A book and many things to do

[Iron Dragoon]

'Jarem, Bastian, one of you break this thing.'

[Anastasia]

One swording later, the candle is severed. The shadows fade entirely, no longer threatening.

"We've gotten lucky," Jarem speaks up, "To manage to both stop them before they made trouble and before they were fully established."

"Lucky's better than good most days," Bastian points out.

[Iron Dragoon]

'Luck is helped by wise decision making and prompt action. Let's get this place cleared out of any other surprises and start transferring these supplies and loot back home.'

[Anastasia]

Okay, so what's your general plan here and in what order are you going to do things?

[Iron Dragoon]

Check every room for remaining hostiles and a quick check for traps. Then open a gate and get the general loot out, then look for hidden stuff while that's being done. Before we leave see if we can't help those ash elementals. If not, then summon/call other ash elementals and have them either help or give permission to put them down. Best to be polite.

[Anastasia]

Okay, we'll begin with a general Perception and Spellcraft check to be used for this.

[Iron Dragoon]

Perception:

[blockquote]Rolled 1d20+46 : 1 + 46, total 47[/blockquote]

Spellcraft:

[blockquote]Rolled 1d20+56 : 5 + 56, total 61[/blockquote]

[Anastasia]

You search about. More storage rooms - and a treasury. A treasury with coins of all kinds, as well as precious metals and some works of art and treasure. They're stacked up and sorted well enough, it looks like no paltry sum.

More coming, just a chance to react to this.

[Iron Dragoon]

Alyssa gets the gate ready and sends a sending to Delaize to gather some idle hands to start the transport.

'Jarem, Bastian, keep security on the transport. Don't want our people getting surprised.'

[Anastasia]

To be clear, you aren't done yet, in case that matters at all. That was just the first noteworthy thing, hence why I said more coming.

[Iron Dragoon]

Oh, then yeah, hold on that.

[Anastasia]

Searching further, you find a set of stairs going down, deeper into Ash.

"Another floor?" Jarem speculates, "Might be a lot more to this."

[Iron Dragoon]

Alyssa nods, 'Use elementals to scout?'

[Anastasia]

"Not the worst idea," Bastian agrees, "If you're afraid of what's down there."

"It's prudent. This is not a good place," Emily says, "Shar's places hold terrible things."

[Iron Dragoon]

'Call them in. Jarem let's get some soldiers here to secure floors as we clear them so they can't come up behind us.'