The snake is focused on Chui and does not take the opportunity to strike at Wynrey. Wynrey moves in an grabs the snake, holding it still for Chui.
Chui approaches rear of the creature on all fours and prepares to rip a huge hunk out of it with his canines.
SNARL
Damage (+sneak damage)
Chui's bite rips more sand from the beast and it wreathes as it is struck. Then with a voice like windblown sand it begins to speak.
Chkko Flrrws!
The sand snake begins to grow more agitated. It rears back and strikes at Wynrey with it's fangs. The strike misses as Wynrey dodges.
- Bite
- Damage
oh i hope this works
After muttering under her breath elendra creates water and douses the sand hoping to solidify the creature
The water cascades across the creature and Wynrey, soaking them. As the water absorbs into the snake its movements becomes stiffer and more labored.
Sweet Mother of Bastet! "Find his choco flower!" Was she deliberately dropped on her head as a child?
Let's just make friends the old fashioned way. Kill them!
Wynrey get's herself over the top of the snake and manages to press it to the floor. It is still struggling but has less leverage to do much more than that.
Damage
Chui sinks his teeth into what can only be considered the creatures neck. The sand snake screeches like glass breaking and goes limp in Wynrey's grasp. The wet sand of it's form seems to be slowly crumbling.
The snake is limp but the degrading of it's form stops. It seems unconscious but no longer dying.
Chui is already rinsing his mouth out with fermented goats blood, and he shakes his head furiously.
Kill the damn thing so it doesn't attack us on the way out!
He pulls out an arrow and prepares to use it as an improvised weapon to deliver a coup de grace to the damp, but not fully dead sand thing.
Chui moves carefully into the room alongside Wynrey, paying particular attention to the small tunnels going off to the north-west, north, and north-east.
Once we're sure this space is clear, then we can check those double doors going off to the east
A flight of steps gradually descends to the west down this passage. Halfway down the stairs, small holes and burrowed tunnels riddle what remains of the passage’s southern wall. Earth and sand have spilled over the collapsed masonry, covering the stairs with dirt and rubble. Stone doors engraved with a golden scarab, its wings open beneath a golden sun, stand at either end of the stairs.
A quick search if the room turns up nothing of interested. After that search, Chui checks at the further doors but finds nothing of concern. The door is unlocked.
Chai carefully cracks open one of the double doors, creating a space just wide enough for him to slip into the room. Having done so, he enters the 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, and west.
Damn, people believe some weird s+!~. If it ain't got nekid kittens, it ain't for me.
Chai whispers back to the rest of the party.
Some crazy symbols of Pharasma here on a tapestry, the floor, and the doors.
Elendra cautiously enters the room and gets a look around. Rubbing her forehead she mutters under her breath.
Everywhere else in this place has been bad news why should here be any different
By "love," you mean pay us huge piles of gold, right?
Elendra, anything?
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Well that goes without saying, Chui. I didn't learn much at Fangwood, but I do know that "Gold keeps the wheels moving". Is this business, it seems that the more historical something is, the more people will pay for it.
Something isn't right. This tomb has been just a bunch of empty rooms! If this guy's grave is this big then he should have been loaded. There should be things in these rooms, crumbling fancy furniture, various religious stuff, his personal things, and instead we get a dead thief with old rope and a blocked outer door. Someone's been here and took everything from these outer rooms. Maybe they couldn't get everything and there is an untouched room or two. I hope so.
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Harmini saunters into the room casually with Alabaster following along closely behind her. She takes a quick but clearly uninterested view of the surroundings.
So... Not much new going on here. The silly tapestry and symbols are likely just more Pharasmins' empty warnings. We should continue on.
So far this little excursion has been fruitless. I hope there's something more interesting further in.
Chui carefully checks one set of doors and then the other, sniffing all the while.
The door to the west is also locked, and does not appear hazardous, but you get a scent like fresh earth. Well, fresher than the rest of this place.
sure wynrey just a moment i want get a good look if anything is magical
Elendra continues to look around casting detect magic/taking extra rounds to get a proper sense if anything is off in this room before helping wynrey with yet another tapestry
I get the smell of fresh earth behind the door to the west. It seems slightly similar to the smell of earth I picked up outside the room where we fought the two spider-scorpions
Neither door appears to be trapped, but both are locked. I recommend going west and dealing with whatever is there first, OK?
OK people, I think we all know the drill by now. Harmini and Elendra pull open the doors, one on each side. Wynrey charges in and engages whatever baddie is waiting for us, and then I swing around the baddie's back side and rip it into tiny pieces.
So, once more with feeling?
Yes, of course unlocking the door has been a key part of my cunning plan all along.