Haji moves in, but sees his way to the enemy blocked by his allies. He releases another ray of light.
Aliva stays just back from the creature, "It is just playing" Aliva Readies another strike
Khufu holds his action because he's in the back and he this the corpse looks dead.
"Really? An undead that we think we killed is just pretending to be dead? What does that make it? A non-re-dead-undead?" Irakelesh holds his morningstar ready to smash down on the creature should it move.
Haji blasts the creature and as it starts to rise again, obviously having been faking its own demise Aliva takes advantage of it's movement and smashes it in the head, dropping it to the ground again, this time for good.
"Well I konw we expected undead and it is nice that they only come in singles now." Aliva says cleaning the head of her Morning Star. "Was that a body from down here we should put back?"
Examining the body it looks quite a bit more recent then the other undead you've encountered. Also, unlike the others there a visible injuries on his body, like he had been sliced into with a a weapon very similar to the guardian statue you had fought earlier.
"Must be a new comer, Search the room then press on?"
Khufu casts Light on the tip of his spear and helps search the room.
"Maybe this is that guy whose blood we saw in the other hallway. That's concerning." Irakelesh joins the others in searching the room.
"How would he become a undead, though?", she mutters, following the others.
"That would mean there's someting even worse down here..."
Aliva moves to the closest Sarcophagus and peers inside if it is open, 'Are we opening all these? What could be worse? I mean Full mummy would be I agree"
Khufu will look into the openings.
"Well, we wouldn't be good explorers and investigators if we didn't open them, now would we. So, Ai'sha, it's your turn to choose. Which one do we want to open now? Pick well. If you pick one that gets us all killed then I think none of us will ever forgive you." Irakelesh prepares to examine the sarcophagus that Ai'sha points out. He will check for traps before they try to open it.
Three of the open sepulchers all contain sarcophagi, three of them are empty and another three were sealed with stone doors that were never intended to be reopened. The doors can be smashed open, however .
Checking the open ones with sarcophagi you find each contains the mummy, each of which wears a gold funerary mask worth 100 gp. The rest of the grave goods consist of their canopic jars, small personal items, and wooden holy symbols of no great value.
"I'm no grave robber. But let's make sure these don't wake up again and ambush us."
Haji will refuse an share of loot that was taken directly from a dead person.
"We are not robbing the Graves, we don't disturb the dead, we can recover items as per the Ruby Pharoah's Decree for opening the tombs." Aliva says as he helps to open what she can
"Haji, that's what we're here for." He points a thumb at Aliva. "She's right. We have the right to recover these items. So it's not stealing." With his head deep inside one of the sarcophagi, searching for any other mysteries that others may not have seen, Irakelesh keeps talking. "I mean think about it. Stealing is taking something from someone without appropriate permission. And see, we have permission here."
He lifts one of the masks up. His eyes light up. "Amazing, isn't it." He puts the mask in his bag.
"Really, Haji, it's ok."
"The treasure left here is of less importance than the location of whomever else is also exploring down here."
"Be quick."
"Whatever. I agree with Khufu. Let's hurry."
"Ok." Irakelesh lets his gaze linger on the other sarcophagi. Curiosity burns behind his eyes but he understand the need to move on quickly. "Well, maybe when we come back we can look longer."
He slings his bag over his shoulder. "Onward!" he says with a dramatic flourish.
Aliva stops her looking as well and moves to the head of the Party again.
"No one else is down here, we can do a quick go back and then head back up stairs?" Aliva says
"They must have left before we started exploring down here yesterday."
"I bet they got away with the best loot, too.", Ai'sha swings her closed fist through the air in frustration.
"Let's look around one more time, but be careful of that room with the animated statues."
"Ok. Since we know what to expect, maybe we can defeat those statues then take our time looking through the room."
"You gonna go back in there? Why am I not surprised..."
"The other explorers could have snuck past us while we were exploring other parts of the tomb."
"Let's make a circuit around this level to check again and then return to the surface."
"And you don't want to go back in? Doesn't the curiosity kill you?" Irakelesh turns to Khufu. "Ok. I guess. Let's go around this level again."
"We could quite possibly defeat the animated columns in a battle. If I could blast them with fire successfully it would weaken them, but then we would be depending on the spear we recovered earlier to pierce their physical defenses."
With the decision made to avoid the columns, at least for now the group circles through the area they explored one last time to make sure they didn't miss anything.
Luckily Khufu and Haji spot a hidden door to a room in the final chamber you explored last, while giving everything a closer look. Inside is an unlocked chest. The chest holds a few riches, consisting of magical gloves, a reddish hued potion, two bluish-green hued potions, 330 gp, and a pouch containing six rubies worth 25 gp each. Otherwise, the rest of the level appears to be clear.
This is done in order of the GM listing things.
"Quite the find, glad we went around again. Maybe we just happened to be following one of the undead?" Aliva asks
"Those gloves and potions will prove useful."
Irakelesh examines the potions for a couple minutes. "Well, this potion," he holds up the red one, [/b]"will make one of us extremely strong. There are these two blue potions. They are probably the same but I can't tell for sure. This second one is a strong curing potion. I can't quite figure out the first blue one. Can someone else try?"[/b] He holds one of the blue green potion out for anyone else to try.
He looks with interest at the gloves. "So these will be helpful? How so?"
"Might have the Potion to make me stronger? It will allow me to be more formidable in battle. Those gloves are interesting, would allow someone to test doors from further away." Aliva says.
"The gloves will let a non-spellcaster cast the Mage Hand and Prestidigitation cantrips."
"Being able to manipulate objects at a distance is useful trick if you're exploring dangerous places."
"Someone like Irakelesh who is good with traps and such?" Aliva says
"Make's sense."
"Now that sounds like a great idea. I've never had a chance to use magical gloves." Irakelesh takes the offered gloves. "I think I'll wait till we're in a safer place before I learn how to use them."
He stuffs the gloves in his pack.
"Ok. Shall we go back and get those masks, then back to the Tooth?"
"Sounds like a good idea to me for sure." ALiva says
The group gathers up their loot and makes their way back upstairs. As you are walking toward the main room you begin to hear spells being cast. Haji, breaching the door sees near the exit another group of adventurers who seem to be preparing for a fight, obviously having seen your light coming down the hall.
From the back of the group a woman calls out "You come to steal from these sacred grounds. This shall not come to pass. You will meet your end here."
"An ambush!" Khufu exclaims.
He slips past Irakelesh and takes cover behind one of the rooms columns.
While on the move he draws out a black wooden wand of Blur.
Once behind the column he activates the wand to cast Blur on himself.