"Excellent. Thank you Amandine. That might at least help me place a good opening salvo. I think I'll take this cold iron stuff and also use it to coat my switch blade....unless more bolts is wiser..."
"Why don't we check the other rooms before we go up? If there is a more destructive battle than this one, we may not have a chance to check later, and we may preemptively take out any lurking reinforcements for the leader."
Naliah moves to check the next closest room, though keeping a leery eye for more traps as she does so.
Dro'gan agrees and begins searching the nearest area nearby.
"Oh, certainly. We don't want to leave anything lurking down here in case we need to make a hasty exit from upstairs." Hasimir agrees, and joins the search.
Amandine goes ahead and casts Find Traps as they continue to explore the ground floor.
You investigate the neighboring two rooms and find these old meat lockers are not trapped, at least on the outside.
The walls of these rooms are painted a stark white, with a single massive meat hook dangling from the ceiling in the center. Although the rooms are large, their thickly padded walls give them a close, claustrophobic feel. Four round, grimy windows pierce the south walls in both cases, twelve feet above the floor.
In both meat lockers, several humanoid corpses - likely victims of the divs - have been piled on the floor beneath the windows. Before anyone can investigate the bodies closer, Hasimir stops you and urges caution. He notices that in the one room, the pile of bodies have become infested with rot grubs.
”We will need to burn that lot or similar before we can approach it safely. Lets move on for now.”
Naliah swallows her gorge. She has no issue with a dead body, but a pile of stinking ones is another matter. "Indeed, let's move on. Swiftly."
Amandine seems pale and her mouth is set in a tight, straight line. She moves on very quickly without saying anything.
Hasimir whispers a prayer for the souls of the deceased.
"I believe we are done here."
He turns his back to the corpses and pushes towards upstairs.
Vyranos prevented himself from vomiting all over the floor and ran as far away from the room full of corpses as possible. After a minute, he composed himself and nodded as Hasimir goes to the stairs.