Mazon looks at the wayfinder and determines it is the normal version of the Society. This one's magic is feeble, the light spell once cast is nearly gone and has dropped to the level of a flickering candle.
The wand is straight black glass with a small angel carved into the top. It contains magic that might prevent evil from possessing a person among other things.
The gem has a moderate aura of evocation. It can be commanded to act as a light like a lantern. The light can be focused to blind a target or even multiple targets.
The ring proves the most difficult to determine. At first glance, the tiny carvings--hooks, needles, wires, loops, etc.-- make it appear like a ring of maniacle devices. A ring that helps in the building or defeating of traps. Mazon is not sure though as she can not get the ring off Belvica's finger to get a close enough look. Belvica too, is unable to remove the ring.
Mazon is correct about the haunt, something everyone probably had a lesson on during Pathfinder training. Though I was referring to a handful of other things I am hoping you intrepid explorers of antiquities and ancient secretes can piece together and discover a 'creative solution' ... :)
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"Hmmmm."
The spirits continue to moan, and a vision of a black structure opens to release an army of demonic creatures seeking to ruin all things mortal made. The spirits flit in and out of the visions from Osirion's ancient history as it plays out. The spirits continue acting out scenes of ancient history and at times attempt to interfere with the living. Tugo sees a slave driver in archaic clothes pushing him toward a quarry pit where other workers are cutting stones for a nearly completed pyramid on the nearby horizon. Tugo sends the gryphon to her home and returns to the main entrance where he sees a caravan of camels drinking water at a fountain in a sandstone fortress. Every where he looks he sees ancient buildings being built or torn down by invading armies. Flooding of the river Sphinx leads to bountiful harvests. Phaeroes are born, temples dedicated, phaeroes die and are reborn.
Mazon looks over at the obelisk and thinks maybe that is the black structure that the spirits were showing. Mazon approaches it and searches it over.
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"If that's the source of this magic, then break it we must.", Ser Willem says as he moves towards the obelisk.
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Badriyah follows Mazon's lead, but instead of examining the obelisk, she spends the time searching the rest of the cavern for any sign or other object that could be linked to Tugo's visions.
"Destroying the obelisk, may work. Whatever its motives, the haunt wishes us to experience the history and perhaps fall of ancient Osirion." A frown curls her brow as she searches, What does it want us to remember from that period and why?"
She then snaps her fingers and asks, "Amenopheus gave us a notebook with some notes for translating Ancient Osiriani. Perhaps we can use that to translate some of the text on the obelisk or the walls. It may offer us the answer."
The obelisk on the bridge details the history of Osirion. The hieroglyphics are masterfully rendered, and the gems set in the figures’ eyes gleam in the light. The black structure from the vision is not the obelisk, but is mentioned in the stone words. Studying the obelisk, Mazon, Badriyah and anyone else gains a better understanding about Osirion during the Age of Destiny.
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Ser Willem watches as everyone stops and studies the obelisk. "Okay, so we're not destroying it, but I hardly think they sent us out here for a history lesson. "
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Ser Willem watches as everyone stops and studies the obelisk. "Okay, so we're not destroying it, but I hardly think they sent us out here for a history lesson. "
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A new day dawns in the Osirian trade city of Eto only hours following the meeting with Grandmaster Torch. In exchange for a handful of services, he delivered several maps and sketches of landmarks that collectively point the way to the last known resting place of one or more sage jewels—enchanted gems capable of storing memories of Osirion’s past and reviving the Sapphire Sage Amenopheus’s order. ...[/b]
The obelisk radiates no magic (beyond that which created the haunt.
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Badriyah looks closer at the eye gems. She turns to Tugo, "Didn't these eye gems glow when the spirits initially materialized? Perhaps they are what we seek?"
She pulls out her dagger and begins to pry the gems from obelisk. "Here's hoping that removing these doesn't bring back the spirits or trigger some other protective magic. Perhaps everyone should step back a bit just in case." She says with a wry grin.
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Ser Willem unconsciously tenses as Badriyah goes for the gems. "I hope you're right. "
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The gems in the sculpted eyes do not radiate enough magic to be the jewel that the sages wear. Certainly none of them are big enough to be the same as Amenopheus wears. Prying the gems from the heiroglyphics causes no harm to the party, but the markings are damaged in the process. The gems are ruby, emerald, x, and y, the same as those in the main entry hall.
The other end of the chasm room leads to a large arched doorway. The arch around this hallway is covered with detailed carvings depicting the life and accomplishments of a female pharaoh. A charred corpse covered in flecks of glass is visible just inside the hallway.
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Mazon casts a spell that she is starting to become very familiar with and looks over the arch and the doorway.
"Hmm. It looks like there are flecks of glass in the doorway here only, even over the corpse. It seems like there is a trap on the archway." As she looks over the archway, Mazon mentions "This is interesting. The woman in the carvings is the Song Pharaoh, whose death began the slow decline of the Ancient Osirion dynasties. This also reveals that two aspects of the carving don’t match historical records; the carvings show her defeated by the Pharaoh of Forgotten Plagues, whom she famously overthrew, and her being born in Shiman-Sekh, when she is known to have founded that city. Maybe the carvings can be manipulated in someway?"
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"My eyes see little in this gloom. I will trust your judgement my friends. ", Ser Willem says.
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Belvica and Mazon describe the room beyond as large and spacious. A massive circular table rests on a dias and rows of columns support the ceiling.
Badriyah examines the carvings and finds a switch hidden behind one involving the Song Phaeroh's birthplace. Thanks to Mazon's insight she decides to keep looking and finds a second switch hidden under a carving involving her battle with the Sage of Forgotten plagues. With a bit of fiddling she is confident she has both switches in the correct (safe) position.
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Ser Willem smiles to himself as he watched Badriyah work. The satisfied look on her face told him all he needed to know. "Well done my friend. "
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Badriyah steps into the glass encrusted area and breaths a sigh of relief when the trap doesn't explode.
This large columned chamber shows signs of past comforts, but an ancient battle scorched the walls and ceiling, and cracked and smashed the floor and columns. The remnants of furniture are scattered against the walls, and piles of bodies are stacked in the sleeping alcoves along the south and west walls. A dais crowned with a great, round table rises from the floor in the south part of the room. Three corpses sit around the table as if in conference, each dressed in fine silk robes. A slight breeze whistles through with a sound like a distant, murmuring voice, but there is no sense or meaning in it. An open hallway to the north leads to a natural cavern. Stairs lead downward in the northeast corner of the room, but were buried in stone when the wall collapsed.
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He was following the rest of the group, a smile caressing his lips as he listened to them, disarming the trap and seeing Lotti lead Tugo around. He regarded his surroundigs, eyes watching, ears listening but nothing stood of the ordinary.
The corpses were a freakish sight to be sure but they didn't shock him to much for the time being.
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Ser Willem follows his group into the new room. He had seen many dead bodies before, but it was interesting how they were""Displayed. ", his thoughts spilled out of his mouth. "like they were put that way. "
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There is a magic left in the ruby shards on the table in front of one of the corpses.
Missing perceptions so we can move on.
Mazon, are you planning to concentrate for a few rounds and make a spellcraft on the rubies? What about everyone else?
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All this magic stuff was beyond Ser Willem, so he was perfectly fine keeping watch for something begging to die for daring to attack his friends as they studied the gems.
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The silence answers Belvica with similar silence.
(yes, like they were put that way :)
Belvica searches the fallen pathfinder and finds his pack holds notes about the ruins and correspondence from the Pathfinder Society leadership. His notes record his suspicions about a trap in the hallway and that he had located a switch to bypass it. In addition, there is a letter bearing the seal of the Decemvirate , a scarab embossed wayfinder and a scroll.
Taneka finds the three corpses around the table dressed in much, much older clothes. Two show a disturbance on their head where something must have been removed. The third still wears a silver diadem, but the central setting is empty. The ruby shards rest in front of this one.
Mazon's study of the gems pieces reveal a blindingly powerful transmutation aura. Before she gets any further, Tenako whips his head to the face the hall. "Voices," he says. "In the main entrance."
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Ser Willem raises his eyebrow. "Friend or foe? We know we aren't the only ones sent here. I think we should go say hello." He grips his sword and starts marching towards the main hall.
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