Eivor approached the marked rock indicating Boudicca's tomb. As she touched the rune, the rock itself flickered away into an Isu column, revealing an entrance into the mountain itself.
- Eivor: The same as the other.
This time, there was a note affixed to the Isu column itself.
- The Illusions
By pure happenstance, I have unleashed the power of this remarkable machinery.
Using some artifice, the entrances to these caves are obscured, leaving a passer by to believe there is no entrance at all!
If I believed the gods existed, I would ascribe this to Mercury himself.
–Manius
Eivor entered Boudicca's tomb.
- Eivor: This place is not very welcoming.
She made her way deeper, avoiding the numerous spike traps.
- Eivor: Ah! Go! Go! Go!
Once upon a large room filled with traps and some pressure plates, Eivor started to locate the appropriate weights and placing them where they were needed. Eivor crossed a deep chasm filled with poisonous gas.
- Eivor: Best not fall.
She went down a pit of spikes and found a mechanism that dispensed a small round weight. To return to the main hall, however, she had to traverse a tunnel filled with gas and spinning traps.
- Eivor: I have to go through this?
She placed the weight upon the pressure plate and went to find another. Eivor went through a tunnel of gas and spike walls, finding another mechanism at the end of it.
- Eivor: Slowly. Carefully.
She made her way back to the main hall, weight in hand.
- Eivor: How many traps are in this place?
Once all four plates were weighed down, the gate opened.
- Eivor: Another chamber May this one be as truthful.
Into the crypt proper, Eivor encountered Boudicca's tomb, perfumed by an odd incense. A ghostly apparition of the very Iceni warrior that laid there leaned against the tomb.
- Boudicca: Who disturbs my centuries-long slumber? I well deserved the rest. When Prasutagus, my husband, chief of the Iceni, died, the Romans broke their promise to us. They took our lands, cattle, crops, our horses and boats. They defiled my daughters. Then me. As I am of fiery temper, with my husband's sword, I hacked through their legions. I burned their camps at Colchester, Lunden, Albanes. Desecrated Roman tombs. Let flow rivers of Roman blood. But there were too many. Defeated, I drank poison rather than give myself to their sweaty hands. I am Boudicca.
The ghost pounded on her own chest and disappeared. Eivor found a note on the tomb.
- Tribute to Boudicca
Fiery hair and fiery heart
Our Boudicca burned the Roman camps
And danced in the flames
They could not kill her
She saw to that.
Eivor retrieved the Fallen Hero Greaves and Bracers from two nearby chests.
- Eivor: More! Of the same kind as the first.
On a hidden tunnel, she found a strange artifact.
- Eivor: What is this? hàsm Why did I say that? There must be someplace where these words are useful.
