The elderly man has already passed away, making the spell ineffective. But the spell works on the tiefling, easing her breathing.

The imp hears nothing from the northern door.

In the room with the burnt corpses, it holds little else. Even in the sarcophagus it just held a single jawless skull.

Marasatra tries to bring the tiefling back to consciousness with her Battle Medic experience (see below).

Finding nothing in the burnt corpse room, Arkon heads to join the others in the torture chamber. A flicker of sympathy crosses his stone features as Marasatra works on healing the tiefling.

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Zim moves to the North door. "Let's see what's behind here?" Then he opens the door

Treating the tiefling's wounds, her consciousness is brought back as her eyes flutter open. "W-what? I-I don't know anything else. All I do is sell w-wine, what more do you want?!" She struggles to focus but after a moment her vision clears. "W-wait...you're not the cultists..." Her tension in her body leaves her.

"No, believe it or not but we are working for the Flaming Fists, deputees sent to clean this place up from the cultist infestation here to be more specific." The young red-haired lady says with a small reassuring smile, trying to help the tiefling out of her shackles and into a more comfortable position. "Before you lost consciousness, did you see anyone else but your captors coming though here?" She asks with a concerned tone.

Persuasion if needed to calm the tiefling down and gain her confidence: 15

Meanwhile the tiny invisible imp flutters ahead up the northern corridor to take a peak on what's ahead.

Stealth: 22
Perception: 14

Marasatra steadies the tiefling as Valeria eases the shackles open, laying a square of clean linen over the worst of the lash marks. “Easy—your captors are gone, and we’re clearing the tunnels,” she murmurs, voice pitched low and even. “Head back the way we came: keep to the main passage, ..." she describes to the best of her knowledge the quickest and safest route outside, and adds, "At street level, present yourself to the first Flaming Fist patrol and ask for Captain Zodge. Tell them the deputised party sent you.”

She checks the tiefling’s pulse once more, then steps aside so the others may question her. “A handful of answers would help us finish purging this lair,” Marasatra adds gently, “but lingering puts you at risk. Once you’ve spoken, leave at once—find a chirurgeon topside; these wounds need proper stitching.”

Voices carry in these underground lairs...

Sarris rummages about in his pack and pulls out a torch and his tinderbox.   

When the tiefling moves into his range, he will warn the tiefling to NOT light the torch until she has exited the stinky zone...  but then light it up so she has light to see and at least a bit of a weapon 'in hand' with fire blazing.  

"Last person I had saw was those cultists...whipping me...They've been asking me about the Oathoon family and their guards. But I just sell them wine, why the hells would they kidnap me!" She looks to the torch and shakes her head, "Thank you but...tiefling, I can kind of see in the dark."

The hallway contains quite a few doors up ahead, but what catches your attention more is the hidden door. It's cracked open and stairs lead down.

With the room cleared, and the tiefling mobing back up Gorin moves forward with the others

"So hidden door first, or the doors up ahead?"

"I'll bet those cultists ran for the sewer levels like the rats they are, " Sarris said with some acid in his tone.  

"I can not believe those black clad warriors left those two prisoners chained to the wall to die.   It makes me wonder - DID they ignore those two because they were hellbent on getting to the cultists or did they never even come this way?"

He looks around at everyone before continuing, "We can dive deeper or finish up clearing out these upper rooms first.  When we go back to Captain Zodge, we can legitimately say we checked every room on this level.   

While your critter scouts ahead, we can check the other doors to the east...  just so we can be certain before going deeper."

"Clearing this level first sounds like a good plan" Gorin agrees.

Marasatra nods briskly. “Agreed—no sense plunging into the lower galleries with potential threats at our backs. We finish this level, door by door, then descend.” She casts a glance at the cracked secret stairway. “Sarris, take point up the east hall; I’ll keep within spell-reach in case another glyph or ghost decides to greet us.”

She checks that the tiefling is steady on her feet and gestures her toward the exit, then whistles under her breath. Ekko flits from Zim’s pauldron to hover above Sarris, ready to relay dangers while the group fans out to clear the remaining rooms.

((elderly man was death I believe, so only tiefling is going up))

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((elderly man was death I believe, so only tiefling is going up))

((Oh, you're right... I correct the post. ))

Valeria shrugs and recalls Mal, both following the others.

Stealth:  14

Sarris takes the lead and goes south and east until he sees the three door choices.  He will move up to the top most door on the eastern wall;  pause to listen. 

Perception: 8

Not detecting anything at the door, he draws his dagger and handaxe - shouldering his way into the room.

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Stealth:  14

Sarris takes the lead and goes south and east until he sees the three door choices.  He will move up to the top most door on the eastern wall;  pause to listen. 

Perception: 8

Not detecting anything at the door, he draws his dagger and handaxe - shouldering his way into the room.

 

 Four flickering torches in wall sconces light this partially collapsed crypt. An open sarcophagus in the middle of the area is filled to the rim with blood, with spillage streaking the sides of the sarcophagus and pooling around its base. The sarcophagus lid lies half buried under rubble behind it.

The invisible imp flies into the chamber and has a look around to make sure there are no pesky cultists still lurking in there.