Murder Mansion (2019-2020) - Game Thread

Flynt points down the stairs. "I think the house wants us to go down. Perhaps we will find more answers down there."

Renny walks in and looks down the staircase. She takes a stone out of her pocket, casts light and lets it drop down the stairs, looking down after it.

Renny, you light up a stone and drop it down the circular staircase, illuminating the entire staircase shaft as the rock goes down the middle of it. The middle of the staircase shaft is small but the rock manages to drop all the way down. However... eventually, the light goes out.

So from this you can determine that this staircase must exceed 40 feet since that is the radius of the spell, and the rock must be farther down since you can't see the light from it anymore. 

Thieves' Tools: 18

Shae pulls out her pouch of lockpicks and tools and sets to opening the chest with a determined nod in Ignatia's direction.

These usually aren't difficult. Let me see what I can do.

Shae, you pull out your familiar lock picks of which you've become quite accustomed to. At this point, they are basically like extensions of your fingers. You start with the wooden trunk's lock/strap, and immediately notice that the trunk isn't even locked. You quickly put back your tools and open the trunk..... so much dust... pooooof

You see what you think are skeletal remains, wrapped in a tattered bed sheet, which is stained with dry blood.

Any other details will require an Investigation or a Medicine check... if you so desire.

Renny hums to herself a moment as the light disappears. "So it's kind of far down."

Ignatia frowned, " Dead person in a trunk....so thats a murder...we should probably check all the other rooms on this floor before we head down the stairs, we don't want to leave enemies at our backs if we need to book out of here fast."

Shae starts looking at the remains, trying to figure out what all this is about.

Investigation: 20

"What happened here..."

Flynt is going to help investigate as well.

Investigation - 15

Shae and Flynt, you both start looking at the skeletal remains, first just looking, then poking and moving the sheet to see what actually was wrapped up in there.

Shae, with that natural 20 roll..... one look of the unwrapped skeleton corpse (it is not quite fully rotted yet and has some fleshy tissue still in some areas) it all makes sense. This is a human, a female human. You do not recognize her face (still lots of flesh on it) from any of the family portraits throughout the house, so you can only assume that this woman is the family's Nursemaid. You can clearly see from both the scratches on the bones as well as the pierce marks on the fleshy sections of the corpse that the nursemaid was stabbed multiple times. Murdered. Just like Ignatia had just said. Then wrapped in the tattered bed sheet and put in this trunk to rot.

Who killed her? And why?

Those thoughts run through your mind and then suddenly the 1/2 skeleton 1/2 corpse woman starts to shake violently, opens up and unravels her body which makes awful contorting noises, stands up in the trunk, and opens her dead yes and looks at all of you, one by one, hissing as she does so with her tongue also flailing about. She's pissed.

The nursemaids remains that you've disturbed has now animated into a Specter.

Everyone please roll for initiative!

(If you are unfamiliar with a Specter, try not to look at the Specter's stat block. They are a ***** though! Get ready.)

Ignatia span about, " You poor dear...."

She reached into her pouch and traced a line of holy water across Flynts forehead, muttering words of protection.

" You go send that nice girl onwards, she doesn't deserve this terrible existence."

Cast: Protection from Good and Evil on Flynt.

Initiative: 19

Renny frowns at the poor lady who got all murdered.. and then yelps a bit as she suddenly animates, "Oh come on!"

Initiative 22

Specter Initiative: 22

Flynt Initiative 20

Flynt is a little taken aback at Ignatia's gesture but he understands. "I will send her peacefully."

Shae initiative 16

Round 1:

Initiative /  HP
1.Renny,  22 / 9
2.Specter 22 / ?
3.Flynt 20 / 12
4.Ignatia 19 / 12 (4 temp)
5. Shae 16 / 6

Renny is up!

Oh sorry I forgot to mention:

Flynt - I assume you still have your torch lit, or else most if not all of the party won't be able to see. So for this battle can we assume you're wielding your long sword and the torch, putting the shield on your back for the time being? (AC16)

(This makes for quite the spooky ambiance with the torch lighting in the room, as this fight begins with that Specter like animating and contorting to stand up in the trunk and gaze at all of you.... making strange stuttering noises from her mouth, nothing of which sounding like any type of language. Just noise.)

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Oh sorry I forgot to mention:

Flynt - I assume you still have your torch lit, or else most if not all of the party won't be able to see. So for this battle can we assume you're wielding your long sword and the torch, putting the shield on your back for the time being? (AC16)

 

 

 OOC: Yeah that's fine.

Renny summons up fire and hurls a fire bolt over at the Spectre.

Attack: 11 Damage: 7

She then backs out into the hall just around the door, trying her best to keep out of sight.

(poop damage, boo)