Fernando (who is completely unafraid) will proceed to attack the monsters with magical weapons.

Adria raises an eyebrow. "I imagined that, being an adult, you could control your emotions and would prefer the truth. I apologize if I was in error."

She has a point, Henry does not like how she made that point.

Felix puts a hand over Thomas' mouth because that sounds like something would elicit a response.

Then he goes ahead exploring.

The tomb isn't that big. There's a beautifully carved sarcophagus toward the back, behind a large and imposing statue of a man holding a sword.

Felix casts a small ritual to figure out if there are any obvious traps on the sarcophagus. If not he will ask permission to open the thing.

There's no obvious traps, no.

However, when he gets close enough to the sarcophagus to check, the statue comes to life and attempts to crush him with a massive stone fist.

And how does it react to violence?

It's made of solid rock. It reacts not much.

Li-Ming, having cleared out most of the skeletons, strikes with what looks like a purple laser beam, which cuts deeply into the golem and after a few seconds carves it in half. It crumbles as it falls to the ground. She then turns the beam onto the remaining skeletons, which disintegrate completely.

Felix claps a non-sarcastic clap.

"Thank you, thank you."

Li-Ming strides over to the sarcophagus and telekinetically tosses the lid aside. It crashes to the ground, and she reaches inside and grabs a severed head, bald and with a long black beard.

The head of Zoltun Kulle speaks. "I see the world has need of me once more. Unless you are mere tomb-raiders, here for the treasures of Iben Fahd?"

"We're that too," Li-Ming says serenely, and grabs an ornately decorated staff from the coffin's remaining inhabitant. "But we need your Black Soulstone in order to defeat the Prime Evils once and for all."

"I knew this day would come," Kulle chuckles ominously.

Thomas approaches and takes a picture and retreats. "I am sure someone will want this picture for the metal band cover."

"You don't even like metal music. Anyway, Mr. Kulle we would appreciate you collaboration. There is a world that needs saving."

"There always is," Kulle snorts. "I'll help if you agree to return me to life."

"Agreed," Li-Ming says immediately. "We'll need to find your body, though."

"They stashed it in my sanctuary. Fortunately, there's a waypoint in there."

Li-Ming raises an eyebrow. "That sounds like a security hole."

"In retrospect, yes. I have since learned from my mistakes."

"Honestly, I am surprised how the things are not heavily guarded," Fernando comments.

"The Caldeum Bazaar waypoint had guards," Lorath points out. "They didn't hassle us, but they were there."

Li-Ming nods distractedly. "Most waypoints are in public places you could get to anyway, and only two or three people can come through at a time, so their status as a point of vulnerability is limited."

"And you can always put up a wall of fire on top of one, if you've got an invading force coming in," Kulle chimes in. "My Horadric brethren were only able to kill me because I was in the middle of an extremely delicate ritual at the time and couldn't fry them one by one as they teleported in."

"Man, at some point we should introduce all of you to the terrors of trying to board a plane. Or not. Let's go with not. At any rate, we should follow Mr. Head."

They return to the waypoint that brought them to the tomb, and Mr. Head brings them through to his sanctuary.

It's an impressive, if disconcerting, place. They stand on a massive, intricately carved slab of basalt floating in a seemingly endless void. There's a floating horizontal ring filled with sand in front of them, with a swirling red portal standing in its center.

"Ah!" Kulle says, pleased. "They left the portal open after they hid my body in the Shadow Realm. Sloppy, but convenient."

"Your world keeps getting weirder and weirder," Thomas says taking a picture.

"This is just a pocket dimension. A pretty shoddy one, too - a big floating rock and a sandpit? Really?"

"Excuse me for valuing function over form," Kulle sniffs.

"I will not."

"Shall we perhaps get on with searching this... Shadow Realm... I'm sorry, Kulle, but you really are shit at aesthetics. At any rate, let's find the body and have done with this."

"I'll stay behind and work on this ritual with Adria," Ari contributes.

"In that case I suppose I'll stay behind and work on the ritual with Ari," Adria says drily.

Ari snorts.

The others go help with the search. Including Thomas who at some point frowns. "You know, you're quite lucid for someone that has been a head for however long," he says to Kulle.

"Thank you," he responds. "I had only my own company for a very, very long time; fortunately I am a sparkling conversationalist."