When you pick it up, you can tell something is in there by the bottle's weight "Ah, you may not be able to see that liquid, but its there, this will cause the same effect if you drink it" she takes the map (your not in Central City right now, you are in the forest) she draws the forest between the C-shaped canyon, and puts down a long line nearly dividing the forest in half. "This'd be the long way, it's going to take days just to reach it, I know a secret way up there, the entrance to the basement is here the bottom of the canyon." The sky suddenly turns dark "Oh, my, things in this forest are awfully dangerous at night, why don't you stay the night uh... HERE!" She creates a door to a Demiplane on a set of rocks, a light grey, plasmatic glow comes out of it.

OOC: Yes, I phrased that awkwardly - Halec drew the current location, the Witch’s enclave, and he also drew Central City, where they came from, as a reference point, as well as the known shard location, the mansion, and the “paths” as directions the others flew in. 

“Thank you, it may not be divination, but between your memory sharing Magic and our efforts here, I think we at least have one shard location confirmed and directions of travel for the others. I’m feeling much more confident now that we won’t be walking about aimlessly,” Halec says. 

“As to the potion, if I am inferring your meaning correctly, it’s actually a potion of invisibility. While that sounds quite practical for me, for Anthony I believe it would be something of a dream come true, as he’s been asking around about invisibility quite often. You take it, dwarf chap. Do any of these potions do conventional things, like, say, heal wounds?”

"Yes, the glowing red one is a Potion of Greater Healing" she takes it out of the tray "this one, here" she hands it to you

I look at halec slightly surprised "you do know why i wanted invisibility, right?... " After a long pause for effect, I finish "I was planning on stealing your mule, but i can't do it now, and anyway you may want to keep it though."

Halec smiles somewhat warmly at Anthony for the first time.  "I trust that you're a changed man now, Anthony.  You told me as much.  You should be able to live your dream of invisibility at least once, even if you've given up thievery. I'll take it if you like, but the choice is yours if it's what would truly make you happy."  

After a pause, as he looks at Helen, he adds, still smiling, but the smile no longer meeting his eyes, "Besides, now after that little 'kerfuffle' with the weretiger, you know I do have some prowess with the sweet science of combat.  You also know by know that Lady Helena Cosset Muleworthy is quite dear to me, and my only true friend in this strange world of ours.  If anyone took her from me, why, I would likely just snap and kill them.  If anyone hurt Helen I would likely kill them slowly along with anything and everything they hold dear."  He then guffaws a belly laugh, then suddenly stops smiling. "Stay away from the mule."  

"I don't trust myself with it."

Halec takes the potion of invisibility instead of the healing potion, and speaks to Anthony.  "Good man.  Know thyself, as the bards say.  I think they do, anyway."  

After taking the potion of invisibility (added to character sheet), Halec will shrug, "Go with flow, I suppose," and agree to the long rest in the demiplane, and will follow the instructions, after waking, to go to the secret entrance to the basement that Igna directs them to.

(Chazrael, I need to know your selection. Orphiwalyn, I need your constitution save)

(Long rest was taken, restore all HP, spell slots, ki points, etc.)
In the morning, when everyone exits the demiplane, the gate disappears into thin air. Igna walks you out into the forest, along the way, you come across a beehive, honey drips out of its several holes, and no visible bees.

"Lovely day, in all of nature's splendor," Halec comments.  "Madame Igna, what can you tell us about Millennium Mansion?"

Halec will roll Survival to see if the presence of a beehive with honeycomb and no bees has any significance to him. Survival:  13

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"Lovely day, in all of nature's splendor," Halec comments.  "Madame Igna, what can you tell us about Millennium Mansion?"

Halec will roll Survival to see if the presence of a beehive with honeycomb and no bees has any significance to him. Survival:  13

 You see that the honey inside will make a delicious food source, and can be sold for quite a bit of money.

Halec makes no comment on the honeycomb, refills and drains his flask from his supply in Helen's saddlebags, and waits for an answer to his inquiry on Millennium Mansion.  He makes eye contact with the mule briefly.  "Oh, you say it's too early in the day to start drinking.  We can't all be aristocrats like you, Lady Helen.  I need this.  The world's gone crazy, no sense trying to stay on the wagon, when the wagon is going to collapse into a ravine along with everything else."  

She looks at Halec "Millennium Mansion? Well, it has quite the tale, like all the dungeons here. As the name suggests, the mansion is over a thousand years old. A happy noble couple used to live there with their three kids, although, one day, tragedy happened, something awful hit the place, causing the noble family to disappear. It is unknown what happened to the family, or what caused this, but the mansion was abandoned since. Legend says the souls of the noble family are still trapped within, no one knew for sure, in fact, no one dares to enter the mansion because those who do never get to leave."

"Egad, a haunted mansion," Halec says, making a sign of Gond, his chosen deity.  "And us with no cleric to exorcise the place and put the noble family's souls to rest.  Well, thank you for the warning, Igna.  Unfortunately, we have no choice but to brave these perils.  The region is at stake.  Please lead the way to this 'secret entrance,' and we will enter the Millennium Mansion." 

You stop at a part of the canyon, this area looks very similar to the area you entered, but there is no rock slope leading up to atop the canyon, the rock the canyon is made of is a light red color to it, a large, flat rock lays loosely on the canyon "The entrance is behind this rock, could you lend me a hand and help me push it out of the way?" She addresses to everyone, she is clearly struggling to push the rock out of the way

OOC: Chazrael will take the red potion with the dim glow.

Chazrael chuckles at the idea of a haunted house. "We may not have a cleric, but we can always exercise ghosts the old fashioned way."

Chazrael will help her push it.

Athletics - 5

“What is the old fashioned way, Chazrael?” Halec asks, honestly unsure it seems. “Burn the house down?”

To Igna he replies, “Engineering will help us more than muscle, m’lady.” He fetches the block and tackle from Helen’s saddlebags, and begins to prepare the complex set of pulleys and cables that allow one to lift four times what they normally could. After doing so, he says, “Two of us should work together, now. Anthony, I would wager, is the strongest, unless someone else would volunteer their athleticism. I will provide aid.”

OOC: As noted, using a block and tackle allows us to magnify our strength and lifting capability, and Halec will Help Action another character to provide them Advantage in addition to the use of the block and tackle, to “tackle” this problem. 

Chazrael nods. "Yes, but also using weapons."

The rock moves out of the way rolling, nearly crushing Halec, but he is unharmed. in the spot where the boulder was is an rusted iron door with no windows. "This be the way in, but you must go without me, this is your mission, not mine, and the mayor hates me anyways."

(since Chazrael chose the potion of greater healing, that leaves Ophiwalyn with the potion of diminution)