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He continues south and a door is opened to a giant room. It looks like a dining hall, with tables and chairs, candelabras, and more. It looks like it recently has been used as a war zone. The tables are flipped up, arrows are stuck in some, and so forth. There are no other exists, and no bodies. A search reveals nothing. During a search, they find a carrion crawler quietly munching on a corpse just behind an overturned table. It looks like a mage’s corpse. Alzar orders the undead to kill the carrion crawler.
XP – 50
Once dead, they inspect the mage and find a wand. Nothing else is on the corpse, except a set of keys.
The corridor comes to a T, and Alzar goes east some more. It hits a door, and goes north. Alzar goes north and enters a door just 15 feet down the passage. This is a barracks, and there are bedrolls on cots in here. There are also some footlockers in various places.
A search of the room turns up three strange octagon coin-size discs, with no marking on them. Alzar takes them. There is a door and Alzar opens it, and it leads to the next room. This is another barracks, but it looks like it was for officers with nicer beds and such. There was a battle here and dried blood marks the ground. There are six bodies on the ground of humans, and three of hobgoblins. They only died about three or four days ago. The bodies have been stripped of everything useful. As Alzar searches the room with his undead, two human females open the door to the hallway. They see Alzar and come in. They introduce themselves as warrior adventuresses who entered the castle thinking there would be some good opportunity for adventure and fortune, but are not as strong as they thought, and they’d like to come with Alzar. He casts ESP and finds out that they are lying a bit. They are thieves, not warriors. They do feel that they have bit off more than they can chew, however. Their names are Duchess and Candella.
Alzar agrees to welcome them, but under the rule that if they take anything of his, or come after him, his undead will hunt them down and kill them. They accept and Alzar can tell they mean it.
Duchess – AC7, HP9, Con 18, Dex 16, short sword., Align: N
Candella – AC6, HP8, Dex 17, short sword, Align: N.
Both are second level thieves.
Alzar has the thieves search the rooms he just was in and this one, since they are better. They find nothing. They go back to the hallway and north into a door. As they enter into a cave like complex, they leave behind the castle. As they move forward, they come across a cave bear cub, waiting for its mother (whom Alzar already killed) who is out looking for some food. It looks like someone has been feeding the cub regularly. Alzar tosses it a little food, and it eats it, and they move past.
XP – 100 gained.
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