Tombs of Scoria: Episode 10

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==Synopsis==
The McGary Brothers enter the tomb of Angus Heraford. Inside the family fight though stone statues and find hidden doors to get though the labyrinth. The party find their way to the burial chamber of Heraford. The party loot from the dead Minotaur and are forced to fight off fight another statue. With the magical items obtained, the party search the rest of the tomb for more treasures. The 3 brothers encounter 2 statues and are forced to fight them both.
==Recap==
===14th October===
The brothers come to a large stonewall, with text embedded into it, above the door, however, none of the brothers can read Minotaurian. Two large stones look like sliding doors, no handle or key, just an indentation of a battleaxe. Imrik takes his axe, and places it in the indentation, it fits badly but still opens the door, he rolls a Lightstone into the room, as it lands at the base of a minotaur statue. 
The brothers talk a bit about it, and Anton casts .
Anton goes first with the brothers shortly behind, the statue begins to change, as it speaks
:"Welcome to my tomb pilgrims, are you ready for your first challenge?"
The brothers fight the now animate statue. Anton fights it head-on, with the brothers flanking it either side, however, the brothers' attacks are going wide. Anton finally manages to stab it with his spear. Weirdly enough, he doesn't start to bleed, only part of the minotaur crumbles to the ground, as though he still was stone. 
Imrik casts , seeing if there are other sources of magic in the room, or perhaps a part of the golem that is discretely magical. However, the minotaur is just one big intense aura. 
Tyrael backs off, drops his sword scared of it breaking against the golem, draws his bow, and fires for half damage. 
Imrik withdraws right behind where the statue was, and where his back was turned to is a small hole, a crack in the wall. He reaches his arm in, feeling a metal rod, Imrik lifts it up, as he hears stone grinding against iron. He pulls a Lightstone out of his pocket and rolls it down the hole. He tries the ratchet it up, as it clinks up against the top. He tries different things but nothing seems to happen. Having his arm in the wall, he gets stabbed in the back by the lone animated minotaur statue. 
After the party slay/break the minotaur, the pieces start to reassemble, it puts its spear down, as it speaks to them in modern Drekissian 
:"Well met pilgrims, beyond you will find a worthy challenge for a Heraford, may your pastures always be green"'
No door, nothing opens, just this iron rod. The party mess around with it trying different things. This is quite weird as it's the only thing besides the rod and the statue. Anton lifts the rod up, as he pushes the wall in. It's carefully built to look like a normal wall, but it's actually a swing wall. Tyrael and Anton swap holding the door, as Anton goes the first one in. Imrik quickly rolls a stone under. The brothers proceed into the maze, yet it's really just a ring. They find a few skeletons. Imrik finds a piece of the wall that radiates with magic, tries to disbelieve it, Anton walks right through. In there they find a small ice pool. They try chipping it away, but there's just more ice, so they melt it with a torch. 
The brothers talk about spells, physics, trying to find a way to interact with this pool somehow. Imrik smashes it with the axe, rubbing, smashing, etc., but to no effect. Imrik hits in with an electric axe and they slowly start to chip away.
Tyrael walks out, finding another iron rod, Anton lifts it up but they decide to finish up with the water/ice pool. When they realise they cannot reach the bottom of the fountain, they give up. 
The party lift up the new wall with the rod and go under. They search the walls, they try looking for a way back into the main room but find none, so they proceed onwards in the maze. They try detecting magic, try to disbelieve random sections of the wall, search the walls going back and forth between the rooms. Anton tries to find something with 
to no avail. They find a passageway in the previous room, clicked through by a section in the roof. They check the walls, find nothing, and go to bed.    
===15th October 1511===
The brothers prepare their spells. They melt some water from the next fountain to drink. They find another wall that opens, with plenty more pathways, mostly dead ends. There is a bull statue, Anton charges it and steps on a pressure plate, a gout of fire spits out of its mouth. To the side of it, they find an actual door with hinges. Tyrael uses the Cloak of the Cheetah to jump over where he thinks the pressure plate is, and sure enough, no fire spits out. Tyrael crawls across the ground and finds out where the trap is, but accidentally sets it off. They all jump over, the door opens, and they find a stone Minotaur. They peek through the door lock. Tyrael cartwheels around the minotaur statue, but nothing happens, the door is made to automatically close unless held. They pepper the statue with arrows, and it springs alive. Anton casts , has no effect on it. Minotaur slashes at the crouched Anton, Anton lets the door close, but the Minotaur steps in before it closes. They fight the Minotaur, as it steps to the side of the door, they blast it with a , and Tyrael runs in and finishes it with a bow shot.
The party all walk into the room as the door shuts behind them. They search for a while, eventually, Tyrael finds a way to open a secret door in the wall.
In another dead end, Tyrael finds an iron rod under the tile. Before going in, he quickly drinks a potion. Inside there's a magic stone statue, next to a sarcophagus. The brothers swap rings quivers and charge the statue. The statue animates and says:
:"Congratulations champion, you are halfway, take a axe as a symbol of your courage, so that you may show that you have earned your place of honor. Lead a noble life and you live forever. Lead dishonorable and you will stink of it and your death will be forgotten or worse. And remember while might and life are fleeting, honor is forever."
The party walk in, and in the back, there are masterwork axes with excellent craftsmanship, a symbol of honor and courage. The swap rings again. There are six remaining axes. From that speech, they consider what could be honorable. Despite this, they try to open the sarcophagus, and the statue turns, animates, and says 
:"Have you no honor?"
As he turns hostile, Imrik calls it a stupid fucking cow and blasts it with a magic missile, Tyrael fires arrows from the back, dealing full damage because of the infinite magic quiver. This guardian minotaur charges Imrik for a heavy blow. Imrik quickly casts and slips away heavily wounded. Anton runs behind the minotaur, focused on the now invisible Imrik. Anton shoves his spear right through the back of the minotaur, ripping it apart and slaying it on the spot, breaking it into stone.
The party loot the corpse of Angus Heraford, in it they find:
*Amulet of Charm Resistance
*Cloak of Plenty
*Ring of fire resistance
*Ring of free action
*Rope of climbing
*Normal Minotaur nose gold ring
The brothers do inventory management, keeping their weights lower for traveling across the tundra faster.
The party try searching for an exit, but give up and use spells to get out. They use it with and try to find a way back. They walk into a dead-end showing a magical area in the middle, an illusionary floor with a pit trap, in there a dead guy with a magical axe, and a coin purse with 30 gold.
The brothers check for more doors, Imrik holds the door while Anton and Tyrael check what's inside. They find a lever, a skeleton holding a magical weapon, and two constructs that start animating.
Recap done by Odysseus
==Experience==
No experience given out this episode.
Category:Tombs of Scoria Episodes