Human Cleric 7 Exalted 4 / AC 23/*25, Touch 12, Flat 22 / HP 76/76 / Init +3 / Fort +10, Ref +5, Will +13 / Perception +8 / Channel Positive Energy (DC17/19) 3/7 Per Day *Spell Adjusted No's
"I don't have any on me! Spugnoir, are you alright in there? Look around what do you see?" Darius leans against the door listening for Spugnoir.
Well I see the various doors on the wall, nasty mold on the floor, pretty bad shape here. I'm afraid I have no holy water either. Shame we didn't get some from the temple.
Human Cleric 7 Exalted 4 / AC 23/*25, Touch 12, Flat 22 / HP 76/76 / Init +3 / Fort +10, Ref +5, Will +13 / Perception +8 / Channel Positive Energy (DC17/19) 3/7 Per Day *Spell Adjusted No's
"Spug, are there any other doors leading out of there? Maybe try one of them, tell us which one and maybe we can get to you from the outside of it lets you out!"
Look to see if there are any windows one way or the other down the front of the building. If there are walk over to the closest one detecting evil all the way.
Human Cleric 7 Exalted 4 / AC 23/*25, Touch 12, Flat 22 / HP 76/76 / Init +3 / Fort +10, Ref +5, Will +13 / Perception +8 / Channel Positive Energy (DC17/19) 3/7 Per Day *Spell Adjusted No's
Darius nods at Hailiss and waits to see if the door opens like she says.
After a short while that feels much longer as it actually was - especially inside the room - the force keeping the doors shut vanishes and it opens easily.
Human Cleric 7 Exalted 4 / AC 23/*25, Touch 12, Flat 22 / HP 76/76 / Init +3 / Fort +10, Ref +5, Will +13 / Perception +8 / Channel Positive Energy (DC17/19) 3/7 Per Day *Spell Adjusted No's
"Hate to say it but I knew we shoulda grabbed more of the professors equipment he left for us from Grimburrow. Inventory check, what did we get from him that we have here?" Darius says turning to Hailiss
Human Cleric 7 Exalted 4 / AC 23/*25, Touch 12, Flat 22 / HP 76/76 / Init +3 / Fort +10, Ref +5, Will +13 / Perception +8 / Channel Positive Energy (DC17/19) 3/7 Per Day *Spell Adjusted No's
Human Cleric 7 Exalted 4 / AC 23/*25, Touch 12, Flat 22 / HP 76/76 / Init +3 / Fort +10, Ref +5, Will +13 / Perception +8 / Channel Positive Energy (DC17/19) 3/7 Per Day *Spell Adjusted No's
"I feel like we're a little half-baked here." Darius says, then moves over and peers inside the room but not actually going inside.
"Who's for going back to Grimburrow and getting properly equipped for the rest of this place? Cos that's what's I'm going to do. I say we call it a loss today, head out for some dinner and a visit to Grimburrow and try this again first thing tomorrow morning." Darius says punctuating it by closing the door and folding his arms waiting for the rest of the groups concensus.
Grimburrow seems to have claimed possession of the cache due to his station of Pharesmian priest and it being on land he oversees, the graveyard. If we come back and report that this place is haunted, we might be able to convince him to part with holy water and the rest of the gear.
Human Cleric 7 Exalted 4 / AC 23/*25, Touch 12, Flat 22 / HP 76/76 / Init +3 / Fort +10, Ref +5, Will +13 / Perception +8 / Channel Positive Energy (DC17/19) 3/7 Per Day *Spell Adjusted No's
'Lets go through the room before the haunt comes back, thankfully it wasn't too dangerous."
And with that, Darius with his sword drawn steps into the only room available, very cautiously.
He will go to the first door on the left and check it it's unlocked.
The door opens to a corridor with a single barred window to the front of the building with four doors along the wall opposite the window. At the wall opposite to where Darius stands is another door and the corridor continues around the corner.
Corridor labeled as S3
Human Cleric 7 Exalted 4 / AC 23/*25, Touch 12, Flat 22 / HP 76/76 / Init +3 / Fort +10, Ref +5, Will +13 / Perception +8 / Channel Positive Energy (DC17/19) 3/7 Per Day *Spell Adjusted No's
Darius slowly moves to the first door and listens to hear if anything beyond stirs.
Perception:1d20 + 6 ⇒ (4) + 6 = 10
I'll stop there and wait for the rest to post their actions before continuing.
As Darius leans at the door to listen it slightly opens into the room. Behind the door is a small office with a desk, a chair, an inkpen and ink - both dried up - and a shelf full of notebooks.
Darius:
You hear nothing but the creak of the door as it opens
Human Cleric 7 Exalted 4 / AC 23/*25, Touch 12, Flat 22 / HP 76/76 / Init +3 / Fort +10, Ref +5, Will +13 / Perception +8 / Channel Positive Energy (DC17/19) 3/7 Per Day *Spell Adjusted No's
"Here this should help." Darius says as he knees and pics up a couple shards of rubble that have broken off from the wall. Taking one piece he casts Light on it and tosses it further into the room to illuminate it. Then casts light on another piece and slides it along the floor of the hallway about halfway down the hall it stops also giving off a glow revealing more of the hallway. "I'll keep some for the other rooms". he says with a wink.
Hailiss draws a pale light from her blade with a touch.
"Huh. I suppose prisons need offices too. It's strange that they didn't move the paperwork after the fire. Anyway, they wouldn't have kept the records up after they abandoned the place, so there's probably little point in looking through this stuff."
Still, she rifles through the shelf, and opens any drawers the desk might have while muttering a spell designed to outline magical objects and spells in her vision.
Perception:1d20 + 0 ⇒ (4) + 0 = 4
Casting light on my sword, will renew it each time it runs out. Also Detect Magic.
The notebooks are ordered by year and contain the payment lists. There are all the guards listed as well as Warden Hawkran and what they received as payment every week through all the years the prison existed. Also some bookkeeping about payments to the prison and expenses for everyday needs.
The drawers contain more office supplies but most of them is useless now. The paper isn't the best anymore, the ink dried, only a few pencils might still work.
She'll have to come back later, to bag the notebooks and bring them to the university for archiving.
If nothing else, this is the sort of thing they look at when trying to figure out how people lived in older times. In five hundred years from now, some student could look through these and write a thesis on the contemporary value of the silver coin.
Not now though.
"There's not much here. Names of guards, if that's important. That Hawkran guy again, he was the warden."
Remember the professor was looking for a full list of poeople in the prison for some reason. We should gather any books we find to see if we can find that information just in case we need it.
Human Cleric 7 Exalted 4 / AC 23/*25, Touch 12, Flat 22 / HP 76/76 / Init +3 / Fort +10, Ref +5, Will +13 / Perception +8 / Channel Positive Energy (DC17/19) 3/7 Per Day *Spell Adjusted No's
Darius moves over to the next door and before he opens it asks brother Grergof "Do you sense anything down this corridor or in any of these rooms?"
Human Cleric 7 Exalted 4 / AC 23/*25, Touch 12, Flat 22 / HP 76/76 / Init +3 / Fort +10, Ref +5, Will +13 / Perception +8 / Channel Positive Energy (DC17/19) 3/7 Per Day *Spell Adjusted No's
"Good job Brother Grergof. And you Spugnoir, see anything?"
Human Cleric 7 Exalted 4 / AC 23/*25, Touch 12, Flat 22 / HP 76/76 / Init +3 / Fort +10, Ref +5, Will +13 / Perception +8 / Channel Positive Energy (DC17/19) 3/7 Per Day *Spell Adjusted No's
"Wait. Whatnow?" Dariis says to Spugnoir with a look of surprise and concern.
Human Cleric 7 Exalted 4 / AC 23/*25, Touch 12, Flat 22 / HP 76/76 / Init +3 / Fort +10, Ref +5, Will +13 / Perception +8 / Channel Positive Energy (DC17/19) 3/7 Per Day *Spell Adjusted No's
Darius slowly puts his hand on the second door handle, turns it and pushes it open. Reaching into a pouch on his hip he feels for the shards he picked up in the previous room and draws one out. Slowly it begins to glow Casts Light and he tosses it into the room to illuminate it. Reaveling what lies beyond.
The second room has a similar layout and furnishing. But here are less notebooks containing the details about the purchases of the Prison. The majority of the papers here are invoices and receipts.
Grergof opens his backpack to gather these notebooks as well before holding the lantern for others to explore the next room down.
You never know, looking at the prison finances may give us some clues if there was anything odd going in here before the final fire.
My guess is people never really looked into what was going on after the fire. They just sealed the place up and tried to ignore it.
The last office is the same but the notebooks there are more interesting. They contain information about the prisoners of the Harrowstone. There is written who was sent here and for what. Who died, who got executed, who has to stay how long. But on just looking through the pages it seems like no one was ever released.