the door, attempting to unlock it.
Nidhi pops the door open with ease...
Unfortunately, on the other side of the door. Is another door. Also arcane locked against intrusion.
What do you do?
Stelle tsks and sighs while Anubis starts trying to dig through the stone floor.
"There's no doubt the Architect had a tedious sense of humor. Anyone want to bet on how many doors there are beyond this one?"
She patiently waits to see.
Zilchus waits for Nidhi’s skill to amaze him yet again.
”You know what this place needs? More doors.”
"What's this?!" Nidhi huffs out, but then laughs. "Wow, what a place."
She tilts her head, props a hand on her hip, and survey's the door. She also detects magic on the new door.
The door is, as the others you've encountered so far, just a door. Arcane locked to be sure, but no mimic or other trap.
As far as you can tell...
"Why would you want so many doors Zilchus? Is this some kind of new passion?" observing the new door and waiting for Nidhi to work on it the Kosei-elemental just adds "I don't think it is a good idea to open up the way inside that place friends"
Nidhi tries her hand at unlocking the second door.
And tries again...
Nidhi tries and fails, and tries again - succeeding in opening the second door. From behind the door peaks... Another door!
The third door rears its solid stone form same as the other two, complete with its own Arcane Lock as well.
Nidhi perceives and new door and casts detect magic on it.
As before, close examination of the door reveals nothing untoward. No traps, and no creatures. Just cold stone.
Kosei looks and averts his eyes. The stone seems to shake in front of the door "Friends. A sky full of Suns is a sky that burns. Those are just one too many doors. We better leave whatever it is there trapped inside" the stone man points at the southern door "The Pharaon's key is sure there. It's the center. We sure have a better fight with whatever remains of Jeshura. No matter how god-like or furious she might be than to face whatever is behind three arcane locked doors!"
Nidhi works her magic once more.
There is indeed a fourth door!
The next stone door sits there impassively blocking your path. Also magicked with arcane lock, close examination reveals it too is not a mimic.
Does the party proceed through this, perhaps final, door? Or do they head south, to the unlocked double doors there.
"Is this some kind of a joke? Or a crazy man's prison?" Nidhi looks towards the others, than back at the fourth door. She sighs and readies her tools.
Zilchus snickers to himself, waiting. Then he shares it.
”You know, that big undead zombie didn’t kill me outside, but I might die of door-dom down here,” ZIlchus grins obnoxiously.
Nidhi unlocks the fourth door to reveal...
A fifth door! It is in all ways identical to the prior four.
Clearly someone doesn't want you to go down this hallway. Do you turn back, or press on?
"Well, this seems ridiculous. I am beginning to second think moving forward door after door after door. There's probably one for every Sekresphere. What horror if any, might be waiting beyond?"
Stelle checks the Scarab of Mummy defense again to see if there are any mummies within 60 feet.
Stelle finds no mummies within the radius. Interestingly, the item doesn't indicate that its ability is blocked by the usual things, so it works through walls and doors.
Stelle frowns at the Scarab. "Well, it's not a mummy. Three's a charm, but five? Maybe there's nothing at all beyond all these doors and it's just a decoy to frustrate us. You'd either hide something very dangerous behind all of this, or something very important."
Stelle is willing to keep going, her curiosity piqued at this point.
"Okay, okay. One more door. Then we move on."
Nidhi examines the door and casts detect magic. Then she'll attempt to unlock it.
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Zilchus continues to stand ready, watchful, and snorking.
”Man...whomever did this was pretty door-ky,” he snorts, thinking himself hilarious, which he is not.
Perception
Not liking the look of it, Kosei casts great magic fant on his own stony hands "This cannot end good my friends"
Stelle is curious and interested in continuing and the others agree to varying degrees.
Nidhi tries "one more door" and cracks the lock to reveal...
One more door.
The sixth stone door, arcane locked, and still not a mimc, sits patiently before you.
"O.K. Fine. Thanks for humoring me. Let's go through the other doors." Stelle heads back, giving up for now.