“It worked, didn’t it? The child is leading us to the shard,” Halec says. “Waste of good booze, dwarf. Not wise.” He glares, but follows the ghost.

"Where i'm from, we don't drink to take the edge off, we fight the threat, brave to the end, we drink in celebration! and after this whole affair, i'll take you to the tavern, and we will drink the good ale, on me, but not now"

“Let’s just see if this ghost can get us a shard piece,” Halec says. “If not all the taverns could be at the bottom of a ravine.”

Unfortunately, he passed through a wooden wall, and did not see where he went, so your party cannot follow him. You hear a voice in your head "I know of no such shard, I just want to get away from you. Go bug my little sister, Katlyn, she has to know everything."

You are currently in a hallway, the room is 10ft by 10ft, making the hall a perfect square in width and height. There is a side hall on the far side of the room. There are four doors; The one to Linn's room the party is standing in front of, the door your party entered through, a door on the other side of the hallway, and a door at the end of the side-passage.

Chazrael is going to open the door in front of the party.

Halec will follow Chazrael. “I just say, halfling friend, your stoic and steady presence has been one of the more reassuring things on this strange adventure. When time allows I would love to compare mustache grooming techniques and products. There’s a fine mustachery in Central City I would hate to see collapse into a ravine.”

Chazrael turns to Halec and nods. "I suppose we could do that. There's no secret to mustache techniques, just wash it and trim it neatly.

I start stroking my bare chin. " Well, I'm young enough not to have to worry about that yet... "

"Let's split up," I say "Come with me Ophilawyn, we will explore the side passage, you fellows can go straight..."

I take the side passage to the right.

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Chazrael is going to open the door in front of the party.

 The door is locked, you hear Linn's voice again "If you break into my room I swear, it will be the end of you!"

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"Let's split up," I say "Come with me Ophilawyn, we will explore the side passage, you fellows can go straight..."

 

I take the side passage to the right.

 That side passage leads into the dining room, a large, rectangular table filled with cracks and mildew sits in the middle of the room with a total of a dozen chairs surrounding it, the table seems to make the room very small. There are three other exits, two on the opposite wall of the entrance, and one to the left. The wall to the right has a large window that takes up the entire wall.

I take the left passage...

Chazrael rolls his eyes. "Listen, we are looking for a shard and we were wondering if you could help us."

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Chazrael rolls his eyes. "Listen, we are looking for a shard and we were wondering if you could help us."

 You don't hear his voice for a brief moment, and then "Well my room is clean, stay out of there!"

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I take the left passage...

 The door has a staircase inside of it that leads up into the dark.

I follow it, after all I have darkvision.

Just as you step on the staircase, you fall through the floor, landing into the cellar inside a barrel of ale. The staircase above fades into a small closet with a hole in the floor and you here that laughter again. Inside the room, you find the ghost of a little girl messing with the other barrels. She has short hair that is a lighter shade of blue, her cloths include a small dress suited for her, and no shoes.

I ask her "who are you? My name is anthony and i'm a friend." I also tip (or smash) the barrels so that halec doesn't get into it

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I ask her "who are you? My name is anthony and i'm a friend." I also tip (or smash) the barrels so that halec doesn't get into it

 (You are the only person in there besides the ghost)

She looks to you "Who am I? The question should be who are you? I'm Kayla, the youngest of my siblings."

"Come, your mother requires you, we must go to her to lift the curse off you and this house, in order to save this valley, by the way, ma'am I'm anthony" I head back to the room I destroyed.