Peru prep

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Spanish reference: https://www.fluentin3months.com/common-spanish-phrases/

Scenes

• Following the Kharisiri
• Getting to the Ruins
  • Easily accessed by a neighbouring peak —> precarious, Ride/Animal Handling/Survival(Mountains)
  • Also accessible by climbing up from the valley below —> Climb
  • No plant life on the plateau, eerie whistling/piping sound, despite the cold there’s an increasing number of flies —> Natural World reveals they are blowflies
  • As they get closer, the smell of rotten meat gets stronger
• View from above:
  • Key features:
    • Stone wall surrounds the site, 2-4 metres tall
    • Main entryway: rectangular doorway flanked by huge stones and topped a weathered stone carving, carving is a human head with a grotesquely distended mouth
      • Archaeology: Tiwanaku, 96km from Tiwanaku —> Meant to be remote from the main cities
    • Watching the Kharisiri climb on top of the structure and vomit into a crack in the pyramid
• Inside the walls
  • Stepped pyramid with a large and flat top, mostly below ground level
  • Crumbling inner walls, some decorated with archways hinting at other structures, the carved heads repeat around
  • Constant wind blows over and through the carvings’ distended mouths —> unnerving whistling sound
  • Ground within walls is uneven, piles of silt blown into small dunes —> Archaeology/Spot Hidden finds an obscured vertical shaft dropping into the tunnels below
    • Success detects more of these shafts, each topped with a flagstone
    • If doing a concerted search without finding the shaft —> Luck roll, on fail lowest Luck falls into the shaft dropping 4.5m and suffering 1D6 hp
• The Pyramid
  • Only top five steps visible, made of rough-hewn stone, worn and cracked, each step is 1.5m tall
  • Long narrow crack run diagonally across the top of the pyramid, no more than 8cm wide at most, Listen roll success —> hear oozing, bubbling sound coming from far below
• The Charnel Pit
  • 4.5m on each side, 3m deep
  • filled with human remains
  • Buzz of flies and stench of decay grow as they get close to the site
  • Some remains have been there for years, all emaciated, near the top they are fresher
  • Spot Hidden —> outline of tunnel entrance in the wall of the pit, glints of something golden at the bottom of the pit,
  • Getting into the tunnels below requires crawling through the remains —> Sanity roll (1/1D4)
• Tunnels
  • 30.5m depth, surrounding the base of the pyramid
  • lined with stone slabs
  • All tunnels 1.2m height, 3m wide, forcing anyone to go on all fours,
  • floors covered in dust, fragments of broken stone, if not cautious —> DEX 1D3 dmg
  • Occasional clusters of small stalactites
  • Smell of decay is overpowering and the air is filled with flies, unless covering noses and mouths —> CON to avoid nauseated (penalty die on all rolls in tunnels for the next 10 min)
  • Chimneys
    • 4.5m deep, rising up to the surface, lined with stone slabs
    • connects to main tunnels 26m below
    • Climb down if no rope, falling is 1D6
    • Climbing up without rope is Hard, rope negates Climb and DEX
  • Chamber
    • Filled with gold and silver valuables
    • Two sleeping Kharisiri, motionless as corpses
    • Plain stone-lined room, 6m by 6m
    • 3 filthy reed mats
    • Piled high with coins, jewelry, watches, ancient artifacts from contemporary to pre-Incan
    • approx. 200.000
  • Base of Pyramid
    • Inner walls lined with gold inlay, uninterrupted
    • If removing it causes a small earthquake
  • Bundle of Rags
    • pile of rags, sticks and other detritus
    • within 6m true nature is obvious —> wrapped in decayed wool and cotton, too rotten for identification
    • Spot Hidden —> See fat and glistening in eye socket