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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Brakkart" data-source="post: 1889114" data-attributes="member: 19617">DM's Log of Session Thirteen (Part 1)Setting out to explore the tunnels, the party decided against heading down the southern route, as it had stairs leading down. "Best to clear this level before we go down any further" stated Gylippus, the rest nodding in agreement. Ki elected to guard the bottom of the stairs, in case anything should try coming down after the group, or worse, outflanking them and cutting off their avenue of escape from the cellars.Alas it turned out that the cellars the group could reach were empty save for the now dead Histachii, and various storerooms with mostly wrecked contents, though Elena found a stash of intact (and very expensive) wine bottles in the old wine cellar, as well as a model ship in a bottle, and Jebodiah found fragments of a very large egg, that Aeron was able to identify as that of a snake. "Bloody big snake!" muttered the dwarf.Puzzled by a new brick wall at the end of a long corridor, Gylippus subjected it to intense examination, even going as far as to try and disbelieve in its existence. Unfortunately, despite his best efforts. it remained very real and solid. Not one to be put off he then spent the better part of an hour, testing every foot of the tunnels walls, soon joined in this search by Zamtap, though neither was able to find anything remotely resembling a secret door or passage, much to their annoyance. Deciding to head down the stairs, the group were confronted by a square room, in which hung hundreds of different chains, down which flowed rivulets of water, the floor being under nealry a foot deep of the murky stuff. The rest of the group went back to searching the rest of the cellars again and then headed back up to the house, whilst Thols was convinced that there was something untoward in the room, and waded about for some time, getting thoroughly soaked in the process.Back up in the house, the group elected to search the east wing on the ground floor and Elena opened the door into a room with many suits of ceremonial armour. Walking straight down the middle of the room, heedless of any traps, she snagged a tripwire and the others behind her looked on in horror as all nine suits of armour raised their right arms from behind the shields in front of them, each holding a crossbow and shot at her, all but one of the bolts striking her. Grumbling curses about traps, Elena and Thols (who had finally given up searching the room with all the chains in), split from the others, leaving them to explore the rest of the ground floor, while they went upstairs, the lady pirate tapping herself with her wand of healing as she went, rapidly exhausting its charges.Trooping up the stairs in the main hall, they decided to explore the upper west wing first, cautiously listening at the door at the end of the balcony and then opening it, into a corridor. The first door they tried was locked, and after encountering two traps thus far, Elena was in no mood to barge the door down and possibly get hit by another, so they moved on and tried the next door they came too. Opening it they looked into a room... and dozens of lifeless glass eyes stared back at them, the room being filled with shelves, on which sat hundreds of lifelike 1' tall dolls. "Weird" said Elena. "And somewhat freaky too, lets look elsewhere", agreed the paladin as he closed the door again.Meanwhile downstairs the others, having explored the dining room and found only a hole in the ceiling, a gold necklace oddly nailed to the wall in the room above glimpsed through the hole being the only thing of interest they pressed on with their search. The kitchen proved to be coated in rust coloured mold and vines were growing in through the windows. Seeing nothing of interest save a set of stairs leading up, they carried on in a roughly counter-clockwise sweep of the wing, finding an old menagerie filled with cages and a very odd dollhouse, built like a cage. Walking into the cloakroom Jebodiah was blasted with fire from another trap, and as he got over being singed, so Gylippus spotted and disarmed yet another trap in the next room, allowing the group to search it in safety, recovering a silver humidor and a superb smoking pipe, both in good condition and worth a fair bit.Upstairs, things were not going so well, as the pirate and the paladin had opened the doors into the Master Bedroom and burst inside, only for a heavy hempen net to drop from the ceiling. Thols narrowly avoided getting snared in it, but Elena was good and pinned down as four ceramic pots dropped also, each releasing a large scorpion, which starved and desperate, attacked the pair instantly. Though they were eventually able to beat them, especially once Elena pulled herself out from under the net and got into the fray, the pair took many cuts from the beasts claws, and Elena was stung several times, though she shrugged off the effects of the poison easily enough.They then searched the room and its adjoining chambers, which turned out to be a ladies dressing room and a never used childs room, with oddly enough a single burning candle still alight in the centre of it. They then forced their way into the locked room, and found an ancient skeleton sat at a desk, no doubt the remains of Hezekiel Wolf himself. Finding nothing of interest in the room, they left the body sat in his chair and lastly went to explore the upper level of the library.</blockquote>

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