Mummy's Mask Book 1 PFS (Inactive)

Game Master DoubleGold

Map looks a little messy but is has been fixed so that you don't accidentally move parts of the map around including furniture, just the map as a whole,
which is easier to fix.

Haron detects no traps, but he hears a swarm of bugs on the other side of that door. Do you wish to open it? Make sure you have a way of destroying the swarm

Steinfaust takes his weapon back

"My gun, and most of your weapons, won't do much against a swarm of bugs or some such. Anyone have a good way to make flame or something? If not lets just leave this door alone for now."

If you want, with a good acrobatics check, you can crack the door open and throw in a lit torch that will kill off the bugs, and quickly close the door, Every artifact you've seen so far that is worth gold seems impossible to be damage by fire. The floor and walls are nearly impossible to catch fire, not even the table can catch fire, so you wouldn't be destroying a thing by doing that.

Silverback or Trig... Does any of you have anything to let us deal with swarms?

"Thundering Bull squish with feet!" he proclaims, demonstrating several stomps to the ground with each foot to remove any doubt from nonbelievers. "Have fire water if many, many bugs!" he discloses, waving his arms around as though "many, many" were some inconceivable number without the aid of his visuals.

"My very large friend you get to the point with wisdom. Fire water sounds good. I can throw it in and shut the door quickly. thanks for the advice GM

Just putting this hear in case this is what the rest want to do.
Acrobatics: 1d20 + 7 ⇒ (15) + 7 = 22

With the throw says:
"Die ya little blighters!"

Haron opens the door, throws in a fire object and quickly closes it back up. destroying all the bugs.

The heroes investigate the mini rooms including the enclosed one, they find gold, earrings worth gold and an adamantine heavy flail.

Short rest anyone? Or long rest? Or are you pushing on?

"Haron is clever and so is big Bull man. I don't like lots of teeny-small bugs, they get in fur and make me itch!"

Nor'scrik goes over to check out the door at the far end of the area while his friends are talking about potentially resting.

perception, trapfinding: 1d20 + 7 + 1 ⇒ (5) + 7 + 1 = 13

I'll scratch an oil flask off Trig's equipment list.

We've barely touched our spells or consumables. Onward I say.

Looking at the flail Steinfaust looks at it lovingly."May I? Looks nice and I like the black colour!"

[ooc] No need for me to rest. Pretty much up to the spell casters.

At Norscrik, that door does not appear to be trapped. You opening it? Everyone going through that door that Norscrik is at?

Yes. I will position in front and lead the way ;) Paladin style!

"Go ahead. Knock yourself out, Steinfaust." Trig grins.

"Uh oh. Looks like Nor'scrik's moving on." Trig nocks an arrow and waits to see what happens.

As per custom Haron will duck in behind the big guys.

"Not axe. Talky rock can have."

Thundering Bull follows Nor'scrik without question. Still learning the tricks of the rogue's trade, he pays close attention to how the ratfolk does things. Mmmm... Look with eyes... Stare long... Crouch low... Thundering Bull be good rogue soon.

Heroes step into a hallway, the room above you is a room and the room below you is a room, as well as the upper middle and upper left and the middle is a room, take your pick, these are all the rooms you can pass into first unless you go through a different door.

"If we're lucky, all the tomb's guardians are dead. Let's look here on the right first."

The room above.

Perception: 1d20 + 6 ⇒ (2) + 6 = 8

"Sounds good."

Perception: 1d20 + 9 ⇒ (13) + 9 = 22 Listening at and examining door

Nor'scrik looks a bit confused as he tries to understand why different humans are entombed in different ways.

"This tomb isn't the same as the last one. This has more above-ground and lots of doors and different ways in. I think i like the other place better."

Thundering Bull frowns deeply as he ponders his own mortality. Thundering Bull die? How? Hmmm... He becomes lost in thought for a little longer than a while, but eventually comes out of his stupor.

"Thundering Bull die screaming. Much orc blood. Holding axe. Maybe feed crow."

Smiling, he steps up to the front of the group with said axe in hand, ready to test his prophecy.
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I'm cool with that door.

Sorry, back from my trip.

Silverback seems to have been in a stupor. "Doors, doors. Yes, open the door, Thundering One!"

The heroes move forward to the north into the kitchen.
Two stone tables sit against the western wall of this room, while a third occupies the southeastern corner. A small, square wooden butcher's block stands in the northeast corner, now almost collapsing under its own weight. A stone oven sits in the middle of the north wall. A humanoid skeleton lies beneath the northwestern table, surrounded by smashed crockery. A door to the east and an open doorway to the south exit the room. The skeleton is lifeless and does not animate. He holds a rusted dagger and died in plague-driven riots millenia ago. nothing here to see, next

Steinfaust looks at the Bull and shakes his head?"You are alive? Why do you say, you are dead?"

"We have had to deal with too many living skeletons."

Haron approaches the skeleton and simply moves the skull to the other side of the table.

"I am sorry friend but I don't want someone using you as a tool."

"Let us try this open doorway," Silverback suggests, pointing to the south. "I feel a draft coming from there..."

Agreed. Let's check here. - says Kroone, moving towards the open doorway.

Thundering Bull gives Haron a funny look. "Skeleton is tool? What tool?" He takes the skull and looks at it for a few moments. Without warning, he breaks the skull in half, separating the top from the bottom. "Bowl is tool. Halfman smart. Thundering Bull not want skeleton be tool. Put bowl in bucket." He places his new bowl in his bucket and follows the rest of the party to the next room. Halfman smart. Maybe Halfman teach how to rogue. Rogue also smart.

Trig shakes his head and smiles.

Too funny you guys.

"I think like Haron. Dead things should stay dead and not move again." Nor'scrik kicks a leg bone, it doesn't move very far.

He goes over to check the doorway that Silverback gestured towards and takes a look inside.

perception: 1d20 + 7 ⇒ (8) + 7 = 15 If it's needed.

"I think we all agree on that."

Perception, good idea: 1d20 + 6 ⇒ (19) + 6 = 25

Heroes head into the Chapel
Hieroglyphs and images of fantastic beings cover the walls of this small room. A small stone shrine, dusty and thoroughly defaced, stands against the easter wall. Knowledge religion to read the Hierogyphs or understand the Ancient Osiriani language

Trig looks at the heiroglyphs. "I could try a spell to read these, but it's one of the harder spells that I can cast. It would mean that I can't cast as many grease spells."

Bards know religion: 1d20 + 2 ⇒ (9) + 2 = 11

Totally forgot this was on Trig's list. There's always been someone with skills in needed languages in the groups he's played with. 1 casting lasts 20 minutes. Even if he burns his spells on comprehend language he can still inspire courage or contribute with bow or staff. We might be missing some clues because we can't read all the hieroglyphs. What do you guys think? Should he cast comp languages?

Haron steps up and studies the heiroglyphs with a very serious face. Turing to the others he declares.

"I think it's some kind of writing."

Proud of his insight he goes back to sharpening his gun.

I think that would be a good use of the spell slot.

Definitely, Trig. It's a good use of it!

Perception: 1d20 + 1 ⇒ (14) + 1 = 15 Since he walked by

Kroone and Trigg can make it out easily without any trouble or time at all. This area was the household chapel, dedicated to Abadar, Pharasma, and Sarenrae. The Ancient Osiriani hieroglyphics on the walls offer praise to the three gods and list several common prayers to each.

"See Bull, I was right. It's writing."

"Though none of these are the mighty elven deities, this is an interesting find nonetheless," Silverback muses.

knowledge religion: 1d20 + 6 ⇒ (19) + 6 = 25

"Shall we discover what lies behind the other door here?" he asks.

Should we try the other door from the kitchen?

Perception: 1d20 + 2 ⇒ (19) + 2 = 21

"Writing? Is picture. Thundering Bull eyes working. See, picture? Bad picture, but picture." He explains, pointing to the hieroglyphs.

When the others explain that it has actual meaning, things that pictures obviously don't have, he stops and stares at Haron in awe. "How know is writing, not picture? Is rogue trick?" He squints really hard at the hieroglyphs, trying to pull some meaning out of them. Dazed by the depth of his current existential crisis, he blindly follows Silverback to the other door in the kitchen.

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TB doesn't even really know how to read or write, so learning pictures can mean things too is throwing him through one hell of a loop!

"I don't know what funny squiggle-pictures mean. I think that one looks like an eye though, and that one there looks like a human, and this one here looks like a bird!" says Nor'crik as he points out the symbols he recognizes.

Just making some things up based on Egyptian hieroglyphics there ;)

"Wait for Nor'scrik!" he says as he realizes that people are leaving without him.

"Rather common. I was hoping for something more interesting." Trig abandons the hieroglyphs and trails the others.

The other door from the kitchen which goes to the right, heads into the pantry, where the solifud came out of. And the pantry if full of empty shelves, it is also connected to the big room you were all just in.. For the little rooms on the left, I marked them off with a been here sign.

"Looks like there is only one way to go, after you big guys."

"Interesting, there's a kitchen and pantry. It's almost like they expected the dead to come back to life," Trig muses. He shakes his head.

"Onward then."

Silverback points until Thundering Bull takes the hint and takes the lead.

Kroone smiled and took the lead. He goes silently, but doesn't really slow down much.

Thundering Bull looks longingly at the bare kitchen and pantry. "Thundering Bull good cook. Make food when back in town." Fluent in the meaning of a good point, quickly moves in the direction Silverback directs him to.

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TB has no issue with going first. If we are in situations like this, feel free to assume he is in the frontlines and willing to go first. Double Gold, unless you want me to respond before you post, I am comfortable with another player "moving" my character to keep the ball rolling.

Still alive! Who are we waiting for?