Perilous in Pink

Perilous in Pink is an encounter in Muri Mortuorum.
==Enemies==
*Zombie Mage (1235 Gold, 152 XP, 95 Energy, 7 HP)
* Cursed Mummy (1235 Gold, 152 XP, 95 Energy, 7 HP)
==Transcript==
===Introduction===
"This... What did you call them?" Rakshara asks. The tip of Rogar's Dream points at one of the shambling creatures.
"Mummies," you reply.
"This mummy's adornments are pretty."
You frown. The pink glyphs that grow across its bandages, burning bright with arcane power, might be pretty. But you doubt that's the extent of its purpose.
A bolt of magic shoots from your blade. It zaps against the mummy's chest... and dissipates there -- parting into threads of sorcery that flicker across its glyph without so much as singing its bandages.
Pretty indeed...
===Conclusion===
"What do these symbols mean?" Rakshara asks.
She buffets the mummy with a blow from her shield, sending it staggering away.
"I can't read hieroglyphs," you reply. "But from what I know of mummies, they're usually accounts of the dead person's achievements..."
"Bad enough when dead folk brag on their gravestones," Hugh says. "What's the world coming to when they start wearing signs telling everyone how bloody great they were?"
"These things are thousands of years old, so it 'started' a long time again. Anyway, sometimes they're boasts. But sometimes they're curses."
"Curses against the dead person, or against their enemies?" Rakshara asks.
The mummy reaches out for her with glowing pink hands. Her sword flashes one way, then the other. Both hands fall at her feet.
"I think it varies."
"I see..."
The orange oroc spins on the spot, torqueing her powerful frame and bringing Rogar's Dream round in a sharp, accurate arc. The blade slices through the mummy's waist. Its torso and legs fall in opposite directions. Neither half moves.
"Human funerary customs are strange," she says. "But intriguing."
Category: Muri Mortuorum