Episode 1: The Salvaged Job

The recently-unlocked door opens into a chamber. Crumbling bookshelves line the walls, bare of contents. In fact, the shelves look so rotten and old that the lightest feather might cause them to collapse. The walls are otherwise free of any carvings. Even the ceiling is clean, decorated only with cobwebs that hang like chandeliers. Across the chamber, a door can be seen, with no handle or knob.

Ruined books lie scattered across the floor, in a pile that grows from the edges of the chamber to the center. In the middle is a small and thin sarcophagus, surrounded on all sides by the litter of tomes.

As Geno's darkvision adjusts, the door he passed through suddenly slams shut like a clap of thunder. As the noise subsides, it is replaced with a low moan coming from somewhere in the room. The moan rises in volume and pitch, unnaturally culminating into a scream of rage.Map

There is only a crumbling bookcase directly across the door, and Geno can see that the wall behind it is plain. The southern door itself has no handle, and the hinges indicate that it opens into the room.

Geno also notices that when the north door closed, it did not lock.

As the tiefling scans the room and its exits, he does not see the source of the scream. He does, however, notice as one of the books rises into the air. As the shrieking continues, the book hurtles towards him in a straight line (21 vs AC, 3 damage).

The door is re-opened, and Kalis finds Geno on the other side of the doorway. He sees the tiefling get hit by a book, thrown by an unseen attacker. The scream is emanating from somewhere within the room.

The blast of arcane force streaks across the room, impacting against one of the bookshelves on the eastern wall, and the rotted wood explodes into powder. Kalis does not immediately detect anybody besides Geno, but he can feel an unnatural presence somewhere in this room.

Geno can see by the placement of its hinges that the door opens into the room. The lack of any handle or other means of manipulating the door likely indicates that passage through it is one-way, but right now Geno is not able to determine what mechanism would enforce this.Map