Maria loses her grip on the mite, but it does not matter. Faust's blade cuts a long gash on the side of the the creature's neck through which blood rapidly spurts.
Small short bow
17 x small arrows
Small dagger
2 x potion of cure light wounds
2 x tanglefoot bags
57 gp
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Maria searches the hacked up body and looks a couple items over, "anyone want these potions?" She glances at Shalendra's wound and adds, "go ahead and use my wand please, I'd feel better paying back the earlier debt."
She looks at the group, holding up the potions, "if not I'll hold onto them. There is gold there too we should collect... to uhm... fund the 'war' effort or whatever we are calling it nowadays. Anyone keeping track of that kind of stuff?"
She slips the tanglefoot bags into her pack and mutters, "these are good against flyers, don't know if we'll face any but better to have them."
Once that fun book-keeping stuff is done she steps up behind Dumont as usual and waits for the next door to be opened.
Dumont stands in front of the door. He tries to pull it open, but it is locked.
The sturdy door resists Faust and his skeletal kin's attempt to break it open with one swift strike. They are forced to use the painfully noisy and slow method of chopping and smashing the door to manageable pieces.
The furniture in this irregularly shaped room are cluttered with scientific equipment, and the glassy eyes of taxidermy animal heads stare down from the walls. At the north end of the room, the stuffed body of a large, winged beast is mounted on a low platform.
Dumont steps onto a tile that slides down into the floor, revealing several spikes. He fails to notice; however, you can now easily move around the spiked floor.
Maria finds that though the equipment and supplies are dusty and long unused, it is serviceable and could function as a fully stocked alchemist's laboratory.
Should she get closer to the tables...
A masterwork monocle (detect magic + Spellcraft DC 18)
4 x vials of alchemist's fire
2 x sunrods
5 x potions of cure light wounds
2 x potions of endure elements
Potion of Enlarge Person
Potion of Reduce Person
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Takumi examines the areas in case of other traps, especially around the table of vials. He then approaches the table and examines the items.
"These vials of potions would come in useful. I would defer them to the rest of you though. The melee fighters would find the potions useful, and in case we encounter swarms, those without might find stocking up on the alchemist's fire useful. Let me examine this monocle."
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Leaving the others to the tables, Faust and Dumont circle around and look deeper into the room. That's a little gaudy. Trap could have been more... deterring... Putting it in front of the door would have been better for starters. Maybe a spike trap with something pouring out of the ceiling? Now THAT would be nasty...
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Dumont continues around the tables and toward the stuffed monster and the cabinet in the back of the room. He steps on another tile that sinks into the ground. As though reading Faust's mind, the room releases a more elaborate trap as a heavy blade drops out of the column and swings around. It just narrowly misses Dumont's skeletal neck and causes a breeze that ruffles Faust's hair and that of everyone currently inspecting the table, stopping with a clang on the opposite side of the column from where it began.
Nothing else tries to kill you as you approach the taxidermic oddity. Faust thinks that he should know what it is, but Maria is able to explain why the name is escaping him.
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Maria hands out 1 CLW potion to each other member of the party, ignoring the spirit and the skeleton out of concern those potions might be harmful to that type of creature.
She will grab two of the alchemist's fires and stuff them in her backpack, leaving the rest of the potions and items for someone who can make more use of them.
Seeing the second trap trigger she smiles, "wow, Dumont is indeed quite useful."
Carefully avoiding stepping on the same tile in case the blade reset to swing back, she steps up to inspect the monster. "Ooooh, a frankenmonster. I mean, they were aiming for a chimera but it's just a goat head, lion head and lizard head stitched together instead of an actual chimera. I'd say either the Sarini's were idiots from inbreeding or just really inexperienced in authenticating purchases."
She looks at the cupboard, checks it for traps and then requests Dumont attempt to open it.
Dumont opens the cupboard door. Nothing tries to kill him--at least nothing that an undead servant made of bone would notice--in the process. Within, Maria can see a rolled parchment, a suit of chainmail on a dressing mannequin and a finely crafted cold iron longsword.
The rolled parchment is a map of the manor and surrounding grounds. There is a musical note inked over the ball room . There is also a notation for a concealed door in the southwest corner of the cellar.
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"He is, isn't he?" Faust practically beams as Dumont fumbles through the room's defenses. "Just think that could have been any of us instead!"
"HA! Indeed. Thank you Maria for your hospitality, but it simply isn't my brand to appreciate. Keep it for your own wounds, my flesh doesn't stitch up the same way yours does..."
Abyssia notes no inconsistencies with what you have experienced of the manor so far with the exception of the strangely placed musical note in the area depicting the ballroom. Exhausting the interesting findings in the laboratory, you move on to the nearest unexplored room.
The door opens easily when Dumon tries the handle. The large windows of this bedroom offer a magnificent view of the hills to the northeast. As you warily search the guest bedroom for malicious mites or overgrown vermin, you notice a glint on the roof of the gazebo. Squinting, you can make out a key lodged between two broken shingles.
Shalendra and Lydia point out scratches at the base of the bed's foot board: help me.
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Takumi gulps silently, feeling his heart pound harder when Shalendra and Lydia points out the eeries words scratched on the bed. Nonetheless, he maintains as calm a disposition as possible and carefully searches the room, especially for the source of the words.
Eventually, he notices the key lodged on the roof of the gazebo.
He gestures towards the key, concentrating on it as he pulls it in towards him.
Dumont rearranges the furniture, although doing so fails to reveal anything except for dust and pill bugs--of the normal variety. Takumi invokes a single magic trick and draws the key from the gazebo roof through one of the broken window panes. The key matches the style of the locks in the manor.
You make your way back around the balcony to the next room in the counter-clockwise direction. Dumont opens the door without resistance. This dormitory-style bedroom looks tidier than other rooms in the building. A hunched figure wearing a maid’s uniform is sitting on a small bed in the northwest corner of the room.
"My scissors are dull," the figure says, snipping at the air with a pair of shears. "Do you have anything sharper?"
"Ew, no," she says, recoiling a little. "I don't like weapons."
"Ew! No!" she scolds Shaldendra. "I said I don't like weapons."
Turning her attention back toward Faust, she pauses in her mock scissoring of invisible thread and says, "I am Anilda. I don't know you. Who are you? Why are you here?"