"There's a door here! And the desk is all locked. How rude." Roger will open the secret door.
"I'll take care of the lock."
Akaash tries to open the lock carefully.
Algonzo will keep with whomever his Adventure Buddy happens to be (so as not to be a hypocrite.) He'll scold the would-be burglar, "Of course it is; it's not like this isn't someone's residence."
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Moving into the room behind the mirror, you find what appears to be Flinn's study. This large study has clearly been ransacked. Papers and inkwells have been thrown around the room. A large wooden cabinet lies on its back, its closed doors facing the ceiling. A window in the east wall has been broken out.
The west wall is a large tinted window overlooking a well-appointed alchemy lab. Something makes a loud thump from inside the fallen cabinet.
Several clay jars lay in a pile in the middle of the study.
Shrugging, Akaash simply replies "We're here to find what Finn is up to, perhaps he's been abducted so we'd better check every possible lead."
He interrupts himself, surprised by the sound coming from the cabinet.
Kafir joins the others in the study. "Did you hear that in the cabinet? Must be where the noise is coming from."
Kafir moves to the cabinet and wrenches it open.
Akaash picks the lock on the drawer and opens it to find 3 doses of itching powder, two liquid blades, and two draughts of elixir of last will.
As Akaash follows the other into the next room, Kafir wrenchs open the cabinet. Inside he sees nothing, but feels air movement as if something passed by him. Moments later, the party is beset upon by tiny, flying, orb-shaped creatures with maws filled with rows and rows of teeth!
One creature manages to sink ints teeth into Kafir, while the other two miss!
[spoiler=KN: planes DC 13]These are cacodemons.
Akaash recognizes these tiny creature as cacodaemons.
+ 2 against divine
"Vile creatures!"
The Rahadoumi whips out his exotic blade and bashes it at the one who bit him.
Kafir easily hits the cacodaemon and his blade sinks into the tiny orb, but it seems resistant some of the damage the blade inflicted.
Roger and his marsupial companion take a step back and will box with the weird head-demons. "These are gross."
"You know not with what you fight, demon." Algonzo glares menacingly at the daemon next to him, attempting to demoralize him!
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Roger! and Roo attack the daemon near them, both hitting. Once again, the daemon proves resistant to the blows.
Algonso scowls at the damon nearby and it seems to be shaken by such a fierce look!
Akaash steps away from the daemon and drinks an extract of targeted bomb admixture.
Akaash moves away and drinks an extract!
The caacodaemons continue to attack, the shaken one following Akaash, but only one manages to connect, biting Roger!
The pair again, fight in tandem.
"Cold iron did you say?" Kafir reluctantly drops his khopesh and stabs at the nearby daemon with his cold iron dagger, continuing to hold his shield up with his other arm.
Roger! abd Roo attack the daemon harrying them, but both miss.
Kafir chops his falcata into the one near him, nearly bringing it down!
Kafir chops hisfalcatakhopesh into the one near him, nearly bringing it down!
Akaash will step away from his daemon and throw a bomb at it!
Akaash tosses a bomb, exploding it on the nearest daemon. Despite resisting the fire, it is burned badly.
Algonso delays, waiting for someone to do something to get themselves hurt!
The cacodaemons continue to attack, but only one manages to strike, biting Kafir!
Roger and Roo keep boxing with their demon!
Akaash steps aside, and tosses another bomb at the daemon.
"Little bastard," Kafir mutters as the thing's teeth sink into his flesh.
Roger! strieks the daemon again, but it still fights!
Akkash tosses another bomb and the daemon he targets falls to the ground, a burnt corpse!
Kafir swings hard and brings down a second daemon, while Algonso looks on!
The remaining daemon tries to bite Roger!, but fails!
"That's not very nice!"
Kafir steps over to help against the last daemon.
Akaash waits patiently until the two warriors put the last daemon down.
With two well-aimed blows, the final daemon is destroyed!
Looking around the room, you find nothing more of interest other than the pile of jars in the floor. Looking closer, you see the outline of a trapdoor underneath, as if the jars were intended to fall on someone opening the door from below.
Roger will move the jars out of the way of the trapdoor. "Should we open it?"
Continuing to search the house, Roger! moves the jars, which Akaash identifies as burst jars, (12 total) and opens the trapdoor. Peering through the trapdoor, the party sees a lab below.
Bright windows line the exterior of this large laboratory, illuminating row after row of shelves stocked with chemical reagents, minerals and metals, and creature parts. A low partition separates a small office in the eastern third of the lab, and two stone tables take up space in the western part of the room. It’s clear that multiple alchemists perform work here.
Source Ultimate Equipment pg. 107
Price 35 gp; Weight 1 lb.
Category Alchemical Weapons
Description
This simple clay pot has two sealed, airtight inner chambers containing alchemical liquids. The jar is thrown as a splash weapon. It shatters on impact, covering the target with a mixture of the two liquids. One round later on your turn, the liquids react and explode with concussive force. The target takes 1 point of sonic damage, is deafened for 1d4 rounds, and must make a DC 12 Fortitude save or be stunned for 1 round. Creatures within 5 feet of the explosion take 1 point of sonic damage. The target can use a full-round action to scrape or wash off the liquid before it detonates, depositing the material in its square or an adjacent square; the material detonates as normal, though the original target only takes damage as if it were within 5 feet of the explosion. Crafting this item is a DC 25 Craft (alchemy) check.
Construction
Craft (Alchemy) DC 25
Akaash studies the laboratory carefully, trying to understand what people were working on here.
"Find anything to indicate where he might have gone?" Kafir asks the alchemist.
Alg will use his wand cast CLW on the halfling, and offer it to the cavalier.
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Searching the laboratory, Akaash finds that it contains every material component a practicing alchemist needs to mix extracts of the third tier or lower, as well as two potions of lesser age resistance and 85 cp.
2nd—barkskin, cat’s grace, cure moderate wounds, resist energy
1st—cure light wounds, expeditious retreat, true strike
"Those alchemical potions are intended to delay the vicissitudes of age. A befitting work for one caring about his former companions."
Akaash pockets the notes concerning the extracts, making a mental note to return them as soon as he's copied them.
Roger thanks the weird longshank for the healing. "Do they actually make you younger?" He asks not knowing how these things work.
Finishing the inspection of the second floor, the party opens the remaining door to reveal a guest bedroom. Searching, you find nothing of interest.
Going back downstairs, the party checks the southwestern door, opening it to reveal a dining and gaming room. This room features a large oval dining table, a full-sized billiards table, and three comfortable, padded chairs. A rack of expensive billiards sticks is attached to the east wall.
Moving north, you enter the kitchen. The aroma of cooked lamb hangs in the air, but otherwise the kitchen is unremarkable. A door in the east wall leads to a small patio with a fire pit, where food can also be prepared outside in warm weather. A short walkway to the north leads to what appears to be the servants’ quarters.
Roger will try to find a quick snack, sharing it with his buddy. The pair hop along north to the servant's quarters.