Fifth Expedition

[beermotor]

Milner helps take down the bodies and lay them in an alcove. He says a short prayer for the dead. He isn't concerned with searching every urn.

Where exactly are we on the map? North east corner?

Yeah. I'll post the update tomorrow morning.

[caveman]

Milner can't pull em out either, so he breaks them off, using his sword if he has to. He'll bar the eastern door with the spear shafts if that's possible. He'd like to lay the bodies down. Maybe a priest can administer rites. He's not keen on hauling the bodies out.

Thanks for doing the mapping!

[Raven Crowking]

Luck is with you, and you are not disturbed in your searching. There are 155 alcoves in the room, containing 155 urns, in turn containing about 200 skeletons (there are a few urns, almost 1/3rd, which contain not one but two skeletons). They are very old, very brittle, and - thankfully! - do not leap up to attack you.

[beermotor]

hmm, so nothing in any of them? Nor in the alcoves with them?

[Raven Crowking]

As far as you can tell, just bones and dust.

[caveman]

Alright, once that's all done, Milner would like to lead the party out of this room and check the "other door" in corridor. The one that didn't reek. Is it similar to the last? Does it seem to be recently used? Locked?

[beermotor]

Updated map posted, link in my sig...

"Friend, I know it may seem like a lot of trouble, but we ought not to leave these poor souls here to rot. Or worse, to rise again. Let's backtrack with them to the entry room, and we can haul them up and out when we leave," Gunnar says to Milner.

The "other door" is the one going north... Daryll will check it for traps, locks, etc.

[Raven Crowking]

As far as he can tell, it is neither locked not trapped.

[beermotor]

Daryll will push the door open and see what's on the other side...

[Raven Crowking]

Daryll sees before him a seemingly empty space, 20 feet square, extending to the left. On the northern part of the left wall, there is another entrance. The area is thick with dust and cobwebs, but there are clearly bootmarks as of someone going to the other exit and back again.

[beermotor]

That door on the northern part of the left wall goes west, right?

"Let's drag 'em out this way," Daryll says.

He walks over to the other door and examines it for traps, careful to walk where the bootprints are in the dust.

[Raven Crowking]

It isn't a door....just a dark opening. You are correct that it goes west.

Daryll sees no traps as he walks toward it. Beyond is a smaller space, 10 feet deep and 20 feet wide, also very dusty. Whoever the booted man was, he paused here to scrawl upon the wall:

beware the pools

The message is written in what appears to be dried blood.

[beermotor]

Are there any pools in the small 10x20 room beyond? Also, is there a door on the north wall?

[Raven Crowking]

You see neither pools nor doors.

[beermotor]

But the tracks go on into this room?

"Weird," Daryll says. "Don't see no way out. But whoever it was went through here, all right."

[Raven Crowking]

Daryll sees before him a seemingly empty space, 20 feet square, extending to the left. On the northern part of the left wall, there is another entrance. The area is thick with dust and cobwebs, but there are clearly bootmarks as of someone going to the other exit and back again.

there are clearly bootmarks as of someone going to the other exit and back again.

[beermotor]

OIC.

"Sure looks strange, don't it? Empty room, huh?" Daryll carefully walks inside and starts looking around much closer, for secret nooks, loose stones, trap doors, that sort of thing.

[caveman]

So we are now in a room across the hall from the rotten room? OK

Milner stands in the doorway. One eye on Daryll's operations, and one on the hallway. I assume others are in similarly pensive mode.

[Raven Crowking]

After about 10 minutes of looking around, Daryll finds nothing.

[beermotor]

Well, that's just strange.

Daryll shrugs. "Whatever. Maybe it was some crazy. Or something was sleepin' here."

Gunnar says, "Let's try the eastern door in the urn room."

Daryll nods and checks it out. Locked or trapped?