Sergei, encouraged that his previous attack appeared to be effective, sends more dark energy at the armor. As he does so, a voice in the back of his mind says, My, my, but you seem to be enjoying this.

Attack: 14 Damage: 5

Cannot manage to affect the creature, he stabs it again with a silver rapier, hoping to jam it between the platings.

Attack 24 

Damage 9

Thadalas fires another arrow at the animated armor.

Thadalas' ranged weapon attack on Animated Armor
Attack: 7
Damage: 6
Sneak Attack: 2

Upon seeing the helmet starting to melt and Sergei's own spell burning a crater through it, Alev starts to laugh triumphantly... But his voice cracks with a pained chirp when that action makes his injured side hurt. Still, if he could smile, he would be grinning. 

"Burn down already, you pile of scraps" He grumbles as he hurls another fire bolt at it.

Attack: 22 Damage: 7

After a flurry of strikes against it, the armor looks heavily damaged. Skip manages to see through the hole in its chest a small gem on its back that is glowing ever so faintly. Going on a whim, he strikes the gem with his rapier. The gem fractures louder than it should, and the armor collapses into its component parts.The Armor is defeated.

Sergei finds that he’s breathing heavily, despite the fact that he hardly moved and was not one of the ones attacked.

”Why, indeed, is an empty pile of armor attacking us...” He murmurs aloud, repeating Alev’s question, and he approaches the wrecked armor cautiously. He studies it but admits he has had little formal training in arcane arts.

"...Is it over?" Alev asks in a weak voice, his hand still extended after he threw the spells. After he sees that the armor is indeed no longer moving and that its parts have all fallen to the floor, he visibly relaxes. 

"Great job...!" He chuckled to Skip and the others, before he groans in pain again. "Sorry, I think that possessed tin can here left me with a bump, no biggie..." He breathes, as he palpates the side where he got hit by the armor.

Good job you burned an hole in it though, or we wouldn’tve managed to stop it so quick. Skip remarks as he bends to examine the armour, to see if any of it is salvageable 

 Rudick made a disgusting noise, before then lifting his visor just enough to spit a wad of blood and buggers without giving a clear look at the rest of his face. With both passage finally and truly clear, he could focus on picking up the helmet, study it for a few moments, and after passively taking in the remarks from the others, spoke with a scowl in his voice. "Not monster then. Not one we're after, but guardian... Typical." He casts aside the helmet, and while shaking his head, again made for the western door for a peek inside. "Look alive. We still need find that nursery, tho-...." He threw the words over his shoulder along the way, but paused both in speech and at the door. "Just find it." He finishes prior to committing to opening his door.

Sergei snaps back to attention at Rudick’s words. He’s right! Sergei cautiously heads the other way, opening the eastern doors and peeking inside.

Alev, continuing your search, you notice that along the decorative from depicting forests, several bodies are hanging from the branches of the tree.

As you inspect the armor, it dusts and corrodes in your hands. Soon, all that is left is heap of dust on the floor.

Thadalas, You push open the double doors to this room. The doors have dusty pains of stained glass set into them. Designs in the glass resemble windmills. The dusty, cobweb filled master room has burgundy drapes covering the windows. Furnishings include a four -poster bed with embroidered curtains and tatted gossamer veils, a matching pair of empty wardrobes, vanity with a wood framed mirror and jewelry box, and a padded chair. A rotting tiger skin rug lies on the floor in front of the fireplace, which has a dust covered portrait of the family who lives here hanging above it. A web fkilled parlor in the south east corner contains it table and 2 chairs. Resting on the dusty tablecloth is an empty porcelain bowl and a matching jug. A door facing the foot of the bed has a full length mirror mounted on it. The door opens to reveal an empty dust choke closet. A door in the parlor leads to an alchemy outside.

Rudick, you take the far left door and open it to reveal that dust and cobwebs shroud an elegantly appointed bedroom and an adjoining door. Double doors set with pains of stained glass pull open to reveal a balcony overlooking the front of the house.Their bedroom contains a large bed, two end tables, and an empty wardrobe. Mounted on the wall next to the wardrobe is a full length mirror with an ornate wooden frame carved to look like ivy and berries.

Skip, Dusty shelves line the walls of this room. A few of the shelves have folded sheets, blankets, and old bars of soap on them. A cobweb covered broom leans against the far wall.

Sergei, you take the other door in the alcove near Thadalas. This dark room contains a wooden tub with clawed feet, a small iron stove with a kettle resting atop it, and a barrel under a spigot in the east wall. 

After inspecting the small linen closet, and reaching for the broom to see if it can fly....then thinking better of it and leaving it against the corner, Skip exits the little room, to rejoin the party

Still hurting for the hit, Alev at first is seriously thinking about just sitting on the floor while the others continue, but quickly decides against it, fearing that he could be left behind.

He stands up, but he leaves the others to check the doors while he stays closely behind. "...I'm sorry for that, by the way." He stammered, head lowered. "I didn't knew that the armor was going to start moving when I touched it. Hope that no else got hurt..."

Leaving that aside, he stated. "This house could have more traps lying around. Better be careful, right?"

Thadalas will take time to retrieve the three arrows he's shot, if possible. Thadalas will enter the master bedroom, and frown at the tiger rug. Although he'd normally admire this, he's sad to see it's deteriorating. "The husband of this family must've been a hunter." he says to himself, having recalled the hunter's room on the first floor, and the wardrobe of various crossbows.

Thadalas narrows his eyes onto the jewelry box and will check to see what may be inside.

Rudick grumbles after scanning the room the first time, but would give it a second pass before shaking his head. Seeing the adjoining door to it(not the patio, but other one), and yet hopeful of finding the nursery, he made to check into it next. In his heart of heart, however, the more he saw, the less confident were his steps while walking the third floor. The monster could yet still be real, but... the third floor looked abandoned for some time; leaving him with questions.

Sergei shares Rudick's concern that it's strange that this floor looks so...unoccupied. He joins Rudick in the search for the nursery.

With the apology about the armor out of the way, Alev finally joins the group in their search, though still hesitant to touch anything after what just happened. (Perception: 12 )

His mind goes back to the decorations he just saw. "...We really need to take the children away from here after all this is over. I don't care where, or how. This is not a house a loving family would be living in. They'd be better on the streets than here."

He joins Sergei and Rudick in the search for the nursery.

Thadalas, the jewelry box on the vanity is made of silver with gold pedigree. It contains 3 gold rings and a thin platinum necklace with a topaz pendant.The

Rudick, you open the door.in the room you are in and finally find the nursery. Sergei and Alev come in the room behind. I would like you three to make a perception check.

The small nursery contains a crib covered with a hanging black shroud. You see a tightly wrapped, baby sized bundle lying in the crib.

Perception: 11

Perception: 12.