Tower search and loot!

[Anastasia]

As this is rather boring but neccesary, I'd like to handle this chore in this topic.

What you have so far:

Three vials of a dull, bony white liquid. (Gavin)

One journal of madness, glanced over. (Saul)

One scroll of MAGERY. (Saul.)

I want imput on how far you're going to search, how throughly, and if you want to do anything with the items listed thus far or anything I post after. Also, third floor description incoming:

"On climbing the dank stone stairs to the climax of this maggot cursed pillar, you find a third great chamber. Long and wide, this room is covered with colored chalk drawings - pentagrams, diogremes and ritual symbols cover every inch of the floor. Skeletons and wretched talentless paintings of maggot strewn undead line the walls, the roof painted pitch black and adding a starless night's foreboding. Lining the wall are pots, shelves, chests, barrels. All sorts of things in storage, often with chalky diagrams written and continued on them."

Let me know if you want to do anything specific as well as the parameters of your search. Thanks.

[Carthrat]

Saul will check out the room with detect magic and find traps before touching anything.

OOC: Completely putting this in at an appropriate moment, I'm collating our List of Stuff.

Three Vials of a Dull, Bony White Liquid
Journal of Madness
Trapped Barrel full of moving things
Ivory-Carved Skeleton
Darkstone Dagger

1 SHINY Coin
Mage Scroll
Mage Scroll
Wizards Log
Zombie Spellbook

3pp
32gp
30sp
25cp

[Anastasia]

There is an extremely dull but pervasive aura of magic in this room. Magical detection is difficult and erratic due to this background aura. However, one of the barrels does trip your Detect Trap spell, half hidden behind a few other wooden barrels.

[Carthrat]

Saul moves to inspect the barrel closely, hoping to figure out just what would actually set off this trap.

[Anastasia]

You think it's quasi magical for the methodology, but you can't be 100 percent sure under the circumstances. However, your magics are certain on the point that opening or trying to shatter the barrel would be a ill advised.

[Carthrat]

Saul doesn't do either, instead heading to Seryf- "Can you take that barrel outside?" he asks, indicating it. "It's trapped, so don't open it, but it should be save to move around- if you're careful. Since it's a magical trap, we should probably make sure it's not in this room, which is.. well, radiating magic all over the place."

After he's told her that, Saul starts rifling through all the pots, shelves chests, and *other* barrels, in that order, particularly interested, as usual, in books.

[Asrana]

"Right right," Seryf sighs, noit making any comments about not being a porter. Adventurers had to do evertyhing, right? Taking the barrel with both arms, she lifts, trying to take it outside.

[Anastasia]

OOC - Seryf, will you make a Dex check with a -2 bonus in #mk and post the result here first?

[Asrana]

OOC - Pass of 9.

[Anastasia]

Seryf carries the barrel downstairs and outside. This by and large goes without incident until the end. However, as she does move it, she becomes aware of something. There are ever so slight vibrations and movements inside the barrel, as if tiny things are creeping in it's wooden depths.

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OOC - Roll 1d20, Saul.

[Carthrat]

[23:42] <%Carthrat> roll 1d20
[23:42] * Serith bats the dice around, getting a roll for Carthrat : [ 1d20=20 ]{20}

[Asrana]

"Saaauuulll..." Seryf calls, backing away from that barrel once outside. "There's something moving in this barrel," she informs the other elf, eyeing the storage device warily.

[Carthrat]

"Well, ah, stand back! Opening it or breaking it will set off the trap, so unless you're feeling brave, there's not much we can do right now," calls back Saul, still looking through the room.

[Asrana]

Seryf dutably moves back from the barrel, keeping an eye on it from the doorway, but otherwise remaining inactive.

[Anastasia]

Searching!

Saul searches the third floor! His execution is flawless, finding many a trinket and oddity! Only things of oddness or value will be listed - there's an unlisted mess of odds and ends of no real value. If you want to haul that stuff out and scan it or lunk it along in the hopes of a few more pence, let me know.

This is what is found by a basic barrel/pot/chest search!

Under a set of old bones in a pot is a black silk pouch. Looks well made, and it holds 6 Griffons, 6 Silver Tankards and 6 Copper Pence.

Lying behind a barrel is a polished bone or ivory(Unsure) tiny figurine - it's only a few inches total, fitting into the palm of your hand. A carefully carved skeleton's face with a hood, a leer of menace skillfull engraved onto it's face. It's well made enough to be of note.

Hidden behind a tiny sliding panel on a bookshelf is a small, clasped book. It's cover is of cloth, black if faded and old. As you touch it you get a feeling, a flair of sputtering magic strong enough to get your attention. However, it fizzles away almost instantly, as if the spell lacks something.

Behind the same bookshelf there is a hook. Hanging in nearly squished seclution is another pouch. It's dirty cloth, but inside you find three sets of coins with small holes in them. Each set has six silver tankards each, loops of them woven together for 18 Tankards total.

In a barrel you find a single copper pence mixed in with ashes, old and forgotten. No story here, just a grimy coin in the middle of something otherwise non descript. Your hands get rather dirty getting it out, however.

As you do a circle of the room, something catches your eye! Behind a bookshelf you notice a small segment of wall that juts out. On touch it gently clicks back, revealing a tiny recess hollow into the wall on the right.  Inside is a tiny window above a pedestool. Sitting there is a grinning book - a rotted zombie's face is there, covered in feasting bugs. Sitting against the alter is a small chest. Inside are two darkstones - badly flawed gems, however, one cracked and the other having a heavy deposit of rusty iron in it's inner depths.