@Lefty: You confirm that the stairs lead up to the Abbot's bedroom and nothing has changed since yesterday. He lived at a higher standard than the rest of the filth. There are some mundane books on the shelf, but nothing detects as magic.
Nothing's changed upstairs. Let's try going the other way, Lefty says through the Message.
He moves quickly, wanting to take advantage of the invisibility while he still can.
Lefty will try to identify that last potion.
We should divvy up the potions.
Assuming you proceed down the stairs in the direction that the ogre came from and the last priest escaped.
You find a room that must have served as the ogre jailer's lair. The chamber is cold and empty, and its only furnishings are a bed of flea-ridden furs, a bucket of water, and a shelf of goblin and human skulls. A key ring opening all cells at the top of the stairs hangs on a nail. The way to the caverns has been barricaded with a barrier of nailed-together planks.
A couple of the planks have been pulled off, leaving a space where a person could squeeze through.
Beyond the secret door you find passages leading to a pair of small rooms lined with moldering coffins along the walls, each with a decayed corpse
inside.
At the far end of the southern small room a doorway opens to a larger room .
On the floor just before entering the that larger room is an inscription carved into the floor reading: “THE GRAVES OF THE LOWER PRIESTHOOD.”
Lefty casts Detect Magic before entering, taking a few seconds to note any auras.
Wyran lets the others lead, knowing they are more skilled than he is....
When you enter the gray and cobwebbed burial chamber you find that it contains a number of side rooms.
Each of the side rooms contains sixteen wooden sarcophagi surrounding a round stone table, illuminated by a single everburning lantern glowing with greenish-blue light.
A small dais on the northern end of the hall holds a stone statuette of a man clad in monastic robes. This statuette wears a golden diadem on its head.
In the north-east corner of the room a passage extends into darkness.
At the south in of the room a stairway leads down to a lower level.
Sure thing, Ting.
Lothorian casts Detect Magic, and gives it a few rounds.
No magic, other than the lights.
Ting pulls the golden diadem from the statue with no trouble.
There are stairs down at south end of the room and a dark pasage to the north-east.
Wyran holds up the paperwork he had been looking at. "This might be worth taking, and studying by someone with better understanding of necromancy. Alchemical procedures to enhance zombies? I can't imagine any way that could be a good thing! Zombies that explode in a ball of fire for instance? Or maybe I'm missing something. I don't really understand spell crafting or alchemy!"
I don't know anything about necromancy or alchemy, either. I'd still take it, Wyran. We might learn something later. At a minimum, these sickos don't have it anymore.
To Ting, Lefty says, The lamps will be really useful to the people in town. They're expensive, and they're really convenient. We should take them all before we return.
I'll go.
Lefty will use what's left of his invisibilty to scout ahead.
Hallways lined with coffins lead to the east. They circle around and split, one path leading south and another leading east.
@Lefty: A pit trap in the hallway opens under your feet! Make a reflex save!
Lefty manages to skip aside as the pit trap opens beneath his feet!
A good thing because it looks really deep.
Lots of coffins/sarcophagi line the walls of the corridors.
Map updated!
Lefty will warn the others about the trap.
Ting, you see that it's a pretty deep hole that Lefty almost dropped into.
Are you looking to explore east or southeast at this point?
The air seems less stale to the southeast and there is a layer of debris across the floor.
The complex under the old monastery is turning out to be larger than you probably imagined when you entered.
Lefty keeps moving warily southeast.
He notices little.
Wyran follows behind the group, watching and listening for anything that might be following.
Lefty strangely finds that the crypts give way to what appears to be an abandoned wine cellar.
At the southern end of the cellar, there is a large, rotten door that opens to the outside. (the wide area at the bottom of the map)
On the east side of the cellar, another staircase descends into the dark.
The space has clearly been inhabited by an intelligent being. There is a smell of human presence, and the western tunnel of the cellar has been turned into living quarters with a bed made of rags, a small fireplace with a kettle, a lantern and a drinking cup.
Whoever lives here, they don't seem to be home now.
Lefty casts Dancing Lights and sends it ahead down the staircase as far as he can see. If there's nothing there, he'll head down.
I'm going to head down these stairs here.
Curious, Wyran listens. The Tengu's speak takes a bit to understand but when he turns to follow Wyran understands and follows along.
Lefty follows the stairs down, they twist and turn around and open into a lower cellar.
The walls of the damp cellar are black with mold. Ancient oak barrels full of wine stand in wall niches and orderly stacks. Some of them are still full.
Poking about you find a small (briefcase sized) locked wooden case tucked up near the ceiling on top of a stack of barrels.
Lefty will cast detect magic, and also look for any traps on or near the case.
@Lefty: You don't find any traps on the case, after concentrating you detect a source of magic within it.
He'll open it.