The clearing of Castle Caldwell

[dtspurrier1]

Searching inside he also finds three gems as well as silver pieces

[makofan]

Who is going to be holding onto the treasure?

[dtspurrier1]

great question

the gems look to be about 50gp each
there is a good amount of silver pieces

[makofan]

Palandar trusts everybody in the party, and suggests having someone who is not a front line fighter hold the treasure

[Dohojar]

Deneron can hold the loot for now.

[Dohojar]

"Where to next?" asks Torlak

[dtspurrier1]

You have cleared out both entrey rooms so the rooms by the t intersection or.make a turn west or east

[Dohojar]

Torlak suggest we try one of the room by the intersection. The door in the middle.

[dtspurrier1]

Going to the T-intersection you now see the three doors. The middle one opens and it is a 20 by 20ft room with a door on the opposite wall heading north. This is a bedroom as you see a man lying on a bed. He is armed with a battle axe that is shedding light. On either side of the doors are windows high up on the wall. Seeing your group he has his axe now in his hand but has not gotten out of the bed.

[makofan]

Palandar assumes that their group can take one man, so decides to give a warning. "Sir, you are trespassing in this castle. By order of the owner, we are evicting the occupants. Can you explain your presence here?"

[dtspurrier1]

( rolling a reaction roll with Pallender modifier) The man says, " my name is Bruno a merchant from the fur trade guild of Keoland. My brothers he points to the room next door are hding here. We saw orcs, goblins and some walking skeletons. we are a little scared and had no idea someone owned this dump." I can make some trades if you like and maybe my brothers can. For the right price of course."

[makofan]

Palandar turns to the rest of the group. "Give him the benefit of the doubt and let he and his brother clear out?"

[Dohojar]

"How did you manage to avoid the orcs and goblin?" asks Torlak. "Surely they have come into these rooms".

[dtspurrier1]

The man answers " we arrived last night and we locked ourselves into this room. Although I heard Harold, my friend next door ( the room to the left of you) was speaking in orc to a group."

[Dohojar]

OCC: I am not sure if we can trust this guy. Sounds like we caught him in a lie and now he is throwing his companion under the bus to save himself.

[makofan]

OOC: Well our job is to clean out the castle, not to exterminate everything. I say anybody that wants to flee, let them go

[Dohojar]

Ok. They shall go free then.

[dtspurrier1]

The man knocks on the door and after a brief discussion the man herold exits along with the other door and another man exits. After a brief discussion they say, " thank you for the help. We will leave and head for town. As a reward for saving us take this as it will help you better then us."

The man gives you the light glowing battle axe and then leaves.

COngradulations the party gets treasure and exp

( ooc just to break the work of the identification the axe is a +1 battle axe)

xer is now level three: add 3 hp plus con to your character

[makofan]

Are battle axes 1 hand or 2 hand?

[Dohojar]

Oooo a +1 battle axe. Torlak Like.

[dtspurrier1]

battle axes can be used 1 or two handed

[makofan]

Nov 1, 2024 10:53:28 GMT -6 Dohojar said:

Oooo a +1 battle axe. Torlak Like.

Does Torlak have any magic weapons? He has beenin the party longer than Palandar, so Palandar will defer to Torlak

[dtspurrier1]

Torlak does not have a magic weapon

While in discussion the men do leave and no random encounter shows up

[makofan]

It is decided that Torlak will use the magic axe. Let's check the door to the north that the other mancame out of

[Dohojar]

Awesome. Torlak thanks you.

Ya let's check out that door

[dtspurrier1]

All three men leave and this room and the other room ( so all three rooms were bedrooms) These are small ten feet wide by twenty feet length. Nothing is of interest here except for the nice somewhat cleaned beds. There are chairs near the door apparently used to block the doors from opening. Otherwise nothing of interest. So west passage or east passage

[Dohojar]

Lets try east

[dtspurrier1]

heading east it goes thirty feet before turning north and SE. Se heads to a small set of stairs going up to a tower. Turning north it goes for over 60 feet. at the 10 ft, 30 ft and 50 ft are doors to the east. The passageway does continue north past the 60ft.

[makofan]

Palandar says "let's go up and check any towers or battlements for surprises before we clear this level"

[dtspurrier1]

Entering the tower and only going up a circular stairway 15 feet leads into a single room. The circular room is 40 feet in diameter with 8 opening arrow slits evenly spaced. There are empty racks where quivers and bow where kept. Otherwise this room is empty. Back the way you came and turn north or go back and head west?