It seems to make more and more sense that they encountered fictional Italians outside this pyramid – it has all of the hallmarks of being a fictional pyramid alltogether. More specifically, obviously a videogame pyramid.
For one thing it’s brightly lit by torches, burning unexhausted and smokeless even after millennia. Then there are first aid kits strewn about everwhere – and those are also in surprising good shape for their alleged age. And surprisingly effective for a civilization whose knowledge of medicine was advanced for their world, but still quite basic by modern standards. Hard to say what’s inside of them, though – they are of the kind you don’t have to open up to use. You just click on them to apply them. And Honest-Abe-kun and Mihashi can’t even try that out right now, since they haven’t lost any hitpoints yet.
But medkits aren’t the only kind of supplies lying randomly around here – there’s also ammunition. Unfortunately, it’s the wrong caliber for the Lewis gun. In some other pyramids, they might have found boxes of ammunition that somehow fit any weapon, but apparently this pyramid is geared specifically toward visitors using only Colt Model 1911s and Uzis. Odd. Uh, I mean…obviously this ancient Egyptian pyramid was constructed at some point in time when the pharaonic armies were using only Browning 1911s* and Uzis.
More on Monday.
* Hey, they’re not specifically called “Colt Model 1911 CE”…so they could as well be “Colt Model 1911 BCE”**, couldn’t they?
** Which, admittedly, would still be a long time after the pyramids were built…