Qunna does manage to net one of them during combat, but all it really does is scream and clack it's jaws at us, so we knock it out. Armed with the knowledge that blunt weapons hurt skeletons more, we're a little more effective at knocking them out, although we've still got to make do with the weapons that we have. Sula punches one apart, Shadow kills one with a shovel, Bukka bites one into pieces.
One of the skeletons in particular seems to be more important than the others. He rises slightly after the first group, and starts giving commands to the remaining skeletons. That makes things a little more difficult for us, but eventually we dispatch all the skeletons.
We investigate the head skeleton. There were two interesting things that he was carrying, a bronze key, and a magical sword that's Tien in style.
We spend a bit of time investigating the sword, and we find a small mithral compartment in the hilt. Once we manage to open it, we find that it contains a small rolled up letter dated from 25 years ago.
The most surprising thing about it is that the name signed to it is another Kaijitsu. We're going to have to see what Ameiko might be able to tell us about this.
Further around the corner into the cavern, we find another ornate Tien looking chest. It's locked. We try the key from the lead skeleton, and it works!
The chest contains a few potions, a wand, more fireworks, some fancy jewellery, a stash of money, and some adventuring gear.
Looking around, we seem to have reached the extent of the cave. There's no more tunnels or passages that we can see. So we decide to gather up what we've found and row back to town to share some of our findings.
