Yorikata opens the double doors to the right of the main entrance. Just out of curiosity.
Lanneth notes the door on the right that might have once been a secret door but now is a not quite so secret as the hinges are broken and don't hot the door on as securly as they normally once would. As Dain rounds the corner 2 giant centipedes come out of the Debris under the loft moving in for some food.
Poison (EX)
Bite—injury; save Fort DC 13; frequency 1/round for 6 rounds; effect 1d3 Dex damage; cure 1 save. The save DC is Constitution-based and includes a +2 racial bonus.
Yorikata and Gran't see what once must have been and infirmary as there are beds lined up here so that it could be easy to treat many wounded or infected.
BUGS!
"Let me at 'em!"
Spirits of night, spirits of sleep,
take these vermin without a peep!
Yorikata is blissfully unaware of what goes on and moves into the sleeping room with the many beds. She looks around if there is something interesting to find here.
Dain two hands his axe and hacks at the centipede
Yarrr! Sliced centipede for Mama Bramage's centipede stew!
"It looks like they were set up to treat lots of wounded here. I wonder why?"
Oh my, that's right critters are immune to fairy dust!
Lanneth is frustrated at herself.
Dain kills the centipede in front of him, Balder moves around Dain to kill the next one. Once they are dead you see that you could have entered the building this way as well but the bugs would have attacked the first person through. A set of stairs leads up to a loft.
Let us stay away from that, I don't want to get smited
I don't remember my Human and Orc religion traditions any more. Does anyone know what goddess that is?
Lanneth looks the statue over without getting too close to it.
I only really know of Moradin, the deity my family followed.
Yorikata decides that this bedroom somehow this is not as interesting as she thought. "Let us follow the others." she suggests to Gran't'. On the way up she notices the big bug splat.
Seeing them all in front of the statue she looks at it to and says "Oh, that's a nice statue of Iomedae. Could use some cleaning. And maybe a move to the temple in town." before turning to the rest of the room. As there seems to be nothing else she tells "I found a large bedroom downstairs."
Well I guess we can investigate that. Dain heads down.
Balder straps his giant mace to his back and pulls the short sword out of the centipede and grabbing a rag he wipes the ichor off the blade but decides to keep the sword in hand for now, just in case there are any more surprises.
"Has anyone checked out the back of the place?" he asks around tp those assembled.
"What do you mean with back? Where the boulder protrudes into the house?" Yorikata asks. "We can check that too. The Bedroom was boring anyway."
Yorikata hops down the stairs and turns to the left to take a closer look at the stone, and why they would incorporate it into the building.
"The bedroom was not a bedroom. It was an infirmary." Gran't' clarifies, "A big one. The size raises questions."
"Bedroom, shmedroom." Yorikata replies, sticking out her tongue at Gran't' "This thing is called plague-house. What question would it raise?"
"Makes one wonder how many people suffered from this plague..." Gran't' replies, chuckling at the childlike behavior of Yorikata
Lanneth follows Yorikata to make sure she stays safe. Keeping an eye on everything as she goes.
You can find R+B carved into the support beam by the bookshelf
There is what looks like a giant Spider hanging in the rafters.
The ceiling in the infirmary is 25' high and vaulted, there is sadness that hangs in the air in this room.
Under one of the beds is what looks like a trap door
Ornate Hope Knife
Gold Locket
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Yorikata is blissfully unaware of what goes on [upstairs] and moves into the sleeping room with the many beds. She looks around if there is something interesting to find here.
Yorikata acts as if she is stumbling and picks up the hopeknife, the gold locket and the pouch with the coins and lets all of this disappear into her pockets.
Blissfully ignorant Yorikata moves to the boulder and touches the red runes. "Can you read that?" she asks Lanneth. "Oh, look here! There is an 'R+B' carved into the wood. If there were some lovebirds here?"
On the Bolder is what looks like a name spelled out.
The name is Skreed
As far as you know there is no one in Town called Skreed
Yorikata waits with a knowing smile for Lanneth to answer.
Dain looks where the words are pointed out
Hmmm..No idea
"I meant the back by the boulder." Balder says then goes to the ruined hall with Yorika and Dain.
Looking at the boulder he comments "No idea what it could mean. But I fear meeting the giant that could throw or lift this. Right Bramage?"
Gran't' walk down the beds inspecting the room and stops when he spots a handle. "I think there is a trapdoor in here guys."
No doubt it was hurled by a catapault. We should go check the trapdoor.
"Hey, that surprise was mine to tell!" Yorikata complains as Gran't' tells of the trapdoor.
She hurries over to Gran't' in the bedroom again - she doesn't care if he calls it an infirmathing. "Let us move the bed."
She pushes the bed, hoping that Gran't' would help.
As the two move into move the bed out of the way, ghostly visages appear in the beds, heat and flames flicker around them, the ghostly visages sit up in the beds and scream silently with flames roaring out of their mouths.
Dain screams like a panty waist and flees the house.
Balder looks on at the spirits and flames. "What the!? Are you guys seeing this." he says poking at the ghostly visages with his short sword before noticing everyone running off.
"Hey where's everyone going??"
Lanneth notices nothing as she watches her companion search the back room.
When she points out the word and asks if Lanneth can read it she quickly says:
Someone wrote Skreed.
Maybe it's one of the locals, but I can't recall that.
Then she follows her companion out of the room.
Lanneth continues to watch over her companion.
As the vision starts to occur she steps back a ways and calmly watches with interest.
Interesting. Some spirits are tied to this place, unable to move on. I've heard of this, but never seen it before...
"There is no Skreed in town, I'm sure." Yorikata replies to Lanneth.
As the ghostly visages appear, Yorikata screams and runs away. By the noise one can assume, that her way, after leaving the room, leads also out of the house.
Balder looks at Lanneth then back at Dain and Yorika running off.
"Where are they going?"
He asks as he pokes at the ghostly visage again with his short sword not even acknowledging the action.
"BACK!" Gran't' shouts at the ghosts around him as a stone come flying through the door and into his hand, forming into a blade. He backs away brandishing his weapon. Once at the door he turns and runs. He thumping of his feat indicates that he is heading out the main door as well. having been closer to the door when this all happened, he somewhat blocks Yorikata's attempt at a rapid retreat.
On her way out Yorikata jumps over Gran't's shoulder.
Outside she turns left, runs around the corner of the house. There she stands, back at the wall, panting heavily and as she is out of sight...
... she shrinks into the form of a tiny fox.
After a few moments the fear on those who succumbed to it has passed and you feel a bit foolish about all that took place. Making your way back into the room you can see that Balder and Lanneth await your return standing there as the ghosts spit fire and ash but cause no harm.
The door appears to be bared from the bottom, DC 20 Str check to break oepn
While the others are running away, Lanneth and Balder note that a pressence has joined them in the room. This one much larger than they would have thought, a Giant spider comes in through the set of double doors that people entered through. The spider lunges at Balder trying to bite him.
The bond pushes the feeling of intense curiosity over to Yorikata.
Now why would they do that? It seems to just be a vision. She watches calmly as the others do random stuff in reaction to what appears to the spirit's final moments.
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Dain heads back rather sheepishly.