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Message: <blockquote data-quote="elfstone" data-source="post: 5674057" data-attributes="member: 83937">Session Three Notes 09/02/2011From the journal of Caiphus Colletti, Ordo Panthea Roman Cleric of Mars After waiting for a scouting party to return from the pyramid for quite some time, I and seven others of our group decided to investigate, against my better judgment. It wasn't long before we found the party dead, killed by giant killer bees who were nesting above a large treasure hoard. Well, dead men can't spend treasure is the lesson of that little misadventure. The adjoining room where the bees were nesting contained two doors, however our greed was not in control of our decision making faculties, so we decided to seek another route. In the course of our search I got to know the other members of our party. The Mage of the group seemed rather out of his element though his heart was in the right place. His companion, a burly barbarian, proved quite capable though required my healing services later. I met a kindred spirit in a Briton priest of the Druidic cults which gave me a chance to brush up on my Gaelic. I rather like the little psychopath. The rogue of the group was quite helpful in locating and triggering all of the traps in our path. Shrugging of his wounds and driving on as a true Roman should. If we ever make it back to civilization I will recommend him for a silver laurel. I hope it's not a posthumous award.We also met a group of small people fluttering about on tiny wings (obviously some breed or fey folk) who were kind enough to share information with us regarding other inhabitants of the pyramid. They were in a room with chests containing pouches of a strange dark powder that smelled of rotten eggs as well as several candle looking items with the same odor. I'm not sure what these things are but when the mage begins experimenting with them, as mages are prone to do, I intend to put as much distance between myself and him as possible. Our rogue discovered three round stone receptacles. One was filled with sand, the others were empty. We weren't able to determine their purpose but the sly little Briton cast a create water spell filling one of the empty ones with water that, after so many days, tasted sweeter than wine. We all re-hydrated and filled our water skins. The next room of importance that we explored contained some kind of green slimy ooze which seemed to be alive. After it apparently ate one of the 8 glow glands we had removed from some large dead insects we found and our barbarian's dagger, we collectively decided there was nothing in this room worth risking our lives for. In one room we were forced to battle two monstrous and vicious reptiles. At first it went poorly. We took casualties while inflicting minimal damage to the monsters. We fell back to regroup in an empty room that seemed to have once been a bedchamber. It was clear that a different tactical approach was in order. After seeing to everyone's wounds I tore some cloth from the bedding in the room and stuffed it into one of the clay jars of oil we had found to act as a wick. One of our party started a small fire that we used to light the wick. Our most agile member tossed the jar into the room with the lizards. It burst into flames and I quickly closed the door. The others readied ranged weapons and we waited sufficient time for the flames to do their work. When I finally opened the door again, a hail of spear, javelins, and sling stones rained into the room. Only one of the lizards remained alive, until a javelin found it's mark on the thing, at any rate. After dinning on roasted lizard meat which tasted surprisingly like chicken, we searched the room finding the body of a humanoid on which the lizards had been feasting. Among the items on the corpse was a gold mask of a type described to us by the fey folk we had met earlier. We secured it for later. If we met others of his type I reasoned that it might buy us some good will if we were able to return the mask to them and inform them of their friends fate. We used the second lizard's body to trigger a trap rather than have the poor rogue attempt to disarm it and trigger it himself, yet again.Finally we found three religious statues of a religion with which none of us were familiar. I saw signs in the iconography of the statues that suggested that the religion was one that held law in high regard. Along the wall leading to these statues were two doors next to one another. The fighter of our party readied to open one while I prepared to open the other. We opened them simultaneously and we found each occupied by humanoids wearing masks not unlike the one we had recovered earlier. Playing on my earlier hunch I made no overt aggressive action and made an attempt to communicate with these people as did other members of our party. As it turned out they were quite civilized and asked us to join them in their cause, even offering myself and others membership in their organization. I have yet to decide on this offer, as much as I would love to learn more of their culture and religion I am hesitant to givr my oath to a group I know nothing about.</blockquote>

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