When Kaz made it out, he handed Ela all of his gear. "Take all this stuff. Don't say I never did anything for you," he said with a grin.
Irenicus casts mage hand and floats a rope over to Beltin.
Beltin moves into danger......
A nimble dodge of the ball...
"Thanks for waiting for me!!!"
"Now let's find a way out of here and go regroup!"
Breathes a sigh of relief and nods at Kaztor's suggestion. "We have barely sunk out feet into the sand with this place and it tests our mettle time after time. I now see why it is the Dungeon of Graves. Let us make sure we are ready to leave this place before doing so. I cannot even guess where we might end up once we see sun."
When Kaz made it out, he handed Ela all of his gear. "Take all this stuff. Don't say I never did anything for you," he said with a grin.
Smiling as he straps on his remaining gear "Thanks for getting my gear Kaz your great!" Elathras quickly replaces the silk scarf he had been wearing for three days with a fresh clean one, pulling it up over his missing nose, he turns and asks the group. "Do you guys want to help me open this crypt before we leave to go someplace else?"
"We definitely need to get out and recover before trying to nose around through here again."
"As it is, we're all lucky to be alive still.
Elathras pulls his silk scarf back over his destroyed nose, patting the coffin in the middle of the room."So does that mean you don't want to open the crypt right here in front of us before we leave?"
Kaz nods waiting on Ela to open it up.
"Open it. Who knows if we can get back here once we have left. " he takes a five step back and readies his bardiche in both hands should something spring forth.
"We might as well open it up, since we're here."
"And alive. So far, anyway."
The stone coffin itself contains the skeletal remains of a human female clad in rusty chainmail. A sword lies over her in a rusted scabbard, as does a rotted wooden shield.
Seeing the remains Elathras carefully inspects the interior, "Hey Gruk look a sword maiden, the scabbard is rusty, do you think the sword is in good shape?" drawing the sword he looks at it.
Just some more of those worms Elathras.
Mitleid nods at Elathras."Worth checking!"
Gruk will cast Detect Magic on the coffin contents.
Elathras drops the sword back onto the corpse and and after Gruk checks it for magic items he recloses the coffin, nodding his head in agreement, "Your right Mitleid, it was worth a look." Elathras checks the floor to make sure all the gold pieces that were in the dead halflings bag was picked up. Afterwards he asks, "Lets go back to the room Gruk was talking about, the one with the dirt ceiling. Do we want Beltin to use his magic to open any of the doors on the way?"
No magic, armor is rusted and worthless.
"Nothing exciting here!"
"Hmmmmm. I wonder if this coffin has a false bottom,"
"or maybe there's anything underneath it."
"It is kind of unexpected for something to be placed here that isn't trying to kill us. A through search would probably do us good."
Perception
Beltin looks at it too.
Daal takes Kaztor's advice and examines the coffin with the others.
"Let´s move on!"
Elathras nods his head in agreement with Mitleid, "That's a good idea Mitleid, do we want to go back up the stairs and try and find a way out up there or do we want to go to the room with the dirt ceiling and see if we can climb out there?"
"That's probably our best option for now."
"Ummm Gruk?" Elathras scratches his head and asks "The steps are the best option or the dirt ceiling? which one was the best option? I asked two, I kind of meant one or the other."
"Hrmmm? Sorry, I was thinking of something else."
"Yes, the dirt room just like I said!"
"Didn't the stair well lead to that room that crypt that moved down?"
"Which has us stuck here for now."
Elathras smiles at Gruk "That's ok Gruk sometimes I get the strangest feeling, like my mind is somewhere else, like back in the tower with the devil bird, or was that just a dream, I can't remember."
"Ok follow me lets go back to the hall" Elathras, with sword and torch in hand takes point and leads the team back to the northern hall, turning right, he stops in front of the first door, where his key didn't work, and asks. "Beltin would you like to use your magic to open this door, I don't want to leave any monsters we don't know about behind us."
Beltin produces the finest lockpicks.
Click. Beltin opens a superior lock.
Elathras smiles as he watches Beltin do his 'magic' "Wow Beltin that's fancy working magic, why don't you let me go first, we don't want to loose you like we almost did."
Elathras checks the door for traps and Opens the door and looks inside.
dire rats, roll init
Init
"Hey look Gruk, bag rats, do you think we could train them to lit us ride 'em?
"I doubt it, Ela. I'm tired of these things!"
There are 16 in the room.
hearing that Gruk doesn't want a pet rat to ride, Elathras, dropping the torch, slings his shield off of his shoulder onto his arm and clogging the doorway, swings the longsword at the nearest rat.
Kaz casts Bless, so everyone remember your +1 to hit!
Irenicus shoots a dire rat.