*Creak* The door opens slowly, as Emanuel nudges it open with the handaxe, ready deal with any threats that may be waiting inside.

Looking over the barrels, Jhess lets out a low whistle.

"Hey, Mr. Trigger, do you want to come take a look at this?  Looks like some metal parts and things...think anyone back up at the university might have a use for them?"

The western room is small and appears to be a storage room of sorts. You can see that there is furniture in here, but you'd have to inspect it to see if anything of value can be found.

Trigger moves over to inspect the barrels.

(Unseen Servant was cast as a ritual; Mr. French will follow along in case he is needed)

Seeing Trigger and Jhess inspecting the barrels, Berlyn will follow Eman into the storage room and take a look around. 

Investigation: 7 + Deductive Intuition: 3

”If we want to take a few minutes, I can check if there are magic items here,” she offers. “Or we can take a look around first.”

Trigger, for the barrels in the hallway you surmise much of the same as Jhess. 

Berlyn, first you see there are several coins atop the table directly west of the entrance to this room. However, as you approach to inspect these coins, you notice that the layer of dust that should coat the ground is not quite intact. 

Eman is near the door and Berlyn is in the center of the room when suddenly a swarm of rats appears from all the walls in this room! They seem to seep out of the shadows themselves! The rats chitter hungrily as they descend toward Berlyn and Eman.

A battle is brewing!

Initiative Order:
Jhess
Berlyn (tied)
Fin (tied)
Trigger (tied)
Bloody Spear
Emannuel
Rats

Notes: Jhess doesn't get to act at the top of the turn since she hasn't been alarmed about the rats yet. The room Eman and Berlyn are in are tight quarters. I'm not sure how obvious it is, but there are six 5 foot squares in that room. Image all the squares near the walls are filled with rats. A reminder that talking for a few sentences is a free action!

"Yikes!" squeeks Berlyn as she sees the shadows move on tiny feet. "We have a bit of a vermin problem" she calls to the others. Then, to the swarm she taunts, "Come out and take it, you dirty, yellow-bellied rats!" as she casts Vicious Mockery (WIS saving throw, DC13).

(Damage: 1 plus disadvantage on next attack)

 Then, she says to Emannuel, "I think your sword is mightier than their bite!" for inspiration (1d6).

Feeling surrounded, she will climb onto the table, rapier in hand.

Having himself been nearly killed by the last rats they saw, Trigger is deeply concerned about Miss Berlyn's fragility. When alerted by her call, he rushes right on top of the vermin with his hammer.

Bonus Action: Rage
Action: Attack: 15 Damage: 8

Dropping his axe, partly in shock and horror of the flood of rats, Emanuel grabs his greatsword.  Cursing to himself that he can't just grab Berlyn and slam the door shut, he swings the blade in an arc trying to catch as many of them as he can in his swipe. 

He then reverses the blade, making a second attack.

Attack: 23 Damage: 10

Seeing the swarm of rats that appear suddenly from the walls, Lily sighs heavily. The charade with Eman was already over, it wouldn't be long before the others knew of her secrets... She reaches around Eman's broad shoulders with her white, ash cane and a blast of eldritch energy streaks out towards the mass of rodents!

Emanuel turns and smiles at Lily.  Glad to be fighting at her side.

With all your attacks, many of the rats are obliterated, but there are still several that remain! They seem crazed and determined to end you!

The swarm of rats nip at Berlyn's heels! (Attack: 3, Disadvantage: 10, Damage: 4)

(Next hit kills, everyone just make an attack roll of your choice!)

(Eman Smash! 16)

And smash Eman did!

Ba da da da dadada! The fighting is over!

For your trouble, you all find 10 golden coins with unfamiliar markings on them to all... except Berlyn and Jhess. You both see they bear the ancient Galifar I seal from when the kingdoms were first united so long ago.

You also find a statuette set of the Sovereign Host deities, though two of them seem broken. Finally, you find a golden compass inside a cupboard.

"Phew, thanks Emmanuel, Lily." Berlyn examines her bite. "It's not bad."

She checks out the found objects. "Wow, ancient coins...and this compass looks interesting. Mind if I take a moment to see if is magic and if anything else around here is?" Berlyn will close her eyes and focus on the mark on her shoulder to activate detect magic.

(Can Emanuel make Checks on the items; whether Religion, History, etc.)

Eman can roll history DC 18 to know the same.

Berlyn senses no magic.

(History: 22)

Emanuel is fascinated by these objects, never having seen their kind before.

(Very kid in the candy store.)

(OOC: Seems just a bit odd that Trigger would not also recognize the Galifar seal. Him being an archeologist and such.)

With a quick look over the room, Trigger comments,

"Could be a good place to hole up if it becomes necessay."

He then proceeds back out of the room to keep watch until Berlyn is done checking for magic. Then he proceeds down the hall into the shadowed room.

(woops, trigger knows too. Sorry, posting while sleepy is bad idea. Will post again later)