Orhan 4 Day 35 TE 6065

It's almost dawn.

Haeraan and Alynna turn to falcons and stand on either side of the sun disk. Imre casts Utterlight on the sundisk. The stone sarcophagus opens. Within is a solid gold coffin. It also opens.

Inside is a mummy with a golden laen mask. He sits up with glowing yellow eyes. He says in Gethryn, "Who disturbs my sleep..." He has a number of amulets including the head of the staff of Ra. He's got lots of golden loot all over him. Super-bling mummy.

Imre makes his impassioned plea. He rolls well, in Gethryn, and lays it on the great king.

He reaches down and pats the falcons while Imre flatters and pleads.

"I sense you are not of this land. Why must my land be rescued by foreigners?"

"The Alliance is tricky and make the people believe their yoke is light."

"Let me peer into your soul."

He examines Imre, Kyrik, Alynna, Haeraan, and Oathar. "I have looked in your hearts, and though you have flaws, you mean well."

He reaches around his neck and takes off the head of the staff of Ra and gives it to the falcons and waits for them to give it Imre. They comply, floppily as they are oversized and not good at this.

"Very well, you have my blessings!" He casts a spell on everyone, "Contingency Remove Curse" which will remove the first curse that is accidentally triggered.

"I return to my slumbers..."

The party teleports back to Imre's room in the village downstream.

Orhan 4 Day 36 TE 6065

It's dawn.

Kyrik teleports back to the capital and buys a lead box to keep the head of the staff of Ra in. Then he teleports back.

There are runes on the staff head. The runes say, the head of the staff is placed upon a measure six feet in length, while on the back side it says and take away one to reserve for Hora. They're digging in the wrong place!!!

Haeraan makes his ten foot pole a six foot pole. He'll chop off another foot at the very last minute.

They plan to travel to the capital by heading down the river normally in order to draw alliance suspicion away from the Valley of Kings again. But as they approach the river, they notice Alliance troops questioning everyone down there.

Haeraan sneaks down to the docks and casts a scry point to see what they are asking people. The soldiers are mostly asking everyone for their papers, checking their business permits, inspecting their packages, etc. Imre determines that heading down there undisguised will result in a high energy situation.

Deciding are blown, the party decides to teleport back to the camels stashed near the Canyon of the Kings.
When they get there, the camels are gone. People wait around in the desert with Oathar's hand tents waiting for the daily workshift to end.

That evening they sneak in to the tent city. The meet up with Salah. "Do you have it? Is it safe?" Tomorrow morning at sunrise we must take it to the map room. Salah gets them tents to wait in for the night. They should return to Salah's tent in the morning.

The camp is quite that night.

Alynna dreams about "The Way" that night. Oathar says that things are going pretty well.

Kyrik dreams about a followup on the philosophical discussion from last time. By which he means prostitution. It seems that trying to reform the entire industry would be a lot of work. In this particular case, combining two different issues into one. 1) Insuring that prostitutes have enough power over their postions to insure they are not being abused. 2) Dealing with the low state of education in general. He wants to found a school and encourage the prostitutes to attend.

Imre also gets on the dream queue. Talk to me about Tradewind. Get Tradewind back before you raise me.

Haeraan also asks for a dream about the map room tomorrow morning. Oathar indicates that the staff tends to get a little excitable when used in the map room. Especially the head. Don't linger there.

Orhan 4 Day 37 TE 6065

The next morning they meet Dr. Jones (Salah) and head to the map room. They start lowering themselves into the map room. There's a map in the canyon and a hole in the ground. They make a five foot staff and stick it with the staff head into the hole. The searing beam of light indicates a location along the canyon walls. Several guards come towards Dr. Jones. Meanwhile the staff head is glowing uncontrollably. It then shoots an image of itself out the hole and draws the Staff of Ra above the valley.

Dr. Jones drops the rope and runs. The Alliance guards come running. People teleport to the tents. Well, Haeraan bounces. Alynna teleports Imre and the staff head back to the tents. Kyrik and Haeraan teleport back to the brothel. They regroup at the tents.

Imre takes the Staff Head of Ra, and attempts to teleport directly to the Great King Mortu's burial chamber. He's arrive in the tomb. Imre turns on curse-o-vision and looks around. He drapes the amulet upon the sarcophogus. Then he returns to the camp.

It's being locked down, and all the workers are told to go back to the camp. They rush around for a bit. They teleport out to a hill nearby to regroup.

Then they long door over to the lip of the canyon and try to see what's at the tomb spot in the canyon. They mostly see the right spot near a couple of boulders. There are guards everywhere now. They teleport down to the tomb point casting Non-Detect everywhere. Some stone sight would be helpful at the moment, so Alynna prays to Oathar and gets it. They Passing True through and end up inside the tunnel without digging.

Along the walls are the standard painting of the king defeating is enemies, etc. Kyrik prays to Oathar to intercede with the guardian spirits. Oathar tells the guardian spirit. The guardian spirit says that this is a terrible plan. Oh dear. Good thing they've got curse protections. This particular Great King was known as the cruel. They should probably grab the staff and run if they get the chance, but really, they expect that the Great King will be holding the staff.

Oathar chats up the Guardian spirits. The spirit is evil. He's the equivalent of a guardian elemental but is a spirit. They slog onwards.

There's a big wooden door with a pair of glowing eyes on the door. The door is evil and hates the party. Oathar and the door spirit chat while the party attacks it. Imre attacks it spiritually while Alynna just strikes to shatter the door. It's resiliant.

The baleful eyes of the door glare against all. They are stalwart and resist. Alynna shatters the left door destroying one eye, the other glows. Imre Undoors the other door.

They head down to where the passageway branches. Taking the right hand passage (after consulting the morningstar) people charge the next door. It's evil. It almost gets them with their mentalism, but doesn't quite. Alynna gets one of the two doors. Alynna dives through the hole she's made to the other side of the remaining evil door. Imre splinters it.

They come to a stone door. Cursed, but no spirit. The burial room with sarcophogus is beyond.

Alynna long doors through. As usual, there are piles of treasure everywhere. Everyone teleports in.

Alynna levetates and godolas herself over to the sarcophogus. The writing on the sarcophogus says, "The great king and his beloved staff rest here. Disturb it not or suffer the pain of the fire of Hora."

They carefully pick their way to the sarcophogus. They flip the lid off of the sarcophogus. inside is the golden coffin, with a golden lid. It opens. The mummy sits up. He got the golden staff of the sun disk. His eyes glow red.

The mummy stands and brandishes the staff. He's AT 20, DB 150. They fight!

"Burn with the fire of Hora!!" Fire goes everywhere! Luckily our heroes are well defended against fire. (Having been prepared earlier.)

He says, "Your protections can not save you!" and casts dispell all with his Arcane nonsense. But they resist.

So they beat on him some more and then get cursed from beyond the grave.

He tries another round of Dispelling.

Haeraan stabs him in the ear... His Eyes and Staff burst into flame. He tries to destroy the staff. Oathar and Haeraan take a last shot at him. Oathar having attacked him, gets smote by the flaming counterstrike and heads back to Orhan. Haeraan takes a 10C fire and get conflagrated. Good bye armor.

The staff falls to the ground unharmed.