text: [Themes: fantasy, puzzle]
  
  "Let's try the right one," you decide and head over to the opening in the wall. Your friends follow close behind as you carefully tread forward.
  
  The path leads to an octagonal chamber with one door leading in and one door leading out on the other side. The sides of the room are covered in sarcophagi, and one more ordinate sarcophagus is standing in the middle of the room. The base of the middle sarcophagus is surrounded by gold and precious jewels as well as some pottery.
  
  "Looks like quite the money there," Rowan points out and walks forward.
  
  "Rowan, get back. Who knows if this is a trap or not," Isolda explains with concern plastering her face. Her eyes are constantly checking the room.
  
  "She's right, Rowan. Let's at least think about what we do next," you join in, letting your hand rest on the grip of your sword.
  
  Rowan just rolls his eyes but actually begins to scan the room too. As you look around in silence, all of you start to hear some strange chanting coming from the sarcophagus in the middle.
  
  "The heck is that?" Rowan asks as the lid of the sarcophagus in the middle starts to swing open very slowly. While it opens, strange green energy seems to seep out of it. As the lid is fully opened, the energy hits the sarcophagi on the walls. The lids fall open, and from each one of them, a mummy emerges. The one in the middle is wearing a noble death mask that shows an eyepatch and a face that slightly resembles a hawk.
  
  "Fuck, get in position!" you scream as you pull your sword and stand in front of your friends. Just like every time you are in combat, Rowan takes his place slightly behind you with the crossbow, ready. Isolda walks behind Rowan and pulls out her staff, the tip glowing with a soft blue colour.
  
  The mummies start to approach, and you begin hacking away. Your sword does not cut through them easily though. Whenever you pull it out of them to strike again, you see sand falling from their bodies.
  
  "Something's not right here!" you shout while kicking one mummy back against his friend.
  
  "Noticed already. Guess it's the big one doing something!" Rowan shouts back. Just now, you notice the mummy in the middle has hardly moved. Also, the glow seems to be coming from it rather than the sarcophagus.
  
  "Give me time, and I'll shoot it!" Rowan screams while firing a bolt through a mummy's head.
  
  "I could try a spell if you want me to. It is not perfect, but it could do the trick!" Isolda suddenly shouts from the back.
  
  Both sound like solid ideas. Isolda seems to have a little doubt in her spell though, and Rowan is an excellent marksman.
  
  > Have Isolda cast her spell
  The mummies seem quite tough and your sword does not do as good as you hope. Maybe Rowan's bolts won't even faze them either. "Alright, Isolda. Hope this works!" you shout and start to hack at the mummies between you and her. You dodge one claw and take a swing at the mummy's arm afterwards. Just as you slice down one enemy's front, you hear a thud of a bolt hitting the mummy right behind you, distracting it long enough for you to give it a good kick, to make it stagger back.
  
  As you reach Isolda, who already retreated to the entrance of the chamber, you see her staff lighting up and hear her muttering some kind of incantations. The moment her staff lights up though, the mummy with the mask screams something in a guttural language. On his command, all mummies start to turn towards Isolda. You hear Rowan starting to curse. Suddenly, his bolts fly straight into the enemies closest to Isolda. You ready your sword for the mummies stomping your way.
  
  The first one takes a swipe at you which you quickly dodge and answer with a hit to the face. Quickly turning to your left and ducking you hack at one mummy's knee stopping it from pushing past you towards Isolda. A long claw tears into your armour-plated shoulder giving you a painful bruise. You turn again and see another claw already raised to hit you, but a blot hits the mummy right in the face and makes it stagger back enough for you to kick it away.
  
  "Duck!" Isolda suddenly screams and without thinking you throw yourself to the ground. Out of the corner of your eye, you see Rowan doing the same. From Isolda's staff, a bright orange light starts to emit in a fast-moving energy wave. The mummies that are hit by the energy wave immediately light ablaze and start to scream in the same guttural language as the leader. The bandages burn away quickly and leave behind just some piles of sand.
  
  The masked mummy does not stand a chance either, burning and screaming till all that remains is a pile of sand with a mask laying on top. You blink a few times to adjust your eyes to the normal light in the room again and see Isolda standing above you with a smile and her hand reaching out to help you up.
  
  "By Haldrin's beard," Rowan exclaims. "I knew you could do that I would never have started arguing with you."
  
  "Well now you know," Isolda says with a weak smile. "Takes a ton of concentration and magical energy though. So don't expect the same thing next time."
  
  "Hopefully we will not need that again, Isolda," You tell her while resting your hand on her shoulder. You then take a look around seeing Rowan still eyeing up that pile of treasure around the central sarcophagus. "I guess it is fine to take that stuff now you know," giving him your okay.
  
  Rowan takes a look at you and then at the treasure. He slowly approaches it and stops right in front of it. With a last wary glance, he takes one of the necklaces and aims his crossbow at the sarcophagus at the same time. Nothing happens. "Think that means it's safe to take this stuff and go on then," Rowan says with a smile and soon all three of you start stuffing your pockets with the gold and the trinkets in the room.
  
  > Continue
  Leaving the room you see a corridor leading into two different directions. Not wanting to be the only one making decisions you look at your friends. "Look!" Rowan suddenly exclaims while pointing to the floor. As you follow his gesture you can see several coins laying on the floor leading down one corridor. "Could mean there's treasure that way," Rowan suggests.
  
  You give a short glance to Isolda to search for confirmation. She simply shrugs, "Might as well try it. I mean if it looks dangerous we can always return this way right?"
  
  "Alright, Rowan. Lead the way," you state with a shrug and start heading down the corridor. At the end of the corridor, you find a door not closed fully. You three all pull out your weapons ready to engage into combat if you should need to. You enter the room first with Isolda following close behind. Rowan still is not through the doorway while you look around the room. Before you is just an empty room with a small recession in the floor in the middle. On the opposite wall is a simple wooden chest.
  
  "This looks to simple to be real," Isolda states, stepping up beside you. Just as she finishes you hear the door shutting close behind you, locking Rowan out. Then the sound of stone grinding along stone can be heard from above. You look up and see the ceiling is covered in metal spikes and slowly lowering towards you and Isolda.
  
  "Can't open the bloody thing. What's going on in there?" Rowan asks while pounding onto the door. You start hammering against the door and even hack at it with your sword but it barely leaves a dent. The ceiling creeps closer and closer.
  
  "We need to get to the middle!" Isolda screams while pointing at the small hole that is there. You both start running as fast as you can. A few tiles of the floor crumble beneath your feet and leave you stumbling a few times. As you finally reach the hole your shocked to see just how small it is. You just barely would fit in and there is no chance of you both finding a safe place in there.
  
  "Fuck that leaves no choice. Isolda get in!" you command her.
  
  "What? Why me? You should get in there!" she screams back while looking up towards the ceiling that slowly creeps closer.
  
  "Look I don't care to argue with you Isolda. Get in there! Then, you will be safe", you say again with more pressure.
  
  "I will not let you out here to die. I would rather die myself. I do not care for acts of chivalry I want you to be safe."
  
  You look upwards again and see you don't have much time left. It's your decision now.
  
  > comly with Isolda's Request
  You look deep into her eyes again, "Are you sure Isolda?"
  
  "I am. Listen, I care much to deeply for you to watch you die. I may never have told you, but I love you. I never wanted to tell you in such a situation but I wanted to let you know. Just looks like I won't get another chance though so," She just leans in and kisses you deeply.
  
  Breaking away from her with hesitation you jump into the hole. Standing straight you can just barely reach the ledge above you. You look up towards Isolda and can see tears running down her cheeks and then she closes her eyes. You just watch on in silence knowing she will die to save you.
  
  Then after a few heartbeats, you notice that actually everything is silent. "Isolda? Did .... did the ceiling just stop?" you ask her utterly confused. She opens her eyes and looks up. The spikes stopped about one meter above her head. She then turns towards you still standing in the hole. Her eyes begin to widen and her face blushes a bright red.
  
  "That... that means I just confessed my love. FOR NOTHING!" she screams clearly enraged by the whole situation. "I can't fucking believe it. I just confessed my deep feelings for you thinking I was bound to die by this stupid trap and now it was for nothing," she keeps on ranting.
  
  "It's alright Isolda please just calm down. We can talk about this alright? Mind giving me a helping hand?" you ask reaching one hand out to let her help you out.
  
  She still looks massively upset but kneels down to grab your hand. The moment your hand is about to touch hers though you hear a slight clicking sound and without further warning, the ground beneath you opens up. In a desperate attempt to escape the hole you try to hold on to the sides. But you instead fall downwards with the last thing you hear being Isolda screaming your name as you plummet onto the spikes beneath you.