Chapter 04: Torpor and tremendum

[Rex]

Tiny

"This figurine looks valuable, one of us should take it."

Tiny will search the chest it was on top of.

[GreyWolfVT]

Korin "All yours Tiny. If yah want it go ahead an take it." the dwarf replies checking the figure over to make sure it is not rigged to any traps.

[DareDevil]

Richard

drops the sachet and looks around in total bewilderment.

[sastaz]

Thorelf will hurry in and close the door to the "table and chairs" room.

Then he will check the chest and also see if there's the same secret compartment in this room as in the one we passed through just earlier.

[DareDevil]

Richard


Did Krooda put a seduction spell on me?

Puts a small handkerchief (The Dossal of Darda) on his head, ostensibly to see if his head still contains the remains of a seduction spell by Krooda.

[GreyWolfVT]

Korin shrugs "Dunno but Tiny was gonna set yah straight either way."

[Rex]

Tiny

"Are you better now or still feeling crazy?"

[DareDevil]

Richard

I am better now, thank you.

*thinking that this reply seems safer than to find out what "setting me straight" might physically entail*

[GreyWolfVT]

Korin "Good cause I was startin' ta wonder if I weren't gonna need ta tie yah up."

[Nordbo]

While

Korin

checks the statuette for traps (which he can find no trace of),

Tiny

searches the chest the statuette stood on top of, and finds:

- 85 gp
- 83 sp
- an earthen pot
- a cube with swirling colours like the one Eaton found earlier
- 3 torches
- 3 flasks of oil
- a 6 inches long piece of wood carved in the shape of a finger

Inside the smaller room that someone recently rushed through, Thorelf shuts the door at the other end and then looks into the chest on the floor. In it he finds:

- 1 flask of oil
- an earthen pot

There is no secret hatch in the wash stand of this room; however, a stone in the north wall under the wash stand seems loose.

Richard

tries his treasured hanky but it only soaks up some sweat. He realises that he must have been under some spell for a while - be it the spell of love or something else - but whichever way, he is now beginning to feel less agitated and gradually returning to a more level-headed state.

In the pool, splashes can be heard.

[Rex]

Tiny

Excitedly, "Look what I found. I wonder whats in the little pot."

[Nordbo]

Inside the pot,

Tiny

finds a grey powdery substance, which looks like ashes.

[Rex]

Tiny

"I think its full of ashes, kinda weird to keep around."

[DareDevil]

Richard

An urn with ashes in it. I wonder who those ashes used to be. Perhaps someone Krooda once loved who rebelled?

I shall pretend that the ashes were me, that I died there, and am now reborn. The idea comes from a warrior I once heard tell another warrior this "Remember that you are already dead. This way, you never need to feel fear again." I was spurned, and will never love again. I am dead, and I shall never fear again.

It is not really sad. Just think of me as Nac Mac Feegle, who knows he is dead, and will therefore fight and drink and go adventuring like there is no tomorrow.

[GreyWolfVT]

Korin waves it off "Bah some folks do that keep remains of their passed loved ones strange bit a business, I ain't for it but I say just leave it." the dwarf looks around a bit more ready to move on.

[Gebex]

Eaton

Oh, Tiny be careful with the box with colors. Remember it is dangerous. Better give it to me and I will put it with the other box.

[sastaz]

Thorelf can hear from the smaller room how Richard is still rambling, but not exactly about what.

He puts the flask of oil in his backpack, could prove useful.

He tries to pry the stone loose, if possible.

"Guys, are you holding up out there?"

[GreyWolfVT]

Confused as I thought we already went through the open door to the north last I knew only Richard was still lingering behind, but I guess I am incorrect?

[Rex]

Tiny

Tiny hands over the box with colors, "Here you go." and goes to help Thorelf pry the stone loose.

[Gebex]

Eaton

Picks up the staff shaped as a finger (if Tiny did not) and the 3 torches.