Gameplay!

Now that you all can see, who wants to tell me what you see?

Reem uses the darkness and chaos to go accidentally fish through the Investor’s pockets under the guise of being knocked out of the way by his guards. She’s not looking for envelopes of money, she’s looking for something more dangerous.

Do anything (Thief)

Reem- The Investor is separated from you all by the rubble, but I'll let you make the pick pocket attempt during the rubble falling before you got separated. On a 2, you should not succeed, so gain 1 XP. However, I think it would be more interesting if you succeeded and got something bad instead.

So when you reach into The Investor's pocket, you feel the handle of a gun stored inside the inside pocket (where you can't grab it), as well as an envelope, which you manage to snag.

Opening it up and reading it by the light of the torches you see a note from The Investor to an off-site partner, confirming that the team was assembled and the dig was proceeding well. You also see at the end that The Investor was planning on "silencing" you all after the excursion was successfully completed (maybe that's why he didn't mind giving you all so much money- checks that are not cashed don't cost anything).

Dmitry- same for you. Gain an XP for the failure, and instead of finding nothing (which is boring and doesn't move the story forward), I'll let you find something bad.

Scrounging through the rubble, to find pieces of hieroglyphs that were written on the wall. As happened to several of the other PCs, your vision clouds over until, in a flash of magic, you can read the hieroglyphs!

This is the part where I will turn over narrative control to you and you can tell us all that you read. My recommendation is that, since we have already had warnings, you give us a bit of lore about the mummy and the curse that must be on him.

Dmitry- I love this! Very nice work!

Everyone else- what type of dark magic was this man keeping?

While Dmitty is scrounging through the rubble and having visions of ancient magicians (and we wait for the rest of the PCs to help us define the magic in this world- I'm still waiting for someone to detail some cool magic), there is a sound coming from the rocks that has fallen to separate The Investor from the rest of the group.

Sommers- you wanted to make a roll to break out of the rocks. Tell us how you do this and roll!

Reem reels against the wall, hands touching hieroglyphs that seem to flare to light, but only to her vision. The story is spelled out across the wall in glowing signals. The rise of the necromancer pharaoh, who perverted the rituals of resurrection, of nature itself, hollowing himself out to make room for eldritch beings from long before humanity’s rise.

The spells of resurrection wind through the entire structure, speaking of blasphemy, of wholesale death in service of raising the power of one man, one new god, to rule over all the Nile lands and the middle-earth sea beyond. As she recovers herself she realizes that she can see perfectly in the darkness of this ancient place.

She can also feel her own heart beat like a drum in her ears. Blood flows through her body like a torrent. But now…now it’s not HER blood any more. She’s just hosting it.

She looks at the others and something else watches through her eyes. Perhaps they glint with an unnatural green light in the torchlight. Perhaps the others notice, perhaps they do not.

She rights herself, tidies her adventuring clothes and stares down the hallway. "I think I know the way to come. Come." she prepares to go deeper.

Reem- you posted your post three times, so I got rid of two of them for you.

Also a necromancer! That seems perfectly thematic! Where could the Mummy be leading everyone?

Do you want to make a roll to appear normal and nto freak everyone out?

Sommers- looks like your trapped! You must have gotten battered in the fall, which is why you can't just muscle the rocks out of the way. Maybe some of the other PCs could help you out?

Also, you gain an XP for the failure, and you could use it now if you wanted. Since you didn't move the rocks, you could gain Stay Still Lv II or Full Cover Lv II or something like that.

Reem grows impatient with the delay in seeking the depths.

Abigail thinks she sees something seething in her in the reflected light before it’s gone. (Fail)