The Wayfarer's Inn

With every gem that she removes, Eilkhan feels the same chill creeping up and down her spine. Then she takes away the last gem from the mummy, and... nothing happens. The mummy didn't come alive, no trap was activated, no monster appeared.

OOC: THis si where I'd love to have a flamethrower!

"So we take out the mummy and burn it now?"

"It didn't help much the other time", Kherim muses. "I think we should hack at it while it is still lying there on the sarcophagus. It will rise eventually, but while it lies there it's easier to hit."

"I just hope there's nothing underneath that shouldn't be damaged. But at least, it will be less harmed than by fire"

Sol says "Here, let me drag it out to the shrine area onto the floor. Then we can burn it and hack at it all we want and we won't hurt whatever is underneath..." Sol will sheath his dagger and sword, slowly, to give the others a chance to say no or that we should do something else. And then, if nobody objects, he will drag the mummy away from the shrine area out on to the floor.

Kherim does not disapprove of Sol's intention. He is not sure Sol can move the mummy alone, but would prefer to be armed and ready to help than to lay down his weapons to aid Sol in dragging the body to the floor.

Gaderon looks at the mummy and the others rather sternly as he steps forward... "While I understand the need to have the magics of the relics understood, this corpse has not yet risen... Perhaps they are all evil, but still it lies at rest... If this is the evil ones body then it may prove neccessary, but until it does we need not destroy the thing."

Sol says "Sure, if it doesn't come to life, we don't have an immediate need to destroy it. I am thinking that it is He-whose-name-must-not-be-spoken's body and that it must be destroyed before we go, however." Sol will proceed to remove the mummy from the shrine, carefully lifting it up and moving to an open area of the floor.

Removing the mummy from the sarcophagus surprisingly doesn't bring it to life, and Sol puts it down on the floor of the chamber. Beneath the mummy you all see a strange-looking item that you immediately recognize as yet another one of those evilly aligned artifacts of which you have already found six so far.

This one here is made of two parallel strands of hardened and braided black leather, each about 2 feet in length and one foot apart from each other. Their ends are covered with golden caps and are connected with each other by a series of six broad leather straps, one beneath the other and each one inscribed with blood red ancient hieroglyphs that seem to be prayers or evocations of some sort. The item reminds of nothing so much as of a strange ladder.

Ivid lays Elmo's wounded body on the ground as well,
seemingly oblivious of the rest of the party.

"No, I forbid you to die, old friend. As soon as we are done here, we'll travel back to the Free City,
I promise. Even back to your village, and buy you that inn of the... What was it?... Don't die, Elmo!"

"Another one of those items." Kherim states as the innards of the sarcophagus are revealed to all.
"I would carry it, if I must".

Then he proceeds to visually examine the sarcophagus from the inside without actually touching anything. He doesn't take the item just yet, but instead tries to understand if it hides yet something more beneath it. Also, are the sarcophagus walls plain on the inside?