Gameplay

"Oh my god. What is that?, Eugen responds to the sudden appearance of the chest.

Robert gritted his teeth and tried to lift open the lid, whispering, "This thing is heavy."

Thomas is not a scholar. He spent no time in fancy schools, nor has he read the great works. Thomas might have gotten a better education, if it weren't for his family's common station, and the war. But the war was it's own kind of education. A cruel and brutal one. People look at Thomas and often mistake his stare as vacant, and empty, instead of what it is. They ignore that Thomas survived one of the deadliest fronts of the Great War. They ignore that to survive what he had Thomas was three things, lucky, cunning, and willing to act. He looks down and sees five jars. Four have animal heads, and one is different. Quick as a cat Thomas snatches the lid off the jar that didn't fit the others and peers inside. His knife is held high, and ready to strike what his gut tells him is inside.

Lady Bishop turns to Eugen and whispers, "Mr. Chornyi, perhaps you could..."

But before she can say anymore, she sees Thomas and Robert hovering over a chest they've pulled out. With great effort, Robert lifts the lid. Though it is probably faint, a steady loud beating sound resounds in her ears, emanating from the jars inside the chest! She is drawn forward and gets a sickly feeling as her eyes fall upon the jar with the inverted ankh.

Thomas, ever a military man, is quicker than the others and grabs the horrid jar, snatching its lid off. He lowers it a little, prepared to do what he must. She peeks inside and her eyes become as big as saucers, seeing for the first time a living, beating human heart!

Thomas sees the bloody pulsing muscle in the jar and without thought or hesitation plunges his knife deep into it's center.

Robert was astonished to find a living beating heart! He knew that the canopic jars held the organs of the mummified subject but those should have degenerated by now. To witness such horrific unreality, he gasped when Thomas took it out. "What the…."

After his comrades lifted the chest and opened it, Eugen immediately saw, that something was odd. The Canopic jars! The numbers were not right, and their lids even more so.

He tries to explain to the others, to answer Lady Bishop's request for explanation.
But as Thomas opened the jar with the inverted Ankh-symbol, Eugen once again felt the panic crawling into his head.

"The Ankh …. It's not meant to be here. And it's inverted! Ankh means life and ..."

Eugen shivers, as Thomas thrusts his knife into the beating heart. The candlelight trembles, as the fear rises.

Robert is mesmerized as well as horrified by what was going in front of him. He witnessed more than a thousand-year-old heart still beating that was just impaled. It probably belonged to the creature that was stalking them in the confined tomb halls who gave that animalistic howl. And now the walls started to collapse! "Oh Lord! This will be my grave!" His legs shaking, he was unable to decide what to do.

Thomas flings the filthy old heart away and leaps to his feet.

"Quickly! To the treasure room. I'm going to try and blow the door. This whole bloody thing is coming down!" he shouts as he takes off. As he's running he wipes his knife on his pant leg before slamming it securely into his sheath.