Assuming that Filios will allow him to have a look, Morthos will eagerly go through the scrolls...
Solomon will watch over Morthos' shoulder as he goes over the scrolls, to see if there are any that he recognizes.
One of the scrolls is magical and contains the spells lesser restoration and remove paralysis. The other seems to be a torn page of a journal with an incomplete map of this crypt level with labels written on very old draconic lettering. You can see the main entrance, which is where you came in, with a chapel to either side and a common crypt area leading north to the main cathedral, as well as the edges of the surrounding areas, like a couple of the rooms in the current section you are in, as well what appears to be rooms of some kind beyond the other chapel.
Aha...look at this...a hidden closet! Morthos, will you please take a look at these scrolls?
I assume that Solomon and Morthos will want to take these scrolls for future use. As for the map, Petvar should examine it and use it in the general mapping that he is doing. Do we want to track down those Tengu and force some information out of them, or can we deal with them when we find their exit? From what they said, it is not well-hidden.
"I didn't feel threatened by those two. And I don't feel like they know any more about the crypt than we do. I'm a little concerned that they may find some of the loot we were hoping to collect, but I'm not willing to fight them to take it back. They are basically as innocent as we are. Or as guilty."
"This room is sloth, you say?" Darren chuckles. "Well, let's not succumb to that vice just yet! Shall we move to the next one?"
"I'll put the map in my map case until we get some time to stop and smell the roses. But I think we should keep knocking down these doors, checking for secret compartments and monsters. We can come back to the locked door after we get these last ones done. Then if we need to, we can rest in one of the rooms, closing the door and blocking it so that roaming monsters can't get in without a wicked fight."
"I agree, lets come back for the locked door later."
Looking at the map: "It looks like the other side is similar to this one. But if these are all burial preparation rooms for the 6 sins, what's on the other side? I guess we should still check out the other hallway on this side before we leave, though. Just in case the seal locks again after we leave here."
Let's at least check out the remaining unlocked door. I am game to try knocking down the locked door, if anyone else is interested?
"Well Darren, why don't you go ahead and push that last door open after Filios checks it. After that, if we don't need to rest, I would suggest continuing down the hall we originally started down."
Petvar readies his bow for when Darren opens the door, standing across the hall in the open doorway of the opposite room.
"I know it's gettin late, but I could keep goin awhile longer, I think. If you lot want to rest for awhile, though, that's fine by me, too."
Filios follows Darren to the last unlocked door, waiting with both weapons drawn to follow Darren inside.
Well, let's see what we have inside...
Darren, as you open the door, you see a grossly bloated zombie, its rotting skin stretched and straining as if pumped full of air, stir at the sound of noise in its chamber.
Zombie
Darren
Filios
Morthos
Solomon
Petvar
"And... this must be gluttony."
map as promised
Round 1:
Doing his best to hold is breath (something which, RAW, he can do for three minutes!), Morthos plods purposefully into the room , and then takes a measured swing at the abomination with his axe!
Petvar looks at the zombie, attempting to discern its weaknesses and any special attacks it might have.
Knowledge (Undead):
Seeing there is no room left for melee, Petvar raises his bow, draws back its string and fires an arrow at the zombie.
Shortbow: (assuming a zombie is undead :)
Damage:
Solomon attempts to stab the zombie with his spear, after dropping his shield, but fails to land yet another hit.
The axe and the sword don't seem to do as much as you think they should be doing.
Filios moves to a position just North of the Zombie, thus flanking with Morthos, and he attacks with both weapons.
LS ATT:
LS DAM:
LS SA DAM:
SS ATT:
SS DAM:
SS SA DAM:
Filios's blade manages to finally deflate the zombie, but releases a large cloud of ungol dust as a result. While both dwarves completely ignore it, Darren only barely avoids breathing some of it in, while Filios takes the full brunt of the poison.
Poison damage for Filios:
1 Charisma damage from first failed save
1 Charisma damage from second failed save one round later
[b]Solomon...do you have anything that can stop and heal the poison that has suffused my sytem?[b]
You need to save once for it to stop, and it's simple charisma damage, nothing more. It will stop on its own eventually, but you don't know when.
Filios searches the remainder of the room for secret doors.
Perception:
Morthos breathes a sigh of relief when the zombie falls, and then fires-up a Detect Magic to scan the room, whilst Filios searches it...
120 experience each for the zombie. Nothing magical in here, but there are 4 black onyx gems worth 50 gp a piece.
Remaining saving throws
Another point of charisma damage
So a total of 3 charisma damage before you finally get it out of your system, Filios.
Morthos pockets the gems, dusts himself off with a Prestidigitation, and turns to his companions...
"We should go back and have a look at that locked door before exploring deeper. I would not waste one of the charges from the chime on it; we are in no particular hurry, so eventually, we could simply cut our way through."
After eventually breaking through the door, you find a completely empty room. Detect Magic and Perception checks confirm that this is a completely empty room.
Well, since we have completed the six doors and the other in the original hallway, I suppose we should head down the original one to the T-intersection. Darren, would you care to leaqd the way?
Filios carefully checks to walls and floor for traps or secret doors for the remainder of the hallway down to the T past the door on the left while Darren lights the way.
Perception (traps):
When you get to the T intersection, if you look left, you see a short hallway and now understand why the tengu were puzzled at your not understanding about their tunnel. The entire end of of this hallway stub has been collapsed in and there are still a couple of pickaxes sitting near the broken edge. To the right is a long tunnel unbroken by doors or intersections for at least 60 feet.
"Huh. So that's where they got in." Turning to the group..."Well, should we continue down this hallway? It's either that or go back to start and try one of the other doors with the chime. I'm good with continuing on with what's in front of us."
Morthos nods.
"Let's continue with the long corridor. We might as well completely explore the territory that is open to us before using more charges."
"Agreed."
Let's do this...lead the way, Darren.
Filios checks for traps along the floor and walls of the hallway as they proceed.
Perception (Traps):
The hallway is level and uninteresting for just a little over 100 feet., as which point you come across a set of stairs that goes down to a small landing, where a hallway splits off to the east, after which another set of stairs goes back up 10 feet and the long hallway continues another 30 feet before turning east. The offshoot hallway from the landing goes another roughly 30 feet east and 20 feet down before ending in a large set of bronze double doors.
Morthos casts Detect Magic on the bronze double-doors, and looks for any obvious way to open them. If they are exactly like the other doors that the party has encountered, he will turn to the others, and comment:
"I would prefer to keep going and explore as much as we can without opening any more of the 'special' doors with the chime; what do the rest of you think?"
These don't look like the sealed stone doors in the original room of seals. These have handles and it would be reasonably easy to open them as far as the party can tell.