Cassander pushes the door open, needing some effort to force it, and looks into the room beyond.  It is a large chamber, to his infravision all in black, with polished tiled floor.  At the far end is a raised dais of three steps with a sarcophagus atop.

"What do you see?" Thalia asks, her voice filled with anticipation.

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Apologies, I missed the edit and didn't update.

OOC: The room seems free of those runes, correct?

You can’t see writing with infravision.  You would need a light to see if there is any writing.

Cass feels the wall for any engravings and describes what she has seen this far.
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Sin-Nasir holds on, waiting for the signal to open his eyes and resume walking as normal.

OOC: I'm not sure that Sin-Nasir could tell that Cassander was feeling for engravings on the wall...

Aelfwine will close his eyes, following the others.

So does the wall feel to be engraved with the runes of mental ensnarement?

OOC: DM said in the OOC thread that Cassander couldn't feel anything on the walls other than the seams between stones.

"Come on up, slowly. There's a door here at the end of the hallway," calls Cassander and he adds the number of steps and length of the hallway.

When everyone is more or less on the landing he suggests, "Will one of you, sit cross-legged on the floor, please, I will help. Then you make a light and tell me if theere's anything alarming going on. Essentially, the effect would be if there are still magical runes here that I can't see by infravision nor feel. I will keep my eyes shut and start off behind you to wrestle you down if need be." He sighs and hopes for the best. Damned runes.

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OOC: I totally missed that, TY!
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Sin-Nasir nodded, convinced of the reasoning. Waiting a few moments, he lit his lantern, set it on the floor before him, and opened his eyes to look about himself.

OOC: No problem, by the way!
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Cassander is kneeling behind Sin-Nasir with a loose but ready wrestling hold applies (eyes closed)..
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Sin-Nasir lights the lantern, the light of which seems suddenly bright after the utter blackness within the hall.  On the landing, in the hall, there is no writing on the walls; just bare stone with dust and cobwebs.  The door likewise has no writing, made of thick, sturdy wood.

Inside the chamber the walls and floor are a black polished stone, tiles of it on the floor, even slabs from floor to ceiling along the walls.  On the walls there is more writing in a purple pigment, difficult to see against the black stone.

The dias at the far end is of the same black stone, three steps up, to a sarcophagus made of iron.  From this distance the light is too dim to make out any details of the writing or the sarcophagus.

Releasing the tension, Sin-Nasir exhaled hard and said, "We are fine here, fellows, everyone open your eyes up."

"Good, and thank you, Sin-Nasir," answers Cassander. "I couldn't think of another way to do that."
The fellow stands and re-equips his shield and weapon, allowing the rope to be recoiled by someone willing.

Thalia opens her eyes and looks around at the foyer/landing area outside the tomb.  With a hesitant step she stops at the doorway and peers inside, then withdraws.  "This looks to be the main tomb.  It will be trapped, of course," she says.

Sin-Nasir contemplated matters.

"Ah, does anyone have a stick on hand, or anything like that to probe with? Maybe a bag of something?"

Cass replies, "Stick? No. Back of what? I have a backpack of stuff. Is that any good? Stuff includes a crowbar."

"Would a crowbar work? I suppose one would only be losing a hand if something happened, then. Very well, would we use your crowbar to probe?"

Cass proffers the crowbar.

Taking a big gulp, Sin-Nasir goes to lead the way, coming to the door which he crudely thunked at with a crowbar at arm's length. It was clear that he had never gone dungeoneering before, but he was making an honest effort.

The crowbar makes a loud 'bunk' on the door but no other effect.  Thalia jumps a bit, startled by the sudden motion.

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Did he enter the chamber?

Sin-Nasir will first grab at the door handle from the side and test it before pulling the door open, and will thunk at the floor from outside before going in.

Cass waits, weapon readied.

[OOC: I thought the door was open, Cassander opened it at message 205 and I already described the inside.  That is the black room with the purple writing on the walls, the dias with the sarcophagus, the room Thalia looked into and proclaimed was the burial chamber.]

Sin-Nasir thunks the crowbar on the floor and rings as metal will when hitting stone.  There is no ill effect from the action.

Aelfwine will wait with his weapons ready.