If she has had enough sleep, Lanneth gets up and spends some time following her morning ritual with Yorikata.
I wonder if this would work if she looked like a human... the though chases itself around her head making her think that she may need to try studying with her at some point later, assuming Yorkiata agrees.
When she is done she joins the other investigators getting ready to go to the plague house.
The group heads back to the plague house, you now during the bright day can see that there an opening on the left of the building that would lead to the hallway with the loft.
Let us go to the basement. Dain gets out his axe.
This time Yorikata takes her rapier with her. She uses the time they walk to the plague house to fill Lanneth in on her findings. "There are some things I haven't told you yet. I found Rodrik's hope knife at the plague house yesterday. He must have run from those ghosts too and dropped his stuff there. Also a lock of hair and some coins."
"I asked Brinya this morning if she wants to have the knife, but she told me to keep it."
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As they arrive at the building she asks "Someone going to check for those ghosts first?"
Did anyone look through all the doors here before we risk the ghosts and go downstairs?
"I saw some door right around the corner, we didn't check yet." Yorikata tells and moves there to open them - glad to have a reason to not face the scary ghosts.
Balder takes up his mace. And points ahead. "After you." he smirks at Dain.
Lanneth follows the group to the door staying near the back as they go to open the door.
Pushing aside the rotted boards in the cabinet to the
southeast reveals an iron flask containing oil of magic
weapon and another holding a potion of shield of faith, a beatup
steel scroll case holding two scrolls of knock
and a scroll of summon swarm, and two vials of holy water.
If you walk here please give me a DC 20 reflex save or you fall 20' to the basement below.
There are also 3 giant rats trapped in this room
Dain is very tired
Beware the floor, it is bad.
The high priestess sends over a few healers, Kurst comes to meet who is at the Long house as well.
Yorikata doesn't like rats that are larger than her fox form. "There are oversized rats in there. Does one of you want to take care of that." She tells while closing the door again.
Time for ratburgers.
"No problem. S'cuse me." Balder says politely as he steps aside past Yorika and charges a rad with his club held high.
"Race ya!" he yells back at Dain gleefully.
Yorikata opens the door for the heroic Balder, to charge through.
Balder Squashes a rat into nothing but blood and skin. The rats cannot organize since the group decides upon the time to engage them, Dain and Gran't also move in and kill a rat each.
An iron box! Could contain treasure or horrible death
"Maybe we find the key to that box somewhere here." Yorikata suggests.
While the others are dealing with the rats, Lanneth looks around the room with the boulder.
As she peers into some of the smashed cabinets she sees some stuff.
I've got some flasks and a scroll case over here!
She carefully reaches her hand in to extract:
The Steel Scroll case, Two metal flasks and two flasks of what look like clear water.
She casts detect magic to see if any of the items are magic.
Looks like it's an Oil of magic weapon, and a potion of shield of faith... I'm not sure what these waters are but I suspect they are holy water given they are still clear after all these years.
As she says this she closes the scroll she is reading, slides it back into the steel case and then slides the scroll case into her pack.
While Lanneth draws the attention of the others, Yorikata tries her luck at the lockbox, trying not to reveal her talents.
Those will no doubt be useful
a potion of darkvision, a scroll of barkskin, a scroll of ghost bane
dirge
The stairs lead down towards what you would assume is the cellar of the Plague house.
"Lanneth? The lockbox opened. It contains similar stuff as you found. Would you take a look?" Yorikata asks.
Lanneth goes over to Yorikata and uses her detect magic to examine the contents of the lockbox.
"Let's take this way. I don't like the ghosts." Yorikata suggests. As there is no light here anymore Yorikata activates a sunrod. Then she walks down the stairs to find out what's there, with her rapier at the ready.
Lanneth figures out the first 2 items but the final one eludes her.
It is a statue of Iomadae in a Peaceful pose
The sword is not in the scabbard properly, upon picking it you notice the fine craftsman ship of the blade
There are 3 different hallway and doors leading out of this small chamber
I have a potion of Seeing the dark and another two scrolls. I assume none of you can read these right?
She holds up the scroll.
Assuming nobody can use scrolls she pockets these two as well.
Then as they walk down the stairs:
Something glimmers in the light of the sunrod and attracts her eye to the statue.
That statue of the Inheritor is not holding the sword properly. I think it might be loose.
She waits for one of the others to pick up the sword.
That looks like a fine blade. I prefer my axe though.
Yorikata draws the sword, weighs it in her hand and decides it's too heavy for her. With dain preferring Axes, Balder using bigger tools and Gran't' fighting with stone whe holds it out for Lanneth. "Would you like it?"
Then she takes the short corridor to the north.
Yorikata moves up and sees the tunnel expands further north and one to the west. Both are shrouded in darkness.
When Yorikata moves down the Hall to the left after moving a few steps down she triggers a pressure plate, which activates a trap.
This is for the 3 people in line Down the hall from the intersecion to the 4th square inleading
Yorikata moves through the short corridor and into the room. "Seems to be another place especially dedicated to Iomedae."
Dain follows behind Yorki
"If nobody else would like that blade, may I?" Gran't' says, he may never use it but he can appreciate it for the craftsmanship.
Throw rocks on them? Dain shows his knowledge of trap disarming.
"GAAAAAAAAAAH!" Yorikata screams as the metal closes around her leg and she falls on the floor writhing in pain.
Once she gets used to the pain to be able to think clearly again she looks how to get out of that thing.
Meanwhile Yorikata carefully watches out for any dangers that might approach and calls out to Lanneth. "I need your help. That thing nearly bit off my leg. But be careful that you don't step into such a beartrap yourself."
Now that Yorikata has sprung the traps everyone else can see the spots on the floors where the other 2 traps are kept. The scream echos around the hall but no one comes running, Yorikata manages to get her trap disarmed and off of her leg.
Anyone have a ten foot pole?
Yorikata gets up and picks up the now defunct trap. With that she beats at the next one to set it off and then she takes the resulting mess of iron to drop it on the last one. While moving this way she limps heavily. "Wanna take this along? Some trapper in Trunau might buy that." she asks Dain.
As that is taken care of, she limps on to Lanneth, to have her check on her leg. Yorikata carefully watches out for any dangers on the way, especially traps.
Balder, how about us upfront?
H11. Meditation Chamber
Embedded into the floor of this chamber is a ten-foot-diameter granite emblem of a faded gold and white longsword. Four passages lead out of the chamber in different directions. A portcullis blocks the southern exit, and a sturdy wooden door leads west. A ladder in the southern corner of the room leads upward, and a small chest and decrepit bookshelf face one another from opposite walls.
The way the Portcullis leads back to the initial chamber you entered when you came to the basement. The passage up leads to 2 closed doors, and the door to the SW is closed as well. There is a lever on the wall just by the Portcullis that should help you with lifting it
Lanneth reaches down and holds her hand over Yorikata's leg.
I think I can stop the bleeding, but not too much more. The rust on the traps is blocking Mother Moon's power
Lanneth stops to thing for a moment then continues.
Someone obviously has something to hide down here. Nobody just puts traps like this while this served as a house of healing. And if they had been here during the invasion, something would have triggered these in the intervening years. Be on the alert, this will probably not be the last trick we see.