Chapter Four: The Manifest of the Harikan Squall

For what it's worth, I think we need to find whoever was controlling the skellies so they don't try and regroup and attack again later.

Leth and Felor inspect the next two crypts.

Leth sees another pink granite sarcophagus and two large alcoves in the opposite wall. The one on the left is empty, but the one on the right contains a filigreed metal box shaped like a cathedral window, about three feet tall, fitted almost exactly to the shape of the alcove. There are incense burners and perfume boxes resting on the sarcophagus lid.

The crypt Felor inspects contains a whitish-gray limestone sarcophagus and several irregularly-placed niches, all of which are empty, save for one on the opposite wall where a clay oil lamp rests. The floor here is cluttered with parcels bound in disintegrating cloth, three ornate but worn folding stools that lean against the left wall, a 4' statue of a man with his right arm upraised and broken off at the wrist, and an overturned wooden bucket.

So far nothing is springing out of the crypts. The westernmost one remains uninspected.

The last crypt holds a white marble sarcophagus. A large crack runs across the middle of the lid. There are no niches in this crypt, but faint charcoal outlines of the places where someone might have intended to carve them out. In the far left corner of the crypt stands a painted plaster statue of a cat, a crude wooden doll with looped strings of beads for hair, and a black-and-gold square box about ten inches on each side.

The box doesn't look like it's seen any action recently.

Felor pokes the statue. It reacts as statues do, it wobbles.

Mordred feels the sharpness of the crack with his finger. Based on the roughness of the edge, he...still doesn't know how recent the crack is. But it isn't so worn as to suggest it's been broken for ages.

Mordred is able to lift and slide off the two pieces of the lid, but struggles a bit with it in a way he'd rather hoped not to.

There is a small -- child-sized, you'd assume -- wooden coffin inside the sarcophagus. A pair of stylized horns are painted on the top of the coffin lid.

Felor flips the bucket and...nothing. It's empty underneath.

Which sarcophagus?

Felor sees no evidence that the sarcophagus has been disturbed recently, although he can't rule out that the lid hasn't been carefully removed and replaced.