It is dark and quiet, you can hear your own breath. The monument stays quietly, as do corved glyphs and pictures on it. The eleven face-glyphs at the foot of the block look more like buttons to be pressed, but other than that are not that differ from the rest of them. The axe on the wall does not do anything either.
Ramious leans with his back against the wall, and looks around the room. "Well....I figure we should push some of those glyphs. Alyssa, do you understand the markings on 'em?"
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Alyssa concentrated on the studying and declared that the glyphs, that looked like you should be able to press them, are numbers - from zero to ten. Actually, a bit of attention, and the similarity between those glyphs and the numbers on the top of the stone block become obvious.
Leon lets the two handle the runes as he steps back and keeps lookout at the door. he has already detected magic and doesn't want to interfere with the two working on the puzzle.
Alyssa would pat her nose in thought as she’d study the glyphs. Once she deciphered the numbers and discovered the buttons, with a slight shrug, she’d type in the numbers she had read out loud to Ramious.
It worked: whatever the number meant, when the 9 glyph was pushed for the second time, a grating sound issued forth and the top slab slid back a bit. Whether it was intended this way or the mechanism got "rusty" during these last centuries, but to open the thing completely some strength would need to be applied.
Still, the important part was the opening itself - if the seal was anywhere in the room, it was inside that stone block. Leon from his position could see a faint magical aura coming out of the opening.
If Bernard can carefully get into position to see the seal he will. "You all okay if I lift it out with my bugs? I figure better at a distance right?" he asks. If given approval and its lighter than 5 lbs he will command his fey bugs to lift it out and bring it to him.
The block is definitely not lighter than 5lb, in fact it looks quite heavy and definitely need some muscle to be applied. Still for three of you (or even four - the length of the monument allows it) it should be possible.
Leon can say that there are probably several magical things inside it, but the crack is not big enough to get the good view.
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Alyssa would hesitate a moment, but seeing even with Leon’s strength, it looked as though it was super heavy like last time. She’d slip over to lend what strength she had.
It seemed this time the efford of two people was enough, the upper part with the glyphs slid down and now you could freely look inside.
The hollow block beneath the slab contains a skeleton with dried out skin, covering bones, all decked out in decayed finery. It appears to have been a man of taller than average stature, obviously of great importance. Gems and other small adornments of obvious value lie on and around the body. Covering the skull is a mask of jade with cowrie-shell eyes and obsidian pupils. About the corpse’s neck is a round jade pendant carved with the face of a humanlike bat. Skeleton hands lay on top of the pendant as if protecting it.
Now Leon can see the auras, coming from one of the ring and the bracers on the skeleton. The mask and pendant appears to be magical as well, but he can not assign any school of magic to it, something ancient and more on the divine side.
Leon points out what is magical and what is not. "I am thinking the mask and pendant might be more trouble than they are worth." He says to the others. "I cannot determine what sort of magic is on them, and it is more divine-based than arcane based from what I can tell."
Ramious walks over and investigates the gap after Leon gets the lid open. "So, we were asked to come on in here, 'cause the girl outside said we couldn't pass until we got her master the seal from in here? This whole situation is very weird, and now that I've been away from that girl for a while....how is she beautiful and perfect and just swimmin around in a pool all day long underground? And her master? Who is her master? And, why didn't they get this damned seal themselves. And is the seal the...oh...whatever.." He grabs the ring first, slipping it off and tossing it to Leon. Then he grabs the bracers, undoing them to pull them free and throws them to Bugs. Next, he goes to grab the mask. If it comes free without issue he'll place it on the lid to one side and then also pull the pendant off.
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Leon, about to create a magical hand to do all of the work, just sighs and lets Ramious do the work himself. He takes the magical items, and would identify them later when given a chance.
The ring and the bracers came off surprisingly easy - Ramious did not even break skeleton's fingers (not all of them, anyway), the mask came off easily enough too, revealing what one could expect - the crumbling skull under dry remnants of skin. Pendant was a bit more difficult to take off, but Ramious managed and was in the middle of studying the thing (on the other side of it was engraved the already familiar sun symbol) when dust, filling the obvious funeral receptacle, begun to stir up into clouds and to gather on the dry bones, as flesh knits and swells out on them. A moment ago deader than dead corps sat up, the eyes flashed with the green light and still thin but thickening by the seconds hand tried to grab away the pendant from Ramious.
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Bernard dex save 24
It is dark and quiet, you can hear your own breath. The monument stays quietly, as do corved glyphs and pictures on it. The eleven face-glyphs at the foot of the block look more like buttons to be pressed, but other than that are not that differ from the rest of them. The axe on the wall does not do anything either.
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Ramious leans with his back against the wall, and looks around the room. "Well....I figure we should push some of those glyphs. Alyssa, do you understand the markings on 'em?"
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Alyssa would blink a couple times refocusing her attention. She must have drifted off in thought. “Oh. Yes....
’Here rests Tloques-Popolocas, the beloved servant of Zotzilaha.’ But the lower writings in the glyphs are... 59-3-9.”
just an unstable unicorn.
Ramious scratches his head, "There are eleven at the bottom that look like buttons...what do they have on 'em?"
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Alyssa concentrated on the studying and declared that the glyphs, that looked like you should be able to press them, are numbers - from zero to ten. Actually, a bit of attention, and the similarity between those glyphs and the numbers on the top of the stone block become obvious.
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Leon lets the two handle the runes as he steps back and keeps lookout at the door. he has already detected magic and doesn't want to interfere with the two working on the puzzle.
Alyssa would pat her nose in thought as she’d study the glyphs. Once she deciphered the numbers and discovered the buttons, with a slight shrug, she’d type in the numbers she had read out loud to Ramious.
just an unstable unicorn.
It worked: whatever the number meant, when the 9 glyph was pushed for the second time, a grating sound issued forth and the top slab slid back a bit. Whether it was intended this way or the mechanism got "rusty" during these last centuries, but to open the thing completely some strength would need to be applied.
Still, the important part was the opening itself - if the seal was anywhere in the room, it was inside that stone block. Leon from his position could see a faint magical aura coming out of the opening.
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If Bernard can carefully get into position to see the seal he will. "You all okay if I lift it out with my bugs? I figure better at a distance right?" he asks. If given approval and its lighter than 5 lbs he will command his fey bugs to lift it out and bring it to him.
"There is magic in there." Leon warns. He steps forward to get a better look inside the thing.
The block is definitely not lighter than 5lb, in fact it looks quite heavy and definitely need some muscle to be applied. Still for three of you (or even four - the length of the monument allows it) it should be possible.
Leon can say that there are probably several magical things inside it, but the crack is not big enough to get the good view.
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"Let's open her up and see what is in there..." Leon says as he moves closer still.
Athletics: 9
Alyssa would hesitate a moment, but seeing even with Leon’s strength, it looked as though it was super heavy like last time. She’d slip over to lend what strength she had.
Strength: 21
just an unstable unicorn.
It seemed this time the efford of two people was enough, the upper part with the glyphs slid down and now you could freely look inside.
The hollow block beneath the slab contains a skeleton with dried out skin, covering bones, all decked out in decayed finery. It appears to have been a man of taller than average stature, obviously of great importance. Gems and other small adornments of obvious value lie on and around the body. Covering the skull is a mask of jade with cowrie-shell eyes and obsidian pupils. About the corpse’s neck is a round jade pendant carved with the face of a humanlike bat. Skeleton hands lay on top of the pendant as if protecting it.
Now Leon can see the auras, coming from one of the ring and the bracers on the skeleton. The mask and pendant appears to be magical as well, but he can not assign any school of magic to it, something ancient and more on the divine side.
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Leon points out what is magical and what is not. "I am thinking the mask and pendant might be more trouble than they are worth." He says to the others. "I cannot determine what sort of magic is on them, and it is more divine-based than arcane based from what I can tell."
Ramious walks over and investigates the gap after Leon gets the lid open. "So, we were asked to come on in here, 'cause the girl outside said we couldn't pass until we got her master the seal from in here? This whole situation is very weird, and now that I've been away from that girl for a while....how is she beautiful and perfect and just swimmin around in a pool all day long underground? And her master? Who is her master? And, why didn't they get this damned seal themselves. And is the seal the...oh...whatever.." He grabs the ring first, slipping it off and tossing it to Leon. Then he grabs the bracers, undoing them to pull them free and throws them to Bugs. Next, he goes to grab the mask. If it comes free without issue he'll place it on the lid to one side and then also pull the pendant off.
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Leon, about to create a magical hand to do all of the work, just sighs and lets Ramious do the work himself. He takes the magical items, and would identify them later when given a chance.
The ring and the bracers came off surprisingly easy - Ramious did not even break skeleton's fingers (not all of them, anyway), the mask came off easily enough too, revealing what one could expect - the crumbling skull under dry remnants of skin. Pendant was a bit more difficult to take off, but Ramious managed and was in the middle of studying the thing (on the other side of it was engraved the already familiar sun symbol) when dust, filling the obvious funeral receptacle, begun to stir up into clouds and to gather on the dry bones, as flesh knits and swells out on them. A moment ago deader than dead corps sat up, the eyes flashed with the green light and still thin but thickening by the seconds hand tried to grab away the pendant from Ramious.
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