There are two black onyxes (each worth 50 gp) on top of a cabinet, but on searching the room there isn't much else.
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Kayde coughs and waves away any threatening gases. ”You guys are damn a damn useful lot,” he says through his coughs.
At Amelie’s thoughts, Kayde shrugs. ”Could be, but what makes a body turn all zombified? Is there somethin’ down here doin’ it? Or someone, maybe?” A thought strikes him, a rare and painful experienced if his face is any indicator, ”Say, maybe some evil sorcerer snuck in through the tengu’s entrance!”
He skirts the bodies on his way out the door and on to the next room.
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"I'll drink to that Amelie!" say Lyteonira and takes another swig of her wineskin. She then uses her wand to charge another three stones and loads the last from her first batch into her sling. "Come on lets see if we can find this party pooper who is trying to bind and create evil thing down here" before marching off to the next door
This room’s furnishings have all been destroyed beyond recognition, and ancient dried bloodstains still mar the floor and wall carvings.
You open the secret door to reveal.. a very small chamber, but you see what is very clearly the other side of a secret door.
You open the secret door, and see what looks to be some kind of crypt. There are decayed bodies scattered in the alcoves. You hear the sound of blanking bones moving inside.
You see a tall skeleton wearing ancient half-plate armor engraved with runes and wielding an elaborate ceremonial ranseur. A longsword and dagger also sits sheathed on its side. You see it smile and grip its weapon as it sees you open the door.
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- Bolded Characters May Post Their Turn
Amelie (-0)
Blue (-0)
Thessaly (-0)
Lyteonira (-0)
Malakiah (-0)
Kayde (-0)
Maulaxe (-1)
Amelie smacks the skeleton upside the head so hard that his skull almost comes clean off.
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The skeleton recoils from the hit with pure anger. It drops the ranseur, steps, and pulls out the longsword. It swings as Amelie!
There's a lot of force behind the blow, but it misses!
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- Bolded Characters May Post Their Turn
Amelie (-0)
Blue (-15)
Thessaly (-0)
Lyteonira (-0)
Malakiah (-0)
Kayde (-0)
Maulaxe (-1)
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"Balls," Thessaly says pithily as the tight quarters become apparent. She moves so she can see the skeleton, drops her glaive against the wall, and slings her crossbow off her back.
"If you folk in there want ta back up and make it come to us it might be the way to go about it!" she shouts. "I'm no good with this stupid crossbow!"
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"It's a skeletal champion, some kind of warrior in his past life. Be careful with its blows. Use bludgeoning weapons and DON'T use anything of cold."
He tries to see the creature, at the end of the row...
"Ah! And they are resistant to positive energy", this time he tells specifically to Kayde, Lyteonira and Amelie (why not?).
If Malakiah has line of sight from the skeleton, he launches a magic missile against him.
Lyteonira and Thessaly try to line up shots. Malakiah shoots a magic missile at the skeleton, and it's enough to have it collapse into a pile of bone.
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Amelie (-0)
Thessaly (-0)
Lyteonira (-0)
Malakiah (-0)
Kayde (-0)
Maulaxe (-1)
You see what looks like the other side of a secret door on the far end of the chamber.
You find 90 gp worth of valuables among the graves.
- Masterwork Ranseur
- Masterwork Longsword
- Breastplate
- Heavy Steel Shield
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"Kayde, I told that he was resistant to positive energy, not to use positive energy against him." * facepalm *
"This is a very powerful place...", Malakiah murmurs.
"Look at those runes", he points to the skeleton's armor, "they are associated with the sin of Wrath, associated with Alaznist, the Runelord of Wrath. We are not dealing with weak powers here."
The wizard stands thoughtful while waits the others take the loot.
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Kayde tosses Amelie the sword, and looks back at Malakiah. "Hey, the guy looked all armored up. Makes it tough to get a good hit in. I figured it'd be easier to put some damage on him using the wand ... even if he could shrug some off."
He shrugs, "I didn't say it was a perfect plan."
He stands up, holding the loot sack awkwardly in one hand and his longspear in the other. "Wrath, huh? And they had a sex-demon in that other room? Quite a theme they had going in here."
Trying to open the door proves to be a difficult task. You find that something behind the door is blocking it. With a few good shoves, you're able to move the object out of the way enough to create an opening you can walk through. Upon entering the room, you see that it was a statue blocking the door.
The ceiling of this cavernous chamber vaults to a height of sixty feet, forming an architectural wonder unsupported by any visible columns or buttresses. Forty feet overhead, a wide stone bridge with an elaborately carved railing arches over the chamber from north to south, joining two sets of massive bronze doors at either end. The central portion of the chamber contains an inlaid spiral symbol and is recessed into the floor, with eight staircases leading up to a wide ledge that encircles the room ten feet above. On this ledge stand bronze doors to the east and west. Eight larger-than-life statues stand upon the ledge as well, evenly spaced around the room’s circumference—seven carved from white stone, and the eighth carved from black stone.
Malakiah informs the party that seven of the statues each depict a Runelord, each one corresponding to one of the seven deadly sins.
1. Karzoug, Runelord of Greed
2. Alaznist, Runelord of Wrath
3. Sorshen, Runelord of Lust
4. Krune, Runelord of Sloth
5. Zutha, Runelord of Gluttony
6. Xanderghul, Runelord of Pride
7. Belimarius, Runelord of Envy
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Thessaly whistles as they get inside the large room, gazing overhead at the big stone bridge. "Hot damn. You think the Pharasmins know about all this? Wild. Wonder what these statues are worth to a historian? Of course, you'd have to lug 'em out, somehow..."
Thessaly starts examining the statues for anything of either danger or value... starting with the chap with the glaive. She likes glaives.
+1 vs traps
Lyteonira looks around and sees a secret door behind Statue #6. It looks like you would need to move the statue to be able to access it.
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"Hot damn. You think the Pharasmins know about all this? Wild. Wonder what these statues are worth to a historian? Of course, you'd have to lug 'em out, somehow..."
"What we have here definitely isn't a Pharasmin business. The question is: why the church of Pharasma is warding this place? Maybe we don't know the real task that the woman gave to us."
Malakiah is admiring the historical findings that are in front of him, while his friends more insightful and robust are searching for secret doors and moving the statues that had access to hidden rooms.
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Kayde wanders wonderingly around the huge room, not really sure what to help with. ”I guess there’s a chance they don’t know it’s here.” His tone is skeptical, though.
”So we got secret doors at 2 of the statues so far, huh?” he says, scratching his chin. ”Let’s make damn sure that’s all of them.”
He begins helping the team search the statues and behidin them.
Thessaly & crew notice that there is, in fact, a secret door behind Every. Single. Statue.; including the one made of black stone. All 7 remaining doors are blocked by their respective statue, so you would have to move it out of the way to get to the secret door.
Also of note, every single statue except the one made of black stone has a magical trap on it.
All 8 statues are magical. The 7 made of white stone have evocation, and the one made of black stone has enchantment. Doesn't seem like the one on the black stone is a trap, however.