I have all-around vision. What do I see behind me while I stare at the mirror?
Illuria tilts her head to one side and taps her finger upon her cheek while she thinks upon this.
Very interesting, she observes.
For a brief moment, Illuria sees a dark mark - something that looks almost like a hieroglyph - appear on the forehead of her reflection and feels a matching burning sensation in her own forehead, but both disappear almost before she can fully recognize them.
Illuria rubs her forehead above her veil. I believe I was just the target of fell magics. It did not affect me. Does anyone else feel afflicted?
Frowning, "I did not notice. What does it feel like?"
It was hot for a moment, upon my forehead. That is all I can say.
No strange sensations that i can detect, but there appear to be tracks of some sort here. Maybe a large insect, perhaps another scorpion?
Shall we follow the tracks you have located, Ashar?
Illuria frowns for a moment, thinking on what she had just experienced. Then she casts detect magic and surveys the room, concentrating on any magical auras that may be present.
I fear it was a fluke that I found these tracks, I am not accustomed to such things, but it seems wise to determine if this is a different threat or the one that escaped to threaten poor Donkey.
"Slurk has not been struck by falling magics," says the blue-scaled kobold. "Probably should look for scorpion den first. Might be the only things in this tomb besides us."
"I have little skill in tracking."
"Did you notice this?"
After so much attention has been paid to the floor, Illuria finally turns her attention to it as well.
Illuria can say little more than what Ashar has already determined; the creatures appear to be large vermin and have moved many times between the north and south doors.
Let us continue, then. And stay alert for the large vermin that made these tracks. They pass through these open doors. Her mace out and ready, she glides in the direction of the tracks.
Off we go then! Striding forward whips at the ready.
Pillars line the walls of the eastern room, a rectangular chamber with stone jackal heads extending from the walls between the pillars. A stone altar, covered in a layer of dust, sits at the eastern end of the room.
Illuria sways a bit on her coiled tail as she studies the altar. She looks for iconography that might indicate to whom or for what this shrine was dedicated.
"Arrows from Nubis heads, maybe?", Slurk says to himself as he begins searching his way towards the altar.
Bes and Q'urtaz easily recognize the room as an embalming chamber. As Slurk begins to poke around the room, though, two large spider-like creatures, each as large as Slurk himself, come skittering around the edges of the altar, their large chelicerae twitching voraciously.
"Does this explain the mysterious tracks, then?"
Look there at our craven foes, they skitter and slink in the shadows! Strike for the fates and for glory!
Ashar continues his inspirational oration as his allies strike at the giant vermin.
Illuria's snakes hiss loudly as combat begins. She slides a bit to make sure she does not get surrounded, then strikes out with her mace. In rapid succession, her snake hair also shoots forward, threatening the vermin with its numerous fangs.
Slurk aims a shot at the insect that the snake lady is not fighting, and the tomb is filled with smoke and the echoing retort of the powder.
Moving to be within 30' sand shooting the one that Illuria is not attacking. Hopefully, she's not engaged with that one, and I don't suffer penalties.
Illuria's mace slams into the carapace of one of the creatures, splintering it and sending ichor flying about. Likewise, there is a thundering retort from the rifle in Slurk's hands and a massive hole appears in the side of the second bug.
Seeing the damage caused by the small creature's weapon, Bes loosens a cleverly designed sling from the wrappings on one wrist and follows his shot with another.