The carpet and the candles detect as magic.
"Be careful, I've heard tales of evil carpets coming to life and smothering out the unlucky soul that is nearest to it," Kaz says as he peeks his head around the entryway.
"That's easy to believe in this place, Kaztor!"
Wdrozgrúk will continue concentrating with the detect magic thing on the candles and carpet to see if he can get some notion of the kind of magic they have in them …
Beltin disables the trap, once again trying to keep the components to reassemble it later. He takes out an amazing set if tools and goes to work when everyone is at least 30' away.
After setting off the trap, Beltin tries to disable it again.
Beltin nods and waves the barbarian forward. He tries to impress the barbarian by scavenging as many trap components as possible.
"Being a mage, I can disable the most magic of traps!! Mundane traps too, bit they are almost too trivial. "
Elathras smiles as he watches Beltin work "Ooohhhh, Aaaaahhhhhh, I think learning to disassemble traps like a thief would be interesting, but I don't think I'm smart enough to do magic/"
Seeing Beltin disable the carpet trap "Nice job Beltin, I will look at the trap door, I don't want to waist your magic on something trivial like that!"
Elathras looks at the trap door for locks and traps he will open the trap door.
Beltin appears to disable the next trap, trying until successful or something bad happens.
Beltin gracefully and graciously opens the door for the barabarian. He looks inside as he does. He holds his everburning torch to assist with lighting too.
"Good job, Beltin. Let's leave that carpet all to itself over there. Do we see anything else interesting?"
he is really good with traps for a magician looking at Beltin, smiking "Beltin, are all magicians as good with traps as you are? I didn't know magicians could be so handy." Elathras smiles as Beltin holds the door open and he leans out and takes a look down in the cellar.
Inside the chamber beneath the carpet is a treasure chest. Elathras also spots a secret panel.
Elathras looks curiously down the hole, "Look Beltin a treasure chest and a secret hidey-hole, what do you think we will find?"
"Just be careful! Never know where you'll find more traps round here!"
Elathras, holding his hammer, smiles at Gruk's observation, "You know I am always careful Gruk." as he jumps into the hole and first inspects the trunk and then the secret panel for locks and traps.
"No other magician is as good with traps as me, it is my specialty. Everything else has been trapped. Let me do the opening if it comes to it."
If Beltin can't find a trap on chest. "Let's take the chest with us. We can check it later. I am just sure there is a trap on it."
seeing that the treasure chest is not trapped but the cupboard is Elathras calls "Beltin could you use your magic and open the cupboard, the chest seems to be safe." He moves out of the way so Beltin can come down and opens the chest and looks inside.
1,000 cp, 207 sp, and 201 gp along with a gem worth 10 gp.
Beltin motions everyone back and attempts to disarm the trap on the panel.
Elathras smiles and calls up to Gruk, "Look Gruk, were rich again!" he then pulls out a sack and starts filling it with coins. Once he is done he ties the sack to his pack, pulling his scarf back over his exposed nostrils and picking up his hammer watches Beltin.
Beltin saves. Elathras would have had to but he is a half-elf.
The secret cabinet contains a gem worth 100 gp, which sits on a small velvet cushion (worth 1 gp).
Beltin notices the barbarian was in the area when he sets off the trap.
"Hey, let me try this alone."
He disables the trap and finds the gem above.
Elathras shakes his head, as if he doesn't understand, smiling "Beltin I don't want to leave you alone, you might get hurt, anyway who will hold the light for you and how am I supposed to learn how to do trap magic if I don't watch?" Elathras hands Beltin a sack for the stuff in the cabinet. Jumping out of the hole he heads back out of the room and turning left he goes down to the end of the hallway keeping a keen eye out as he goes.
The end of this corridor has a large, 10 ft. x 10 ft. opening in the ceiling which leads upward into darkness.
Make a perception Gruk
seeing the iron rungs leading up into the hole in the ceiling Elathras calls back to the party, "I will go up and see if it is someplace we have been before," tucking the hammer in his pack and the torch in his belt he begins to climb, keeping a keen eye out.
It leads up into a room on level one with four exits.
realizing he has entered a room on the first floor that they have explored Elathras returns to the party and tells them "It's just upstairs." and heads back up the hall past the sleeping rug room and toward the door they entered in by to turn east.
Elathras walks right into a group of skellies, two attack him
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"I can't even react faster than evil deadites with a poor wardrobe?!?! Get back here and draw them to us Elathras!!"
"OW!" being surprised by the skeletons, Elathras calls out in pain; dropping his torch and hammer he draws his sword and shield preparing to attack.
Init.
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Beltin decides to try and sneak around the skellies after they maul the resilient barbarian.
Drawing both daggers, he plans to get the dark one.
drawing his sword and shield Elathras attacks the first skeleton that hit him, then he steps back trying to draw the skeletons to the party like Beltin said, "I'm coming Beltin as fast as I can!"
The skeletons move up. Two normal skeletons and one that is all black attack Elathras:
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Beltin takes one look at the Black Skeleton and drops everything in this hands and turns and runs. He is panicked!