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On the third day, while more than 30 feet up from the ground, Volcifar makes a successful find traps roll and uncovers a trapdoor, perfectly built to show no hinges or edge, and precisely the size and shape of a stone. Without pushing the right trigger, it wouldn’t have opened, and held Volcifar’s weight about 15 minutes ago without ringing hollow or anything. It was built well.
They have found the entrance to the pyramid.
Alzar orders everyone to go in very slowly, and to check and recheck for traps. This corridor is ancient. It heads straight into the pyramid, and Alzar pulls out the Continual Light stones and uses them to help see.
Within 30 yards, the hallway, apparently trap-free opens into a large funeral temple dedicated to a god called Ptah. Alzar reads the hieroglyphs around the room with his Helm. In this temple final rites were performed and the body of Queen Aneksi was made ready for voyage to the afterlife under the auspices of the clergy of Ptah. In front of them the corridor leaves and narrows and heads up. They search the funeral temple and find nothing else here, until near the very end, Volcifar detects a trap in front of the far away corridor and takes care of it (Volcifar’s skill is 90% - pretty darn good)
They move into the narrow corridor and there are old braziers that lifted off the ground, and the ceiling drops to about four feet of clearance. They arrive in another chamber, called the First Burial Chamber according to Alzar. It would have been used had Aneksi died while they were building it, and then moved to the proper place above when finished, but it obviously was never needed and there is nothing else here besides the wall decorations.
The narrow corridor moves up again, and back into the center of the pyramid. It’s a long climb up. This is a crypt. Once the funeral rites were completed, and the queen placed in the hands of Ptah, the priests killed themselves to protect her in death, and to keep the secrets of building the Pyramid of the Illuminated One.
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