Malik will then take etchings and/or sketches of any glyphs they have seen as well as the inside of the burial chamber. With as detailed notes as he can manage. With input from anyone who gives it of course. Before leaving.
Khere brings a sign of relief and thanks Malik for agreeing with him in not desecrating the remains.
Khere then adds, "Maybe you could sketch the departed, Malik. It would help others remember him."
Khere studies the armor and asks the others about it.
"What do you think of this armor?"
Braydir grabs all of the valuables while leaving the body alone. Casting detect magic Braydir confirms it's magical, but nothing more. "Likely valuable."
By putting your heads together, you know that this is:
Akhentepi's Armor:
This suit of +1 padded
armor is of traditional Osirian design,
consisting of a quilted cuirass of
lightweight, breathable linen; a linen
kilt; and a teardrop-shaped groin
guard of stiffened linen. You know that it
has other properties that you cannot yet
identify; one is another armor enhancement,
and the other is a magical property related
to initiative.
Everyone ready to move on to the unexplored area on the way out?
Everyone ready to move on to the unexplored area on the way out?
Khere smiles at the accomplishments he and his newfound friends have done.
"We have done much in exploring this tomb! Come friends, group hug!"
Jibril glares at the paladin, shaking his head.
You move carefully back to the only area that had a door you did not explore. Talon moves ahead, looking for traps. You go through a door, and find a short flight of stairs down followed by another door. Talon carefully checks that door for traps and then opens it.
A brightly painted chariot sits in the center of this chamber.
Beyond the chariot, a large canvas stretches between two stone
columns. The skins of several animals—antelopes, great cats,
and crocodiles—now faded and deteriorated with age, are
tacked to this canvas. A wooden chest, lacquered white and
trimmed with gold inlay, sits in the southeast corner. In each
corner of the room a small stone shield is molded into the
masonry at shoulder height. An open hallway leads to the east,
and a set of stone double doors leads south.
Jibril cautiously looks around the room, checking for traps.
Jibril, there is a trap on the chest, set to trigger when the chest is opened.
Jibril nods to Talon, in the direction of the chest, mouthing the word "trap". He moves up to help Talon disable the trap.
Khere was a bit disappointed that his companions didn't want to do a group hug, but he pushed it aside as they explored the other remaining chambers.
He looked at the chariot, wondering if they could disassemble it and carry it out of the tomb. The aasimar paladin also studied the stone shield, curious about it as he wagged his tail a bit.
Malik allows those more skilled with disabling traps to take care of it and paces about the room. He sketches anything he finds of interest.
Braydir steps back and allows Talon and Jibril to go to work on the trapped chest.
Talon moves to disable the trap. "Lets see here." He says.
Talon, you believe the trap is disabled.
Jibril nods to Talon and opens the chest.
The chest contains two potions of cure light wounds
and one potion of darkvision. Also inside the chest are two
books with thin, gold-plated metal sheets for pages. The
first is a brief biography of Akhentepi, and the second is
a list and description of the various military campaigns
conducted by the nation of Osirion between 2350 and 2450
ar.
Jibril takes the items out one by one, examines them and passes them to the other party members for a closer look.
Malik is fascinated by the books and has to pull himself from reading them cover to cover right there. He does take his time to flick through them however.
After a time of inspecting the items Malik asks the others, "Should we move to the next room?"
Jibril nods assent.
After thinking a bit Khere speaks up, "I believe we should take the chariot with us. I know it's bulky and big and all but I feel that it's former master would be honored that it was put to use once more or that others may study it and marvel at the greatness of my country's great past. And besides it shouldn't be that hard to disassemble right?"
He also suggests to each of his companions that one of them should wear the newly acquired armor, saying, "Akhentepi would most likely be pleased and honored that one of us wears the armor. I would wear it, but I prefer heavier armor I'm afraid."
You move out of the current room, and into a short hallway where four funerary masks hang,staring down as if in judgment at anyone standing in the corridor.
depict the gods Pharasma, Abadar, Sekhmet, and Osiris.
A table displaying a three-dimensional diorama occupies much
of the north side of this room. Three shields with different
designs are displayed upon a rack against the east wall, while
various weapons hang from another rack along the south wall.
Arrayed around the room are five small chests and a clay urn.
With a sculpted landscape and tiny stone and wooden
statues, the diorama depicts an ancient battle between the
city of Wati and an unidentified enemy. The rack to the
east proudly displays three shields. The shield on the right
is a light wooden shield identical to the shields carried
by the soldiers in the diorama. It bears Ancient Osiriani
hieroglyphs that spell the name “Akhentepi,” marking
those soldiers as under the command of Akhentepi. The
light wooden shield on the left does not appear to be
Osirian in origin. The center shield is unusual in
that it is a light steel shield shaped like a scarab; it matches
the one borne by Akhentepi in engravings you saw earlier. The rack on the south wall holds a composite shortbow, a khopesh, and a spear.
Jibril holds his hand up to signal to the group before moving.
"This place is full of traps. Let's just take a minute or so to see if we can see anything before stepping in."
He checks the room carefully before stepping inside.
Khere was about to move around the room, when Jibril cautioned about the traps.
"Um...Good call, Jibril," the aasimar paladin said worryingly, while breathing a sigh of relief that he hadn't been killed before the dhampir said his warning.
Khere noticed that one of his wounds from the Silver Seekers' battle with the animated sarcophagus had started to bleed through his bandages. Taking out the wand he had, the holy warrior quickly cast a spell to heal himself.
Jibril does not see any traps.
Malik takes Jibril's advice and looks about for traps too.
Nope, you don't find anything looking for traps, Malik.
Jibril looks at his colleagues. "Take the weapons and shields, then?"
"I've always wanted to wield a khopesh. Surely, Akhentepi would be honored to know that his weapons, armors, and shields are being used for good of Osirion and her people," the aasimar said joyously, wagging his tail. He continued to speak as he pointed at the strange shield, "I wonder where he got that shield though."
Khere, however, was also interested in that strange and very unique scarab-looking shield.
Still, he was no fool as he readied himself just in case of a hidden enemy or trap.
"Well then, seeing as we seem to have your priestly approval, if not action ..."
Jibril moves to remove the scarab shield.
As Jibril enters the room, three tiny wooden dolls on the diorama start to move and come toward your group to attack.
Jibril
Khere
Braydir
enemies
Talon
Malik
[ooc]Bold may post their actions. No surprise round.[ooc]
"What in the name of the gods are those?" Talon exclaims.
"They're ..."
"... actually, I'm not quite sure. Anyone?"
Khere isn't sure what to make of these...things, but he is certain of one thing though: they weren't friendly and that meant he had to fight to protect his friends.
"Anubis guide my weapon and lend me your nightly strength!"
The paladin gave a mighty roar as he attacked the closest little figurine.
Jibril slashes at the approaching figurines with his scimitars.
Braydir moves closer and swings his warhammer at the nearest of the little figures.
Braydir hits the little figure with a mighty blow. Although the blow does less damage than would be expected, the figure still shatters from the strength of the blow.
The two remaining figures both move into Braydir's personal space and slam into him.
The first misses, but the second slams into Braydir, barely hurting him.
Entire party is up, and may post. Enemies are in Braydir's square.
Jibril drops his scimitars, takes a 5 foot step back and fires his longbow at one of the figures.
Khere prayed to his god again as he tried to attack the small figurine.
Malik continues to get use out of his magic missile firing wand.
Khere and Jibril are both unable to hit the little figures.
Malik's magic hits one of the figures, hurting it badly.
Khere's attack also fails to hit.
Talon moves up and tries to attack without hitting his ally!
Talon's attack hits. The figure is badly hurt, but not dead. Talon's hit did less damage than it felt like it should.
The first figure moves away from Braydir to attack Khere.
Talon, Jibril, and Khere also all get attacks of opportunity. Khere would get a second if he has anything that lets him take it.
Jibril smashes the figure as it moves past him.
The final little figure attacks Braydir again.
Braydir has taken a total of 7 damage in this battle. There is one figure left, who is badly injured.
Party is up, any of you may post.