Pizazz's Ravenloft and Beyond

The coffins are laid out seemingly at random. The nearest one is two feet away from the edge of Mordekai's coffin. 

Mordekai figures at least two of the coffins are empty because rat was in there, one has or stuff in, and the other eleven, who knows. He quickly opens the nearest 3 coffins and looks inside, hoping he's faster than the forming skeletons. 

Meepo walks around, listening for Mordekai.

(Also, the door up above, is it flush in the wall, or is it possible to stand in the doorway?)

Meepo should be able to easily limit the area in which Rat is from him. After all he loses contact if Rat is more than 100 feet away. He would simply walk around until he loses contact, then go a different direction,eventually knowing generally what direction rat is from him... Not that this means there is a path from Meepo to Rat, since any door might be on a complete different level of the castle.

     Ketch waits patiently for Mordecai to come sauntering out of one of the crypts... Or some sound calling out from one of them.  Something.

     The patience lasts two or three minutes. Tops.  Then Ketch starts forward, as if to do something, then growls and holds himself.  "Check the crypts," he suggests to the others. Ketch then starts the Detect Magic ritual figuring Mordecai surely has something magical on him, and Ketch should be able to tell where there is something where there wasn't last time he did the spell....

(Mordekai has only been gone about 20-30 seconds or so, by this point, I think? However long it took him to climb out of a coffin.)

The door up has a small lip around it, so you could stand just inside it, and cling to the wall. But it's a narrow ledge. 

Mordekai, seeing all the skeletons reforms quickly hops out of his stone coffin and flips the lid off the nearest one.  

(1-The stuff from the disk,2-empty,3-14-not empty) 14 

An undead wight is staring up at him, its eyes are wide open and it has a sword in one hand.  (Mordekai - Roll Init)

Wight: 14. (if you go before it, take your turn, it's prone so you'd have advantage with melee attacks and disadvantage with ranged)

The group begins to walk around the crypts, listening for sounds, trying to pick up the noise of either Rat or Mordekai. Meepo is down 2nd to last line of crypts when he loses contact with Rat. By his rough foot steps and judge of measurement, that would mean that the 2nd to last line of crypts at the north end are about 100 feet away. 

He heads down there quickly...listening and looking.  8 is "Duchess Dorfniya Dilisnya" and hasn't been opened.  9 is "Pidlwick - Fool ofDorfniya" and sits open how you left it. 10 is "Sir Leonid Krushkin (Sir Lee the Crusher): Bigger than life, he loved his jewelry"...this one sits open, the one that the Maul was taken from. 

Initiative: 13

Lionel tried to listen too but without much hope. "He was supposed to teleport from there - wherever "there" is. We should have just move - none of those "treasures" on the disk were worth this much trouble!"

"Lost items worth trouble." Meepo nearly snarls back at Lionel. He moves to the still-closed crypt door and opens it.

(It's really not been more than a minute, right? So you'd be waiting for Mordekai to get out of the coffin, find the items and gather them up and then teleport. I figure you'd be expecting to wait at least this long.)

((As I said, Ketch would be waiting a couple scant minutes.. 1-3ish.  Then start the 10 minute ritual which he hoped would help clue in to where you are. ))

Mordekai, the creature hops to it's feet, a sword in it's hand, and attacks you....swinging twice...

Attack: 5 Damage: 3

Attack: 23 Damage: 5

Your turn.

Meepo pushes open the crypt door. A skeleton draped in rags lies atop a marble slab in the center of the crypt. Hanging on the back wall is a hand­some quilt that depicts a royal feast.

Mordekai will use his Misty Escape reaction to teleport up to the door ledge, where he'll open the door. 

The group hears a crypt door open and rushes over to Crypt 14, which reads: "Stahbal Indi-Bhak: A truer friend no ruler ever had. Here lies his family in honor."  Mordekai emerges. Looking in, you see a fall of nearly 50 feet down, you see what must be about a hundred skeletons, and a wight, milling about at the bottom amidst 13 closed coffins and 2 open ones. 

Meepo looks down....ah....if Rat was also DOWN, then he would have appeared to be further away than he was because of the added distance, which is why he was a row off when he was opening doors.  He mutters something about 'Pythagoras' as he glances down at all the undead replacements for his army.

Mordekai turns to Meepo, "I saw this and thought of you."

"I wonder why," mumbled Lionel but more to himself. "Do you really want to get these skeleton out of there? Looked kind of aggressive. If we are going to Vallaki now, do you think it's better to appear there without them?"

     "Problem solved, Ketch abandons his ritual and joins the rest of the group.  "Can you take over already animated dead?" Ketch asks, curiously.  Still and all, plenty of corpses in the crypt that wouldn't need to be pulled up from 50 feet down...

     "Now... Shall we depart?"