We might survive the giant death trap
General Summary
So far we have survived fire and air, but how will we do against water and earth? That’s our theory for the last two rooms.
Might as well check out the next one, I shape-shift into a polar bear, because they can hold their breath for a long time, and can survive in the cold well. Within a few feet and turns, I discover this is a giant underwater maze, and there’s a water elemental in there somewhere. So, off to try the earth hallway again.
EARTH HALLWAY
Before we head down, Cap’n released one of the healing mist jars, and we all feel much better after all the fire damage we took.
We walk for 15 minutes in that slightly smaller maze before we see a different hall. I step into the room of columns only a few steps and walls drop surrounding me and sand pours in. And of course, the doors of the room close keeping everyone else out.
I try shouting the big phrase, but nothing happens. I try cutting the mesh wall, but can’t, and then a sand creature attacks me. I get rid of it, and shift into a gopher and dig my way out.
Lili knocks all of the sand back with her super awesome weather stick. It’s super awesome right now because I like what it’s doing. Then she blasts all of the sand around using the staff.
Apparently, that angers the sand elemental, and it attacks Lili.
I finally dig my way out of the mesh cage and try to bite the sand elemental. All that got me was a mouth full of sand. Not so helpful.
Instead, I focus on triggering as many of the sand traps as I can. Devan finds a false panel and disarms the trap in this room. After all, that’s happened Milli and Devan both use their clay jars to heal us up more.
We go into the next room and discover three sarcophagi in the middle of the room covered in gold leaf with a statue of a woman with her arms folded. In each of the alcoves are statues of women in priestly garb.
“This room feels strange, “Lili says as she walks in and knocks on a sarcophagus. Immediately a ghost floats up out of the sarcophagus. “Menet-Ka is life, Menet-Ka is death,” Lili gasps in shock. Apparently, the scary ghost lady didn’t like that phrase because she attacks her.
We start pushing lids off of sarcophagi and I flame-ball a body, Lili lightnings another. After the bodies are consumed we put the lids back on the sarcophagi to smother the fires, no use letting them waste our precious air. Once the fires are out we open the sarcophagi again and find:
• ornate black pearl (1500 gold value) and gold tiara (1 time a day +5 to hit scorching ray, Lili got it)
• cloak (+1 protection, +1 AC, +1 saving throws) and the other half of the tablet (total tablet is 1 pound of gold worth about 1000 gold)
• ornate iridiscent pearl and kopesh (+1 scimitar)
Lili grabs the tablet half and notices a constellation pattern on it. After a second I realize it’s the route I was trying to swim.
