Orum's path terminated north of the fourth red square in the first row.

Folks: please update your newly memorized spells here, in this thread. At the trap/poison room, we took a break so that Tarrahn could memorize Neutralize Poison to replace Summon Insects.  Any other changes???

No, staying with Sleep & CLW x3

That's it for me unless, you want me to take the detect snares/pits spell if that would help?
This message was last edited by the player at 17:42, Wed 01 Mar 2023.

l'Atreq will replace Resist Fire with Find Traps.

That would seem to be a divinely inspired choice.

In reply to The Lord of Divine Words (msg # 6):

Praise be unto Ptah.

How lucky!

So I need to pipe in and here; I think Moldvay had some confused ideas about ancient Egyptian burial practices, which has created, I think, some unnecessary confusion. Pharaohs and queens would be entombed with the material possessions that it was thought they would most need in their next life. Such things would be of no use if they were broken. Surely, we've all been to the museums and beheld the golden combs and jade nail clippers and so on.


That would not have been so.

But because it has been presented as so, you can only logically conclude that perhaps raiders destroyed the items in their despair when they became trapped within the tomb. However, if you cleared the rubble in 15 minutes, so could have they.
This message was last edited by the GM at 18:54, Sun 05 Mar 2023.

Interesting! For me, the description immediately made me think of joss paper money and crafts that are burned for the deceased, so they would have money and goods in the afterlife. The destroyed objects in here made me think it was a similar situation going on, since there didn’t seem to be a good reason for raiders to destroy everything.

In reply to Vixl (msg # 10):

Because if there is one thing that's eternal, it's commerce and associated striving.

Death and taxes, as they say.

If there IS a curse of darkness (blindness?) on the coffin, l'Atreq needs about 5,000 more points before he can remove it.