Kai will move carefully to investigate the shield and pictures, doing quick sketches of any emblems or other small important symbols on a seperate page, copying the layout of this room to the floor layout. She speaks quietly. "This room is definantly Aristocratic isn't it."

Bukowyr Geogazer | Svirfneblin | Ranger | Level 1 | AC 15 | HP 12/12 |

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"Does the illusion persists here? Can any of you tell anything about these objects?" Asking those questions is a form of inviting the companions to do what he himself was about to, examining the area and looking closely at the objects.

Investigation 14

Perception 19

Kayla laughs at that softly.  Perhaps it was the tension but the comment struck her as funny.  Kitted out for battle and they entered a house that looked as if it was about to hold a fashionable salon.  Besides, lordly the decorations might be but they were also a little too much.

"Ostentatiously so," Kayla replies.

At the deep gnome's comment, she examines he surroundings using what arcane lore she had picked up.

Arcana 22

After doing some small sketches, Kai will look around the room, not wanting to really touch anything. She hums in thought before looking to the others. "If you give either me or Torvus roughly 10 minutes, we'll be able to tell if anything around here is illusionary."

Torvus has a bit of a faraway look in his eyes as he continues observing the surroundings while walking inside. Nightgleam swoops inside and lands on his shoulder. With a snap of his gnomish fingers and a slight whooshing sound, the owl disappears altogether.

(As per find familiar, Torvus uses his action to temporarily dismiss Nightgleam into a pocket dimension for a future time.)

"Sounds wise."

Kai looks to Torvus before back out to the street at the kids. "Torvus... I thought Nightgleam was going to stay with the 'children'." She moves to dig into her memory for the ritual of detect magic and starts to cast it, focusing her attention on it. "Just give me a few minutes. Feel free to investigate this room."

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Kai looks to Torvus before back out to the street at the kids. "Torvus... I thought Nightgleam was going to stay with the 'children'." She moves to dig into her memory for the ritual of detect magic and starts to cast it, focusing her attention on it. "Just give me a few minutes. Feel free to investigate this room."

(OOC: Torvus probably still has his detect magic going from before if you want to save yourself a ritual cast. I figure as long as one of us has it we should be good, though two certainly can't hurt, right?!)

He scoffs audibly at Kai. "Well, yes, but that offer was made a little bit before the part where it became clear they were absolutely not children. I'm not leaving my best friend in the company of illusions with possibly nefarious intent, especially not in a place like this where we have yet to see a single living soul." He crosses his arms in what seems to be a gruff manner, but it's a little hard to pull off "gruff" with his diminutive stature.

(I figure if we split up the group, having two detects would be helpful ) 

Kai nods at Torvus, smiling a little in amusement. "I would never ask you to risk your precious friend. Although I'm just worried about what those 'kids' will do when we are not watching them?" She then returns to her casting, becoming distracted with the ritual casting while everyone else looks around the entry hall room.

As you advance through the foyer you'll reach a a wide hall that runs the width of the house, with a black marble fireplace at one end and a sweeping, red marble staircase at the other. Mounted on the wall above the fireplace is a longsword (nonmagical) with a windmill cameo worked into the hilt. The wood-paneled walls are ornately sculpted with images of vines, flowers, nymphs, and satyrs. Here is something that Torvus might've studied closely and after a couple of minutes from observation he'll see serpents and skulls inconspicuously woven into the wall designs. The decorative paneling follows the staircase as it circles upward to the second floor.

A cloakroom has several black cloaks hanging from hooks on the walls. A top hat sits on a high shelf.

Kayla's Magic Hand confirm that every door in sight is actually unlocked.

With the doors open, Kayla can see glimpses of what lies beyond.  Which one to choose?

"Any preferences on where to start?  Perhaps the room to the south?  Then move to the one closest by me and then so on, once Kai finishes casting?"

Whenever Kai is done casting detect magic ritually, she will consult her map from earlier. "From the looks of it, south is the trophy room, the left north door is the dining room and the right north door is the kitchen. However, there are some extra doors the kids did not speak about here. Maybe we should start on the rooms we know for certain and go from there?"

"That makes sense and I'll follow you for the moment.  What kind of trophies will there be?  Anything that might tell us what we face, either in the house or general area, I wonder?"

Investigation 7

Since he's standing by the trophy room anyway, he peeks inside after Kai opens the door. "Well, if you ask me, a trophy room certainly sounds much more interesting than some cook's menagerie." Torvus takes a moment to stand at the stairway and listen (22) for any sounds of movement or conversation.

After that, he stands at the entrance of each room and inspects the interior for magical auras first, just to sweep it clear. Torvus also takes a moment to peer through any exterior windows in any room we enter and try to orient himself.

(Torvus is looking out the windows to see if we're really inside the house we just went into, checking to see if the interior matches what Nightgleam saw inside before and if the road and nearby buildings match what we saw from the street. Or is this also a trick of a sort like the children were?)

Finally, he'll go into the trophy room if there aren't any objections from others, and inspect it carefully. "What kinds of things did the caretakers of this place see as trophies, I wonder?" he muses aloud.

(I'm going to assume we brushed past the 10 minutes it took Kai to cast detect magic and it's up now?)

Kai will walk with Kayla into the trophy room first as it is the closest door to her and look around for anything interesting or off putting. Kai will speak with slight sarcasm. "I'd assume what most aristocrats have for trophies. Either hunting prides or small trinkets. From what the kids said, it seems to be the first option. But let's see..."

She notes any other doors or windows in the room on her sketch as well as anything of inportance.

Bukowyr Geogazer | Svirfneblin | Ranger | Level 1 | AC 15 | HP 12/12 |

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Instinctively, Bukowyr rushes in front of Kai before she steps into the trophy room. - "Careful!" - he says as he proceeds examining the area of the open door, inside the room. -" Feel free to help me, though."

Investigation 12

Kai gives Bukowyr a grateful nod and a smile. "Careful indeed. Mind checking for anything trapped in here?"

Torvus nods approvingly at Kai and Bukowyr's methodical approach. "If we're going to get anywhere in here, it's certainly not going to happen without being careful." He meticulously examines (18) the room with the two of them.

Benito, will stand at the side of the doorway outside of the trophy room to guard his compatriots from anything that might think to come and strike from behind.. One hand resting on the hilt of his sheathed great sword. He stands silently. "Too much talk can distract my senses when hunting monsters, I need to have my guard up. I wont have my newly found compatriots hurt due to carelessness on my part." - He thinks to himself.

This oak-paneled room looks like a hunter’s den. Mounted above the fireplace is a stag’s head, and positioned around the outskirts of the room are three stuffed wolves.

Two padded chairs draped in animal furs face the hearth, with an oak table between them supporting a cask of wine, two carved wooden goblets, a pipe rack, and a candelabrum. A chandelier hangs above a cloth-covered table surrounded by four chairs.

Two cabinets stand against the walls. The east cabinet sports a lock. The north cabinet is unlocked and holds a small box containing a deck of playing cards and an assortment of wine glasses.