Sootstep asks how strong is the "magic man", doesn't know how he disappeared
(archane check) Tehazysh knows that teleportation magic is very powerful at a long distance, so he is either invisible or teleported a short distance outside
Sootstep finds a hatch and goes down into it, classic bar basement, all smashed and sticky (as Lork is asking about anything to give us)
Sootstep suggests leaving now the bar is fucked and everyone is dead, Grista decides to gather her papers and dip
Yucca investigates the chimney, and fines a roll of paper, it is written in Elvish, Tehazysh translates. The letter is from black-spider instructing Iarno (Glasstaff?) to direct the Redbrands to make moves on Harbin-Wester to make room for the goblins. Tehazysh recognise the handwriting but not sure who's.
Sootstep goes into basement and finds some fur, it's not the fur of an animal.
Tehazysh goes down into basement to look at more (nat 20), sees a really obvious secret door with furr trapped into it
Lork-Faithstone jumps back over to Grista and asks about the door, claims to know nothing, asks her to grab a torch, grabs a log and forces her to look at the door, she doesn't know anything, not been down there
Sootstep decides he's heard enough and punches the door, hand hurts, nothing happend
No hinges on the outside, has keyhole
Yucca tries to use her key she found in the Tresendar-Manor, door opens, slim stone corridor descending towards the Tresendar-Manor direction. (thought, magic man might've teleported down into here?)
We walk down the tunnel about 5minutes, towards the end we feel a cold breeze with the smell of decaying flesh. A bridge, columns, ceiling like 20ft above
We see a monster in the distance, Sootstep and Tehazysh sees a creature crouched behind a pilar, large single eye, not many fingers, is climbing
Sootstep moves around, Nothic moves its eye to see what's happening and then returns to watch the party. He continues on through the cave, finds a door, then rejoins us, similar to entrance, possibly.
Sootstep and Tehazysh spot a person at the back, we don't get any more info
Sootstep then goes to the left and finds some boring doors
First door; see to see if he hears anything, nothing, and sees nothing through keyhole, hears the soft breathing of at least four people, doesn't sound human
Second door, spots two people, hears two more. The people are in red cloaks (Redbrands), are whisper arguing about adventurers causing issues.
Tehazysh moves forward and sees a Redbrands disappearing through a door
We shuffle around some more to see what we can see
We get to the bridge where the Nothic was, we find a staircase. The Nothic asks if we have food telepathically. Sootstep points at Tehazysh and says Tehazysh have dog treats. It walks along like a ape towards us. It reaches out a hand.
Tehazysh reaches into my pocket and pull out a dog treat, gives it and put it in its hand
Nothic eats messily, talks about it being crunchy and dry, but not like bones. Asks for more food, offers secrets
Tehazysh gives it some to the Nothic, it doesn't back off
Sootstep takes one and offers it saying "paw", Nothic doesn't like it, tries to do some magic thing with its pulsing eye. "No secrets for you if no food"
Tehazysh continues to feed the Nothic treats, it keeps wanting more. By the time I run it seems somewhat satisfied. It jumps off the bridge into the water, messes with a human body, and returns with the bloody scroll and gives it to Tehazysh. It's an "Augury" spell that lets you predict the outcome of something. Tells me to find my own secrets and then goes to another wall and watches us upside down.
Sootstep goes around the corner and finds a corridor with doors and assumes it's the same room as previous.
Sootstep listens to a new room, hears nothing behind door, opens the door, rats scatter. The room is a workshop of sorts, has chemical things bubbling over and a bunch of scrolls - and things.
Sootstep puts ear to the next ear, the door handle turns as he's listening.