Dr. Si's Curse of the Crimson Throne - Alpha Group

"Sure."

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AC 16 (T13, FF13), HP 25/25, F +2,R+5,W+0
Resistance to cold 5, electricity 5, and fire 5.
Darkness 1/day, Sneak 1d6
Rapier +2 . 1d6+2 . 19-20/X2
Shortbow +3 . 1d6 . 20/X3

Stealth +8 (including ACP)
Perception + 4

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Bael checks the small chest, but it doesn't appear to be trapped. Sure enough, one of the keys from Lamm's keyring opens it, to reveal several cloth-wrapped bundles of various shapes and sizes. Some long and thing, others blocky or round, but all the size of something you could hold in one hand.

To Maya's fading(*) spirit sight, three of the bundles radiate a magical aura. One is a slender object, the other two are small and roundish.

OOC:
(*)One minute is probably up by the time you get the chest open.
 

Maya carefully lifts out the three potent items and lays them on the floor by the chest. Each one she unwraps and peers at curiously, leaving the other objects in the chest to Baal and the others.
 

A bit surprised, Tristan nods to Khademeade.

After giving his guisarme a final swish, he goes over to look at Lamm's junk. The loot will come in handy, he knows, but right now he doesn't care about that. He looks for ledgers, notebooks, papers - anything that might document Lamm's deeds and dealings.
 

Bael examines the more mundane bundles, concentratink on the task at hand.

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AC 16 (T13, FF13), HP 25/25, F +2,R+5,W+0
Resistance to cold 5, electricity 5, and fire 5.
Darkness 1/day, Sneak 1d6
Rapier +2 . 1d6+2 . 19-20/X2
Shortbow +3 . 1d6 . 20/X3

Stealth +8 (including ACP)
Perception + 4

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The large pile of junk is just that - mostly broken crockery, dented helmets and rusted tools. Tristan doesn't find anything of interest amidst it - it looks like nothing more than a pile of unwanted stuff shoved into the corner.

Maya unwraps the three magical items from the chest. They are a slender obsidian wand and two vials of liquid - one a tiny vial of oily liquid, the other a crystal bottle of a silver liquid. The function of any of these eludes her for the moment.

Bael finds that the other bundles are all valuable-looking art objects. They are a miniature gold crown, a teak cigar case inlaid with jade, a gold Chelaxian trade bar, a scrimshaw carving of a kraken with garnet eyes, a silver ring inscribed "For Emmah, the light of my nights", an ivory figurine featuring two entwined succubi, a finely-made shuriken, an adamantine arrowhead, an abolone shell holy symbol of Shelyn and a bejewlled brooch.

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Tristan and Khadmeade both have good Appraise skill and between them they are able to value these items.
Crown 350 gp
Cigar case 25gp
Trade bar 100gp
Scrimshaw kraken 200gp
Silver ring 150gp
Ivory succubi 450gp
Masterwork shuriken 301gp
Adamantine arrowhead 60gp
Holy symbol 300gp

The brooch, featuring a pseudragon and an imp locked in battle, with jewelled eyes, is obviously far, far more vaulable than any of these items. It's value may, however, be meaningless. Tristan recognises it as matching the description of a piece of jewellery lost by Queen Ileosa some months ago. A reward is offered for its return.

Also, don't forget that there was a magic aura coming from the hatbox on the table.
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Bael looks bitterly at the silver ring. How many lifes had Lamm destroyed?

[sblock=OOC]
AC 16 (T13, FF13), HP 25/25, F +2,R+5,W+0
Resistance to cold 5, electricity 5, and fire 5.
Darkness 1/day, Sneak 1d6
Rapier +2 . 1d6+2 . 19-20/X2
Shortbow +3 . 1d6 . 20/X3

Stealth +8 (including ACP)
Perception + 4

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Maya gathers up the three items of power and goes to the hatbox. For a moment she rests her fingers on the thin, threadbare velvet lined lid, then with an unspoken decision, she opens it.

"We can try to see what these do," she says as she does, "So we can tell how best to break these spoils between us."
 

"I can cast spells to identify the magic items, starting tomorrow, but I can only cast a couple every day, so it will take a few days" Tristan says as he makes an arcane gesture and examines them for the first time.

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Tristan studies the wand, the vial of oil and the silvery liquid. Aided by his mystically enhanced sight, the workings of the magic behind these items becomes clear to him.

Meanwhile, Maya opens the hatbox. Inside is a severed head, quite obviously a couple of weeks old. Even with its state of decay, the face looking up at her is clearly recognisable as the face of the woman who hired them - Zellara. Underneath the head is a Harrow Deck.

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The items are:
Wand of Magic Missile (25 charges)
Oil of Keen Edge
Silversheen
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