Ty will open the left door.
Pushing open the door, you peer into what might once have been a study. A large wing-backed chair faces a small yet elegant writing desk set into the south end of the room. On the west wall stands a bookcase containing several leather-bound volumes and bundles of large scrolls. A matching bookcase, now face down on the floor in the centre of the room, looks like it once faced its twin. Dust patterns on the floor suggest that this toppling occurred very recently.
Perception
Ty ignores the scrolls and bookshelves and immediately heads over to the door in the northwest corner of the room to listen for any noises on the other side.
Ty hears nothing from the other side of the door.
However, as he strains to listen, he hears a scratching and tapping sound from underneath the fallen bookcase.
Ty swings his spear around and points at the fallen bookcase.
"Careful."
Sir Rollynd concentrates on the bookcase, then shakes his head. "I don't sense any evil, but it might just not be a strong enough aura."
then it is perhaps something we can handle. Lets us see.
Lifting up the fallen bookcase? Who is going to lift?
Ty will move forward and lift the bookcase.
Ty moves forward and slowly lifts the bookcase. The scratching and tapping sounds stop as soon as he starts to move it. A few breathless seconds pass with nothing happening.
Then, with a screech, a tiny, horned, winged creature comes tearing out from under the bookcase to attack. At the same time, another similar creature leaps up on the back of the chair to the south. Both look crazed and violent.
Initiative!
Initiative Order: Thanephos, Daniel, Rhylellia, Enemies, Alexis, Ty, Sir Rollynd
Thaenphos draws his bow, but doesn't fire, instead beginning to speak in a powerful voice, Friends, to arms! You must defeat these constructs!
hmph, foul creatures. Be peirced by light.
Rhylellia charges Creature 2.
Map2
As the creature emmerges from beneath the bookcase, Thanephos begins to inspire courage, and Daniel puts an arrow through the creature's head, ending its insanity and its existence. Rhylellia runs her target through, but it hangs on to its spark of arcane life and attempts to tear into her.
She succeeds in skewering the creature as it rushes her, and it drops inert to the floor.
Combat over.
Sir Rollynd pulls to a stop halfway across the room as the second creature drops.
"Well then," he says, putting his sword away as he begins a search of the desk. "Well done, all."
"This room was disturbed recently. Probably by these imps. Maybe someone was here yesterday while we were busy with the bandits."
Rhylellia glaces about the room.
Then walks tentatively towards the bookcase for a closer look.
The bookcase still standing contains journals and bundles of maps. Opening some of the journals, you see that many of the entries have faded beyond legibility, but some of the more recent entries can be deciphered. Reading through, you learn that the journals and study belonged to a wizard, who, along with his hommunculi and other constructs, were instrumental in the raid on the Seventh Church that brought out the Cloak of the Inheritor, along with other relics and treasures. One entry, written in an angry hand that has torn the paper, comments that somebody named Kreel had claimed the cloak for himself, rather than smuggling it back to Westcrown, as per the original plan. This last entry suggests that the wizard himself teleported back there, to "go over his infernal head before I lop it off his infernal shoulders!"
The bundles of maps are of Absalom and the island of Kortos, annotated with defenses and troop deployments. They depict the stealthy invasion of Absalom with the intention of raiding the Seventh Church.
Lifting the fallen bookcase, you find several texts on magic item and construct construction. The books are in decent shape and would be worth at least several hundred gold pieces, depending on the buyer.
Sir Rollynd finds a locked drawer in the desk against the south wall.
The date of the raid that took the cloak.
Centuries. I'll check for the exact date in the morning, but, as a ballpark, Aroden was still very much alive and the dominant religion of the human nations like Cheliax.
Indicating the journal, Ty asks, "Who is Kreel?"
Even with Rhylellia's impressive grasp of period history, she's never heard the name Kreel.
"Any of you folks skilled with popping a lock?" Sir Rollynd asks, indicating the desk drawer.
"I shall try." Rhylellia says walking over to the lock.
She studies the lock.
Rhylellia's initial attempts are unsuccessful, though she's pretty sure the lock is not beyond her abilities. Taking her time while others flip through journals, she eventually pops the lock. The drawer appears to be untrapped.
Inside the drawer are six rolls of paper, a feather, three wands, and a key. Casting detect magic, Thanephos determines that everything except the heavy iron key is magical. He can also cast read magic to determine that the scrolls are scrolls of identify, animate rope, comprehend languages, expeditious retreat, shield, and silent image.
Thanephos examines the wands carefully, I wonder what these are. That feather is likely a feather token, although of what I haven't yet determined.
Thanephos learns...
NOTHING!!
Bwahahahahaha!!!
Thanephos May I please give it an attempt? she says holding her hand out.
"We should focus on finding the cloak."
Ty opens the door in the northwest corner of the room.
Ty opens the northwest door of the room.
Looking in, you see a hexagonal room, mostly devoid of features, save doors on the northeast and eastern walls and a small round pile of wood on the floor.
Perception
As Ty steps into the room and moves to investigate one of the doors, Rhylellia and Thanephos are both able to call out a warning as the pile of wood begins to uncoil into some manner of serpent.
Initiative!
Initiative Order: Thanephos & Rhylellia (surprise round--standard or move action only, not both), then Thanephos & Daniel, the snake, finally everybody else.
HP 15
AC: 20 (13 touch, 18 FF)
F/R/W: +0/+2/0
DR: 5/--; SR 13
Thanephos fires an arrow at the snake as it unfurls, but the arrow barely scratches the snake's polished scales.
Rhylellia casts Jolt
Thanephos and Daniel are up for round 1.