"Yes, I am ready. I'll take a look at the door before we proceed. Hopefully that is the way we need to go and not elsewhere in the graveyard or beyond it." Boneyard approaches the door and checks it for traps or signs of what may lie beyond.
As soon as Boneyard gets within 20 feet of the grave a strong breeze begins to swirl around the Mausoleum. A ghostly sound comes from all around.
"We've got something incoming everyone. Not sure what it is, but get ready."
Mizaru arms himself with the spear, watching the surroundings cautiously.
Mutters to his mask and touches his chest.
"Steady, lads. We don' know what we're dealin' with. But it don' know what it's dealin' with, neither."
"Yeah, four men sick to death of this tower and ready to get back to Absalom!"
Boneyard stands ready 20 feet from the grave, the others a little further away
Suddenly out of the grave there is a burst of energy it spreads out to 20 feet blasting Boneyard, wracking him with pain.
Makes it. Boneyard takes 50pts of negative energy damage.
Boneyard slumps to the ground, as he loses consciencess he hears Tessarda You fool. You ignored the poem in the main room.
The wind continues to swirl around the 20 feet around the grave.
Gunser rushes forward to haul Boneyard away from the source of whatever felled him.
As soon as Boneyard is more than 20 feet away the wind stops.
Poem? Of course... thinks Boneyard as he sinks into unconsciousness.
"Traps?" Mizaru guesses, standing guard. "Varin, heal him. I will stand guard."
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Boneyard hex and my eternal wand...
Woops add one to the hex total forgot I'm 8 now lol.
I was thinking of the wrong one entirely. I was thinking of the Haunting of Hinojai.
'Fool' echoes about fifteen more times in his head until a different voice calls him back. "Tessarda? No, oh Varin, thank you." Boneyard looks himself over to make sure he is mostly intact. "Now, what the hell did I miss?"
It seems like it tried to suck the life from you like marrow from a bone. It was a good pain one I have never felt before my Mask is pleased
The canny old sailor squints an eye at Boneyard.
"As I recall that poem you read, it said was 'for the brave', and 'takes three keys to show the way', and 'beware the graves', and 'no more to say'. So, perhaps we're to take apart the key into three parts? Or not speak? Or all that?"
"Just a guess."
"I think it was the warning to beware the graves that just hit me. So unless there is another secret in the poem, I think we're out of assistance from its mysterious author. Not speaking is a possibility, but maybe I should just try again?" Boneyard casts detect magic in the area he walked into. "Varin, perhaps you saw something I did not while I was collapsing?"
As soon as Boneyard steps into the area the wind starts to crank up again.
Act in single rounds.
Boneyard fall back.
Varin draws a knife across his chest and watches as it scars over immediately and smiles.
Boneyard steps back. "Whatever it is, its still there." He stops and begins cataloging the possibilities in his mind, talking to himself and his ghosts as he does so. "Ghost, ghoul, poltergeist,..."
1. Nex was known to have an undead cleric of immense power that fought by his side. He was greatly wounded in battle, and before Nex vanished he survived only as a being of pure negative energy and was tied to a gem of great power. The delayed reaction and blast of energy does seem to fit what it could do at the end.
2. There are more than a dozen rare artifacts that can be set like traps. Any number of these could be what you are facing.
3. It could be a haunt of some sort.
4. It could be a rare spell trap, with a single round recharge when someone is within 20 feet.
Spellcraft to I'd effect and source I hope
Know arcana incase its a shadow dragon????
Know nature just cause I guess
"I'm sure this has to be a haunt everyone. If it is, the only way for us to get past it is to destroy it with positive energy and our only source of that is the statue. I think I'll approach the grave again, but try to stay outside the area that seemed to harm me. Take this and try to save me if I die."
The energy swirls and flashes faster than it did prior, Boneyard is incinerated.
Bursting from out of the tomb is a, what appears to be undead Shadow dragon. It immediately breathes acid on the entire party DC 30 Ref for half
The door slams shut behind the party
Roll Initiative
Boneyard opens his eyes the image of terror fading.
He steps in and activates the statue, the swirling wind stops and goes away.
"Anyone else just see a shadow dragon?"
Boneyard moves forward and puts the key in, he twists. He pulls it out and he has a sword only. The Mausoleum opens and there is a shaft going straight down into the darkness. The walls are slick as ice and go straight down.
Looks down into the shaft trying to see how deep it goes.
"Stairs look like trouble. I'm reasonably light on my feet, but will some of you have difficulty. I have a potion to help one of us fly if we wish. I am worried about tying one another together although perhaps we could use pitons and descend by rope?"
Boneyard hands the sword to Mizaru, "This sword is silver and will bite particularly deep against the undead. But make sure we hang onto it. We have promised to return it when we are done."
So engineering and pitons or Fly and Tie?
Boneyard hammers in the pitons and is confident he will not plummet to his doom
It will take 5 climb checks DC 10. You can Take 10 if you want.
Varin will take 10 to safely reach the bottom.
Varin reaches the bottom and he is in pitch black, even his darkvision does no penetrate. He hears skittering.
Boneyard will also Take 10. Boneyard will follow with light which still probably won't be able to penetrate the black.