Chapter 4: Level 3 dungeon

"Let's go!"

"Good idea!"

I head towards the room to the west. I'll stop at the entrance.

As you fly north the corridor turns sharply to the left. At the corner just before the turn, a peephole is carved into the stone wall at a height of 6 feet.
The peephole forms one end of a 5-foot-long tube cut through the solid rock wall.

Room to the west ends at a block of stone on which is painted a seven-foot-tall jackal-headed humanoid with a circular gold medallion around its neck. All around the figure are carvings of locusts.

You discover also a crawlway north turning east.

Not be in the way Criella slides to next to the door to allow others to pass easily and pulls her tail in along with her to avoid it getting trampled.

I approach and examine the painting and medallion.

"I wouldn't; I have a bad feeling that's a trap. Maybe have your familiar look through it if you are carrying what you need to resummon it if necessary."

Tinkara realize that "medallion" is actually a 6-inch-diameter gold disk engraved with the face of a horned devil, its mouth agape. She see a hieroglyph of vulture (similar to one she saw in the room with hieroglyphs carved into the tiled floor) through the mouth.

As she start investigating carvings of locusts one of them appears to be a button as she press it. Immediately as she press it the stone block sinks into the floor, creating an open passage to the tomb with hieroglyphs carved into the tiled floor. (same does the jackal-headed humanoid and medallion as it is attached to the stone block).There are two dead bodies in the tomb - one of them is Vatoris - your artificer companion's body you left to investigate the tomb and other is the dwarf from text blow. Flying monkey meanwhile makes another crawl through the crawlway to find nothing that would seems of an interest to the animal and returns to peek through the peephole. It informs you to see Tinakra's head.

Curious Criella hears the stone movement and moves to investigate. She moves around the turning way and ends up next to adventurous Tink to view the new exposed room.
"Hm. What do we have here Tink."

Nyx watches through his familiars eyes at the open passage to the room to the east

"Well, there's a vulture hieroglyph in the mouth of the demon medallion. The vulture is the first step, the plaque said. There was a tile with that hieroglyph in this room, too. Maybe we step on that tile first? Or maybe that sets off the trap, and that's how the dwarf died. Hard to say which. What do you all think?"

On looking Criella says to Tink, "We can fly and avoid the floor trapping, but I say by looks it is best to jump from vulture tile to vulture title as a guess."

"Could be, Criella. I'd have to fly from tile to tile, though. Short legs, y'know.

I wiggle my legs at Criella.

"Shall we give it a go?"

Amused Criella says to Tink, "You know that is a wild guess and in our case flying straight the center might be wiser."

"Let's find out unless someone has a better idea about all these tiles and such?" Winged Criella is starting to unfold her huge bat wings some in preparing to short leap into nearby air and safely fly to the obvious center in full succubus mode and being careful of her forked tail.

"Thank you Nyx."

With the eyehole not being a trap in itself, Tante Lude turned her focus to the next trap. She turned to the two winged beings.

"So far, the clues have been literal and not to follow them precisely, insofar as they can be interpreted, seems to set off the next trap. I think Tinkara has the right of it. Stepping from vulture tile to vulture tile until we reach the center makes sense and wearing that vulture medallion while doing it does as well.

Thank you for volunteering to be our explorer."

Tante Lude decides that when they do explore, she will step back around a corner or with partial cover from pillar as long as she doesn't have to go back through the water trap to do so. Better careful than dead, as they say.

"Nobody lives forever, Tante Lude."

I take the gold medallion and fly to the nearest vulture tile, landing neatly on it. I pause to see if anything happens.