Niall Warburton and the Conundrum of the Mummy

by Jet556

Featuring a cast of exciting new characters! Five students including Niall Warburton and his crush the bashful Carla Marzorati end up going on a trip to a country house that has been converted into a Museum of Egyptology because everyone else had the good sense not to get the forms signed by their parents. Once there, things go into chaos as a living mummy appears on the scene!

6. ACT I: The Priest's Room

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The Priest's Room

Walking into the priest's room, Niall noticed a toolbox at the right of the table upon which the open sarcophagus of the priest's mummy rested. Walking over to the mummy, Niall noticed the name on a label that was on the table: Imhotep.

Besides the famous film character, first portrayed by Boris Karloff in 1932, there was a real Ancient Egyptian polymath, who served under the Third Dynasty Pharaoh Djoser and his chancellor and the High Priest of Amen-Ra, more simply known as Ra, the Egyptian Sun God. Carla had been told by her half-brother, this Imhotep was a Priest of Aten. All three were priests… What were the chances?

Kneeling down and opening the toolbox, Niall saw a small bottle of oil, a hammer with a lever and a screwdriver. Better take all three they could come in handy.

He then looked up and saw something by a bust to the left of the door that lead to the sarcophagi room. Walking over, Niall picked it up and recognized it as the seal of Thoth, Egyptian God of Wisdom and Magic.

With a smile, Niall said: "Thank you, Roger Lancelyn Greene!" Turning back to the Amenhotep I room, Niall quickly ended up bumping into Carla. "Carla!" He said without a stutter. "Look what I found!" He handed her the screwdriver and put his hand in his pocket. He ended up taking out the bottle of oil. "Whoops, wrong thing." He put the bottle of oil back in his pocket and took out the seal of Thoth. Handing it to Carla, Niall smiled happily. "See, the seal of Thoth!"

"You know who Thoth is?" asked Carla, more surprised Niall who Thoth was than his lack of a stutter.

"I did read 'Tales of Ancient Egypt' by Roger Lancelyn Greene." Answered Niall.

"Where was it? By the curse of the Imhotep mummy?"

"No, it was by the… C-C-Curse?" And thus came back Niall's stutter. Carla pointed to the inscription behind the mummy. That was a curse. Niall looked at it and swallowed. What was with Egypt and curses? "N-N-No, I-I-I found i-i-it by the b-b-bust over there." Niall pointed over at the bust.

Carla was tempted to either hug or kiss Niall on the cheek but she didn't. She just game him a smile.

And then out of the corner of her left eye she saw something!

Beneath a blue stool was a tiepin. Kneeling down she picked it up. Looking up at Niall, she shrugged being as unable to figure out why it was here as Niall was. But still like hammer, screwdriver and bottle of oil this tiepin would probably come in handy.