Thpas does not react to Emre.

// Can Emre tell what's happening to Thpas? //

Aside from his facial expression, he appears to be sleeping

"I think this has something to do with his familiar... He asked we keep him safe and he looks pretty helpless now... Hopefully, he hurries."

Emre backs off and waits.

Thpas eyes open as his mind becomes present to his body. "I think it's safe to go inside. There's nobody on this floor, but the bakery is still operational. Someone is here, or will be here shortly." 

He holds in a wad of bile at the back of his throat. "Be careful, there is some vile liquid stored in there as well. Sylciss seemed to enjoy it, if that tells you anything..."

Emre nods, donning her shield and making for the entrance. "Let's get this done quickly."

"Very well - let's go! Should we see if the door is open? There's never a rogue around when you need one..." Valanthe states as she walks towards the door, longsword unsheathed and shield in position. 

"So, are we going knock?" Thpas asks unbelievingly.

"Well, I was hoping someone would check for traps, but fine..." Valanthe goes up to the door and attempts to open it. 

"Oh wait..." Emre says. "I can help with that!" She waves her free hand in front of her and mutters a short incantation so as to sense anything that would cause an unexpected harmful effect. 

// Emre will cast Find Traps. //

While approaching the door and her companions, Byllemura says: "Whoever and whatever this Morgantha and her daughters are, prepare yourselves for hostile behavior if they show up." as her grip around her staff tightens. "I have a sickening feeling this is more than an old lady baking pastries and abducting children from town."

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// Emre will cast Find Traps. //

Valanthe manages to open the door, entering the room inside:

The ground floor has been converted into a makeshift kitchen, but the room is filthy. Baskets and old dishware are piled everywhere. Adding to the clutter is a peddler's cart, a chicken coop, a heavy wooden trunk, and a pretty wooden cabinet with flowers painted on its doors. In addition to the clucking of chickens, you hear toads croaking.

The sweet smell of pastries blends horridly with a stench that burns your nostrils. The awful odor comes out of an open, upright barrel in the center of the room.

Warmth issues from a brick oven against one wall, and a crumbling staircase ascends from the wall across from it. Shrieks and cackles from somewhere higher up cause the old mill to shudder.

As Valanthe steps into the room, she hears a crunch under her foot:

Lifting her foot, Valanthe sees the shattered remains of a small human skull. Looking around, you all notice that the room is littered with small human bones.

 Sylciss is looking into the oven, as if expecting pastries to magically pop out for him to eat.

Emre enters with Valanthe, looking for any signs of living children. "Thpas said no one on the first floor, should we check another?" 

"What the..." mutters Byllemura as she enters the windmill. "We need to end this madness. Let's go upstairs."

// Should have said, Emre appears unfazed by the bones on the floor. She is all-business. //

Horror then anger fill Valanthe's face. Her knuckles tighten around the hilt of her sword.

"Before we go upstairs," restraint in her voice, "we check this floor for prisoners."

Valanthe will go to the trunk and cabinet in turn knocking on them lightly and saying to each, "We're here from Vallaki - anyone here need rescuing?"

If Valanthe hears any muffled sound emanating from either piece of furniture or see them shake or move in any way reactively, Valanthe will open it up, breaking any lock in her way.

Thpas walks over to where Sylciss was bathing. He looks to the barrel full of yellow filth and origin of the rancid stench. "Do you think this "nasty-gross" is flammable?" 

He plugs his nose and sends Sylciss up the stairs, to scope out the next floor. "I will see who might be on the floor above".

Byllemura approaches the oven cautiously and examines its contents, covering her nose and mouth with her hand and saying: "It reeks of death and evil in here, I can tell. Have you found anything, Val?"