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Jinx, not noticing anything weird, opens the door.
Ahead is a kitchen well stocked with all of the accouterments needed to prepare gourmet meals. A simple heavy linen curtain separates a room to the northeast and there are a pair of doors to the south to provide alternate exits.
The large cabinet to the southwest contains some highly valuable silverware and dinnerware; it appears to be easily worth 800 gold in value.
While somewhat stale, there is some bread on a counter than can be eaten. Likewise, there are some overripe apples starting to become soft. Inside a drybox is a large salted ham that still looks quite edible.
Nori leaves some seed for the birds and closes the cage. She spies a door by the end of the room and moves carefully around the pit toward it. Keeping to the wall, she moves quietly and presses her ear to the door.
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Unable to find anything particularly dangerous, Jinx moves the curtain to find a pair of cots, each with a small footlocker that bears a very cheap lock . They appear to be small sleeping quarters for some house servants, although it appears that no one has used the cots for a few days.
You thought you heard a sound coming from the southwestern door in the kitchen.
Nori wraps her hand around the door handle and gently depresses it. She eases the portal open and peers inside.
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Jinx goes to the other door, the old boards squeaking under her weight. Sighing to herself internally, she finds the other door unlocked and untrapped and opens it.
Darb's nose starts tingling as Jinx exposes a well stocked pantry full of canned goods and a variety of long-lasting breadstuffs.
Nori peers down the empty hall, her eyes sweeping across the walls, floors, and ceiling. A chill shot up her spine. Something bothered her about this area, but she couldn't put her finger on it. She moved slowly down the hall, nevertheless, keeping silent and keeping vigilant.
[ooc]About time...some decent rolls[/dice]
Nori glances back down the hallway then gives a nod, following the cat back to the door. She whispers, "Just need a lock specialist?"
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Jinx explains the door that is seemingly barred or barricaded from the other side. Flexing her lithe muscles, the vishkanyan follows along to the kitchen. Working together, the party eventually manages to get the door open, moving a bureau that was placed in front of it. Inside, what appears to be a servant's quarters. Underneath the bed, there's a man cowering underneath, a hood covering his head to feebly try and blend in.
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"The tower... the tower collapsed, but too much! He'll be angry, especially after a few days to let his rage fester!", the man seemingly afraid of his employer.
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"The tower collapsed too much? Meaning it was intentional? Who is He"
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"You mean Hunclay's dead?", hope now appearing on the man's face as he removes himself from under the bed. "Yes, my master... err, former master, was employing kobolds to undermine the foundations of the Witch Tower, although to have it collapse like that...", the man shuddering at the grisly fate of Hunclay. "...I am sorry, let me introduce myself. I am Mathezic."
You sense that another thought has crossed Mathezic's mind, although he is reluctant to speak it.
"Well Mathezic, since you worked for the ol' coot, maybe you can point out the valuables in the place as well as any further dangers like the pit in the foyer." The vishkanya says impatiently.
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Mathezic wavers a bit, Nori's question seemingly getting his attention as Darb snoops, but comes up empty handed. "Well, I can help you with the ground floor.", the man seemingly reluctant to go elsewhere. The servant heads towards the rooms Nori was lurking near and opens both of them. The northern room contains a parlor with a huge globe of Golarion on a polished mahogany stand. Sextants, astrolabes, and paintings of unearthly landscapes line the walls of the room. "This is the master's parlor where he used to enjoy reading when he had to do so in comfort, or perhaps with the rare guest."
The globe and the wall contents of the room should fetch about 1,500 gold.
The southern room that Mathezic opens has a long oak dining room table and is surrounded by ornately carved oak chairs. On each wall hangs a large, framed painting of a desert landscape.
The furniture is in excellent shape and, if combined with the paintings as a set, should be worth around 1,200 gold crowns.
"Is that all? If so, I believe I will be taking my leave."
"might need to get a team of able bodied men to clear this place out..." she murmured to herself. She stares at the nervous man incredulously, "If no one else needs you... get lost."
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Darb can tell what is valuable in the northern room and comes up to a value he thinks them dumb bigshanks would probably pay for the stuff.
With the rooms on this floor evaluated, Jinx suggests heading upstairs, and with no other input, the party agrees and heads up the spiral staircase.
They see a lushly furnished library that features three tall bookcases running north to south down the center of the chamber and another bookcase of iron in the northeast corner. The iron bookcase has a door that, sealing its contents. A stuffed grizzly bear towers in the northwest corner, its claws and fangs bared aggressively. The east wall features sixteen paintings of various planets in gilt frames. A ladder in the west side of the ceiling leads up to a trap door.
The books in the wooden bookshelves, numbering over 600, would be worth about 800 gold crowns in all.