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They add the weapons and armor from the guards to their magic pile. A search turns up another secret door in the bottom corner, cattie corner from the base of the stairs. They push into the door on the left in the back section. This is clearly the quarters of a person senior to those outside. The place is clean and tidy, the furnishings are nice, there are candles and so forth . There is a table with a small wooden box and a bullseye lantern on top. They start searching and find:
3 flasks of oil
A tinderbox with flint and steel
8 candles
Some books: a volume of erotic poetry, illustrated, worth 10 gold; a naval almanac listing tide times for the River Storm in this area (10 gold); a volume concerning mesmerism and lists effects. (50 gold)
They find a box under a loose flagstone. It is locked. They pocket it:
(Locked, trapped with needle trap, 11 pp and three potions of healing, another of speed.)
The next door at the back of the big common room is open. The door to the room is barred – from this side, and can easily be raised. Alzar orders everyone back and the bar is raised, and the door opened. It is very dark, but some torchlight bleeds through. Light reveals dingy and dirt- ness in here. Alzar begins to sense something familiar. He moves in with a torch and inside are 6 skeletons, moving to…follow Alzar’s every command now that they’ve been controlled.
These have 4 hp each. They search and both Aleigha and Estaish find a secret door at the back, which is quickly opened. It moves to reveal a clutter of old and broken glass and earthware, and some copper pots in there that appear to be intact. This may have been an old laboratory, nice and secure and hidden in the back. As they enter, they see that a bench runs the entire length of the floor and jars of powders and liquids and pieces of chemical apparatus are here. There is an L shape table in here, and a rich chair, with a skeleton figure. It wears a robe, embroidered with mystical symbols, and starting to fade.
The book sitting open at the table is:
Ye Secret of Ye Philosopher’s Stone – 500 gold – it outlines the process to actually make a Philosopher’s Stone.
There is a golden skull, full size – 750 gold; gold apple 150 gold; rose – 150 gold; a small set of five discs value 50 gold in total. They begin to search. They find 47 gold in a belt pouch. There is a stone in the skeletons hands, and at first, they think it might be a Philisopher’s Stone, but Alzar’s Alchemy check tells them its not. It is added to the magic pile bag by skeletons. , Suspecting there could be many things, they search three times for 30 minutes. They find a secret drawer with a spellbook inside, but it is damage by time and only about 5 or 6 spells are legible, and Alzar will need Read Magic for later
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