Necropolis Gameplay

Though no tools to be found, Dardan notices some of the items strewn about have been broken as if someone moved through here in haste without much regard for their surroundings. Dardan also notices the 'guards' have weapons, the crocodile headed man holds an Egyptian battle-axe and the jackal holds a sickle-like sword, a khopesh. though a little tarnished with age they are in good condition.

As Lyttleton starts to look through the objects, he thinks he sees something interesting, reaches and knocked a number of things over causing a crash of metal that echoes around the tomb.

Dardan retrieves the axe without much trouble.

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Baz steps over the scattered plaster and into a room half the size of the antechamber. Compared to that room, it is modestly filled with religious artifacts. The walls are lined with 3 inch high funerary cones made from clay. On the southern and northern walls are two large murals while at the eastern wall is a shrine on which stands an inverted 5 foot tall golden ankh. Hundreds of golden tendrils reach out from the symbol, which though motionless, give the impression of movement and look distinctly unsettling.

A large mat lies at the shrine's base, on which sprawls a human skeleton clothed in decaying tatters. Beside the corpse are a satchel and a small sack.

Arthur knows no significance of the heads, other than animal heads being common in Egyptian symbology, even the gods depicted with animal heads.

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Baz is aware that the symbol of the Ankh represents life however the inverted aspect and the reaching tentacles speak of wilful desecration and malign intent.

The shrine itself holds countless pieces of ancient incense in small compartments honeycombed through the base. Nearly one hundred tiny statues of men stand around the base of the shrine.

Scanning the walls, Baz's focus goes to the southern wall depicts a large painting of a smiling, black-robed pharaoh holding an oversized set of scales, on which a heart is being weighed against a platter of dead animals, A kneeling figure with the head of a wolf, has a chest wound that is being stretched open by two small men (identical to the figurines). There are some hieroglyphs below the painting.

Baz translates aloud, "The trial has been passed.Forever they shall be tied to this earth through their faithful beating heart, strong of body, awaiting the return of their master."