He entered the room warily, since he did not have a good feeling about this place. For one, the other adventurers had not found this room and for two, it smelled almost as bad as the other secret room they had found in the entrance to the Sunless Citadel. So he was very careful and quickly looked from side to side and gingerly stepped on the old dusty tiles on the floor.
He got to the table and nothing happened. He was relieved and looked at what was before him. There were 2 candles flickering on either side of a strange dark glass object - he could not tell what it was. He also saw a flask of something that might have been a potion, but he did not study magic potions - he would have to give this to Kasas or Relord to find out what it was.
The table itself was interesting. It was made of polished black obsidian, which is a very rare and hard rock - he wondered who could have carved the ornate and complicated carvings he saw outlining the table. As he was looking, he was also looking for traps and did not touch anything. Thankfully, he saw two small slits in the walls near the table and thought that if was not careful, that was where a trap would be.
He continued to search and carefully felt along the legs of the table and found a small button. Feeling lucky, he pressed it and the trap did not activate! Instead, a little secret drawer opened and he saw 6 beautifully carved dragon-like gems. He took them without thinking and stood up.
Meanwhile, Kasas, Relord and Masiry were watching the progress and ready in case anything happened.
Ropin then looked at the potion and the dark glass object and picked it up. This time, when he did so, he heard a low rumbling and to his amazement, all of the 5 lids of the vertical coffins opened and crashed on the ground. Uh oh....
He quickly looked around for a way out, but just as sudden as the coffin lids crashed down, the 5 skeletons rushed out, powered by dark magic. They all came out and moved towards the one who disturbed the things on the table.
Ropin was caught near the back of the room and 3 of the skeletons rushed towards him. Two others went towards the door where Relord and Masiry were watching.
Ropin's eyes opened wide when he saw the three skeletons coming towards him since even though they would be easy to destroy, he was weak from the wounds made by the rats. If one of the skeletons made a great hit with his hands, he would be near dying!.Thankfully, some of the skeletons were not as nimble as Ropin and missed him completely. However, a few sharp hands did slice at him and hit his chest, drawing a little blood. He thought about running away, but he knew that the skeletons would each get a special bonus chance to hit him and he did not want that.
Meanwhile, Relord and Masiry wounded one of the ones they were fighting and Masiry came to help his brother.
Finally, the three skeletons were down after a tiring and hectic fight. Relord was having a littlel trouble hitting his skeletons since he dropped his war hammer and had to find it. Also, Kasas was trying his best to use his Magic Missle spell, that shot out small blue balls of energy that never missed their mark.
Eventually there was only one wounded skeleton left and he was destroyed by the power of all 4 adventurers. They were scratched up and wounded themselves, but they knew that with a little rest, they would get back some of their health before setting off again.
Meepo was relieved that they had taken care of the skeletons but was anxious to sleep in the place where the skeletons had just come from. However, the adventurers thought that nothing more dangerous would happen there, so they choose to sleep there.However, before they did Ropin looked at what they found and took the dark glass item in his hand. It looked like a cup or a flask or a whistle, but he could not figure it out. Finally, he put it to his lips and blew it. At first nothing happened, but then, one of the skeletons started to get up.
Everyone started to reach for their weapons again, but the skeleton just stood there looking calm. Ropin said to go over to the wall and it listened to Ropin's words! Wow, that really was a whistle and it could call skeletons to help you.
Kasas was also interested and wanted to blow it too, but Ropin was not sure that was a good idea. Kasas did anyway, but at the same time another skeleton started to reanimate, Ropin's skeleton crumbled onto the floor, dead again.
They all decided to get some rest before they headed out down the passageway......
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