[Gameplay] Part 1: The Lottery & Tomb of Akhentepi

Jaware's acid splash does the trick, killing the ghost scorpion.

Combat is over.

"Haha! Well done all! Like a well oiled machine. At least we appear to be more competent at combat than we are at manual labour."

Unfortunately, the fight did not jostle the giant stone wheel. Will you put your backs into it and roll it to the side?

Khadi looks at her very stray arrow as Bernard speaks at the groups competence. 'Well most of us perhaps. If it was a zombie scorpion I like to think it would have been stopped before it dealt any harm. Are you okay Esmae? I can heal it you wish, though it looks just a nick.'

She looks back to the stone. 'Turns out my jokes of bringing my Dad's collegues along for the architecture should not have been laughed off at the pub. Lets get to it again, yes?'

Let me help you.

Gethean eyes the stone wheel and gets up close as he starts to push.

"There is room for four to find purchase there, I believe that the four strongest should be able to manage it."

Iseretm moves to help, but finds that she will just be in the way, so she keeps watch instead.

Together, four of you manage to move the stone, slowly rolling it to the side. It reveals another chamber.

This square room is starkly devoid of any markings or adornment. In the center of the chamber’s floor, a square shaft drops straight down into darkness. A faint musty odor rises from the pit. A single piton has been hammered into the stone floor by the northeast corner of the pit, and a dusty length of rope dangles from the piton into the darkness of the shaft.

How are you going to keep the wheel from rolling back and blocking your path out, or is that a problem only for future you?

'Okay may be a bit gruesome but any chance we can wedge our snappy friend in there? Or anyone want to give up a knife?'

"I say we try to jam it using the scorpion's body. And I don't think that I would trust that rope."

The scorpions body is sturdy enough to serve admirably in that ancient and noble profession of wheel-door stopper.

Jaware looks at Gethean Jael

So, do we have any volunteer? We don't have many elves in Osirion, but I hear they have a natural talent to move silently and are able to see in the dark.

Gethean drops his rope and starts unfurling it, looking at the piton and the rope currently tied to it.

Would someone be so kind as to pull that rope up to see how long it is? I don't plan to use it, but it will tell us how far the drop is hopefully. And we can drop a torch down before I go, or some source of light.

"I can cast a spell upon a stone and we can throw that down if you like."

Gethean ties off the new rope to the piton and checks the length of the old rope to see if 50 feet of rope will be enough to get him to the bottom. Then checks his gear before going over the edge.

The shaft drops 60 feet down to the floor of a chamber below. The rope extends only 5 feet into the shaft before ending, having been cut at that point. The rope is thoroughly rotted and crumbles if handled.

Gethean would be able to climb down easily enough with the rope, but he would have about a ten to fifteen foot drop at the end.

I have a brand-new silk rope here but is only 50 feet also. Maybe we can cut the best part of the old rope and tie the two parts together. I mean tie the new rope with the best part of the old rope. If someone prepared Mending we can even make it a 60 feet rope

'Perhaps they could be tied together? Perhaps even some knits to make sure our old man doesn't fall.' She teases even as she looks down. She herself was likely aat as much risk of slipping.

'Or some of you physically competent lot climb down, Esme can lower those of us likely to break our necks down?'