I wouldn't recommend touching the sand. It might be dangerous. Trust me.
Andross step forward... and touches the sand. When nothing happens, he smiles back at you and says, "It seems to be normal sand, but you may need to dig some of it out."
replacing the rod hamish adds. "Nothing within for 10 feet. Could be empty. Could be more sand."
Maxwell will cast detect magic at each of the indentations.
Maxwell, as soon as you cast the spell, you are almost blinded by the MASSIVE amount of magic completely surrounding you. There are so many different auras, you cannot even begin to separate them.
"We got a quick way of diggin through this or do we gotta do this the ole fashion way?"
With your combined effort, you can estimate that because of the size of this hole, if you all had shovels.... it would take no more than 35-45 minutes to clear. (that's each hole, not both)
Well does anyone have any magic that can deal with this? If not who has shovels?
You know, I just had this armor cleaned. Now it's got blood and there's going to be dirt inside the links...
"I found an indentation of some sort!" Raphael calls to his companions. He then pulls out his traveler's any tool, turns it into a shovel, and starts digging, humming to himself.
"Oh! Nice tool."Suzumaru states, as she wanders over the to pit that Father Raphael is digging. She places her hands behind her back, leans back on her heals and watches the priest work.
Seeing that Raphael was doing all the work, Andross steps by him, reaches into his bag of holding, and pulls out his OWN traveler's any tool and starts digging right beside the priest. After a while, you begin to see that the sand was indeed hiding something: a long passageway. This passageway is about 10’ high and constructed from plain blocks of stone. At the far end you can just make out the outline of two doors at the very end of the long corridor.
Stopping his work after a passageway that all of you can walk through comfortably, Andross smiles back at you all. "Will you look at that. We found it."
Nodding his thanks to Andross, Raphael smiles. "Handy little tool, isn't it?"
Once everybody has gathered in his general vicinity, he carefully moves forward.
He then looks around for any obvious traps.
I am not sure about this place. It is full of evil. Maybe we should be grouped so close just incase they do what I did.
Maxwell stays about 20 feet away from the others.
Hamish moves into position and strings his bow. "Let's wait a minute to see if anything comes out ta say hello eh?"
"Are those doors? Should we knock?"queries Suzumaru, while moving up to the door and raising her hand. Waiting for a response, before knocking on the door.
Jean nods in agreement with Hamish's words.
While I am against simply standing outside all day, it does seem likely that if he's as powerful as he seems there will probably be something else down there.
Raphael, just want to let you know, only the LARGE outlines squares are 10 ft. the small squares that you are all stepping in are 5 ft, so your movement was correct. Want me to move you back?
You get this far... and nothing happens. In fact, the air in here isn't even musty enough to make you sneeze... which might actually seem odd. You can take your next turn.
Now that Raphael is closer to the distance he meant to be when searching for traps, he does so again.
If he doesn't find any traps, he will open the door without stepping through.
Maxwell Readies is bow and waits.
Jean makes a double move and catches up with Suzumaru and her seemingly very talkative goat.
Suzumaru follows Raphael generally one step behind ready to touch him with a spell if needed. She also looks around for any traps, making sure to not only check the floor, as humans tend to ignore the areas above them.
Okay, as Raphael swings open the door... he finds himself faced with a brick wall Raphael, you notice a small wire break at around eye level that looks like it was attached to the door, and all of a sudden, you hear a horrible crashing noise, and then a screech as if stone were rubbing against stone.
[spoiler=DC 20 Perception]A chute opened right above Jean's head, and a large boulder seems to be gradually sliding down the chute, threatening to close you off from your allies outside.
Okay, as Raphael swings open the door... he finds himself faced with a brick wall Raphael, you notice a small wire break at around eye level that looks like it was attached to the door, and all of a sudden, you hear a horrible crashing noise, and then a screech as if stone were rubbing against stone.
That sounds like a trap. We should get out of here. Now.
Jean will run back outside.
Half expecting the wall (or ceiling) to collapse on top of him, Raphael hastily moves backwards, frowning at the apparent dead end. "Did anybody else find anything? This seems to be a dead end. And judging by those sounds and the broken wire, a trapped one."
I almost forgot Suzumaru wasn't here.
Well, since the two of you ran, she and Harvey will run out of the cavern as well. As soon as you all reach the outside, the rock that was sliding down above where Jean was standing not seconds before, slides down and blocks the entrance entirely.
Andross whistles at the scene. "That was highly disappointing. So this was just a false entrance. Looks like Acererak is either playing some sort of game, or he truly does want to be left alone. Knowing liches, I'd say it's the former rather than the latter."
We need to find the real entrance, but now that we know there's at least one fake entrance we should be more careful about just trotting inside the next one we see. Where to next?
This just gets funner by the moment.
"Well, while I was looking around over here, did anybody else find anything?"
Well, Andross isn't going to let you work alone, so he helps you dig out the second entrance, working beside you until you have a decent sized walkway.
The corridor revealed beneath the dirt is made from plain flagstones, roughly hewn and fitted together. The ceiling is about 20 feet above your head and thickly strewn with cobwebs. The passage is about 30 feet
long and at the far end is a pair of large, wooden double doors with great iron pull-rings.
Maxwell readies his bow.
Raphael waits for everybody to be in his general area and then asks, "Anybody have a torch? These cobwebs might be hiding a spider or two. I'm thinking of lighting them on fire to be safe."
How are you reaching the cobwebs that are 20 feet above your head?
"Mage hand you say? Luckily for you, I have that prepared." Andross gladly casts the spell to bring the torch to the ceiling.
As the cobwebs burn away, you can easily notice that the cobblestone ceiling is made of loose fitting and uneven stones.
Maybe I'm biased, but those stones seem like they're very likely to fall on our heads.
"Alrighty, alright I hear ya mate. Jes stay clear of the tunnel for a moment."
Hamish will check for traps on the big door. Bonus is +21. Do I need to roll it or do you?
Hamish, you notice that, after looking at the door and the way the rocks above you are set up, opening it will likely set off a chain reaction in which the rocks will crumble on top of you.
Raphael strokes his chin in thought (it looks a tad weird given that he's still wearing his helmet). "Hmmm, it looks like the doors open outwards. Should we tie a rope to one end and trigger the trap remotely? Or should we look for another entrance? My main concern is that if we trigger it remotely, the rocks will likely block our access to the door anyway. And I doubt my little tool here will help much with clearing away the rubble."
If it's a boulder trap I doubt it's a true entrance anyway. You don't build an entrance that goes anywhere without expecting people to go through it, and if it's for people to go through you wouldn't smash them with a boulder. I think the rope is a wonderful idea.
Andross scoffs. "You obviously haven't been in many Osirion tombs.