The New Remnant

Cords looks about the library to see if he can locate any info as to where this place was before it suddenly appeared here.

Stee will move into the room and search desks "Hey Oliver quit clowning and get in here. There are a lot of scrolls."

Upon realizing that the cackler is only Oliver, Blornvid lets out a weary chuckle.

You start looking through the library. Cords is looking to see if he can find any maps of the location, while Stee is checking the desks. Blornvid is standing guard and trying to keep Oliver in line.

Perceptive: You are more observant than others. You gain Advantage when Testing to gain information about your surroundings or find things that may be hidden. You gain this even while asleep.

Oh. That was ugly.

Stee looking around hoping that feeling that he gets sometime might show up.

Not being particularly 'scholarly' or versed in magic and therefore having not much of an idea what to look for Aizashi leaves the search for the others and joins Blornvid standing guard.

Oliver stands next to Blornvid and Aizashi, puzzled at what was going on.

"Are we looking for something in particular, Blornvid? Well, if we were looking for a magic scroll, it might have distinctive markings like this or this, in contrast to a map, which would be missing those marks." Oliver illustrated his explanation by showing his teammates his own magic scrolls.

"Me? Nah, I'm just keeping watch while others have a look around." Then after Oliver explains what to look for, he shrugs. Turning to Aizashi, he says, "Yer on watch, lad. Just holler if something moves that ain't supposed to." With that, he heads into the library to see if he can find anything useful.

I'll go snoop about and see if I can get a feel for the rest of the floor. Want to walk along Aizashi?

Elyse will walk slowly along the corridor listening at doors and if she doesn't hear anything, she will crack the door open and peek inside. If nothing animate is in the room, she will leave the door ajar. Keeping the rest of the party in earshot, she will move clockwise around the inner circle.

I, um ... stammering for a moment in surprise Aizashi looks after Blornvid. Then shakes his head to himself realizing that the others will be capable of handling things without him, so he calls after Blornvid I'll go... Snooping with Elyse!
Turning to Elyse Yes, let's go.

Cords and Stee come up empty in the library. They find a lot of intriguing books, scrolls, and codices, but nothing of particular note. Oliver spends his time instructing Blornvid, rather than just looking himself. However, it works out, as Blornvid returns to Oliver with a scroll. Oliver's eyes grow wide when he realizes Blornvid found an actual magical scroll! Oliver takes a look, and it is a scroll of "Mass Cure Light Wounds".

Elyse and Aizashi, go in a different direction. Intrigued by the central area, they start looking through doors.


Taking the doors labeled above in order, you open the doors labeled with a red "1". It opens into a large area that seems to have been an area used for communal eating and perhaps informal meetings. The three bottom-most doors all open open into this room. Despite its intention, you can see that a lot of its furnishings have been moved to the far side, leaving an open area on the side you are on, with some magical writings scrawled on the floor. You move back without fully entering and go on to the doors labeled with a red "2". You open this and see a storeroom. It contained non-magical supplies, including ink, paper, vellum, candles, bedding, and things like that. It is fairly empty, apparently having once been cleaned out for the most part, but much of it still remains. It is all in surprisingly good condition.

Deciding against going further around to more doors (and thereby moving too far from the others), you instead decide to go back to door "1" and enter the room. When you do, you notice a "funk" smell that isn't overpowering or anything, but is still unpleasant. You didn't notice it until you fully entered the room, but once inside, you notice it. You go for the doors labeled with a red "3". Opening it, you discover the source of the smell, with the full blast hitting you in your faces. It is the smell of death, with multiple mutilated orc bodies partially disassembled. Apparently, the hag was designing those zombies and these were the parts that hadn't been used yet.

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