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And here is a sarcophagus. There are undead here, somewhere, and Alzar needs more info, so he casts Detect Undead. The spell will last for a half hour, and Alzar can detect any undead by number and direction, but not type, by concentrating. There is one undead in the sarcophagus. To the narrow passage to the left, there is one more. Behind him, on the same level, is a third presence, and there is a fourth diagonal from him, between the positions of the other two. His best guess is four separate crypts, each with an undead priest in the sarcophagus. But nothing else. Odd. He would have thought Aneksi would have been one. It’s possible that we have three priests and one queen instead.
Best guess is a mummy. Undead powerful priests tend to be mummies. Could be something else of course, but something like a vampire needs to feed, and a lich would be bored in there. Mummy is the best guess. A priest of Ptah.
While getting ready, Volcifar checks the rooms for traps, and finds one on the platform the sarcophagus was one and disarms it. Alzar hands out Holy Water to everyone. They have some torches light up as well, mummies can take damage from fire if needed. Alzar gets the Wand of Fireballs prepped in case the maybe-Mummy has a shot of opportunity. Locinda gets the undead smashing mace they got from the previous adventure in that Shrine. Because she know show to use a mace-like weapon – the Gada, she only gets a -1 when attacking with it. Her +1 khanda would normally be +1 to hit and +1 to damage, The Mace is +4 to hit vs undead and deals 1d6+4 rather than 1d8+1. Better odds. He hands the Girdle of Ogre Strength to Pashtun, and the Horn of Vahalla to summon the soldiers if needed. It can only be used once/week, so he doesn’t like to rely on it that often, but they may need the cover.
In case this is a vampire, he readies the potion of Vampire Control and a few other items. He has an ultimate weapon, Scroll of Protection from undead, in case this gets really bad. But it won’t protect from undead magic, just undead physical attacks. So if this is, say, a Lich, they still need an answer to its magic.
Alzar has Ring of Free Action and Quick Action; Sandals of Speed, Zoster of Zeal, Rock Jellaba, Bracers of Def, Iuon Stone, on. He has stark blonde hair as well.
They have Pashtun head over to open the sarcophagus. He’ll run back to the line as soon as it cracks open.
Here we go.
Pashtun opens the sarcophagus and heads back.
In a second out climbs a mummy…
Alzar makes a necrology check….and passes.
This is no ordinary mummy. Alzar has heard about them before but never encountered one. This is a Greater Mummy. And his party is in trouble. A Greater Mummy is, for lack of a better word, a cross between a lich and a mummy, in all of the worst possible ways.
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