Floons eyes open wide as his burn’s heal up. He lunges toward Kerri, his arms squeezing around her in the most grateful hug Kerri had ever experienced as he wobs into her shoulder. “Thank you, Thank you Thank you! That awful mage just wouldn’t stop, and I could feel that..... thing... reaching around in my mind. But you.... you saved me!

Meanwhile, as Spark presumably tries to find a three sided coin, Lyss and Aimee investigate. The two rooms with curtains seem to be sleeping quarters for prisoners, with wooden pallets covered with straw and manacles chained to the wall, the third hallway seems a little more well trodden, but seemingly ends in a square empty room. The pair feel something is amiss though, and while Lyss notices a clear patch of dust on the floor in front of a flagstone, Aimee swears she can see a gap in the wall behind it.

"Hey, Lyss? That wall looks like its all hole-y! Right there! You see? There!"

She points and lights it up with a burst of sparks with prestidigitation and bright purple colors in case it is too dark for Lyss to see and, more importantly, because it is fun to do.

"Someone with muscles, see if you can lift this up?"

Renaer comes over and lifts the flagstone, underneath is a low rough-hewn tunnel in the ground. 

Spark cackles.

"Oooh, perhaps a 4-sided coin!  This’ll be fun indeed."

"Oh... um..." Kerri seems a bit surpised, "don't worry about it."

"We got a hole in here not filled with poo or ooze! This way!"

Aimee takes the lead down the tunnel.

Perception: 5

She is clearly too excited by finding the Floon to focus.

Luckily for Aimee, the tunnel seems pretty safe, and after making it to the end there is a loose flagstone above her. 

Renaer heads back to Spark, Kerri and Floon. “Well my friends, it seems the ever resourceful duo of Aimee and Lyss have found a secret tunnel, hopefully it will lead us to relative safety.” 

"Hey Renaer! Found a thing for you to lift since you're the strong one! And tall! Lyss, I will lift you up - don't worry!"

(I’m not going to have Renaer reply to Aimee since he is back with Kerri and Spark, but Aimee you did notice that it wasn’t a lot of effort for him to move and he isn’tsuper strong. Also the tunnel is very low, so most of you will have to duck as you go through.

"Oops! Nevermind! It was easy!"

She'll move it and look around. At this point sneaky is out of the question so she thinks for a second and puts on the half orc's face as she does it.

Looking out from the hole, Aimee can see a cluttered cellar with some wooden steps heading up to a door, there is a collection of brewing equipment littered around the room.

Kerri sighs, but follows after the duo. "We probably shouldn't let them get too far ahead," she chuckles a little.

Spark scampers behind, his usual mantra of muttered comments and cackling surrounding him like a cloud.

Aimee lifts herself into the cellar and goes to the stairs and listens for sounds from above.

Perception: 16

Lyss slips up after her, keeping quiet as she listens for anything coming from above.

Stealth: 24.

Perception: 13

As the group follows Aimee, they notice her features shift as she becomes much bulkier than before. As she looks back at you, it seems like she has transformed into Grum’shar, the Orc Mage you just killed. 

Climbing out of the tunnel and into the cellar, Aimee and Lyss listen from the bottom of the stairs.

Aimee

Lyss

Aimee snickers a bit as she pushes her fake hand through parts of her fake face and tries to see her new tusks by jutting out her lower jaw and wiggling it around. She is pretty busy with that.

Kerri looks to the others, "That's... new," she says quietly as they follow along.

Lyss scrambles up and pokes around to see if there is an exit to the outside, or if exiting this cellar would mean going upstairs and dealing with the halflings up there in one way or the other.

Investigation: 21