Chapter 2: Trollskull Alley

T1. Trollskull Manor
T2. The Bent Nail - Carpenter and Fine Woodworking
T3. Steam and Steel - Forge and Armory
T4. Corellon’s Crown - Apothecary
T5. Tiger's Eye - Private Investigator
T6. Book Wyrm's Treasures - Books and Scrolls
T7. Sewer grate

First floor:

-The hearth is physically in good shape, but the chimney is completely clogged, and the hearth is covered in black soot
-There is a single dusty, unbroken glass sitting on the bar
-One of the large windows is broken.
-All the light fixtures are broken.
-There is a keg of beer behind the bar. It's beyond bad, the keg rusted out
-There is some major water damage on the floor behind the bar, from the keg leaking, the floor sags as you walk on it.
-There is a small Plaque behind the bar, hanging on the wall that says "Employee of the tenday: Lif"
-The Cellar door is completely swollen shut from the keg leak, and needs to be broken to open.
-The pantry is an absolute mess, it looks like mice/rats got into everything and feces and food is strewn all over the floor, the cabinets are in good shape still, just need some major cleaning
-The kitchen is in relatively good shape, but as you explore it you find that the hearth used to cook is completely cracked and will need repair/replacing before use.
-There is no stairs to the upper level, it looks like there used to be, but it was closed off to separate the tavern from the living quarters above at some point.

Basement:

-The cellar smells really musty and strongly like vinegar.
-The Ale Cellar is empty, looks like it was cleaned out at some point, but there is an inch of standing sewage/water, and you see some broken plumbing hanging from the ceiling.
-There are 2 large wine casks in the wine cellar, but they've turned to vinegar. There is one good bottle of wine that fell from a broken wine rack that's behind one of the casks.

2nd Floor

-You have to access it by going up the external stairs in the back.
-The door is locked, you don't have the key. Stitches pops it open without much difficulty.
-Common room Fireplace is in good shape, looks like it was better cared for, but the chimney needs cleaning out and some work done on it, there are birds nests in it. Stitches does a pretty good job of clearing it out as he climbs through it.
-The Den has a nice sitting area in the turret
-Much of the furniture is unsalvageable
-The Bedroom has a rotten bed, as you walk in a little further you hear a noise under the bed, something jumps out at you! It's an old stray ginger tomcat. It jumps out the window.
-The spare bedroom is completely empty, nothing but dust.
-The hallway has a small end table that has a worthless vase and dead flowers. There are some pictures hanging there, but they are faded and worn away.
-The Hall Is empty

Third Floor

-the privy is nice and clean actually, it’s basically a little stool with a hole in the floor, the plumbing goes down to the cellar and is the pipe that’s broken.
-The library is in total disarray. The ceiling collapsed after a leak, and probably a heavy snow, and the 20 or so books left in the room are completely unreadable. It reeks of mold.
-the private bath has/had a large copper tub, it’s full of rust and debris and half full of water, the water ripples a little. A frog and tadpoles have decided it's their new home.
-the master bedroom is empty except for a large wardrobe, when you open it it’s full of dried up pine branches.
-the other bedroom is really plain, and the bed in it is actually in pretty good shape, it smells of mothballs and dust. There is a painting on the wall of Trollskull alley taken almost from a bird's eye view.

Attic

-one bedroom is full of junk, it looks like whenever a piece of furniture or whatever broke they put it in this room rather than throwing it away.
-the other room has a broken window and as you open the door 2 ravens startle from their nests and fly out the window. Everything in this room is ruined.

Turret peak

-Contains a single chair and an empty painting easel.

Hole in Roof: 200 GP
Masonry Repair: 45 GP
Water Damage: 325 GP
Broken Windows: 50 GP
Replace Furniture: 50 GP
Replace Kitchen Hearth: 190 GP
Fix Lighting: 25 GP
Fix Plumbing: 100 GP
Replace Sign: 15 GP
Total: 1000 GP

You catch a few choice curses from Embric.

Hrammar = Damn!
Orbal = Shit!
Sabruin = Fuck!

Sending Stones come in pairs, with each smooth stone carved to match the other so the pairing is easily recognized. While you touch one stone, you can use an action to cast the sending spell from it. The target is the bearer of the other stone. If no creature bears the other stone, you know that fact as soon as you use the stone and don't cast the spell.

Once sending is cast through the stones, they can't be used again until the next dawn. If one of the stones in a pair is destroyed, the other one becomes nonmagical.

Mind flayers, also called illithids, are the scourge of sentient creatures across countless worlds. Psionic tyrants, slavers, and interdimensional voyagers, they are insidious masterminds that harvest entire races for their own twisted ends. Four tentacles snake from their octopus-like heads, flexing in hungry anticipation when sentient creatures come near.

In eons past, illithids controlled empires that spanned many worlds. They subjugated and consequently warped whole races of humanoid slaves, including the githyanki and githzerai, the grimlocks, and the kuo-toa. Conjoined by a collective consciousness, the illithids hatch plots as far-reaching and evil as their fathomless minds can conceive.

Since the fall of their empires, illithid collectives on the Material Plane have resided in the Underdark.

Psionic Commanders. Mind flayers possess psionic powers that enable them to control the minds of creatures such as troglodytes, grimlocks, quaggoths, and ogres. Illithids prefer to communicate via telepathy and use their telepathy when issuing commands to their thralls.

When an illithid meets strong resistance, it avoids initial combat as it orders its thralls to attack. Like physical extensions of the illithid’s thoughts, these thralls interpose themselves between the mind flayer and its foes, sacrificing their lives so that their master can escape.

Hive Mind Colonies. Solitary mind flayers are likely rogues and outcasts. Most illithids belong to a colony of sibling mind flayers devoted to an elder brain — a massive brain-like being that resides in a briny pool near the center of a mind flayer community. From its pool, an elder brain telepathically dictates its desires to each individual mind flayer within 5 miles of it, for it is able to hold multiple mental conversations at once.

Hunger of the Mind. Illithids subsist on the brains of humanoids. The brains provide enzymes, hormones, and psychic energy necessary for their survival. An illithid healthy from a brain-rich diet secretes a thin glaze of mucus that coats its mauve skin.

An illithid experiences euphoria as it devours the brain of a humanoid, along with its memories, personality, and innermost fears. Mind flayers will sometimes harvest a brain rather than devour it, using it as part of some alien experiment or transforming it into an intellect devourer.