The walls and floor of this fifteen-foot-square room are cracked and carved with images of terrified humanoids falling. Set into the middle of the floor is a stone bas-relief of a bearded devil face, painted green. Forlorn cries echo from the black void of its gaping maw.
Pass the magical darkness in the devil face mouth - there is a 5-foot-wide cylindrical shaft that descends 10 feet before opening up in the ceiling below. Magical darkness fills the mouth and the shaft. Vatoris informs detect magic spell reveals auras of evocation and illusion magic within the shaft.
[ +- ] Sphynx Tomb at the base of the shaft
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Four torches illuminate stone sphinxes crouched in the corners of this fifteen-foot-high room. All four Sphinx radiate auras of abjuration and conjuration
The torches cast flickering light across hieroglyphs carved into the tiled floor.
Right below you is the center of the room: a gold-inlaid funeral barge stands atop a three-foot-tall stone dais. Resting on the deck of the barge is a small golden sarcophagus decorated with horned rabbits.
A dark shaft opens in the ceiling directly above the barge,
while to the south, a corridor is visible through a set of fangs carved into the wall. Set of fangs carved into the wall has a pair of gaps only 2 inches wide.
The skeleton of a dwarf sprawls on the floor east of the barge, clad in a tattered yellow turban and dusty chain mail, and clutching a bronze shield. The skeleton body lies atop a floor tile bearing the "foot" hieroglyph. pouch containing a 500 gp diamond, two 1-inch-diameter crystal eyeballs. Crystal eyeballs have magic aura not recognised.
Scent of rotting corpses in the room and notice purple mold to sprout from the south wall and south part of the ceilings. It suddenly releases cloud of harmless spore and the smell intensify. PC notice a tiny eyeball emerge from the mold on the south wall and scrutinize all three of you before disappearing back. Look through the pair of gaps to see dark hallway ending with balcony to a darkness. Probably next level of grand staircase room she thinks.
something strange about east wall - after closer investigation Tinkara realize there is probably an exit blocked by stone block similar to one that blocked wine room. That could have been how the dead dwarf entered.