The Manor

Poking his head out of room 6, and pointing to his chest, Ealdwig says, are you talking to me? Um, sure. Ealdwig wonders over to check the door.

The southern door is well built, is not locked and had no traps. With the locks not being an issue everyone stands back to allow Skeeve to open it.

The door opens to reveal a simple room with a couple of stools and a simple wooden table. A few items lay scattered on the table, covered in dust. On the far wall is another door leading south.

The items on the table are a set of cards or tiles that are about the size of a hand and less than half a finger thick. There are about 20 of them scattered across the table and nearby floor.

The door to the south us heavily bound with iron bands. Ealdwig determines that this door too is safe and unlocked, though again it has a quality lock. Stepping back to allow Skeeve to open it and a moment later you peer in to what must be a room with a couple of holding cells to the west. In the south east corner of the room is a pit ringed by metal spikes and a pully with a chain dangling overhead.

The tiles are very light weight, you suspect they are made of bone, and the carvings are very detailed. The cards are unfamiliar and when organized look to be an incomplete set based on teh designs on them. Or the game is even more foreigh than you suspect.

No keys are found in the rooms so far...

Ealdwig picks all of them up and puts them in his pack. I need to remember to talk to The Seer. See if he know what these are. Could be interesting stuff.

True. Kind of strange, right? Weird, but does it matter? No keys to be found? There has to be some somewhere. We could lock off these two room and avoid the pit trap. That could make this a decent place to make a home base of operations. Of course, we'll need to deal with the spider before that can happen.

This seems to be a dead end. Where do we head next?

Ealdwig inspects the door north of the west entrance to the gatehouse and finds it is trapped. Surprise!!! He defty disables the trap be inserting a couple pins and thin but strong plates into a pressure plate. Should the trap have triggered something, likely bad and or gruesome, would have happened with the ceiling to any in front of the door.

Again another quality lock, but this one being unlocked. Ealdwig and Blornvid agree that should you ever find the keys to this place you will likely be able to disable all the traps and keep them for personal use if you desire. Otherwise disabling th traps via the lock mechanism is incredibly difficult.

Standing back you allow Skeve to open the door to reveal a large room. Scattered around the room are piles of bones, rusted and ruined weapons, and scraps of crumbling armor. Several of the bones look to have come from much larger creatures though still vaguely humanoid.