Garrath will move to take a closer look at the mold, scowling as something just isn't right with mold in EVERY room.
Kelvin looks intently around the room and think I am glad Brandark and Garrath open things and not me as he scans for anything out of the ordinary.
Kelvin, can you check this door
Brandark stays carefully away from the curtains
"Let me check for magic... Just a moment."
"Sure." Kelvin does as Brandark asks, figuring as long as he checks the doors, Brandark will open them!
If Kelvin doesn't open the curtains, then he doesn't see anything out of the ordinary in the drawing room.
Elektra does not detect any magic in the Drawing Room.
Amazingly Kelvin will not find a trap on the next door. And incredibly the door is not locked. Imagine that!
When Brandark opens the door, he sees a library with two chairs, one of which lies on its side, before a stone fireplace. A scarf, its reds and golds contrasting with the drab palette of the room, is draped over the side of the fallen chair. A book sits face down on the floor between the chairs. A stone bookend, carved to look like a praying angel with butterfly wings, lies on its side in the fireplace itself.
Elektra notices a splash of dried blood stains on the back of the northernmost chair. She then notices that the bookend reveals more blood, clots of hair, and bits of skull and flesh—in addition, part of one wing has been broken off.
Going closer and carefully stroking the scarf, Elektra searches the place suddenly taking in air as she understands ... here a murder happened.
"That scarf. It moved. Anyone else see that?"
Aye, I saw that. I don't like it but I saw it.
As he see's Elektra reaching for the scarf.
Don't touch. Only to be a second late.
Garrath warily moves into the room, expecting the worst, and watching for spooks, spirits, or animated objects to attack. His nerves clearly getting the best of him.
I got these singes from when that statue tried to eat me in the last room.
Garrath has a reason to be nervous. A horrific shriek fills the room as the scarf flies into the air to wrap around Garrath’s throat.
Afterwards, the scarf settles gently to the floor.
After paying for the wand out of the communal pot, Brandark passes the wand to Stone.
Something to make healing us a little easier He grins at Stone.Brandark will then go to the gem merchant to reduce his coinage to more transportable form.
He will also reduce the communal fund to an easier form to carry.
Garrath claws at the scarf that wraps around his neck, pulling at the cloth. Tossing the cloth to the side, the big barbarian draws in a deep breath, and proceeds to reach down and grab the scarf holding it up for everyone to see. This whole place is cursed! I saw through her eyes. Foxglove choked the life out of her, with this scarf. He looks wide eyed at the place, He will pay for that, with this scarf. Garrath stashes it into his pack and then growls. He will find me much harder to kill than the woman.
So I guess I will call it 4 hp from the 2 charges, instead of your spells. It doesn't matter if it is me rolling, or you, or the GM. the RNG hates me. :(
"Sure thing" Kelvin heads back and checks the southern hallway door.
Once done with that one, he turns and checks the northern door.
Once the doors are checked, Brandark opens them up.
As Kelvin moves to the hallway, he again sees a rather gruesome antique—what appears to be a mummifed monkey head—hangs on the northern wall here, its tiny mouth gaping. A bellpull extends from the monkey’s gaping mouth. A ratty throw rug partially obscures a foul stain of dark-colored mold on the foor.
Kelvin will determine that neither the North or South door is trapped. The South door is not locked. The North door is locked.
Kelvin was unable to pick the lock to the North door.
entry hall
hallway
"There are sobs coming from up the stairs, but I think we want to finish this floor first, right?"
Angered at himself for not being able to easily pick the lock on the north door, Kelvin spends time and does it right this time.
As Kelvin takes his time, he easily picks the lock.
When Brandark opens the doors, he will discover stairs up to the South and stairs down to the North.
"I fear for the worst downstairs, but maybe we should check upstairs first!"
How about we finish checking this floor before we decide on starting to chew on the upper floors.
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"Finishing this floor is fine with me, then upstairs." Kelvin moves to the hallway and checks the next door.
Once he has checked that he moves to the end of the hallway and checks that door also.
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Listen up guys this place is making us all see different thing some of those thing a cause real damage but only you my know what happened. Please keep the rest of us in the loop on what is going on. I do not want anyone falling because they where hurt and I didn't know.
While looking at the mold and the monkey. That's strange.
Stone will cast Detect Magic to see if there is anything going on with the mold or the monkey head.
The mold does not radiate Magic. The gruesome Monkey Head does.
Dining Room (B4)
A mahogany table surrounded by chairs sits in this room. Twin fireplaces loom to the west, while, to the east, stained-glass windows obscure what could have been a breathtaking view of the Lost Coast. Each window depicts a monster rising out of smoke pouring from a seven-sided box. From north to south are depicted a gnarled tree with an enraged face, an immense hook-beaked bird with sky-blue and gold plumage, a winged centaur-like creature with a lion’s lower body and a snarling woman’s upper torso, and a deep blue squidlike creature with evil red eyes.
are necromancy-related, that the monsters seem not to be emerging from the boxes but rather being drawn in, and that their snarling visages express not rage, but rather fear.
Lounge (B5)
Kelvin will not find the door to this room at the end of the hallway trapped or locked.
When Brandark opens the door he sees a dusty room that features a long couch caked with white sheets of wispy fungus. Eddies of dust skitter along the warped floorboards as if caught up by a slight breeze, yet no wind is noticeable in the air.
DC 20 above
Further searching the room
"It looks like someone pacing in front of the fireplace."
Kelvin searches the room some more.
"HMM.... this is the best view, but you do not see through glass.. but look at the pictures... You can see a treant, a rock, a sphinx and a kraken... all in their way very potent creatures.... We have wood, air, water.... spinx could be fire and wood for earth. So we have all 4 elements. This could point to summoning.. no.. those are creatures way beyond mortal magic... I have some ideas.. but those all are not very pleasant. The haunting and the undead point to necromancy..... I do not like this road of deduction..."
"Elektra, my chi......" Kelvin reaches for her hand and starts to say, then shakes it off. "No one heard that voice did they? This house is truly haunted."
Kelvin manages to shake off the effects. He no longer thinks Elektra is his child.
"Shall we look at the only room left to look at?" He listens at the door, checks it for traps and disables any found.
As Elektra examines the gruesome Monkey Head, she inadvertently pulls the cord and a shrill simian sound is heard, almost like an alarm. Everyone will jump a little.
Unfortunately, she was unable to actually identify the magical properties, but can guess that it is some kind of weird magical device that is used as a doorbell or servants call. It is a curiosity and may have some value.
Now Kelvin will not see either a trap or a lock on this washroom door.
When Brandark opens the door, he will that this is a simple washroom. An ancient metal washtub stands to the north, a ring of mildew crusting its inner surface. A strange, furtive scratching comes from inside the tub.
We he peers into the tub he sees a Rat. This pathetic horrible looking animal is trying hard to climb out of the tub. It starts shrieking in a frenzy when Brandark gets close. It futilely tries to climb out of the tub and attack Brandark.
"Kill it and put it out of it's misery Brandark."
After the rat is dead, "up or down?"
Thinking we go up.