The party grieves and begins to process their loss. It is hard to believe that at most ten minutes have passed since the party first entered the Forgotten Abbey, and less than 24 hours have passed since Elysia picked the lock and the heroes first stepped through the gate from the Market District in Grayhaven. Why did they come here, anyway? They were following Tykus' map to this Abbey, looking to find an artifact that he believed was indicated on the map. The map that drow assassins had literally killed to find. Where was this artifact, then?
OOC:
At the most liberal accounting, it is about 9 PM on the 22nd day since the party left Mara. So the party will get a long rest, just not until midnight when it becomes the 23rd day.
After
Eozindra gives her moving prayer and eulogy over Elowin,
Adran,
Morik, and
Ishi begin lugging the dead bodies to the pool with an idea to dumping them there. But Morik notes that the bodies will just float on the surface if they don't find something to weigh them down. The party begins to look around: to see what's there, to see what else there might be to explore, to see what the Lord Mayor's Men were doing, to see any trace of an artifact, to find some cobbles or something to weigh down corpses, to secure against further attack, intrustion, or the return of more of the Lord Mayor's Men, to keep their minds off of their grief.
[ +- ] What the party has seen of the Abbey
There's an assortment of old junk in the room where
Ishi is (the "
Nursery" where the party entered the Abbey from the tunnels), but no loose stone nor any metal bits large enough to sink a body.
There are a bunch of tools for burglary and theft in the
Library where
Elysia is, looking down on the pile of dead bodies by the pool, but it would take a lot of any of the
iron spikes, grapnels, lockpicks, or any of the other tools to weigh down even one of the bodies (though there's plenty of
rope available).
The
Entry Hall, where
Morik is, has an unopened
door at one end (the west, on the left of the map) and
three unopened doors on the south wall. The far eastern end of the
Entry Hall is filled with collapsed masonry; at some point that part of the buried Abbey collapsed from the pressure of tons of earth and stone of the city above it. Of all the party members,
Morik is the least uncomfortable with the sensation of the vast earth above them pressing down on them...but he's still not entirely happy about it.
The
Great Room, where
Eozindra is, is filled with the detritus of the gang using it as their communal living space. The huge unopened
door with the two bas-relief characters touching hands above it still awaits inspection in the east wall.
The
Chapel, where
Adran stands vigil over his sister's body, was clearly used as the Lord Mayor's bedroom. A
desk and
bed sit at the far end of the room, and an unopened
door stands behind the
altar.
