A reprieve was accompanied by a fleeting moment of excitement as we stepped into the large treasure room. Though we’re unsure how many of the items contained within are even used – or if they’d be harmful to us, for that matter – we feel confident that such things were left behind for good and to use as burial gifts to whatever gods these ancient peoples may have worshipped.

Still, I can’t shake the feeling that everyone wants to take the contents of the cache for themselves. Hostility has overtaken the rapturous joy we felt when we first entered.

”Kill them and take it all for yourself. Before you suffer the same fate.”

I shake the seductive voice from my thoughts.

A large stone sarcophagus sits in the center of the room. I sense power. Evil, even. I wonder what secrets it holds... A nagging voice snakes its way through my subconscious.

“Go on. Open it...”