Roryx's eyes go wide at the pile of amassed wealth, but remains in place.
He then attempts to activate what seems to be like a lift, to carry him back up, and join the others.
"There is a veritable treasure horde down there - gold, gems, weapons, armor - you name it" - he informs his companions.
After a while Roryx comes shot back up from the deep dark hole (where you couldn't see Roryx anymore).
Realizing Roryx has fallen through the new hole in the ground, Ohrmizd is about to jump after his friend when he returns up "Oh man, you are going to give me a heart attack. Let us know first next time!"
"Treasure you say?" Ohrmizd looks down with renewed interest "Let's have a look before having a rest"
Unless the group prefers to rest first, Ohrmizd goes back down with Roryx to examine the found wealth.
"As if our luck could not be any better." With a grin Heshan moves in with the others, awaiting Roryx's commands to lower the device a second time.
"I TOLD YOU SO! You and your stupid curiousity. Now we lost Roryx to it.!"
"I hope he can figure out how to turn that thing around and come back here... I don't see jumping after it as any way practical."
"Are you sure you know how to activate this platform that lifts, and can you do so with a all of us aboard? I should not want to discover the magic has run out while we are at the bottom of the hole. Also, I am suspicious about this vast treasure. We heard no rumours of such a giant horde lost in this place... I suspect illusion."
"I have no idea Omari, if the magic may run out, or if I may not be able to re-activate it" - Roryx shrugs - "But I agree with you on the treasure - seems too good to be true"
Ohrmizd considers the prudent advise and the suspicion on the wealth and resolves "If there is gold there down, I want to see it with my own eyes before deciding it is just an illusion. It has all the sense the Carrion King kept here his wealth"
"Still no news of Rokova?" the Kheleshite inquiries Roryx.
”I saw no movement”
"You two need to have some more faith in good fortune." Frustration aside, he did nod slightly in some sort of agreement to check the place first.
Roryx does another dance and gives the whole party a ride into the dark abyss. Then down the spiral stairs from the ceiling of the cave around the large pillar to the bottom and the group stands in the midst of immense riches. This vast, natural cavern glitters and shines from what appears to be a king’s ransom. Well over a hundred feet across and fifty feet high, the floor of the cavern is a sea of gold coins, lush carpets and tapestries, statues, weapons, armor, immense gemstones, and glittering artifacts.
"Wow! You were right! We are rich!" Ohrmizd takes a handful of coins and lets them roll through his fingers "Garavel is going to need some softening if he wants to keep motivating us with just his miser coins..."
The Keleshite looks around for any exit or trace of Rokova.
"Shall we rest before advancing?" Ohrmizd looks specifically to the magic casters at this point.
The coins run through Ohrmizd's hands bouncing off the floor, making that wonderful noise only gold coins can make.
Ohrmizd smiles, his eyes shine reflecting the gold's brightness "Rich!" taking to his pockets as many coins as he can, he is too distracted to notice anything else in the room.
Omari looks around and says flatly "This is more money than you could find in the whole of the bazaars of Katapesh...". He casts Detect Magic...
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He couldn't believe his eyes. There was more coin in the area than he could ever dream of. He was shifting through the money with his bare hands, smiling with glee... only to frown once his arcane-laced eyes picked up something else.
"It seems like Omari was right to be suspicious." He picked up a coin and examined the magical aura coming out of it. "It is nothing more than an illusion. I have seen many such auras in my magic."
"What do you mean? Do you want to trick us all to keep all the gold for yourself Heshan?" Ohrmizd picks another fist of coins and puts it in his pocket.
Omari attempts to disbelieve the illusion... to see clearly what is around us.
5 Cleric + 2 wis +1 resistance +2 racial vs Illusions
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Ohrmizd is very suspicious of Heshan. It makes no sense what he says, the gold is real.
"On second thought, you're probably right. It just feels too much like gold for it not to be."
Ohrmizd accepts Heshan's reasoning with a slight nod, and keeps filling his pockets and backpack until he cannot carry a single more gold "This is just too much treasure to transport now. Perhaps we will need to hire a few workers to transport all once the temple is fully cleaned"
"But where did this Rokova went?" plucking a last coin into his belt Ohrmizd looks around trying to find any concealed exit or some trace of the mysterious man.
There is treassure piled up the walls and no other exit is seen from the current position.
"There has to be a way to transport all of this gold around here." Heshan walked onto the pile of gold as he assessed his options.
Heshan walks into the gold and they are flying left and right. His feet sink in and he stands ankle deep in it. It is cold on his skin. But then he feels a burning pain in his foot.
"Heshan! Get out of there!" - Roryx shouts, trying to pull his companion back - "There is something on the floor! It is eating at your flesh"
5 Cleric + 2 wis +1 resistance +2 racial vs Illusions +4 circumstance
It was an odd feeling to be sure. The gold was nice and all, even when it seems to be sticking to him. So why does it hurt all of a sudden?
Hearing Omari's warning, he shrugged. "If you say so."If he isn't able to walk back, he would at least bring out a hand for Omari to pull him back out.
"I knew it had to be too good to be true" Omari will help Roryx pull Heshan back out of the cursed hoard, onto the lifting platform...
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"Holy cow! It's all an illusion!" Ohrmizd drops the gold to the ground and tries to help Roryx get Heshan out of the green stuff "There is muddy water everywhere! That green stuff you are over, that is the cause of the pain! It must be some kind of slime or fungus. Get out of there Heshan!"
... Hearing Omari's warning...
Heshan jumps out of the muddy water, and the issue becomes visible to all. Green slime is eating away at Heshan's foot, the bones already showing, spreading up the leg.
"Do not move Heshan" - Roryx growls, reaching for his bandoleer - "We need to burn it off! Hold him down boys!" - he adds, retrieving a scroll, and beginning to read from it.
"Oh! Careful! Aim that to the green mud not us!" Ohrmizd does not avoid the burn though as he has his ring of fire resistance "Heshan throw those boots away!"
What he those though is to lower his head expecting a fireball coming in.
Omari tries his best to hold Heshan down for the fire, heedless of the risk of his own burns... In fact, he tries to make sure any place where he touches the slime in the process is inside Roryx's fire.
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While Roryx hastily reaches for his magic backup, the slime keeps eating on Heshan. But only short, as the magical fire turns the green slime immediately into a brown stinking sludge. Still no nice view, but at least it stopped eating away at Heshan's limb.
By the time he got out, he still wondered why the others were worried for him. At least until he had a feeling of extreme fatigue.
"My friends... I don't feel so good."
"Are you ok Heshan?" Ohrmizd looks at the marks left and frowns "Seems you will need more than a new pair of boots"
The Keleshite then checks at the waters now that he saw through the illusion trying to confirm two things:
1. if the green stuff is now dead
2. if there are more exits going forward
The green slime in front of the platform got some of the flames too and turned brown. At the far end of the cave there might be an opening. Besides that there are some pedestals directly under the surface of the water in places.
"I think there might be some way forward at the end of the cave" states Ohrmizd after his examination "But it might be a good moment to go back to the garden and have a rest to see Heshan healed before truly finding out"
"I agree we should go rest; Heshan's injuries are serious... Let us go back up the lift. Manuun can jimmy it so it can go down until it is repaired, so as to secure one entry into the garden area, and we can keep watch on the other for the hours it will take to rest."
"I will live... though I am not sure if I would have if I stayed even a second longer." He proceeded to lay on his bottom as his legs were still wobbly from the attack.
Ohrmizd slightly nods "Good. Let's go back" and starts to walk towards the lift hoping Roryx can manage it again.
Back at the garden, he looks for a comfortable spot and stretches "Mmm... I still feel weak... Pharasma's trip left me marked... this squad mission is leaving me worse than ever"
Ohrmizd will rest for an hour, and if the promised boons are true, he later stands up to eat and watch while the others end resting and preparing spells.
This garden would be such a peaceful place if it wasn't in this horrible environment where one must fear that another deadly thing comes around the corner every moment. But for now nothing does. After an hour of resting all feel refreshed.