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Message: <blockquote data-quote="der_kluge" data-source="post: 1248667" data-attributes="member: 945">The PCs descend the stairs, and emerge in an open room with 4 pillars surrounding a small reflecting pool to their right.  In front of them, they can hear and see two mummies actively kneeling and praying at an altar on the other side of the room.  Ivo and Mournax move forward and engage the two mummies.  Rath and Bax move towards the reflecting pool to get a better look at it.  It's sickly black "water" rippling and moves unnaturally about the surface.  On the far right side, they observe a stone statue of a lizardman, poised in regal glory.Bax unleashes an arrow into one of the mummies, and Rath follows suit with a Magic Missile spell.  Ivo and Mournax both cleave into one of the mummies with their axes.  Despite this, the mummies focus on the altar, and continue their chanting and prostrations.   A tendril of the same ooze that made its way upstairs snakes out and coils around Bax's legs, knocking him to the ground.  Dzintra, Nytor and Rath respond by attacking the ooze.  Ivo and Mournax focus their attacks on the mummies, and make short work of them.  In short order, the mummies are slain, the black ichor of the reflecting pool calms into an inky smooth surface.Bax begins to examine the statue in the corner, while Dzintra moves in for a closer inspection of the altar.  "The great inspirer, King Siluth", Bax says, reading from an inscription carved into the base of the statue.  Meanwhile, Rath plunks a copper coin into the pool of ichor to gauge it's depth.  "There's not much there, it's only maybe six inches deep or so.", he comments, postulating on the nature of the pool.  Likewise, Dzintra, examining the altar exclaims, "this thing is made entirely of black onyx.  But, I can't find any symbols, writings, or any identifiable marks on any of it.  Strange."  Bax casts detect magic, and determines that while the pool is magical, and radiates strong necromantic magic, nothing else in the room is arcane in origin.The PCs spend some time in the room examining the strange features, and notice a stairway descending upwards this time on the other side of the room - in an alcove.  Finding nothing of interest in the room, they agree to ascend the stairs.</blockquote>

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