Ali's jaws find a purchase on flesh, then Naria's lightning bolt crackles across the room and with a final shriek and the smell off burnt flesh the corpulent corpse of Mammy Graul floats slowly down towards the bed.
Esteriande springs backward out of the way as the body sinks to the bed.
"A necromancer, and if I do not miss my guess, ze mozzer of ze brood," she mutters, wiping and sheathing her blade in a fluid movement. With a grimace of distaste she searches the woman's body, grateful that she at least is wearing gloves.
On the body you find
A Potion of Cure Moderate wounds
A Scroll of Animate Dead
2 Varisian Idols(used in summoning spells each grants a +2 to the HD of the summoned creature)
A wand of Magic Missiles CL3 44 charges
A Wand of Ray of Enfeeblement 28 Charges
A Wand of Vampiric Touch 33 Charges
A belt of Health +2
"The mother, yes." Muchorak agrees, "We should still clear the rest of house there may still be survivors."
with a grimace Inikai begins looking for the dagger that he threw. The filth of this room makes him wonder if it is worth the time to do so.
The wolves nimbly hop the bed and then back out of the room and stand in the hall, therby giving the others room to search.
Ali flows to Gnome form and, reaching for a flask of water, rinses and spits to get the taste of the filthy woman out of her mouth. She also gives some water to a grateful Lunas.
"Indeed, both of the ogres and of ze Black Arrows," Esteriande nods. "Ze scroll and wands I think are Naria's area of expertise. Brother Marak, you are often taking damage for ozzers, will ze belt be of use to you?"
Esteriande turns to the idols.
"Does anyone use summoning spells?"
Although she does not particularly like the look or feel of the dolls, Ali, who can summon tiny or smaller animals virtually at will, raises her hand slightly and says shyly "Ali do sometimes call small small animal friends to come help her."
EDIT: She doesn't reach for a flask, she just creates the water.
"Take zese, zen, zey may 'elp you." Esteriande hands the idols to Alli, then looks around the rest of the room to see if there is anything else of interest, then she turns to Romon and Muchorak.
"Ze upstairs?" she asks.
"Ugg" Inikai mutters loudly as he rises from a stooped position. He holds the point of his dagger between his thumb and index finger and regards it with a look of pure disgust. It apparently landed in a pile of odure near the painting. Searching for something to wipe it with, he looks at Mammy Graul and her billowing dress. But he hesitates and mutters "probably make even dirtier if I used that". He settles for cleaning it as best he can against some of the cloth that remains from the incinerated mummies.
Mammy's dress..is in fact a massive curtain probably from a canopy bed.
Romon retrieves his no. 2 dagger from the headboard and, having made the same deductions as Esteriande, enthusiastically joins in the search for loot. After all he knows that gang bosses always keep the best stuff for themselves, and the Graul's are looking a lot like outsized unsanitary Sczarni "family".
Perception (+3 v traps)
"Ze upstairs?" she asks.
"Certainly, my lady." Romon bows low and offers her his arm. As soon as they reach the hallway, he slips into the lead for once and softfoots it down the hallway and up the stairs, keeping very alert for traps on the stairs.
Perception (+3 v traps)
Quick Stealth
Muchorak nods and follows Romon...
Stealth
The stairs lead up to a landing off which leads a short narrow corridor.Two doors lead left and right off this corridor Romon quickly determines that neither is trapped.
The left door opens to reveala room filled with large, filthy beds. Human skulls with antlers fixed to them are mounted on the bedposts and headboards. Against the west wall sits a large cedar chest.It is not locked but the top is stiff and it needs Muchorak to
Perception
Romon realises, on inspection, that the chest is not trapped either, however the top is stuck and it needs Muchorak to open it and reveal a sack off coins. The Ranger reaches for it only to be stopped by his Rogue companion who points out the concealed pressure plate the sack sits on
Perception
Romon then deftly disarms it and retrieves the sack
Disable device
Looking inside he discovers 222Cp 197Sp and 40Gp as well as 17, mainly skeletal, fingers
The other door on this floor leads into a larger room.Tables strewn with beakers, glass vials, old tin cans, rope, animal traps, bits of twisted metal, spikes, bones, and all manner of junk litter this area. In one corner sits some old furniture and other keepsakes.
Rummaging through the room for a few minutes you find 5 flasks off acid under a table and enough tools to make up three full sets of Masterwork Thieves Tools
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Marak notes the preponderance of thieves tools with a grunt, "I suppose it makes sense that *someone* had to be making all of these traps..."
He'll gather up the seventeen fingers, for burial, since it feels right that at least *some* of their victims are interred in the earth, even if he suspects that the majority of their remaining 'parts' are going to have to settle for cremation.
Once it seems there is no more danger to be had Naria beats a hasty retreat keeping an eye on things outside.
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"Grisly," Esteriande mutters. "Now, ze basement, non? Let us be careful, zere are still as like as not a few of zem remaining."
As they descend, she voices her thoughts:
"Zey must 'ave been 'ere a long time, not far from ze town, and well 'iden so zat no-one zere knew of zem. 'Ow many of zeir 'unters and trappers 'ave met zeir end 'ere, I wonder? 'Ow many of ze townsfolk on ze road met zeir end at ze 'ands of zese monsters?"
"We have seen enough remains to say that too many have." Muchorak says in his own grim fashion, "We should be prepared for who knows what kind of strange horrors they keep in their basement."
"Basement? Probably prisoners and torture, down there. Maybe --" Romon cuts off 'a vault.' and substitutes, "Weird cousin Clem. The one who freaks the rest of the Graul's out."
Back in wolf form Ali and Lunas follow the others, but they remain ouitside of any rooms there's no need for them to enter.
When Romon opens the basement door, Aliwolf pushes forward and spends several moments at the top of the step, scenting to see if she can detect the smells of any living beings down there.
If she is unable to, she quicklyu flows to Gnome, summos a tiny rat and asks it kindly to go down into the basement and come back and report to her what it sees, particularily if there are any big two legs down there
Beyond the door from the Kitchen is a small landing a narrow stair runs 10 feet down to a short corridor with 3 doors leading off it
The mixture of smells Ali gets is much the same as the rest off the house..rotting flesh,excrement,body fluids..making it impossible to tell whether there is in reality anyone within range.
She summons the rat and sends it on it's mission it scurries down stairs and through a rat hole near the right hand door..you wait but the rat does not return.
As the rat fails to return Ali looks sad and concerned then says "That not good. Ali think more bad ones down there. We be careful, yes yes?
Romon frowns. "I'll check it out.'
If needed he pops out his ioun torch, and frowns. This will make me a great target.
Then he shrugs and steps downstairs. In one hand he holds his dagger. In the other he holds a tanglefoot bag.
Quick Stealth
Perception (+3 v traps)
It is dark down there..yes
Romon hears nothing to make him think the room is occupied, but the stairs are not trapped.
Once the steps are clear Esteriande descends on not-so-silent-as-she-would-like feet after Romon, just in case he lands himself in trouble.
Stealth:
When Inikai looks at the stairway and how narrow it is he cannot help but think that it would be a perfect site for an ambush. But, then again, the gods have favored them so far. Maybe our luck will hold out.
Romon reaches the bottom of the stairs and peers about.
Romon notes that the three doors all seem well made.Esteriande clatters down the stairs masking any sounds he may have heard..
Muchorak follows Romon, understanding the need for silence, with his blades at the ready to defend the rogue.
Stealth
Perception
Muchorak follows Romon, understanding the need for silence, with his blades at the ready to defend the rogue.
Inikai is next down the stairs.
Romon looks at the doors, then tries the middle one.
Perception (listen)
Perception (traps)
Disable Device
Naria will be keeping to the back of the group.
[ooc] 6AM start means I have to get up at 5..and I try and do someting before I leave the house{/ooc]
Theres some shuffling around as you maneuvre in the tight confines off the corridor.
Being small, Aliwolf slips past the others up to the front by Romon. Meanwhile Lunas gets stuck between Inikai and Marak.
Can we have a map update to show the confusion?
Sorry about the delay I'm just too busy at the moment should be up and running tomorrow