Date: Readying 27

After spending 3 weeks in Aetos, the party heads south and once again breaches Barrow #2, this time with a several hired crossbowmen and their captain, Karrax.

Testing the portcullis at the bottom of the entry stairs, they find it frozen tight and unable to be budged. The party then moves to the other side of the barrow and enters through the secondary shaft leading to the lower level.

Passing through the lower level crypt, the party enters the chamber with the amphora, kept in an alcove now 13′ in the air after the floor dropped. Forming a human pyramid, the Page climbs up but loses her footing and nearly falls — Piety is able to catch her as she falls, but the entire pyramid is made unstable and collapses, thankfully not hurting anyone too gravely.

Forming the pyramid a second time, and with a different arrangement, Page is able to climb to the amphora, and after checking for traps, removes it from the alcove – the amphora is large and made from very delicate alabaster. It has two reliefs upon it: one is of a strange, triangular sigil, and the other is a scale with the sun upon one side. Inside are ashes.

Before departing the barrow, Page is sent to the upper level by the party leader, Eammon, to test out the floor after the acid flood trap. Page is able to quickly deduce that the floor has been severely damaged from the acid making it like terracotta. A single strike with her hammer is enough to break the tile in front of her.

Horus is still detecting the faint presence of evil, and after searching the chamber, he locates a secret door. The door opens smoothly, revealing a stair case descending even deeper into the ground. The party closes the door and leaves it be for now.

Lowering a lantern below the floor reveals the clockwork mechanism that sprung the acid trap. Page relays this information to the party before they decide to return to Aetos.

Returning to Aetos, the amphora is appraised at 1,000gp. The party opts to give the amphora to Joriann, the archivist at the Grand Temple of Pantazis, to see if she can decypher what the reliefs are in reference to.