Jed doesn't hear anything behind the door.
Jed gestures to Norhalo to open the door, while he takes up a position 5 feet back to cover the doorway with Bessie.
Jaxom moves up the hallway to take a flanking position of Norhalo, opposite Jedech.
Feeling a bit out of place, Norhalo will attempt to unlatch the door and push it open with a quick shove, all while trying to keep as much of his body as possible out of the doorway.
ETA: This may be too late...can he cast resistance on himself before opening the door? If so, he will.
You all notice additional rubble from what was probably another false wall.
Norhalo opens the door, to reveal a small room with a tunnel which goes to the north and curves east, into darkness.
Norhalo will listen for a moment.
If he doesn't hear anything, he'll say quietly: "We should see what is immediately behind these other two doors, as well as what is around the corner, before we go proceed further. Friend Issak, if you would look around the corner?"
"Aye." Issak peers around the corner.
Perception
"This would seem to be the area of greatest interest, then, what with being behind two false walls. If I am not mistaken, the tunnel there extends beyond the walls of the Glassworks.
"Before we proceed down the tunnel, though, let us consider this other door beside Jaxom. Friend Jaxom, let me reach past you and open that door...before that, however, allow me to cast resistance on you."
Unless anyone objects, Norhalo will cast resistance on Jaxom then open the door from the side, backing up as soon as the door is open in case there's something combative behind it.
Jaxom will test the door in front of him. If unlocked he will open it, if not he will break it down.
Strength check:
The door opens easily, revealing a small office which. Most of the office has a thick layer of dust, but there are obvious areas that have been used recently.
"Wait...I heard something." Issak moves to the other doors and opens it.
The first door you open is a small storage room, it's been ransacked but is otherwise unoccupied.
As the second door opens, you see a beaten and bloody body bound at the wrists and ankles. It's Ameiko.
After channeling, her wounds close slightly, and she visibly draws a small breath. She doesn't wake up.
Jaxom enters the room and kneeling over the girl, cuts the bonds holding her.
"Are you all right, miss? Can you tell us what happened here?"
While Calathes and Jaxom work on Ameiko, Norhalo will stay by the door to , keeping watch for anything coming up the tunnel.
With the casting of Calathes' spell, Ameiko's eyes open a little. She croaks out, "Where is Tsuto? He is behind the goblins attacking town earlier today." She alive, and somewhat awake, but still very injured.
With the casting of Calathes' spell, Ameiko's eyes open a little. She croaks out, "Where is Tsuto? He is behind the goblins attacking town earlier today." She alive, and somewhat awake, but still very injured.
Jed grunts angrily at the news that someone at least peripherally connected to Sandpoint has betrayed its inhabitants in such a heinous way. He joins Norhalo in keeping watch for any hostiles, training the business end of Bessie down the hallways.
"Excuse me, I could not hear her from here. What did she say?"
He whispers, "Friend Jaed, I believe shouting to be...unwise, at this time and in this place, and I likewise think that leaving the watch is also unwise. Please ask Ameiko if she knows why her brother did this terrible thing."
Lifting the young girls head and offering her a pull from his waterskin he asks her "Where is your brother now? Why would he betray his neighbors like this"
She struggles to swallow, then says, "Gone, it would seem. Get me to the Dragon, I need my gear." She coughs, and there is a little blood on her lips now.
She lets out a yell which echos through the place as some previously unnoticed bones pop back into place thanks to Calathes' healing.
After a moment to let the pain pass, she gets up, waving off any offered help. She says, "I must get my gear. I'll return and follow your trail if you wish to go ahead. Where are you going from here?"
"We'll need to check the rest of the building...maybe ask around town regarding Tsuto--it's possible someone saw him around earlier."
"When you are retrieving your gear, please leave a message for Shalelu telling her where we are."
Norhalo tugs on his shirt near one of the larger splotches of gore. "Not that my advice has been that good today, but I think we should first search the rest of this lower floor, then go down the tunnel. Ameiko, do you know where this tunnel goes?"
"What tunnel?"
"That is an interesting answer in itself...there is a tunnel from the room I am standing next to, leading north and east."
"Tunnels that no one seems to know about, hmm. This bears further investigation."
After taking a moment to familiarize herself with her surroundings, Ameiko turns to the group and says, "Tsuto asked me to meet him, and when I arrived I was jumped by a dozen or more goblins. Just before passing out due to their efforts, I noticed my brother leaning against the wall, watching with a smirk on his face."
She takes a calming breath, and then continues, "If you didn't find him here, then he's run off to whatever hole he's been hiding in for the last several years. I'm heading back to the Rusty Dragon to gather my gear. You would be doing me an honor by allowing me to accompany you in finding and bringing my brother to justice."
Norhalo smiles. "The honor would be ours. We shall look through the rest of this floor, then await you here and we can examine the tunnel together."
He suddenly stops smiling as he remembers something. "There is one thing you may not know, and if not I am sorry to be the one to tell you. In the furnace room upstairs we found a body encased in glass, and Issak thinks it may have been your father."
Her faces turns an unattractive shade of red, every muscle tensed. She shakes a moment, and then says, "I'll be back." She leaves at a run, hopefully for the Rusty Dragon to retrieve whatever gear she was talking about before.
Jaed says, "Well, I think that went about as well as it could have. Shall we proceed with checking the remaining rooms?"
Norhalo continues to look in the direction Ameiko went, tight-lipped. "Better she find out from one of us than come upon the body unaware. As for me, I feel the need to see the perpetrators of these deeds suffer. Let us to the search."
Norhalo continues to look in the direction Ameiko went, tight-lipped. "Better she find out from one of us than come upon the body unaware. As for me, I feel the need to see the perpetrators of these deeds suffer. Let us to the search."
Jed grunts in agreement. "And it be no skin off'n mah back if she want ter come wit us to settle scores with the varmint o' a bruther o' hers. I know I'd wanner pay back such doins if'n any o' mah kin did me as bad as dis brother o' hers seems to have dun her."
As the group searches the rest of the Glassworks, ground floor and basement, they find the bodies of a few additional workers, and far more broken glass than not.
As you are all making your way back towards the stairs going down to the basement to await Ameiko, a squad of guards show up.
"Issak, please tell me you and your friends didn't have anything to do with this?"
"Only the dead goblins, Dusk. Unfortunately, we showed up too late to prevent the disaster you see here--the entire place is in ruins, and they killed everyone...including Lonjiko. Encased him in molten glass...sadistic little bastards. We just finished checking the rest of the building--this seems to have been the last of them."
In response to Calathes' call, Norhalo joins him quickly, carrying a small crate, which he carefully sets down after being healed.
"Thank you, friend Calathes. All my wounds from the day's exertions are now restored. (If we have some time tomorrow, though, I would not turn down a prestidigitation spell to restore my clothing....)" He plucks theatrically at his shirt again with a smile.
"I do not know who owns this crate now--likely Ameiko, although this is not the time to speak of it to her--it contains several dozen unbroken glass vials that the rateaters must have missed."
The lone surviving worker is safely alive, but still injured to the point of not waking.
As the party gives an official statement to one of the other guards, Vik, the rest check both floors of the Glassworks.
After about 15 minutes, Ameiko returns, outfitted with weapons, armor, and other gear that has obviously been well used. Seeing the guards searching the facility and the group talking with one of them, she says, "What're we standing around for?"
"Waiting for you."
Norhalo follows behind Jed, wherever he ends up in the marching order.
"Dusk! There's a strange tunnel we'd like to check out in the basement. You have everything under control up here?"
Dusk says, "I know you've been authorized to find out what happened today, so I'll not keep you any longer. Good luck." He nods at Ameiko.
Ameiko says, "Let's go." And she heads for the stairs....
The group arrives at the tunnel entrance.
Visibly puffing himself up, Jaxom offers "I'll take the lead" as he smiles at Ameiko.
Visibly puffing himself up, Jaxom offers "I'll take the lead" as he smiles at Ameiko.
Jed falls in line right behind Jaxom. He strokes Bessie lovingly and murmurs, "Don'tcher worry, girl, thar'll be more gobbie blood fer yer to taste soon ..."
Norhalo is still behind Jed, spear held lazily in one hand. "I hope for the spilling of a great deal more goblin blood, friend Jed...enough that Tsuto will taste despair before Ameiko cuts out his heart."
Issak will take position near the front, preferably in a second row.