<div class="spoiler_container"><div class="spoiler_header" onclick="hideSecond (this);" role="button">Knowledge</div><div class="spoiler_body">Automatic pass with take 10.<br/></div></div><br/><br/>As they descended into the depths of the tomb, Menya gave a running commentary of the hieroglyphs on the walls and columns for Hanifa's benefit, even if the ranger might already know some of the history, being a native of Osirion.<br/><br/>"The figure's in the white robe is taller than the rest... figures of great renown are typically depicted as beinya larger in Ancient Osirion art. Hm, it looks like Pharaoh Acherres II was a devoted follower of the old gods. He recognized each one's sphere of influence, but... interestinya... apparently he believed that Nethys was above them all. The Unified Arcane Theory, I think it's called, held Nethys to to be the true head of the pantheon..."<br/><br/>Menya had taken a handful of pebbles with her from outside. When the passage opened into a grand chamber (room 3), and no enemy appeared, the archaeologist cast a quick cantrip on one of the pebbles to make it glow like Hanifa's torch. The wayfinder she bore gave her the ability to see in the dark, but she wanted to see the hieroglyphs in colour. She looked over each set of hieroglyphs and each statue in its alcove, on the chance that a hint about the Forgotten Crown might have been inscribed or carved for posterity. She didn't find what she was looking for, but her search was fruitful in other ways, as she kept up a continuous tale of the exploits of various heroes of old who had their likenesses preserved here forever.<br/><br/>The catgirl paused at the statue of Pharaoh Acherres. "If you had a choice, would you go for him or Namir?" she teased. At the statue of Nethys, she followed Hanifa's lead and paid her respects. "What she said, and I'm sorry about the, um, incident at the Spire! I won't do it again, I promise!" She studied the statue briefly with a casting of<em>Detect Magic</em>. This one, of all the statues in the chamber, had been warded to protect it, and who knew what other divine protections it had that she couldn't detect as well. Menya decided to leave it alone.<br/><br/><hr/><br/>The next room, depicting the major events of Acherres II's life and of Osirion during his reign, caught Menya's attention immediately. "I think this is what we're lookinya for!" she said excitedly, and renewed the<em>Light</em>cantrip on her pebble to examine the hieroglyphs in detail.<br/><br/><div class="spoiler_container"><div class="spoiler_header" onclick="hideSecond (this);" role="button">Perception</div><div class="spoiler_body">29, success! (https://elliquiy.com/forums/dicebot.php?r=61527)<br/></div></div><br/><br/>"Yes, yes, I see it now!" Menya called out in jubilation. "Fizza and the Osirionian mage-priests created the Crown of Nethys as a cooperative project, to reconcile Osirion and Nex and prevent war from breakinya out between them. The Crown was moved to... aha! The Nexian capital of Quantium. But... oh... it seems that Nex, the kinya not the state, accepted the Crown and then poofed off somewhere unknown. That would explain why Osirion was so pissed off afterwards..."<br/><br/>So engrossed was she in translating the hieroglyphs that Menya turned down Hanifa's call for her to check out the strange script, and so she didn't notice her friend's plight until she was screaming in alarm. "Eeeek!  I'm sorry, Menya, I didn't know it would summon something!" That got Menya's attention at last.<br/><br/>"Tentacles... why did it have to be tentacles?" she groaned. "Hold still a moment!" She said, somewhat counterintuitively, seeing the tendril wrap around Hanifa's leg. A few words and arcane gestures later, and the ranger was all oiled up and slippery! "Now you can struggle!" Menya declared.<br/><br/><div class="spoiler_container"><div class="spoiler_header" onclick="hideSecond (this);" role="button">Actions</div><div class="spoiler_body">Casting <em>Grease</em> on Hanifa's clothing (+10 circumstance bonus on Escape Artist checks and combat maneuver checks made to escape a grapple, and to CMD to avoid being grappled)<br/>4/5 level 1 spells remaining.<br/></div></div>