The fire manages to singe the back skeleton, but everyone who attacks just fails to get through the skeleton warrior's defenses.
Red attacks Helios right in front of him. Luckily, the fighter also has strong defenses.
The blue one readies a strike in case anyone gets in his reach.
The skeleton catches on (but not on fire!), and dodges the flaming sphere that then winks out of existence.
Graff couldn't connect in the tight space, and Daeron's throw is a little off, so the fire bomb explodes behind the wall. (Splash damage to both skeletons though!)
Helios crushes the first skeleton, and then as the next moves forward, he crushes it too.
You move on, through a hallway, and come upon another room. Statues of men with hyena heads block the passage leading north from this room. They move toward you.
Helios hits the construct with such force that a great clang echoes through the chamber.
An excellent shot, but the arrow simply shatters against the moving statues hard form.
The statues attack. The red one uses his build-in longsword to swing at Helious, while the blue is occupied with Graff. Both fail to hurt their targets.
Sadly, the spiritual weapon seems to pass right through it.
The flail misses, and the statue responds.
The other one attacks Deluge.
Helios slams his flail into the first statues, and this time the construct yields to the heavy weapon and shatters.
Graff's spiritual weapon fails to hit, but then Graff comes in with his (?? Morningstar?) and smacks it hard.
Blue attacks Graff this time, cutting him pretty deep.
Deluge strikes the remaining statue with his shillelagh, and with a resounding crack, the hyena construct cracks in half.
You clean up and regroup after that last encounter, and then proceed to explore the next room.
The walls, ceiling, and floor of this room are covered in elaborate patterns of countless tiny tiles. The tiles also form three images on the west wall: one depicts a woman in a cloak hovering above a pile of skulls; another depicts the same woman kneeling before a massive fiend; the third shows her in the company of a godlike figure standing before a massive pyramid.
Also, a number of objects are strewn about the room. They include: gold-plated idols of the pharaoh (heavily dented); a lacquered box of stale incense (covered in tooth marks but unopened); a ceremonial platinum dagger (snapped in half ); dozens of pieces of pottery (smashed to bits); six scrolls (chewed up into spitballs and stuck to the ceiling—now
illegible); and numerous objects of gold and silver, all dented, battered, and broken a dozen times over.
Continuning on, you find the final room in this tomb.
A well-preserved wooden chest sits atop a platform against the south wall of this room. A series of arcane glyphs burnt into the top of the chest forms a spiral. Iron bindings reinforce the chest, and it has no apparent lock or key. A series of heavy latches keep the lid tightly shut.
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Daeron heals himself with his wand.
Well done comrades, this fight was tough!
He stars looking around, taking note and trying to observe the guardian statues. He also tries to smell if something is unusual in this room.
Then, he proceeds to the next room.
Looking at all the broken object he says
It dates from the Age of the Pharaoh of the Forgotten Plague!
But I'm not good in religion, is someone able to know something about the three figures?
Without waiting for an answer he tires to draw the three images formed by the tiles.
While looking at the object he tries to find other evidences about who or what was entombed inside, smelling, touching each object.
Once in the final room, Daeron look at the chest, casting detect magic
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Deluge lends a hand by casting Detect Poison on the box and area.
"I'm thinking we just ignore the bad box. I can't think of anything good coming out of opening the thing."
The box is neither poisonous nor magical. You sense some magic inside the box.
You find nothing else unique about the outside of the box, so you pick it up and take it out to Obahar.
"Thank you! It seems your mission is complete, so I hope you have a nice voyage home. But first, you should rest. I have set up tents for you. Meanwhile, I will be occupied with studying what you have brought me back."
The next morning, a very excited Obahar comes to wake you up. "The div, the spirit that escaped, it is searching for something... the Dungeons of the Ever-Dying! I don't know what that is, or where, but I have been investigating since I had the visions from the box! Please, can you stay and help discover where this thing has gone, and why? There was some reference to the Lady of Graves... perhaps the Thrice-Shrouded Necropolis is a place to start."
The Thrice-Shrouded Necropolis
Priests of Pharasma, the Lady of Graves, oversee this large graveyard and several small shrines surrounding it. For reasons lost to time, the necropolis possesses three unique traits: the sun’s light shines weakly upon it, causing the graveyard to be dimly lit even on the brightest days; the entire graveyard is under the effects of a calm emotions spell; and sounds in the area are muted.
When you arrive, a mid-ranking priestess approaches you. "Hello, friends. My name is Renofre. Have you come to pray?"