Against the Cult: Meet Me at the Bar Fight (1.9)

Chase begins to check out the large storage room, setting the lantern on the table so that the room is well-illuminated and not sending his shadow all over the room as he moves. The fireplace is cold, there's no sign that any of the shelves have been moved recently, and checking under each of the beds reveals nothing of interest. There are no rugs to conceal trap doors in the floor, but he could take more time to search if he likes.

Theran hefts the lockbox with a grunt; it weighs at least two stone and has no handles for easier carrying. He shifts his grip, getting his arms under it, and then hurries out the door, squeezing past Myrtha. He heads around the corner and squeezes past Aanbo to head further down the hallway. He shifts the lockbox to one arm and then opens the first door on the left. Since there were signs that someone was staying here when he visited the first time, Theran had steeled himself for encountering a potentially hostile Inn guest, but there is no sign of the sword, the knapsack, or their owner this time. Other than that, the interior is the room much as he remembered it from his previous arachnid visit: two beds with their heads against the western wall on Theran's right, and a desk against the southern wall. Perhaps the owner checked out in the last two days? The crack in the wall that he noticed as a spider is much less obvious now; he might not have seen it if he didn't know it was there. It's on the other side of the further/southern bed, which is a boot and a hand from the that wall.



Theran, roll a WIS (Perception) check (you're the only one who hasn't rolled one upstairs yet. As it was for the others, this is for hearing).

Theran shifts the southern bed so that he can get at the wall, and sets the heavy lockbox down on the bed so that he has his hands free. Knowing where to look, he finds the vertical crack in the wall again, which is cleverly concealed in a join between two vertical wood panels. Feeling with his fingers, he is able to find the right angle where that crack joins with a horizontal one which is even less obvious. Theran has confirmed that the crack he saw as a spider is probably a concealed door, but it's unclear how to open it.

Chase rejoins Myrtha out in the hallway, and moves a few paces beyond her so that he can see Aanbo, too. Those three can each see at least one other Dungeon Buster; none of them can see what Theran is doing from where they are.

Curious to see what Theran is doing, Chase continues down the hallway and around the two corners, moving past the eagle-eyed watchdwarf Aanbo and into the first room on the left. There, Theran has moved a bed to the side, put a large lockbox on it, and is feeling the wall. "There's a door here, if we can find out how to open it!" Theran calls, loud enough for the others to hear.



Myrtha is left in the dark. Aanbo hears someone call from the first door on his right, loud enough to be audible through the heavy wood: "What's going on? It's the middle of the night!"

While Chase looks for a button or switch, Theran surmises that there is no way to open the door on this side, but they knows that it's there. Why would there be a concealed door into an Inn's bedroom that couldn't be opened from within that bedroom? Who is using it, and what are they using it for? On the premise that its secrecy is its strength, Theran's guess is that the door could be smashed open pretty easily.Myrtha and Aanbo stand ready in the hallway. As Myrtha grimly comments on the status of their Dungeon Busters mission, they can hear Chase and Theran murmuring as they search. The fighter is able to faintly see the monk in the indirect light coming from Chase's lantern in the room, but it is Aanbo whose eyes are able to penetrate the dark length of the hallway. He sees the far left door open at the end of the hall just before everyone hears the yell:
"HELP! HELP! THEY KILLED HAMIFF! THE KILLERS ARE HERE!!!" The door slams again, and all four of you begin to hear voices clamoring in the rooms.
"What?" "Hamiff?" "Get up!" comes from the end of the hall, while "Oh no!" comes from the door to Aanbo's right.

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Aanbo (16/19)
Chase (8/11)
Myrtha (6/12)
Theran (13/13)

Everyone, please roll initiative.

The shillelagh smashes into the wall and part of it splinters and breaks off, sagging away from Theran into an empty space on the other side of the wall, a couple of paces deep.

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Aanbo (16/19)
Chase (8/11)
Myrtha (6/12)
Theran (13/13)