Gerard and Daniel each can make out a well concealed door in the floor.
Euphemia, please commit these entrances to memory... Now, the walls. I'm not the best with a wand, but... I'll try. Tapping the wand on his thigh, he tries again.
Starting at the spot below the cupola, Gerard used the wand to detect secret doors along the exterior wall in a counter clockwise direction.
The others are free to follow or remain on the roof.
The first attempt fails to activate the wand, the second thump on your thing seemed to do the trick and it spurts forth its magic but reveals no secret doors.
(Halfling]Don't go off alone.
Well then, dear Mistress, you're lucky enough to encounter your favorite non-alchemical or studying past time. I shall endeavour to do my part in helping you win this door-keeping memory game.
Frank chuckles, sniffing Euphemia's shoulder with gusto.
That door is yours then, Frank. I'll take the next one for the noting.
Heeding Andrea's words, Euphemia stays as close to Gerard as can be contrived as "not interfering with his stealthiness". Of course, if he's not stealthing, she doesn't observe this rule as rigidly.
Your syntax somehow felt forced and awkward, Mistress, but I think I understand what you meant.
You don't see anyone walking the grounds. When you get tot he cistern you see a ladder on its south side leads to the top, where there is a hatch. Gerard does not see any other secret doors with his wand usage during the spell duration, you feel pretty confident that there are no other hidden entrances from this angle.
There is a roughly a large 15 by 10 foot hole to the north behind the main house. From your height and angle you can not determine any details about the hole except that it appears to be deep.
Andrea will spider up the cistern and lift the hatch, if nothing leaps out, she will peek inside.
Daniel looks at the hole.
There could be hazards on the way down and my armor weighs alot. I can survive any fall so long as it's onto the ground and I have my ring of swimming if it's water. I can jump and Em can carry herself and 2 others down
(Halfling)If there is water, no doubt there will be sharks like the last time we went swimming. Andrea sighs. It seems to be a case of choose our dooms, hurl ourselves into the darkness or fight through the den of thieves. Orsin,Azreal and I still have our Spider Climb Spells.
(Halfling)"I wouldn't suggest anyone jump until we know what's at the bottom. I can lower someone down, but somehow I'm just not stealthy. However, I'm happy to go in first with Gerard, if that is what is merited."
Andrea climbs the ladder to the cistern where a hatch can be opened to gain access within, it is currently full of brackish rain water. Several
pipes exit the bottom and provide water to the building.
Euphemia flies the perimeter of the roofline and does not see any other guards on the grounds. The eastern wall of the house has vines growing up the side of the complex, she does not any windows on that side of the building but the area is overgrown. You do see some second floor windows in the leaning caretaker's residence.
(Halfling)Water in the cistern, nothing else.
If someone goes down the hole, I think all of us should go in case something is down there. I could summon a creature.
(Halfling)"I thought summoning didn't work. Regardless, I'm going down... and I'm taking Daniel with me because I think I see him twitching to go in. Or we can go to the ground. I saw no guards."
(Halfling)Summoning can work out of the manor's grounds, I will summon something flying to head down.
Andrea climbs over a wall and summons a Nosoi Psychopomp and sends it flying down the hole. If something is down there and attacks, none of the party has been put at risk and they can prepare for a fight, if nothing attacks, then they also have valuable info.
Nosoi, fly down the hole and see if anything is there, then return.
In any event, Andrea will get out her rope and help tie some off and throw it down the hole.
Euphemia flies down with Daniel; no need to fail to take advantage of the spell whilst she has it.
Andrea will follow down with her Spider Climb spell. Orsin, Azreal, Gerard,will be joining us?
Daniel allows Em to carry him. [b] If you need to, drop me to save yourself. I am equipped to survive a fall. The paladin has his shield stowed and sword sheathed while being carried and has put his wand back in his Quickdraw sheath.
The hound climbs down the sides with the spider climb spell.
(Halfling)Remember, if it comes down to it, The Morrowfall must not fall into their hands.
As Euphemia and Daniel fly downward,
Concealed behind a screen of surrounding trees and brush is a gaping pit in the center of the building’s backyard. The pit’s walls are of crumbling earth, striped by furrows of erosion. Its interior is lost in darkness, but the hideous stench rising from it reveals it to be a cesspool.
Daniel and Euphemia are flying down as Andrea climbs off the roof to the ground. Your spell permits 20 foot movement...double movement is still going to take your two rounds to get to the ground and a few feet away from the building.
Gerard and Orsin also climb down the building.
Using the 100 feet of rope Gerard, Orsin and Andrea get to the ground they can see the caretaker's house.
This two-story structure is in worse shape than the nearby building. Its walls are composed of wooden planks, now deteriorated and sagging. The windows bear panes of thick, opaque glass—many broken—and are all heavily curtained from within and caked with filth. The entire structure has a definite lean to the south, where its extended upper floor has actually
come to rest against the mortared wall of the larger building. Despite its forlorn appearance, a thin plume of smoke rises from the chimney, while the barest hint of candlelight escapes from a second-floor window.
There is a hitching post between the caretakers house and the mainhouse.
Orsin, Gerard, let us get some rope tied off and down the smelly hole
Orsin, Gerard, come secure some ropes so everyone can get down the hole
As you are flying down the aroma of filth and stagnant water wafts upwards that makes your eyes burn and water. From your POV the hole looks endless and the earth seems to erode into the pit.
The overhang of the caretaker’s house leans against the brick wall of the main building here, creating a tunnel of sorts. Lining the southern wall is a number of iron rings sunk into the masonry serving as hitching posts for mounts. A short stone stair rises to a door set into the brick wall.