Rayhan follows Yazi through the eastern gate and then Rayhan casts Detect Magic and focuses on the room around him.
Hajar enters the eastern room and then positions himself at the Eastern edge preparing to enter that one when Rayhan gives him the signal.
You see a small niche in the wall holding a perpetually burning flame with no visible fuel source. The flame is slightly larger than hand-sized, and flickers with a deepest orange-red as well as setting off your detect magic.
This perpetual flame deals 2d6 points of fire damage per round of contact and ignites flammable objects as normal, but it can also be physically carried as if it were a solid object. The flame itself can be wielded as a melee weapon or a thrown weapon (range increment 20 feet), and while damage caused by it is not increased by Strength, attacks made with the flame are touch attacks. The perpetual flame is worth 8,000 gp.
Khayal makes his way into the room with his companions.
Im not keen to be holding flame, but perhaps that cloth Artel gave us could carry it safely.
Rayhan agrees that Artel's gift would work...
But who would want such a thing...
Adventurers confuse Rayhan.
Once the vacuuming of this room is finished, Rayhan nods to Hajar who goes through the Eastern portal.
Khayal follows his brother, kukris ready once more. Though he is becoming slightly less concerned with each safe room.
Hajar and Khayal jump safely through the curtain to the next room to the East. This room is much like the others, with a simple script on the brass ceiling as well as a picture of a salamander. Although instead of a simple lizard, this salamander is an upright creature half-man, half-snake.
A large harp constructed of ivory and copper sits in the northwest corner, its post in the shape of a veiled maiden.
Rayhan enters the portal, following Hajar and casts Detect Magic
Hajar heads to the Southern portal and waits.
A harp of charming.
Book says "large", PRD description says "held in one hand". Let's go with the book and says it's for a Large creature, but can be played whole-body by a normal Medium creature. Pedal harps weigh about 80 lbs and are six feet tall.
We'll bend the rules and say you can just barely fit it in a bag of holding Type I.
Well, if no one else is picking the room clean, Khayal will try to do a quick job. After which he will keep moving. Any idea if we are making progress?
Khayal finds sp, gp, and gems on the floor.
The fiery curtain, nothing but stone behind it, ripples in front of Hajar.
Bartan admires the beautiful harp. "I look forward to hearing you play it, lady Nasir, when we return to our home plane. For now, if you can take it safely, then do so and we can continue."
Bartan himself is not interested in picking up any coins for fear of setting off more alarms. If he sees scrolls or staves or rods, however...
Khayal chuckles at Yazi’s remark about the weight of the load. Its hardly anything compared to what must have once been here. But more than I saw my entire life up until I met you.
Once the harp has been placed in the bag, Khayal joins his brother at the fire curtain curtain. He smiles and takes a step.
Khayal emerges in a new vault chamber, with just a few coins and gems scattered around.
In one corner lies an elaborate quiver with three lidded openings.
Khayal walks over to examine the quiver. He is the closest the group has to an archer, and mayby the quiver will have something in it.
Checking the quiver out, you discover that each of the lidded pockets has to be opened and your fingertips thrust therein before you can feel anything. The main pocket has four masterwork composite longbows and one masterwork shortbow. The first pocket on the side has a single javelin painted silver in it. The second side pocket holds twenty arrows painted black except for their arrowheads, which are clear and jagged like glass or frozen icicles.
Given how the items come nearly spring-loaded out of their sections, even though the quiver doesn't weigh a ton with all this weaponry, the quiver (and some of the items) must be magical.
Good enough
A, M, M (F), M (M) Don't blame me, blame the bestiary
Huh.
In Khayal's vault, a small humanoid creature popped out of the Northern curtain of flame, looking around. It had a body like red-hot rock, stunted wings that dripped molten stone, and thick legs but spindly arms.
Seeing Khayal, the creature looked surprised, then hostile. It ran towards the human, opening its' mouth. The strange creature breathed a cone of fire at Khayal.
You take fire damage (don't forget Hajar's previous spell.)
ROUND ONE
Init:
Finishing its' run, the creature attacked Khayal with burning-hot limbs.
Khayal is monetarily stunted, the man made of molten rock seemed to have gotten the drop on him. But quickly Khayal’s instincts kick in and he turns into a whirl of blade. After his first good hit he switches to the flat of his blade, not wanting to kill the guy.
Khayal's curved blades make short work of the small creature, expertly killing it. As it falls, the small humanoid makes a strange keeling sound, like a boiling pot of water, but much deeper in tone.
That's not a death rattle. That's a cry for help...from others like its' kind.
Nasir enters the room from the Northern curtain, seeing Khayal next to a rapidly cooling pile of red-hot rocks.
Lucky
Much like the other vaults, this brass ceiling has what looks like the standard warning in Igan. But the symbol is that of a small snake, not a jackal. Looking behind you, you see the large lamp in the middle of the "Dragon" room. You'd have to consult with Rayhan to make sure, but that means the "4-2-1" pattern you've been following will only lead you in circles from here on. You need to get to the vault whose animal you haven't seen yet - the Phoenix.
But maybe the fiery curtains have an additional rule you haven't learned yet...
"My word, you destroyed that thing expertly, my friend. I've not seen its like. What do you think it may have been?"
The deceased creature has all of the markings of a mephit - a creature of the planes, each type different and made for its' environment.
This one appears to be a lava or magma mephit.
Being on the Plane of Fire, it's not unheard of to run into a magma mephit. But they tend to be solitary, in pairs, or gangs (3–6), or even in a mob (7–12) of creatures. Which means there's a lava flow nearby. You're in the basement of the City of Brass, after all.
A small creature, much like the one at Khayal's feet, pops out of the curtain of fire Bartan just exited, right next to the human. It gives a hiss of anger at the scene in the vault.
SURPRISE ROUND
Init:
Hajar and Rayhan follow the others through the curtain of flame.
Much like the other vaults, this brass ceiling has the standard warning in Igan. But the symbol on the ceiling is that of a small snake, not a jackal. Which means, and you might want to consult with Nasir's pictures to be sure, that you will now go in "endless circles", as the script in the "Dragon" room stated. The path of 4-2-1 and no threes. The teleportation you just experienced confirms it.
To get beyond the circles, you will have to trust in the ones who crafted this vault system. If you visualize the animal of the vault you want to go to, then you will teleport to that vault when you go through a curtain. Including the "Phoenix" vault, which is not in the pattern of circles. As long as you don't enter a curtain with a "3" above it.
Is it a risk you're willing to take?
As others step through the fiery curtain, they see a small creature made of lava in front of them, or to the side, and the others standing around.
Rayhan speaks the language of the Fire Elementals.
In Ignan he says Little friends, do not wish us harm. We will depart as soon as we are able. Please, go back to your homes.
"Now that I see one in one piece, I know these little creatures. Fire mephits!"
Bartan pulls and readies a card to cast a cold-based spell on, but waits to see if Rayhan can persuede the little fire-mephits to back down.
Rayhan holds his hands palms up in a gesture of goodwill.
"We smell azer, tribe comes to offer tribute. Not to die in trap from taller ones. We leave."
The creature spits a droplet of lava at the floor, then retreats through the fire curtain behind it.
Through the shimmering waves of the fire curtain to the North, you see the creature wave its' arms at several creatures like itself coming from the West. With much hissing and shaking fists at the Southern curtain, the magma creatures reverse their direction, leaving a trail of melted rock behind them.
It is time to be out of this place, we need to get back to Kelmarane.
"Agreed, my friend. We must return and verify the safety of your families, and of my business and compatriots. Let us make haste."