egypt ♔ is this called living or something else

[lissatrinall]

♬ amsterdam - daughter

WHO || Lis'sa, Riddick, Phineas, Ella, Dimitri, Raegos, the Mithril Scarab, and more [Closed]
WHAT || The Knights head to Egypt to try and ascertain the location of a lost pyramid
WHERE || Cairo, Egypt
WHEN || Jan 21st, mid-day[forwarddated]
HOW || Actionspam. Single thread, don't worry about maintaining tagging order.

The party arrives in the bustling city of Cairo around mid-day, where it's a beautiful 70 degrees outside compared to the cold London January they came from. Along with whatever gear they brought individually for tomb raiding*, Wynn has also sent them with a chest of 2,000 gold pieces - because the woman who has promised to take them to meet Raegos (the only living man who can claim to have seen the lost tomb) plans to meet them at an antiquities auction.

Wynn has pre-arranged with the woman, who goes by the name of the Mithral Scarab, to recognize the party by the fact that they will cast several bids at the auction - and all of their opening bids will always be exactly ten gold more than the starting price. Once she has recognized them, she will find a way to show them a symbol of the Knights of the Silver Dragon discreetly to identify herself, and they are to follow her away from the crowd. Raegos' rumored paranoia concerning anyone else learning his location seems well demonstrated by the levels of security embedded in Scarab's directions.

The auction itself is a direct result of the recent elemental-driven storm that has unearthed a number of structures long buried in the desert. Some industrious tomb raiders have already taken to looting the lesser pyramids, and this underground sale promises to deliver some of the discovered goods into the hands of eager collectors. Wynn's generous supply of furnished gold was delivered to them with explicit instructions to purchase anything that they thought might be an item of actual valuable historical or magical significance, to become the property of the Knighthood.

* Don't forget to make a list of all items your character is carrying in an entry in their journal before tagging into this post! Please try to stick close to your character's maximum carrying capacity.

Comments

[sorceresslite]

[ her attention stays on dimitri for a span of a few beats, as if waiting for him to puke up more smoke numbers and blood, but she seems to feel someone's eyes on her and she glances at lis'sa before looking away. ]

We need to get out of here. [ BLATANTLY IGNORES HER OWN DEATH NBD. ]

[likeagod]

Are you okay?

[As he moves to Ella. It's pretty clear that she isn't. Not entirely, anyway.]

Do you need any help?

[He's afraid she's going to crumble back to dust or something worse since he doesn't know how these spells work.]

[sorceresslite]

[ she puffs up like an indignant cat. ] You're one to talk, you just vomited up the curse of King Tut's tomb! I'm fine. Probably.

[ mostly probably. brushing dimitri off, visibly uncomfortable with the scrutiny, she moves to poke around in the sarcophagus. maybe there is a map with a line leading them directly toward the exit! (search 20 total) ]

We need to get out of here and then destroy that mask. I am not turning into Reagos' bloody nightmare.

[paracount]

[ the sarcophagus contains a number of riches, obviously packed with him to guide him in the afterlife that he was apparently deprived of: there's a black marble statuette of a scorpion, 4 small tokens with a picture of a swan boat engraved on them, a black tallow candle, an ornate scarab, a fancy bead, a jet-stone carving of some kind of barbed devil, a ring set with a golden yellow topaz, an ornate ankh, and over fifty ancient gold coins.

julistar hangs back, looking between ella's companions, and keeping his voice low as he turns his back to her to ask them: ] I thought you said she was dead.

[likeagod]

[Dimitri wipes any blood from his mouth, his voice low as he answers.]

She was.

[sorceresslite]

[ meanwhile ella is packing away the statuette, the candle, the scarab, the bead... you know what, she's taking everything. the whole point of this was to keep the artifacts from getting into the wrong hands, so she's not going to let them. also, as evidenced when she was eaten by a mummified dragon trying to hoard gold, she can't really help herself when it comes to treasure. she gives everything a neat, cursory glance in case it can be useful. (knowledge: arcane lore 26 or spellcraft 34 idk)

she knows they're talking about her, she's just grateful the scrutiny is not in her face. ]

[paracount]

Well, the last I checked, resurrections took more than a few minutes. Aren't you a bit concerned about what might have come back?

[ ella recognizes that a bunch of these things are magic, actually! the tokens, the candle, the scarab, the bead, and the ankh ]

[likeagod]

We'll handle it.

[The words are practically a growl (intimidate 28), but that might just be an indication that yes.

He's definitely concerned.

But he's sure as hell not going to let him do anything about it.]

[sorceresslite]

[ pleased with her treasures, ella turns to face them all again, bright red hair fanning out around her shoulders, making her ashen skin look a even whiter shade of pale. ]

Can we go now?

1/-

[lissatrinall]

[ a flash of uncertainty works itself into the paracount's eyes as he meets dimitri's gaze and realizes he means business, but lis'sa attempts to diffuse the situation in her own way by turning to him and demanding: ] I want to see that mask.

2/-

[paracount]

I think the mask is ours, fair and square.

3/-

[lissatrinall]

That wasn't a question. [ she continues to glare at him, icily, standing where dimitri can keep scowling over her shoulder. ]

4/-

[paracount]

[ julistar exchanges a look with lonicera, who shrugs and rolls her eyes slightly like whatever. with another glance at dimitri, he reaches into his jacket and withdraws the mask. hroken takes a single step closer behind him, scowling back like don't get any funny ideas (intimidate 16). ] Here it is. [ he holds it aloft for them to view - and they'd immediately be able to notice that there are two large cracks in it that weren't those before. ]

5/-

[lissatrinall]

Look. [ lis'sa nods at the cracked mask, glancing at the others in her party ] We destroyed what must have been two of the four pharaohs and the mask has been damaged. It's bound to their life force, and it's what's keeping this pyramid here - and all of us.

6/6

[paracount]

And what exactly are you suggesting? [ he quickly stuffs the mask away like 8| LEAVE MY PRETTIES ALONE ]

[sorceresslite]

That we destroy the other two, y'twat. [ her eyes flicker to lis'sa like ...that's what you were suggesting, right? ]

[lissatrinall]

It may be the only way to get out of here.

[likeagod]

Then it doesn't seem as if we should argue about it.

[Looking at you, Julistar.]

[paracount]

[ julistar stares at him for a few beats, clearly trying to work up a good argument, but in the end, he at least concedes for now. ] Fine. Then I suggest we get looking.

[ he wheels around to move into the next room, and hroken continues staring at them for a moment longer before turning to follow, curling his lips over his fangs.

lis'sa moves to follow, assuming the others will come as well.

in the next room, a gigantic black metal spyglass juts out of the wall, its tip hanging in the middle of the room. a veinstone chair rests on a raised dais in front of the lens, and julistar is approaching it with lonicera, cautiously stepping around to examine it.

"What do you think it is?" she asks. ] It's a telescope.

[sorceresslite]

Of the four, which ones do you think are left? There's the Cerulean Pharoah, the Fiend Pharaoh, the Radiant Pharaoh, and the Pharaoh of Numbers.

[ you'd think she just knows these things, but no, she googled it before they left tbh. she's not going to say their full names out loud in case it's like with gods and that zooms in their attention. ]

I didn't really get a proper introduction back there, you know.

[likeagod]

The first one made us play a game that involved weights and a large scale. If I had to guess, I would say she was probably the Pharaoh of Numbers.

[But, again, he's just guessing.]

The one made of black smoke, perhaps that was the Fiend?

[paracount]

Why are you raiding tombs when you clearly have no interest in Egyptian history? [ scorn rides on julistar's lip as he glances back at them ] That snake woman of yours told you that the woman was Ankana, the Radiant Pharaoh. [ he nods back at the room they just came from ] And perhaps you didn't notice the mathematical formulas covering every spare inch back there? Or perhaps two and two is too difficult an equation for some of you.

[sorceresslite]

[ she literally jumps to dimitri's defense, striding forward between the giant and the paracount. ]

He was a little busy fighting it, while you... Well. [ there is disdain, and there is the utter contempt dripping off that thoughtful word. while you disappeared. ] We're not raiding anything. The items in this pyramid could be cataclysmic in the wrong hands. [ like his. ] We're here to keep that from happening, to keep people from continuing to die within these walls.

[ she takes another step forward, vibrating with irritation. (intimidate 24) stop being rude!! ] Her name is Sir Trinall not "that snake woman".

1/2

[lissatrinall]

[ with a nat 20 will save, he just rolls his eyes slightly, and exchanges a look with lonicera, who snorts, but lis'sa speaks up before they can make another comment, examining the telescope. ]

This has to stretch some 200 feet out through the walls of the pyramid, to get a clear view of the sky. It's focused on something... Jupiter, it appears.

[paracount]

And entirely unhelpful. [ he moves to start heading into the next room tbh ]