Softly ascending the stairs up into the attic Olin says, "Did you see the dust on those stairs? No one has been up here in ages. Certainly no child lives here. I fear that nothing lives here, even if we are not alone." With a slight shudder, surveying the scene, "Is that blood on that child's teacup, Meepo? I do not like this place one bit." Olin grips his staff and with a silent prayer casts shillelagh on it, then guidance on himself. He continues the two castings once every minute, while he feels so on edge.
(Is the blood only on the teacup, or on walls, floor, etc?)
"Blood?" Meepo asks, taking a look at the cup he was about to put in his sack. "Lots lost have blood." he says with a shrug. He pulls out the whip he found downstairs, with the blood on it. "See..." he says, holding it up for inspection. he puts both away in his sack again. Moving back to the door he was checking. If it is not trapped he will open it...
Mordekai flings open the door, the motion stirring dust into the air. Mordekai looks inside seeing a dust-choked room containing a slender bed, a nightstand, a small iron stove, a writing desk with a stool, a wardrobe, and a rocking chair. A smiling doll in a lacy yellow dress sits in the northern window box, cobwebs draping it like a wedding veil. A short window sits, hunched just under the roofs overhang at the front of the house. Another window opens on the right side of the room and a brick chimney runs along the left side of the room.
Meepo meanwhile has wandered down the short hall, pass the locked door to the next door on the right. He pushes the door open after pulling the latch, revealing a web-filled room containing a slender bed, a nightstand, a rocking chair, a wardrobe, and a small iron stove. Aga, walking past the locked room looks in over Meepo's head to the quiet room. Meepo's eyes dance around the room. He spots a small spoon on the nightstand, a spool of black thread on the floor beside the wardrobe, and a small worn book on the nightstand.
Across the hall from Aga and Meepo, Kane pushes open another door. He looks into a room. This dusty attic room is packed with old furniture draped in dusty white sheets. A brick chimney runs through the outer wall to the right. A window faces out the front of the house on the far wall.
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Kane thoroughly searches the room for any signs of the infant, examining the dust on the floor for footprints and looking underneath each article of furniture.
The only room left unopened is the room with the padlock on it. Mordekai, Meepo, and Kane are glancing through the other rooms up here, though Kane seems to be doing a pretty exhaustive search of the room he's in.
Kane moves through the room, pulling the dusty white sheets off of each piece of furniture, thoroughly searching the room. Stacked chairs, coat racks, standing mirrors, dress mannequins, dressers, an iron stove, a wooden trunk, and a table are each revealed as he pulls the dusty sheets away, leaving the room filled with a slowly settling fog. Small boxes of knick knacks lay in and about the furniture. The dust on the floor is long undisturbed, no one has been in this room for years. You could probably spend a while (20 minutes?) searching through the boxes, or opening the chest if you wanted to.
The two parts of the latch that the padlock is attached to tears out of the door as Aga gives it a powerful pull. The lock holds however. She drops the lock and it's latches on the floor and pushes open the door. (everyone hears Aga apologize, and then the sound of wood and metal tearing, and then a thunk and the squeak of a door opening.)
This room contains a bricked up window, flanked by two dusty, wood framed beds sized for children. Closer to the door is a toy chest with windmills painted on its sides and a dollhouse thats a perfect replica of the dreary edifice in which you stand. These furnishings are draped in cobwebs. Lying in the middle of the floor are two small skeletons wearing tattered clothing. The smaller of the two cradles a stuffed doll.
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Mordekai opens the drawers of the writing desk, searching it for any contents whatsoever. (Investigation: 3)
Then an almighty splintering and crashing sound draws his attention. He rushes to the door of the room, and sees Aga standing there, shards and splinters of wood scattered around. Relieved to see nobody's been attacked or fallen through some rotten floorboards, he crosses the hallway to check out the previously locked room with Aga.
Mordekai finds a vial of ink, all dried out, a black wooden pipe, some old blank pieces of parchment, and twelve bent nails.
He goes and looks in the room. Upon spotting the skeletons, he also immediately recognizes the clothing, and the stuffed toy, as matching those of the children he's met outside.
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Mordekai would take the black wooden pipe and the parchment, before he went to see what Aga found.
"These are the children we were speaking to" he whispers, going to kneel by the skeletons.
"Meepo!" he calls. If/when Meepo comes through, Mordekai says, "These are the children's clothes, aren't they? These children died long ago. The children outside must have been illusions of them. But why? And who was casting the illusion?"
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(OOC: something is going on with my webpage, so cannot access normal fetures of the posting tool in the forum, forgive me if I don't use spoilers and such until this is figured out...)
Meepo looks through his room, picking up the lost things he noticed, then searching a bit more, before getting called to come look at the skeletons.
Investigation: 18 For his room...
If he finds nothing else he will go and check out what all of the fuss is about.
Aga will take carefull steps back out of the children's room. "Illusions?" She whispers to herself. She takes another look about the attic, then looks at the padlock she tossed on the floor. "Why...why was their room locked? What kind of people lived here?"
"Or ghosts, right. I was so busy casting illusions of my own, I didn't even think of the possibility of ghosts. (OOC: lol Genuinely true. Ghosts would be the sensible suggestion given the setting!) Poor children. Presumably their bodies were locked away to hide the secret. I don't know why you wouldn't bury them though, rather than living with the stench of decay. I guess in a locked room up in the attic which is hidden behind a secret door, the smell maybe didn't carry down the whole house. But if the attic is secret anyway, that brings us back to the original question: why lock the door?"
Olin crouches by the dollhouse, "The ghosts of those children clearly sent us here, well, here or down to the basement. They did not attack though, even when Meepo was with them alone. I wonder if we can help them find their passage to the Fugue Plane." Olin pokes the dollhouse a bit, trying to see if he can find the attic they're currently in, and if it has the locked room or skeletons. "Have any of you ever had a dollhouse of your own home? It unnerves me."
Meepo will go to the others if his room is done being looked through.
"Little Bigs..." He says as he comes inside. "But Little bigs no lost..." He says with a frown down at the skeletons. The sight of the bodies does unerv him a lot and he goes down onto his knees, clearly upset. "Meepo no think bigs get lost..." he says. "Meepo wrong?" He asks the bodies. "How big lost if big no where big is?" He is clearly very very upset and would take a bit of time to look around the rest of the room.
"No, Meepo. I don't think the children did get lost. Forgotten about, neglected, mistreated, clearly. But not lost. At least they had each other, and they will both have known where each of them were, always. So not lost, at least."
Mordekai wants over to look at the doll house with Olin. "A toy replica of this house? Odd, but possibly very useful. How much attention were you paying to the layout on the way up here? Are there any rooms or areas on this model that we missed? We already know the attic was hidden, there could be more."
Softly ascending the stairs up into the attic Olin says, "Did you see the dust on those stairs? No one has been up here in ages. Certainly no child lives here. I fear that nothing lives here, even if we are not alone." With a slight shudder, surveying the scene, "Is that blood on that child's teacup, Meepo? I do not like this place one bit." Olin grips his staff and with a silent prayer casts shillelagh on it, then guidance on himself. He continues the two castings once every minute, while he feels so on edge.
(Is the blood only on the teacup, or on walls, floor, etc?)
Aga will investigate the first rooms to the right.
"Blood?" Meepo asks, taking a look at the cup he was about to put in his sack. "Lots lost have blood." he says with a shrug. He pulls out the whip he found downstairs, with the blood on it. "See..." he says, holding it up for inspection. he puts both away in his sack again. Moving back to the door he was checking. If it is not trapped he will open it...
Mordekai flings open the door, the motion stirring dust into the air. Mordekai looks inside seeing a dust-choked room containing a slender bed, a nightstand, a small iron stove, a writing desk with a stool, a wardrobe, and a rocking chair. A smiling doll in a lacy yellow dress sits in the northern window box, cobwebs draping it like a wedding veil. A short window sits, hunched just under the roofs overhang at the front of the house. Another window opens on the right side of the room and a brick chimney runs along the left side of the room.
Meepo meanwhile has wandered down the short hall, pass the locked door to the next door on the right. He pushes the door open after pulling the latch, revealing a web-filled room containing a slender bed, a nightstand, a rocking chair, a wardrobe, and a small iron stove. Aga, walking past the locked room looks in over Meepo's head to the quiet room. Meepo's eyes dance around the room. He spots a small spoon on the nightstand, a spool of black thread on the floor beside the wardrobe, and a small worn book on the nightstand.
Across the hall from Aga and Meepo, Kane pushes open another door. He looks into a room. This dusty attic room is packed with old furniture draped in dusty white sheets. A brick chimney runs through the outer wall to the right. A window faces out the front of the house on the far wall.
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Kane thoroughly searches the room for any signs of the infant, examining the dust on the floor for footprints and looking underneath each article of furniture.
Investigation: 13
"This place is cramped. I can't believe multiple people lived here." Aga will move onto the next room.
The only room left unopened is the room with the padlock on it. Mordekai, Meepo, and Kane are glancing through the other rooms up here, though Kane seems to be doing a pretty exhaustive search of the room he's in.
Kane moves through the room, pulling the dusty white sheets off of each piece of furniture, thoroughly searching the room. Stacked chairs, coat racks, standing mirrors, dress mannequins, dressers, an iron stove, a wooden trunk, and a table are each revealed as he pulls the dusty sheets away, leaving the room filled with a slowly settling fog. Small boxes of knick knacks lay in and about the furniture. The dust on the floor is long undisturbed, no one has been in this room for years. You could probably spend a while (20 minutes?) searching through the boxes, or opening the chest if you wanted to.
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Class.
"Hm..." Aga will lift the padlock with her fingers. "I apologize in advance." She will attempt to rip the padlock off the door.
Athletics: 26
The two parts of the latch that the padlock is attached to tears out of the door as Aga gives it a powerful pull. The lock holds however. She drops the lock and it's latches on the floor and pushes open the door. (everyone hears Aga apologize, and then the sound of wood and metal tearing, and then a thunk and the squeak of a door opening.)
This room contains a bricked up window, flanked by two dusty, wood framed beds sized for children. Closer to the door is a toy chest with windmills painted on its sides and a dollhouse thats a perfect replica of the dreary edifice in which you stand. These furnishings are draped in cobwebs. Lying in the middle of the floor are two small skeletons wearing tattered clothing. The smaller of the two cradles a stuffed doll.
What's the difference between a Wizard and a Sorcerer?
Class.
Mordekai opens the drawers of the writing desk, searching it for any contents whatsoever. (Investigation: 3)
Then an almighty splintering and crashing sound draws his attention. He rushes to the door of the room, and sees Aga standing there, shards and splinters of wood scattered around. Relieved to see nobody's been attacked or fallen through some rotten floorboards, he crosses the hallway to check out the previously locked room with Aga.
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RavenloftAnnihilationMordekai finds a vial of ink, all dried out, a black wooden pipe, some old blank pieces of parchment, and twelve bent nails.
He goes and looks in the room. Upon spotting the skeletons, he also immediately recognizes the clothing, and the stuffed toy, as matching those of the children he's met outside.
What's the difference between a Wizard and a Sorcerer?
Class.
Mordekai would take the black wooden pipe and the parchment, before he went to see what Aga found.
"These are the children we were speaking to" he whispers, going to kneel by the skeletons.
"Meepo!" he calls. If/when Meepo comes through, Mordekai says, "These are the children's clothes, aren't they? These children died long ago. The children outside must have been illusions of them. But why? And who was casting the illusion?"
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RavenloftAnnihilationKane will direct the mage hand to open the chest while he remains several feet away, in the event that it is trapped.
(OOC: something is going on with my webpage, so cannot access normal fetures of the posting tool in the forum, forgive me if I don't use spoilers and such until this is figured out...)
Meepo looks through his room, picking up the lost things he noticed, then searching a bit more, before getting called to come look at the skeletons.
Investigation: 18 For his room...
If he finds nothing else he will go and check out what all of the fuss is about.
Aga will take carefull steps back out of the children's room. "Illusions?" She whispers to herself. She takes another look about the attic, then looks at the padlock she tossed on the floor. "Why...why was their room locked? What kind of people lived here?"
"Illusions, or ghosts?" Olin says, peering around the room suspiciously.
"Or ghosts, right. I was so busy casting illusions of my own, I didn't even think of the possibility of ghosts. (OOC: lol Genuinely true. Ghosts would be the sensible suggestion given the setting!) Poor children. Presumably their bodies were locked away to hide the secret. I don't know why you wouldn't bury them though, rather than living with the stench of decay. I guess in a locked room up in the attic which is hidden behind a secret door, the smell maybe didn't carry down the whole house. But if the attic is secret anyway, that brings us back to the original question: why lock the door?"
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RavenloftAnnihilationOlin crouches by the dollhouse, "The ghosts of those children clearly sent us here, well, here or down to the basement. They did not attack though, even when Meepo was with them alone. I wonder if we can help them find their passage to the Fugue Plane." Olin pokes the dollhouse a bit, trying to see if he can find the attic they're currently in, and if it has the locked room or skeletons. "Have any of you ever had a dollhouse of your own home? It unnerves me."
Meepo will go to the others if his room is done being looked through.
"Little Bigs..." He says as he comes inside. "But Little bigs no lost..." He says with a frown down at the skeletons. The sight of the bodies does unerv him a lot and he goes down onto his knees, clearly upset. "Meepo no think bigs get lost..." he says. "Meepo wrong?" He asks the bodies. "How big lost if big no where big is?" He is clearly very very upset and would take a bit of time to look around the rest of the room.
"No, Meepo. I don't think the children did get lost. Forgotten about, neglected, mistreated, clearly. But not lost. At least they had each other, and they will both have known where each of them were, always. So not lost, at least."
Mordekai wants over to look at the doll house with Olin. "A toy replica of this house? Odd, but possibly very useful. How much attention were you paying to the layout on the way up here? Are there any rooms or areas on this model that we missed? We already know the attic was hidden, there could be more."
Mordekai | Tiefling Warlock/Bard (Lv.12) | Pizazz's Beyond
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