The workers at the tomb excavation site told me that Mitsiro has been withholding some other information about the extent of the curse.
Apparently, the first few artefacts recovered from the tomb were shipped back to the Science and Trade Institute in a Badger class Caldari hauling vessel. Somehow the ship got trapped in a metaliminal storm, engines disabled. The captain (aware of the rumors of a curse and facing a panicking crew) decided to jettison the tomb loot. As soon as he did, the storm lifted and they could continue. Mitsiro told me that they're suing the captain and the lifting of the storm was unrelated to the jettisoning of the valuable artefacts.
Another worker told us that the grand-mother of the first person to open the tomb died on the same day as the opening. Mitsiro replied that the old lady was already terminally ill and about to die. The workers do not buy it. Personally, I think there is a lot of coincidences spooking the excavators.
Tomorrow, I am going down there with Mitsiro and Gundard, a postdoctoral researcher who insisted on brining a machete with him. None of the workers want to accompany us, and the Ph.D. students aren't too keen either.
