Murder Mansion (2019-2020) - Game Thread

(Work has been kicking my ass the last couple of days, I’ll update this afternoon and all should be back to normal on my end. Sorry for the lack of posting!)

(totally fine!!)

Quote from KleinDungeons >>

Ignatia, please make a Stealth check, unless you want to try and open the door normally.

(you mean the room underneath the bathroom, right?)

 Yep, that one.

Stealth: 18

Flynt, you move up with Ignatia, torch lit and hand on the pommel of your long sword ready to move at a moment's notice.

Ignatia, you must've been extremely spooked from the previous encounter with the spiders, because you're able to creak the door open without making a sound. You're able to get the door almost entirely open. You see a storage room with dusty shelves with folded sheets, blankets and old bars of soap on them. 

....but what really catches your eye is the floating broomstick in the corner of the room, hovering gently in the air. It's hovering slowly up and down... it's rather hypnotizing to watch. It seems to have not reacted when you opened the door in silence. 

What will you do?

Renny goes back out into the hallway, not sure on what she can do next but she stays out there in case... mostly she is getting tired of looking at the nasty rug..

Quote from badpanda >>

Renny goes back out into the hallway, not sure on what she can do next but she stays out there in case... mostly she is getting tired of looking at the nasty rug..

 Ignatia motioned Renny over, hoping the other magic user had more experience with floating tools....

Renny, you exit the master suite and move back into the hallway. If you listen to Ignatia and move towards the storage room, you'll need to make a Stealth check, since the door is now open and the floating broom will likely "hear" any noises from the hallway. 

(that goes for anyone who moves within 5 feet of Ignatia's current position. Flynt, you don't need to make one at this moment, since you were there before Ignatia opened the door.)

Stealth: 19

Renny looks at Ignatia curiously and carefully makes her way over. She's light, she makes very little noise :)

Exactly!

Renny, you don't even make a sound when you make your way over behind Ignatia. You can clearly see the hovering broom now, in the corner of the storage room. It's hovering, bobbing slowly up and down in one spot.

Renny smiles a bit at it... but before she does something silly she tries to remember if she's read anything about floating or flying brooms before.

22 (Arcana) .. or

15 (History)

Seeing Renny move towards Ignatia, Sha stealthily follows, hoping there isn't another enemy. 

Stealth: 18

She stops where she can just see whatever the two are looking at, but where she is still somewhat out of the way. 

Shae, you see Renny quietly exit the master suite and you follow suit, equally as quietly. You bounce on your tip toes, taking most of the weight from your body away and not even making the floor creak once. You also now have a good look at this strange floating broom at the end of the storage room. It is still just hovering there.

Renny - while your childhood was in fact filled with books and lore, for some reason you don't recall much about floating or flying brooms (most of the books you've read cover more intense topics, such as fire and dragons and the like). However... you do remember something about an evil witch who used to fly around on a broom... and the broom one day turned on her and killer her... and has a mind of its own. Or was that just a story book that Dad used to read?

(used your Arcana roll. Anyone else can make the same roll if they wish)

Ignatia regarded the broom carefully....tool...or...danger?

Arcana: 16

Ignatia, as you watch the strange broom hover in the corner, you remember it's not so strange after all.... You recall in the moment a colleague of yours a few years back was able to animate objects... she started with small things like pebbles, then spoons, forks, plates etc... then tried larger items like the broom in her pantry. She was just young in her practice though, and had mistakenly animated the broomstick into a hostile creature who proceeded to beat the hell out of the poor woman until she was able to mumble a few words and the magic dissipated and the broom dropped to the ground. This broom seems to move in the exact same fashion as that broom did... you'll never forget it. 

For Ignatia:

 Ignatia carefully reached out and pushed the door closed. 

"" Lets leave that one be."

She turned to the others, " Secret door, other door or should we rest up a bit?"

Renny frowns a bit, "But... flying broom..."

Ignatia - you're able to close the door without any trouble or reaction from the broom.

You are all now in the hallway, and you don't hear anything in this particular moment. Flynt's torch is illuminating the hallway quite nicely. It's not pitch black outside by any means, but the torch definitely helps in here at this hour of the day. 

With no immediate answer Ignatia takes the opportunity to take a seat on the floor and pulls out a rather battered looking apple to munch on.

" Rest time!"

Ignatia - you take a seat on the floor and start to eat your apple. *crunch!*

Everyone can take a short rest in this hallway if you'd like. Ignatia can keep the temp HP that she received for dropping the Animated Armor. (It will be removed once a long rest is completed however, which is set to take place shortly in the story.)

If anyone wants to spend hit die, please do so! (I think it's just Shae who's hurt, right?). I believe spell slots would only be reset with a long rest pending any special features but let me know if I am wrong!

If you want to do anything else while chilling in the hallway, let me know, otherwise, what will be the next course of action after the rest?

Current HP from my record:

Ignatia  12 (8+4 temp)
Renny    9
Shae      5
Flynt      12