Sora opened the door next to the map and saw that he was now in a workshop. All about it were tools, papers, bones, and beakers strewn about. On the wall was a rack of tools, with an axe missing. Although once again he felt the same chill as before, this time it seemed to emenate from a wooden Mo'ai statue. This time, the melody buzzing through his brain seemed to be played on a wooden xylophone along with rattling boards.
Alright, so that's five ixupi already. Three have already gone and killed people and vanshed, and now there are two in the general area. Maybe I should take note of that.
Sora took a pencil and paper and wrote down what was where.
?: Cave
?:
Ash: Fireplace
Wood: idol in workshop
On the desk was a diagram of a skull of a supposed Basilisk. This was not the kind of basilisk that ran on water (much like what Mythbusters Adam Savage and Jamie Hyneman failed to emulate), but the kind that could kill people just by locking gazes with them. The diagram had the image of a snake-like skull with numbers point towards certain parts of the creature's skull.
Wait a minute. Those are the same numbers as the drawers right next to me!
Sora opened the drawers according to the numbers and turned the key under them and a secret compartment opened, containing a pot. This one did not react to the bull's head but Sora decided to pack it anyway. He headed out of the room and entered the door opposite the room. Sora climbed the stairs and found himself in what appeared to be Ben's room. There were letters from England strewn about and there was a suit of armor in the corner of the room. This suit had the same melody (now on a metal xylophone) and vibe as before!
Ash
Wood
Metal: Suit of Armor
The clock was strangely set to 5:30. According to Kenobi's notes, he had the alarm set to go off at 5:30. On the nearby desk was a picture of a young boy with a slight mop-top and a journal. The earliest date was on the day of the Apollo 11 lunar landing in 1969. According to the journal, Kenobi had hired Mexican architects to help design the museum, keeping it a secret from society. It was through these architects that Kenobi first heard of the Ixupi legend. Apparently, construction came to a halt a few days after the obtaining of the vessels. In 1990, it stated that Ben went on an expedition in Africa. During this time Gibbs and Deweg broke in and were killed by the Ixupi. Sora closed the book and began searching the wardrobe. The melody began again, this time on tube bells accompanied by the sound of tearing fabric.
Metal: Suit of Armor
Cloth: Closet
Sora took the stairs again and this time took the door closest to the fireplace. He was in the main hall of the museum.
Wow! This place looks amazing even though it never opened! When I'm done here, I'll make sure that the Mayor opens this place to the public.
Embedded in a totem pole was an axe, the same one that was missing in the workshop. To the right of the office door were Eskimo transforming masks. Each bird mask contained a different head. The center head was a skull, with a line split down the middle. In it was a talisman, this one looking like the head of a man. Sora noticed that this one reacted to the pot. A perfect fit! Sora also noticed that a display was busted open, with a skull shaped hole in it. Sora noticed that this had belonged to a jade skull. He entered the door on the opposite side of the hall and found himself in a library, once again greeted by the sound of the Ixupi melody (now on a celeste) and warped twising sound coming from some candles.
Cloth
Wax: Candles
There were a few noteworthy books, one on the planets, one on mythical creatures (Sora packed this book), and one with the snail drawing on it.
This was that symbol that Ben drew in the ground before that Ixupi got him!
Sora opened the book and found a legend:
32 years, 4 months, and 13 days after Motcambo's birth, he crowned himself king of the Mayans. As a celebration, he ordered that no bloodletting (sacrafices) be preformed for an entire year.
This angered Motcambo's gods, and as punishment they ordered the underworld's portal keeper, Xibalba, to unleash Kukulkan, the Snake God's children (better known to us as Ixupi) on the Mayans. Each night Ixupi would sneak into the citizen's homes and slowly steal their life essence until their ka was gone (Ka is the Egyptian term for spirit; apparently your life essence makes up your ka).
Motcambo was frantic, and gathered up all of his priests, ordering them to make many sacrafices to the gods. This did not help. For many nights the Ixupi continued to steal the ka of anyone they could find.
Finally, Motcambo offered himself as a sacrafice. This gained the pity of the Moon goddess, Ixchel. She gave the Maya pots and lids to capture the Ixupi in. Each vessel had its own element representing the type of each Ixupi.
Fifteen days after the sixth moon ended, Motcambo and his priests captured each one of the thirteen Ixupi inside its own vessel. Each pot was sealed away and buried deep beneath the earth where they could never be opened again.
If the Ixupi were ever freed, they could not stray from their vessels unless another life force took their place; that life force being a human.
The next few pages contained pictographs. The ones he had completed had the symbols for stone and burning water (gas/petroleum/tar). Sora moved onto the next bookcase, and by accident triggered a secret panel to open up. There was a pot with the symbol for ash on it, which connected to the bull head. Now he just needed to get the one in the fireplace!
Sora left the room, and headed to the office. The Melody began again, but now Sora was ready! Pointing the pot towards the ashes, a ghostlike figure burst from the ashes and screamed as it was sucked in like a dustbunny in a vacuum. Sora capped the vessel and decided to head towards the front door. There was a museum brochure with a map, and skulls of a certain color. There was also a room on strange beasts and for curses. Sora headed there and heard a piano version of the melody emenating from a tar pit. Sora pointed the petroleum vessel towards it and a black-dragon like creature emerged and was quickly sucked in.
Wax
Petroleum: Tar Pit
Sora headed up the stairs in the main hall and entered the curse room. To his right was the snail symbol, Sora saw the legend he just saw earlier now depicted in an Aztec mural, with pedestals below. Sora placed the vessels for Ash and Petroleum into their proper spots and left them there.