Book 2: Chapter 2 - The Lady's Light

[Vardaen]

Zeevan has everyone back up then inspects the stone coffin for traps. He looks for pressure plates, dart holes, chopping blades, falling ceiling tiles, anything he can think of, but the thing appears to be clear. Jay has nothing to help but his back and shoulder, and he joins Fletcher and Rikkan and Zeevan with doing this the hard way -- pure muscle. You shove and shove, and finally it grinds a bit to the side, you push more, and it moves a bit. Sweating you guess this thing must be over 600 pounds! Then Oloven joins in after a long moment of silence and together the company pushes the lid off to the side where it crashes to the floor cracking into thirds! You'll never get it back up and on now, but who cares about that? You are in this for the loot.

With the lid off everyone turns to look inside. Within the sarcophagus lies the perfectly preserved body of a woman identical to the one depicted on the lid, clad in diaphanous flimsy robes and an enormous amount of splendid jewelry. She looks almost as if she's sleeping, not dead.

The Woman

[JohnnyWeird]

Remarkably well-preserved for a corpse. Or remarkably hardy, to remain alive under half a tonne of stone.

[ManWithDoor]

The ninja whistles appreciatively. "Now that's the kind of loot I like! Jewelry is good stuff. Light but valuable." He isn't interested in desecrating a body, so he tries to be gentle while looting the shiny accouterments.

[Trogdor]

"Well, that's not creepy," Rikkan observes. "And she's totally not going to rise up and attack us when we try and take her jewelry." The ratfolk warlock twitches his nose nervously. "Let me see if there's magic at work here. I'm betting there's at least some to keep her preserved."

OOC

interested to see if there's magic and if so what kind.

[JohnnyWeird]

If it isn't magical preservation, we should find out what products she's used. The Company could earn a small fortune in cosmetics.

Je smiles gently, nervousness making his jape unconvincing.

[Trogdor]

"Powerful necromantic magic," Rikkan observes. "Could be that this is a clone made of a powerful wizard and kept here against the possibility of death. Of course that would mean that the wizard is still alive, or something went wrong with the transfer of spirit when her original body died." He shakes his head. "We should be VERY careful."

[Eilandor]

Fletcher stares at the stunningly beautiful woman in the sarcophagus, then to the fragmented lid on the floor. "By very careful, I suppose you mean more so than we were with the lid?"

[Vardaen]

Jasper stands looking at the corpse inside the coffin. "What does it all mean?"

You are standing around it, Zeevan ready to loot her.

OOC

I just wanted to get everyone's first reply before we started taking action. Go ahead and keep posting

[ManWithDoor]

The ninja nods seriously. "Well, I'll be as careful as I can. Try to point out anything that looks too dodgy, like a particular jewel or something. I'm happy to leave behind something that seems to be too dangerous to your magical sight, but there's no sense in leaving everything behind just because there's a little risk involved."

[Trogdor]

"I'm afraid it's a bit hard to see every little magical nuance what with the HUGE bunch of necromantic magic surrounding her," Rikkan replies. "But I'll try."