"Oh. So we ...we freed them. Yay us!"
"I sure hope so." - says Maria while looking down the pit.
The pit seems to lead down to a floor below.
"Gentlemen, can you escort me down there?"
Maria touches Klor and Archamedes, casting Levitate on them too.
"If we see it's a big place, we will come back for you. Please keep guard while we check the pit."
She waits for them to go first, and she levitates after them down.
As you are lowering down into a fairly large, you notice that floor is simply covered with damned big rats.
so long as we don't do what they did to get that way
Trib, as he wipes the gore off of his bladed, answers the Sorceress
"happy to oblige mam"
I'm just glad she didn't ask me to check the pit
while Maria, Klor and Archamedes levitate down into the pit Trib, checks the bodies of the humans for anything useful and then carefully checks both doors for traps and types of locks.
"Mr. Falco, I think you abilities are needed here..."
The dead humans are buck naked with no equipment. The doors are not trapped.
"Well thats disturbing.." He lobs a few alchy fires down on the rats to try and get them to disperse..
You are able to blow up the rats wholesale and the rest run away.
"Soooo ...desert island meal, what do you eat forever if you can choose?"
As the smell of scorched rat hair and cooked meat waft up from the hole. Gregor steps back and suddenly takes interest in searching the room above....
Maria waits for Klor and Archaemedes to finish their descent before she lands.
Archy will land and have a quick glance ard..
The room is 50x30 and reeks of burnt rat hair. There's a door on the south wall which has been gnawed through with a large rats sized hole in it. Other than rat corpses, you see nothing of interest in here.
Maria lands after the men, and waves at the people up to let them know they have reached the bottom.
She detects magic around the room.
Other than the flashy baubles on your allies, you see no magical auras.
Maria gets next to the door and signals her allies to get ready. She signals with her fingers...
3... 2... 1...
She opens the door.
The door opens into a hallway. You are facing a wall, as the hallway goes east-west. To the west, the hallway turns to the south. To the east it does a 4 way junction.
"Let's continue exploring the first floor, and we will return here later."
She uses prestidigitation to clean the door (or soil it, if it is clean), marking it on the outside of it.
Then she levitates back to the others.
"Maybe we can return later, there is a passageway there. What did you found up here? Where do we go now?"
glad someone's in charge
trib nods to Maria and answers
"Two doors, ta tha east and ta tha west, mam, no traps, didn't hear anything either."
"Thank you Mister Tribim. Let's try the west one first. Everybody ready?"
She waits for everyone to take their position, and then she nods at them a second before opening the door.
trib lines up behind Maria allowing Klor and Gregor to be first and second in the door for charging, trib will do better if the comes in and flanks using a sneaky flank attack
"ready as we gets mam"
You open the door to the west and see 12 beds and two tables. A wash basin and pitcher rest on one of the tables.
trib slips in the room and takes his time searching the room, looking for traps, hidden doors or anything interesting
"give me just a moment ta find anything unusual, Ok?"
The wash basin is filled with dirty water. The pitcher also appears to be filled with dirty water.
Trib walks back over to the door, yawning he says
"Nothin' in here but a wash basin and pitcher filled with dirty water."
Only door is the one you came through.
Trib walks back in the room, picking up the wash basin and pitcher, then leaving the room he sets them on the floor and asks.
"nice place ta sleep, would one of you casters see if'n these are magical?"
he then walks over to the other door waiting for the rest of the crew.
Maria enters the room to look for magic items.
"Don't come in, there is something magical in this room..."
Maria gets out of the room, and warns the others.
"I think it is a magic trap, do not enter there. Now let's try the east door."
When they all are in position she opens the door.
"I've chefed for a lot of adventuring parties. I've done it for Pathfinders. You people always have a trap person, don't you?"
don't you? what do I look like chopped liver, deep breaths, stay professional
Trib waiting at the east door, looks at 'cookie' cross-eyed but maintains his composure
"One'st you all are lined up and ready, we's'l have Miss Maria open tha door and I's'l go in and check for, what was it again, oh traps 'ats right."
"I am very glad Mr. Tribim is here to protect us from traps. Ready..."
She opens the east door.
The door to this room has no latch. It has a pair of indentations to use as hand holds three inches above the floor. The door is opened by sliding it up from below, into the ceiling.
There is a table in the room holding a small gold plate. There are 5 sp on the plate. When the party enters the room the plate begins making polite requests for contributions, such as, “Please give, sir!” or “A crown for the poor, please sir!”
There is a door which leads out to the north.
"Hey, man, I don't go around assuming every halfling I know is a lock picker. That's racist. You found a room, said you think it's trapped and then didn't send our trap guy in. It's like not calling on me when you find undead, seduceable bad girls, or foie gras."
Maria gets his belt pouch out, grabs a gold coin from it, and let it fall in the plate.
"You all put a coin in. Anyone needs one?"
Gregor gladly flips a crown into the plate.
"Can't hurt now, can it!"
"Hey, man, I don't go around assuming every halfling I know is a lock picker. That's racist. You found a room, said you think it's trapped and then didn't send our trap guy in. It's like not calling on me when you find undead, seduceable bad girls, or foie gras."
Klor gives a grunt, I gots no problem callin' Pecks lock pickers, most every one I met has been one. but I got ta admit, dis Peck is definitely part dwarf. so far hes got my respect...Yer still a Peck though.
as fer undead? I usually be callin on ole tarnack ere first, and ya prayin types second. Sorry but its in me nature to chop em up first.
As they check out the room, again, I may be wantin ta chop undeads up, don't mean I want ta be agitatin more, probably some spirit thing ere...just my gusss is all.
Klor pulls out some coin and drops a gold coin on the plate.
did the fool not see me go in the room or is he just messing with me
once Trib sees Maria and Gregor donate to the plate, he pulls out a silver and places it in. Then he quickly checks the room and the exits.
Each time someone drops a coin on it the plate will say, “Thank you very much, sir! Every little bit counts!”
Inquistively Archy approaches the plate.. "Wonder what happens if you take a coin.." "I have an experiment.."
He pulls out a gold coin and goes to put it in the plate. At the last second he instead lifts a gold coin to see the reaction..
Chef Adey backs away from the experiment, watching eyes wide.
The moment Archie takes a coin from the plate it disappears and two of the hooded figures like were encountered in the hay loft appear and attack him. (shadowy figures that wear cloaks and appear out of a dark cloud).
Surprise round
miss, hit
idiot, you don't have to be a trapsmith to see that coming
seeing the familiar cloaked figures Trib calls out
"'at's what tha bloke in tha hay loft looked like, wonder if'n their tha monks."