Suny does too help look for anything untoward about the place.
None of you detect magic on the chain or room. Nor do you see anything else of interest in the room.
The spiral stairs open into the center of a square observatory with lots of windows. The room is furnished with scattered lounge chairs and a few small tables. Just as you set your foot on the top of the stairs, a voice bellows "For the hunger!"
The voice was created by a magic mouth spell
(O_o)
"For the Hunger" Karsielle returns, before her puzzled face looks at her friends and shrugs!
Suny shakes her head, indicating she has no idea as to what's going on either. She adds a shrug of her own shoulders as emphasis.
"That din't sound very lady like..." She whispers.
Bloody tries not react to the voice and stays poise in the stance. Then whispers to Karsielle, "Act normal but, do you know what that was?"
Karsielle shakes her head, "No idea." she whispers back. "Let's move on quickly, the sooner we get away the better."
The only exit from the room is a narrow causeway, 5-feet wide, spanning the distance between the observatory and the upper floor of the manor.
It seemed to come from all around you as you emerged from the top of the stair.
Suny looks to her companions...
"Come, across the causeway, if this is the right one?" says Karsielle a little confused. "Torch, can you lead the way?"
As far as you can tell so far, you're on the right path.
Suny, clutching at the hem of her borrowed maid's outfit, deftly skips barefoot across the causeway. Her lithe and nimble form not seeming bothered at all.
Once across she turns and waves. (^_^)
Suny easily skips across the causeway and finds herself in a room whose walls are covered with heads of powerful and ravenous looking wild beasts, highlighted by spears, shields, arrows, horns and other hunting artifacts. A curtain covers the south wall and there is a door in the east wall to Suny's right.
"Oooo....." Suny turns slowly and marvels at all the things on display around her.
Karsielle follows Sunny ....
(^_^)
Bloody moves across.
Karsielle motions Mishael ahead and the azhari darts across to join Suny. As Karsielle crosses, everyone can hear a yelp and the sound of someone moving on the adjacent rooftop. Karsielle can see someone dressed in dark clothes scrambling to drop off the far side of the rooftop.
Seconds later, Suny and Mishael hear a loud bang from behind the door and the sound of breaking glass.
Suny spins and quickly scampers over to see what all the comotion is about.
"Some one might be hurt!"
"The other side, let's catch whoever ran...."
Suny's bare, brown feet make very little noise as she scampers quickly across the room to the doors and the sounds.
Suny can hear the sounds of a scuffle coming from behind the door.
Wasting no time Suny pushes/opens said portal
Karsielle helps Suny push the door open.
:(
Its a pretty heavy door so it takes sometime.
*HUGZ* (^_^)
Watches the others push hard.....
At long last, the heavy door creaks open. Inside you see an arrangement of small acacia wood drink tables and plush couches and ottomans upholstered in intricate, distinctly Katapeshi brocade face the wall-length row of window panels overlooking the courtyards below.
One of the tables has been kicked over, nearby lie several chipped crystal glasses and a half-shattered bottle of wine. Deep red wine pools on the slate floor tiles and seeps into the edges of hand-woven carpets.
At the far end of the room, a young noblewoman struggles violently to subdue a hog-tied victim dressed in the ceremonial robes of a cultist and wearing a dark mask. The noblewoman shouts, "Help! This woman was trying to kill me!"
Sunny scampers over, deftly avoiding getting her feet in any of the spilled wine or glass, and looks at the situation.
Including peeking under the mask.
"Um...if'n they's tryin' ta' kill ye...Why is they all tied up...?' Sunny asks, clearly puzzled by something.
"Fortunately she tripped on the table and I was able to get the upper hand. Here, help me finish tying her up and we can get help." Pushing back the mask reveals the angry face of a woman.
Sunny smiles and says hello to both women.
"Hey-YA there!" (^_^)
Bloody strolls in he behind Sunny, "Alright we will help you, but were you lured here by this so called cultist or is this your home?"
Following the others into the room, Karsielle is puzzled by the conversation and closes the door behind her. Addressing the tied up woman she asks "Well what have you got to say for yourself? Who are you?" Then turns to the noble woman, "And you must be?"
Suny looks around at the room...and then, after a short while begins to wriggle out of her borrowed outfit.
(^_^)
(>_>)
(<_<)
(<_>)
(>_<)
The woman on the ground snarls, "I'm Mary Black...and we would have been successful if not for this damn woman's luck..." She sags noticeably, seeming to give up in the face of both her predicament and your presence.
The noblewoman speaks, "It it my home of course. I am Lady Kythra. Young lady, why are you removing your clothes?"
Something about the way the woman on the ground is acting suggests this is more of a performance than an actual capture.