"What WAS that?" Inquired Tony, spooked a little and looking around for invisible attackers.
"That is a cursed magical tome. Hope I trade it for some restorative magics to remove this constant buzz in my head." Orsal replies matter-of-factly. "If no one knows anything about the jar or can find another way out of here, let's turn around and follow our noses. I don't want to be in the haunted house forever." Orsal stows the jar if no one else wants to examine it.
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Jesset and Vaelus
Right after observing Orsal screaming, things get weird. Out of the corner of your eyes both of you notice shadows shifting as if something seems to be moving around you. The table seems to shift and rattle. All the chairs fall to the ground on their backs. The whispering comes back again but this time its a cacophony that seems sweep over you both like a wave. Out of the many voices talking at the same time you here a strange voice not to dissimilar from the one heard earlier it says ....I must feed....I MuUSt FEeed!! the voice then fades back into the cacophony. The talking continues for several more seconds and just as suddenly as the wave came over you it disappears as it fades you hear from somewhere a door slam and the voices stop. When you come out of it the chairs and the table are where they were before and upright.
Everyone else, both Jesset and Vaelus go slack jawed, their eyes seem to glaze over and they break out in sweat. For several minutes they stare at the table and they seem as if in a trance or very deep in thought. Neither of them seem in pain like Orsal was the moment before but something is clearly wrong with them. They suddenly snap out of it and both seemed spooked.
"OK THERE! Something happened again and I WANT TO KNOW WHAT IT WAS!" Tony exclaimed as he pointed at Jesset and Vaelus. He took a step back, enableing him to cover both with his crossbow.
Just in case.
"Haunted...yes, haunted!" Jesset says, shaking his head and blinking rapidly.
"There is a presense here, a 'hungry' presense. Be on your guard!" he says, smoothing the fur on his head.
"Do we need anymore incentive to find a way out soon?"
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Okay so you guys head back down the ladder on the 2nd floor is a door but it does not appear that it has opened or closed as the cobwebs are where they were before, Once all the way at the bottom you exit the tower and find yourselves back in the grimy room you fought the Rats in. Nothing seems different nor are any of the doors askew or in different positions than before. You peek out into the courtyard it appears no different and if fact the shimmering light from the Wall of Force can still be made out between the gatehouses.
"Let's start scouring everywhere for secret doors, right? Orsal frames his order as a suggestion.
"Let's keep this methodical guys." Tony said as they wrangled about where to go. He selects the next door clockwise from the door they entered from.
"Methodical is advisable. This place may harbour dangers to our soul as well as our body." he says looking about suspiciously.
He follows Tony closely.
He carefully crossed the room to approach the Tower door and looked for traps.
He carefully disabled any traps and opened any locks.
Then he carefully turned the knob and thrust the door open, stepping aside for the heavies to barge through.
Kelwyn, with rapier drawn, waits to see what's on the other side of the door.
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You do not find locks or traps on the door. Similar to the prior door on this level you look inside within you find a room that contains three beds covered with silk sheets and pillows, now layered in grime, dust, and cobwebs. Silk draperies filthy with mildew and dirt line the walls. Between the draperies hang lewd, moldy paintings in wooden frames. You see brass braziers that once lit and likely heated this room, but today they lie dust-covered and overturned. The floors are carpeted with thick rugs, now worm-ridden and rotten. The room smells of mold and mildew.
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As you all step back out into the main room you all notice something that was not obvious before until you had walked to this corner of the room. The mildew-stained curtain that hangs adjacent to this door you just opened, seems to moving as if by a wind. The bottom seems to shift and dance slightly. At one point you notice what looks like a door way as the curtain shifts ever so slightly from the draft.
"Hey look at this!" Tony called out.
He carefully drew aside the curtain to expose the concealed doorway behind it and looked for traps.
Carefully disabled any traps and opened any locks.
Then carefully tripped the catch and thrust the door open, stepping aside for the heavies to barge through.
Jesset moves up to then now open door and takes a look beyond.
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