Imela: The Adventure Begins

Ruggero nods at Theo in agreement. "Aye, I dink heading down would be best for us," and when ready will lead his team down the stairs.

Perception: 5

After looking over the scrolls briefly, Viaya tucks them into her pack and follows the others back out of the Scriptorium and down the hallway into the kitchen. Eyeing the dusty but somehow still fresh looking food warily and the two staircases even more so. Hesitantly nodding her agreement to heading downstairs. "That seems our most likely option for finding out what's rotten here. Zakon and I should check the steps for traps before we start down though. This would be a nasty place to miss something like that pit back in the entry chamber."

Theo moves aside for Viaya and Zakon to check the way to the basement. Patting them both on the shoulder as they pass. Guidance

 Zakon nods at Viaya and carefully makes his way down the steps, alert for traps or any other dangers. 

Investigation: 26

Guidance: 2

 You make your way down to the basement. The first room you come to is a storage room. Boxes are piled high in the corners of this dank cellar, and there is a large set of shelves along the back wall with a few odds and ends. A door leads to the south, covered by an iron portcullis, with a winch next to it.

Zakon: You notice something peculiar about the floor. A few of the stone tiles are a bit out of place just in front of the winch and the door. After all the traps you've encountered so far, you're pretty sure that somehow the floor will drop when attempting to open the door. However, you also notice a smaller lever in the corner of the room, just behind some of the boxes.

Zakon stops suddenly as he reaches the end of the stairs. “There’s a trap here. Some sort of plate in the floor that drops.  Let me see if I can disarm it.“ 

Thieves’ tools: 22

"Hold Zakon, in your admittedly skilled attempt. I have a feeling that lever off in the corner of the room might disable this trap. What do you all think?" Kelvin looks around at the rest of the party as a spectral mage hand materializes in the air next to him, though it doesn't yet act. He will also walk up to the shelf [A4] and peer closely inspecting the odds and ends for anything that catches his eye.

Perception: 8

Zakon: Working diligently and quickly, you disarm the trap, allowing for you and the rest of the group to use the winch to lift the portcullis with no trouble.

Kelvin: Not much to see on the shelves. Just a few odds and ends. There is a shelf that must've served as a sort of wine cellar. There are a few wineskins stored around. But nothing else seems to be of particular interest.

"Well done Zakon! Anybody fancy a drink?" Kelvin asks jokingly, gesturing toward the ancient wine bottles and shuddering at the thought. "Who'd like to go through the portcullis first?" He walks forward into C3. God's breath...all this built so long ago..How did they manage it? He peers through the portcullis at the next room.

Perception: 10

Theo

"That was quite clever Zakon. You probably saved one of us from an injury" Theo looks around the room for what might stand out.

Perception 21

He walks to d5 and starts going through the desk; drawers and papers, for anything that might explain what is going on in the basement.

Investigation: 7

 Looking across the way, it is a bit dark, but you can both make out a pile of spare parts and tools in the back corner of the next room. It was probably a workshop of some sort.

"Anyone have any spells of light?" Kelvin finds himself whispering, though they are apparently alone. "I can see well in the dark but I'm having trouble making out details..."

Zakon will step into the room, looking around to see if anything immediately catches his attention. 

Investigation:  25

"Careful, there may yet be other traps or hidden dangers," he says to his companions. 

Viaya follows the others as they move down and through the basement level of the temple. Watching approvingly as Zakon handles the trap and the portcullis and following him cautiously into the room beyond. Eyes sweeping the shadowy reaches of the space before landing on the pile of spare tools and parts in the far corner. Eyes narrowing as she tries to make out more details as to what they and this room might've been used for.

Perception: 17

Kelvin moves into full view of the room , walking up to the door (E5) and investigating the pile in D5 (15). He turns, looking about the party. "What kind of workshop is this, I wonder..?" He looks at the door to the next room.

Perception: 15