Sinister Secret of Saltmarsh (This is the Game Thread)

[JadedDM]

Amon lets out a breath of relief. "Thank the gods," he mutters.

We can try and dig you out, but I fear bringing the floor down on top of you. Can you find another way up?

[Jenara]

I Shall try. Brax Responds, Go on, we shall join you soon, there is evil in this house, a long forgotten Spirit

[JadedDM]

Not a spirit, illusions. I fear we may have a very powerful sorcerer on our hands, instead. If you see more, do not allow your mind to accept them as real. Illusions cannot harm you unless you believe they can.

With that, he rejoins the others in the drawing room. "It seems Lady Brax and Miss Vee have fallen through the floor in the kitchen, into a wine cellar of some sort. The north wall collapsed over the hole, meaning we can't get to them. They're going to try and find another way out," he explains.

[The_Muffin_Man]

Searos waves cheerfully (a little too cheerfully...) to Echo.

"Well, I'm fine. Completely uninjured as it were! But Beardy over here decided to get in the way of a crossbow bolt. At least, I think it was a bolt. I don't think its there any more. Can you explain that? Probably not... I don't actually want to know anyway. Regardless, I need help getting him up."

Searos waves her over.

[HorizonsDream]

"Illusions, or so Amon says," Echo admits in frustration. How was he able to tell that they were illusions, and she couldn't tell? That just didn't seem right to her at all.

Sadly, there wasn't much she could do about it now. She would just have to prove her worth later. Echo walks over to Searos and Gunter, and looks down at the ranger curiously for a moment. "You know I don't have much strength to me, right?" she asks the thief as she bends down to wrap one of her arms around Gunter to help him up.

[Breila]

Kim had followed Amon in silence. When he announces to the party that Brax and Vee have been trapped in the collapsed kitchen, he quietly says: "My friend, could you please tell me how you came to know that?"

[JadedDM]

Amon turns toward Kim, looking nervous. "Err...how? Well, it's...complicated. I have my ways. Magical ways. Um, let's say it's not important right now. What is important is that we find a way to reunite with them, before we run into any more trouble."

[Jenara]

The house is strangely quiet.. Light streams in through the windows illuminating the rooms well, considering all wall just fell everything seems quiet light and airy.. Amon didn't notice any signs of dust from the collapsed wall at all..

[Breila]

"Let's look back into the kitchen" Kim suggests. "Something was strange there. I can't put my finger onto it, but maybe I can if I look again,"

Kim goes back into the kitchen, looking around carefully. What has changed?

[Jenara]

The kitchen appears unchanged, a large section of wall is lying on the floor, and the wall is open to the elements.. Only, no wind can be felt at all.

[LittleLuna]

Vee has watched Brax curiously when the hand heals itself, she had never seen that before. "That's cool! how do you do that?"

when the light is shining on the corpse her eyes turned big. "Who is...no, who was that?" she stands up and walks nearer to the lifeless body. She had a hand on the dagger, because in this house, not all what seems harmless (a dead Person can't hurt you,so it's harmless) is harmless.

(ooc: I think I've lose one of my daggers and my quarterstaff, but are they in the Kitchen or in the wine cellar?)

[Breila]

Strange... Kim mutters, approaching the debris of the wall, approaching very carefully. If something that can be used as a probe (say, Vee's quarterstaff) is lying around, Kim will use it. If not, the dagger is drawn and used to test if the wall is really gone.

[Jenara]

"It is through devotion to Pelor, she gives me the power to get life." Brax says rising to her feet. "Please tread carefully, do not touch the body." She says, the light from her symbol producing haunting shadows.

(Vee has both daggers, but not her staff.)

The body is dressed in very fine plate armor, the quality is obvious even to Vee, the coprse is female, the symbol of St Cuthbert is visble to the girl. The long sword flashes under the light.. An open pack lies by her side.

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Prodding the open section of wall with Vee's staff, it seems how she expects, the staff goes through the hole and out into the air...

She has to tread over the wall, as she does so she finds what appears to be a door under the rubble.

[Breila]

"Amon? I found a door that leads to the lower story, maybe we find Brax and Vee there!" Kim calls back to the other mage.

Frowning, Kim looks everything over and does another "Detect magic", on the door mostly and the collapsed structure in general.

[Jenara]

Both the collasped wall and open section glow a bright blue..