<div align="center">(https://i.imgur.com/032n1IF.jpg?1)</div><br/><br/><div class="spoiler_container"><div class="spoiler_header" onclick="hideSecond (this);" role="button">Character Sheets</div><div class="spoiler_body">Tora Altaica (http://www.myth-weavers.com/sheet.html#id=835786)<br/><br/>Catherine "Cat" Catniss (http://www.myth-weavers.com/sheet.html#id=873915)</div></div><br/><br/>One of the oldest civilizations, rivaling even the elves, Nuria Natal was still a land where the gods walked the earth. The land of Midgard is no stranger to powerful beings warring over its domain. To the northeast the dragon-ruled Mharoti Empire consumes more territory as its leaders seek yet another new province to claim and tax. The nomads of the Stone Desert pay homage to wind spirits responsible for shaping their home into what it is today. And in the jungles of Kush to the south, the sorcerers of Nangui made a literal deal with demons to halt the verdant growth of an even stranger primordial entity within the rainforest's depths.<br/><br/>Tora Altaica remained sheltered from the morning sun as their caravan camped outside the angle of the pyramid casting a shadow. It would not last forever, but it was good to stay cool (relatively speaking) whenever one got the chance. Below decks the sandship had ample covering, but ventilation had to be carefully supplied, both to avoid the staleness of air and the chances of sandstorms sweeping inside.<br/><br/>(https://i.imgur.com/Y7Vijh4.png)<br/><br/>"Tora we're here!" came a call from above. Shelna was already awake and getting ready with the rest of the crew, her calloused hands laying out adventurer's tools upon the table.<br/><br/>(https://i.imgur.com/YNvDJPC.jpg)<br/><br/>"For its name, I expected it to be redder," she said. "So...mummies. Do they ever break down? Naturally, I mean?"<br/><br/><div class="spoiler_container"><div class="spoiler_header" onclick="hideSecond (this);" role="button">Knowledge Religion DC 16</div><div class="spoiler_body">Only if caught off from their animating force or exposed to the outside elements. Their undead bodies are made to last thousands of years.</div></div><br/>Tora was no stranger to the forgotten places of the world, and although she would not be alone in this delve that did not do anything to assuage the dire tales of the Blood Pyramid. After the traitorous vizier Khensu finished building it, a horrid ritual in the mass sacrifice of the building's laborers was undertaken, all for the attempt at ascension to godhood. If he succeeded, then he's either a forgotten god or wearing the mask of another. Nuria Natal's theologians and historians maintain that the devils under Khensu's service betrayed him, taking his soul and the sacrificed to Hell. The alternative is too terrible to imagine.<br/><br/>Several of the explorers approached the pyramid's western side. It had an elevated series of steps, like all of its kind in the realm, but between the cracks formed red salt-like crusts.<br/><br/>"So, any ideas?" Shelna's question caused heads to turn to Tora.