RJK'S Cairn of the Skeleton King

[Le Noir Faineant]

You all pass through the room with the bones without any further problem.

Once you all are in the hall with the coffins, youn get a closer look to your new environment.

Two iron doors on the right side of the wall lead into other big halls - at least judging from the enormous height of them.

Something double as big as human could walk through it...

At the end of the left wall, another, smaller door leads to somewhere else.

On the wall you face, you can see three strange, human-sized statues standing in the darkness.

Finally, Rupert will perceive a small niche in the wall to his left - the darkness there seems to be even blacker than everywhere else...

 

[ethandrew]

Noticing the little inconsistency, Rupert will furrow his brow and slowly head to the left. "I see something odd, or rather, I see a nothingness over here... and don't go touching any doors! I want to check them out first."

He will get close to the darkness and see if he can't see anything else about it, as well as pointing it out to whomever might want to know.

 

[zoons]

Zanax and Moja will wait patiently for Rupe to investigate the room and assure them they aren't in thier own crypt. Then Zanax will recommend investigating the statues and the smaller door before entering larger rooms.

 

[Le Noir Faineant]

No traps on the doors, at least as far as Rupert can tell.

In the left niche, Ruoert will find a strange object, as he moves:

Sitting on a granite pedestal, an iron, life-sized statue of a nude, winged female with small horns on her head.
At her feet are two winged children fashioned from the same piece of metal, each wielding tiny bows and arrows.

All three look unfriendly and threatening.

The winged woman's eyes seem to glow darkly for a moment as Rupert approaches her...

 

[ethandrew]

Spying the figuring, he slowly reaches out his hand to collect this but thinks better of it. Who knows if this thing has dire magic on it. Looking back over his shoulder at the rest of his group he shouts, "Oi! Have a look at this little thing here, I've never seen anything like it. Maybe one of you could know what it is."

After showing the others where it is, he will wander around the room, getting near where the sarcophagi are resting. He'll do a brief cursory check over all of the lower ones, not yet approaching the raised one.

 

[Nephtys]

"How lovely. Well, it certainly seems fiendish, yet..."

ooc. Does Maigreth recognise the motive and significance of the statue?

 

[Le Noir Faineant]

Spying the figuring, he slowly reaches out his hand to collect this but thinks better of it. Who knows if this thing has dire magic on it. Looking back over his shoulder at the rest of his group he shouts, "Oi! Have a look at this little thing here, I've never seen anything like it. Maybe one of you could know what it is."

WHO IS THE RULER OF THIS DUNGEON?

Rupert will take a moment until he realizes that the voice is NOT within his head.

One of the smaller winged statues is moving its lips and talking to him, the small pale glittering...

WHO IS THE PATRON OF THIS TOMB?

The statue repeats, as the thief moves away to the sarcophagi, its voice being that of a disturbed child...

ooc. Does Maigreth recognise the motive and significance of the statue?

Maigreth dimly recalls something... But she cannot say what exactly...

 

[zoons]

"He who adorns its walls in eternal life. He who's visage was above all peers" states Zanax in response to the small statue's questions.

"Did anyone happen to catch a name?" Zanax asks the others under his breath.

 

[Vertexx69]

Looking around the chanber again, a quizical look creeps across Battlehammer's face. "Wasn't the strange hooded fellow, with the crotchety voice, supposed to meet us in the 'chamber of bones' we just passed through?"

On hearing the strange new voice, Titus circles back down closer to the floor. "Hmm, a statue that speaks?"

 

[Le Noir Faineant]

"He who adorns its walls in eternal life. He who's visage was above all peers" states Zanax in response to the small statue's questions.

NO

The statues words echo in the hall, as it falls silent again...

Whatever purpose this otherworldly question may have served is not disclosed to you...

The halls sinks in uttermost silence as you stand there, waiting for something to happen...