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Kohinoor holds out a hand to Flyn, waiting for him to put his wand in it. Once he does, she starts using it, stopping when he says to, and repeats the process for the remainder of the injured.
Once her healing spree is over, she looks at Desh and Garrett, offering the half-orc a hand and patting the halfling gently on the back. "Those bites look...unpleasant. Can you stand? I'll gladly carry some of your equipment if you're feeling weak. In the meantime, we should move on if you two feel you can. Either of these rooms is equally appalling to me." She shudders. "The room the swarm came from or the one that had the two big spiders?"
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Desh slouches as the final spider falls, sucking wind after the drawn-out fight and poisonous attacks. ”I can stand. Fighting will be tougher.”
He submits himself to Kohinoor’s healing, nodding thankfully when she’s done. He seems fine holding onto his usual gear, though.
Desh spends a few minutes searching the bone-man’s body, looking for anything useful. Then he makes a more thorough look at the moon spider’s room.
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Desh cautiously nudges the skeleton’s bastard sword with the toe of his boot. ”Any of you wanna see if this is cursed or magical? Looks expensive. Don’t wanna get cursed, though.”
Once the team looks ready to move on, Desh continues his southward route taking back up his longspear and torch. Just as he was before the spider swarm interrupted him, he begins moving quietly, cautiously through the room, clearing the webbing with the torch flame as he goes.
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"I have no idea about the sword, Desh," says the elf with a shrug. "Take it along if you wish and I'll examine it again after a day. The emanations are unreadable for me until then."
"That's a good idea, Koh," says Cëanel gratefully and softly. He takes a moment to retrieve his Mage Armor CL2 scroll and cast it.
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It's just a masterwork sword. No magic. The bone priest just hits hard; that's all.
Through the two secret doors, then?
Map updated.
Area B10: Shabby, mold-covered tapestries hang from ceiling hooks, cloaking one wall of this chamber in faded forest hunting scenes. While probably of decent quality when new, they look sad now.
A plain wooden chair of massive construction stands centered before the tapestries, facing into the room. A large stone table stands against the eastern wall. Weapons and other items are neatly laid out on the table, as if displayed for sale in a shop.
One skeleton sits in his chair and the other two flank it.
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Don't waste the javelin; Kohinoor got 'em.
So this is the area where the bone priest was. When you shut the door on the two moon spiders before, one went to get "master". He came out of this room and left these guys behind. I guess he should have brought backup! :-)
Combat over!
On the table lie four longswords, a masterwork dagger, a buckler, a belt of mighty constitution +2, a potion of cure moderate wounds, a flask of acid, and four small leather belt pouches. One of the pouches contains 16 gp; another contains 25 gp and 12 sp. The third holds 77 gp and 8 sp, and the fourth contains a small emerald worth 50 gp and a pair of six-sided bone dice that have been weighted to always roll sixes.
The ugly, damaged tapestries are valueless. None of the skeletons has any treasure.
In a pouch you find a vial of silversheen and a token of some sort. Finally, there's a key on a fine chain.
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In the wake of her channel, Kohinoor blinks a couple of times. She sees the skeletons seem to have fallen into piles of dust with a bit of bone, and hurries to the first one. "Dawnflower, show these souls the mercy they have been denied in their undeaths, for I send them on to their fate with a glad heart. Let them travel quickly to the Boneyard to face Pharasma's judgement, and may she judge them fairly."
Her quick prayer finished, she wanders over to the table. "The rest can be managed some other time, but what does the key open?"
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Garrett's eyes twinkle as his eyes fall upon the gold and treasure. He then remembers to thank the cleric for her amazing undead combating prowess. "Well done with the skeletons, Kohinoor! That shall read amazingly well with the rest of this epic! Now... about all this treasure...." His little face lights up with a big grin.
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More of the map has been revealed. B4: A few wisps of decayed webbing hang from the walls of this room, but there's none on the stone ceiling and no sign of spiders in the room. The ceiling is blank save for four 1-foot-wide, round steel medallions, one set into each corner. The floor is equally bare except for a pedestal in the center of the floor made of a single five-foot-square block of stone, about two feet high. On the pedestal sits a metal-framed wooden chest, and to the side of the pedestal rests a shallow hole in the floor housing what looks like a brass door handle set into the stone. A stone tile lying loose nearby is clearly designed to fit over the hole, concealing the handle.
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One blanket check won't cover the whole room; there are too many features in here.
Desh checks out the latch. As he discovers that there's no keyhole in it, the ceiling falls on top of him.
Out from the now-smashed chest floats a note that says: "Curiosity Kills: another ingenious demise, courtesy of Addington's Fine Traps and Defenses."
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Kohinoor walks up as the ceiling falls on Desh. Her gasp of horror turns into a nervous, almost hysterical laughter as she pulls ceiling rubble off the half-orc and rummages through his bag for his wand. "Oh, poor *hehe* Desh. Let me just *heeheehe* let me just move some of this and we'll have you patched *hee!* have you patched up."
She picks up the note. "I hardly think the ceiling falling on someone is ingenious. Inconvenient, maybe, but..."