Forked Thread: Scotley's Tomb of Horrors 3.5 Continued

[Scott DeWar]

"If you find the false you find the true
and into the columned hall you’ll come,
and there the throne that’s key and keyed.
The iron men of visage grim do more than
meets the viewer’s eye.
You’ve left and left and found my Tomb
and now your soul will die.

So this is the columned hall I am guessing and the throne and scepter is the key and keyed. as to which is which, I would have no idea."

keeping a safe distance from the throne Harris looks to see if there is someplace to place the scepter in or on the throne.

 

[Leif]

Logan Lightbringer

..."Or are ya talkin' about trees? Do I look like an elf?"

Logan winks at Grackle and says, "I'm not saying a WORD!"

 

[Vertexx69]

Ballista drops down off the ceiling between the bickering pair. She flourishes a long eyebrow at each of them in turn. "Hey, I resemble that remark! But we will need to move through the room to get to the left and left I'm presuming?"

 

[Scotley]

Movements about the room must have caused some vibration in the floor despite its seeming solid stone construction. The gold and silver scepter rolls off the throne and bounces on the floor before coming to rest with the silver end of the scepter touching the silver crown in-layed on the throne. A grinding noise results and the throne sinks into the floor taking the crown that was in the seat with it, though the scepter remains behind. A 5' wide passage to the south is revealed. The opening off this passage causes a change in the air currents in the room and all three north doors pop open. Beyond each is a 10' by 10' room. The western most one seems empty of all but dust while the middle one has another door on the north wall and some sort of martial crests hanging about. The final room, the eastern most contains what appears to be a large wooden sarcophagus resting upon a low stone table. Broken and looted chests, urns, and coffers are scattered about on the floor.

OOC: Didn't seem like anyone else was going to act...

 

[Leif]

Logan Lightbringer

Logan moves to that he can inspect the alcove containing the sarcophagus from the room in which he currently stands. Does it appear to have the usual trappings/seals that a cleric such as he would expect to see on a sarcophagus, or are there some 'heathenous' attributes in evidence?

 

[Arkhandus]

Grackle "Grubeater" Granitetop, Rock Gnome Sorcerer 9

"OOOHHH!!! SHINY STICK!" Grackle exclaims. The gnome runs towards it, to pick up the sceptre for examination and admiration of its shiny worksmanship. He rubs the silver against his cheek and hugs the shiny object, happy to find some treasure again and forgetting whatever dangers yet lurk in this chamber.....

 

[Graybeard]

Zorn watches the throne sink into the floor and the doors suddenly pop open.

"Well, this is interesting."

He carefully moves towards the open doors and peers inside. Noticing the sarcophagus, he urges everyone to be careful.

"The coffin may be trapped. We should be cautious."

He will scan the room using Detect Magic.

 

[Walking Dad]

Garagos, AC 29 (T19, FF27), HP 107/107, DR 3/-, F +11,R+6,W+10

Garagos waits outside for the trapspirnger to do her job, before entering.

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Resist acid: 20

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[Scotley]

Logan perceives the sarcophagus to be quite old in style making it difficult to say if the symbols on it are 'wrong'. They certainly seem to be appropriate for a burial vessel with many references to an afterlife. No specific holy symbol of a particular deity is recognizable. The symbols used are of a more generic variety.

Zorn notes that there are two sources of magic within the sarcophagus, one transmutation and the other abjuration. The 'shiny stick' picked up by Grackle also radiates magic, very powerful transmutation.

Grackle senses that the scepter is worth at least 1,000 gp. He recognizes that it is almost certainly magical, but suffers no effects, ill or otherwise from holding the scepter or touching it to his cheek.

 

[Leif]

Logan Lightbringer

"I am concerned my friends! There are no symbols upon this 'carriage to the afterlife' that seem to have any reference to any God that I am familiar with. Any person or persons who would hope for the departed to have a peaceful rest and speedy journey to the bosom of his God would surely have included these symbols, so I can only surmise that one left so unadorned would easily be subject to foul, necromantic rituals beckoning him to an unlife of evil."