Neera swings her staff, Alora runs like a frightened rabbit, and... nothing. The party continues to be peppered by whatever evil(?) spirits they have stirred up.
"By the power of Helm, this evil shall not continue," Alora announces in her best would-be paladin voice. The attack of the pottery has annoyed her and she is going to check through the cremains in the urns to see if anything is hidden there.
Okay, Alora runs back in and starts going through the cremains. She finds some minor pieces of Jewelry, but comes under greater attack. Alora takes 3 damage. There are three small gold earrings, an electrum bangle and a pendant which is a piece of Jade mounted in silver.
"Oww! I'm hurt!" Alora runs away from the flying pottery again and joins Anomen outside.
She is disappointed by her haul but is convinced there is still treasure to be had.
"I think we should rest until I'm feeling bit better before we go back to explore the rest of the tomb. Or someone could heal me," she suggests hopefully.
"Hurray! Well done Aerie you scared the ghost away! That means we can keep the treasure after all!"
Alora ties the rope around her waist again and prepares to descend the shaft.
"Anomen, it's safe to come in now. Aerie has scared the ghost away."
Then Aerie speaks confidentially to the others: "No one should mention it but Anomen is scared of ghosts. That's why he was hiding outside. I'm only mentioning to you so that you don't say something about it by accident and embarrass him."
The slimy shaft leads down. After about five feet (and with some light from up above) you can see that it open out into some kind of cavern at the bottom. Then, about five feet after that, the cavern opens out into a rough cave dripping with damp. At the bottom lies a skull in the middle of the floor, amidst a group of mildewed bones. Something greenish projects out from under the skull.
Alora is excited. She feels there is bound to be lots of treasure hidden somewhere here. However, because she is now quite badly hurt she thinks it might be wise to wait until some of her companions join her.
"Aerie, there is a skull down here. Do you want to come down and be ready to turn it in case it turns into something nasty and undead?
Then, as an afterthought, Alora calls up the shaft, "It's probably best if you tell Anomen to wait at the back in case it turns out to be a ghost. But don't tell him I said that because I don't want him to know that we know he's scared of them. Just tell him to stand at the back and keep an eye out for rabbits."
Aerie truly did not care to dive into yet another dark, slimy, dead-infested cavern... But, after so long on her adventures with Alora's Marauders, she's learned any attempts to dissuade Alora are often futile.
"Coming," she sighed as she climbed in. She also used her last Cure Light Wounds to heal Alora, seeing as she was bleeding even more heavily than before.
"Thank you Aerie. I feel much better now. Minsc you had better wait and the back and get Boo to protect you just in case anything goes wrong because I don't think you can afford to get hurt much more."
With that done Alora creeps forward towards the pile of bones, checking for traps as she goes, and tries to work out what the green thing is that is projecting out from under the skull.
The pouch is green with slime and a little rot, but inside are three green gems run through with red streaks. They are bloodstones, and worth about 50p each.
"I think maybe we should find somewhere else to sleep because whatever has been living here will probably come back at night," worries Alora. "The ghost might come back too and we won't sleep very well if there is pottery flying around."
Oh, you don't want to play leapfrog with the unibunnies Anomen?
From here you can see two possible ways down. One is a path that runs into the hill/mountains., the other, a single path that leads to the edge of the meadow.
No, you have not been down either of these paths before. You are heading down the mountain. The next paths lead to the next area. Minsc says he likes the look of the not-mountainous (the one down the edge of the cliff). Form the top here, you can again see all the way down the mountain and out to the snake-shaped river and the island that appears to be a jewel in the eye of the snake.
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"I SWEAR it wasn't me this time!"
Aside from that, there isn't much there.
She is disappointed by her haul but is convinced there is still treasure to be had.
"I think we should rest until I'm feeling bit better before we go back to explore the rest of the tomb. Or someone could heal me," she suggests hopefully.
(Trying this out).
Alora ties the rope around her waist again and prepares to descend the shaft.
"Anomen, it's safe to come in now. Aerie has scared the ghost away."
Then Aerie speaks confidentially to the others: "No one should mention it but Anomen is scared of ghosts. That's why he was hiding outside. I'm only mentioning to you so that you don't say something about it by accident and embarrass him."
"Aerie, there is a skull down here. Do you want to come down and be ready to turn it in case it turns into something nasty and undead?
Then, as an afterthought, Alora calls up the shaft, "It's probably best if you tell Anomen to wait at the back in case it turns out to be a ghost. But don't tell him I said that because I don't want him to know that we know he's scared of them. Just tell him to stand at the back and keep an eye out for rabbits."
"Coming," she sighed as she climbed in. She also used her last Cure Light Wounds to heal Alora, seeing as she was bleeding even more heavily than before.
With that done Alora creeps forward towards the pile of bones, checking for traps as she goes, and tries to work out what the green thing is that is projecting out from under the skull.
From here you can see two possible ways down. One is a path that runs into the hill/mountains., the other, a single path that leads to the edge of the meadow.
"I don't mind which way we go, what do people want: meadows or mountains?" says Alora brightly while she looks at the shiny new gemstones she found.