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Sneak peek #1 π
🕑 Added 2025-02-26 00:13:47 +0000 UTCI wanted to share 2 snippets this week, one tonight and one on Thursday, since the lore post was canceled. So here is the first one, which takes place at the pyramid complex, right when MC & Co arrive at the Great Pyramid of Giza. This scene only applies though if you succeeded at the crystal investigation in Abydos. If you failed, then the path inside the necropolis will be quite different :D
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The wind is already turning colder and the first stars blink up behind the foamy clouds when you reach the base of this behemoth.
As you look up, it's much worse than before.
You have to blink and look down because you feel dizzy. It's too high. To wide. Too unnatural. Too⦠everything. You can't even imagine how many people it took to build it. You should maybe ask Petmes about it at some point.
There is a small avenue running around the entire building, it seems, which looks strangely abandoned.
You start walking along it, in the shadow of King Khufu's giant, past the smaller pyramids, until you stop at a corner.
From here, you can see the once beautifully decorated mortuary temple β by now, it has become a bit rundown by the elements and the paintings have faded into an almost unrecognizable pattern, but it still stands proudly at the base of the monument, almost like the last bastion of humanity before one joins the realm of gods.
"Why are there no guards around?" you hear Narmer's murmured voice as he peeks his head out around the corner.
"I haven't seen any at this side of the necropolis," Qenna frowns.
"There should be more here. This is the biggest monument in the whole of Egypt."
Indeed, you did note the suspicious lack of⦠pretty much anyone around here. You heard some comings and goings at the southern side, where you came in, but this part of the cemetery seems decidedly abandoned.
Well, except for the torches that burn at the entrance of the mortuary temple.
*choice
#"I vote we go in."
#"I vote we go around. This feels like an ambush."
#This is scary. You are in an abandoned cemetery. Next to the pyramids. Spooky as hell.
#This is entirely way too cool. You didn't think you would ever sneak around the freaking pyramids!
