The mausoleum was quite a suprise

[Brysos]

I am still pretty new to the game, so I end up dying a lot for the sake of science (hey what happens when you run out of air? Do you start taking damage--whoops, nope).

The mausoleum was definately a big suprise, I can't believe I survived it. I think the first time I went in there, I was level 12 or so. Opened a tomb, and a high level undead popped out. I ran like hell and lived to die somewhere else. I took another berserker in there, this time I was maybe level 20, but I had a better understanding of my skills and equipment. I reasoned that maybe the tombs had high level spawns, but since the quest was given to me at a lot level, the actual mob in the chapel would be low level, and thus fodder for my axe. I think I made it two steps into the room and was killed. Fast forward to my 3 or 4th summoner, I had managed to get up to 26 or so and was doing well. I thought I would take a peek--walked in, opened a tomb and proceeded to spend 15 minutes fighting a bone giant before finally whittling him down and winning. I thought that maybe that was an anomoly, and opened another tomb. Spent another 5 minutes fighting something that summoned a lot of shadows and decided, to hell with opening up tombs I don't have time for this, I will proceed to that damned caster in the chapel and show her what is what.

Well. No sooner had I stepped in the room, but all of the damned tombs opened up automatically (SURPRISE!) and the entire hall behind me filled up with high level undead. I was sure I would join then, minus the 'un'. Somehow I managed to hold them off--frantically dropping in summons at the doorway as fast as the cooldown would let me while I kept the caster busy with another summon. To my suprise, the caster when down (offscreen) and I was able to focus on the horde of undead and slowly kill them one by one, aided by the long narrow hallway.

Triumphant, now all I have to do is figure out what this wierd curse talent tree is I picked up in the tomb...

[Dekar]

Good job surviving that!

That curse tree enchants items with additional negative and positive stats. There is a bug with the Staff of Absorption when its cursed ( main story line ) that prevents you from progressing, so should you live long enough and encounter it you probably have to get help from Darkgod.

[Canderel]

I have to agree, that quest is very nasty.

Very very nasty, and you can get the quest as early as lvl 1.