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Grahf *tries to* drag Snerp upstairs where the kids corpses are and buries them in the Crypt. 
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I cast presdigitation to create a shower of sparks in front of Grahf to distract him while I slip into the shadows. 😏

We'll bury them, but you're not gonna be draggin me there 😂
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(Mess kit is of no use, except maybe to sell)

Eikka performs a ritual of detect magic. The healing potions and cloak radiate magic, evocation and abjuration, respectively.

Grahf pops into the kids rooms, Rose eyes him suspiciously as he snatches up their bones.

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Eikka - 11/17 HP - 16 AC - Channel Divinity: ⬤ | Relentless Endurance: ⬤ | Spell Slots: 1⬤⬤⬤
Grahf - 20/20 HP - 16 AC - Breath Weapon: ⭘ | Divine Sense: ⬤⬤⬤  | Lay on Hands: 10 | Spell Slots: 1⭘⭘
Roberts - 17/20 HP - 19 AC - Action Surge: ⬤  | Second Wind ⬤
Snerp - 13/13 HP - 13 AC - Bardic Inspiration: ⬤⬤ | Spell Slots: 1⬤⬤⬤

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(Abjuration spells are protective generally, no? need to identify that cloak, but Earth or Roberts just got themselves a cloak it seems)

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Nobody put it on until it's been identified it could be cursed. We'll identify it after we investigate the chanting.
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I should ask them what they want.

Rose, where do you want to be buried?
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Nobody put it on until it's been identified it could be cursed

(True, but imho we should identify it beforehand. If it's beneficial that could give a nice effect 👌. I don't have identify tho so it's not my call in the end 😂)
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Rose blinks, surprised at the question.

Rose: Yeah, I guess it doesn't make sense that our bones are just lying here, especially with all you grown ups wantin' to play with them. What are my options?
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There is a crypt downstairs. Nonethless, I will let you and Thorn decide where you want to be buried.
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(you think they're stuck by their bones? Or there's another cause to what's, as they've said, trapping them?)
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(I dunno. They don't seem to know about the basement, so maybe their feelings are enough to keep them here? 🤔)
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(well, burying seems like the best place to start, if that does nothing, to the chanting. I have a feeling it has something to do with the chanting 😐)
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(Maybe we should bury them with toys or the sort)
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Rose gives a shrug: Sounds better than this dusty bedroom. Have at it, scaley.
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Grahf carefully carries the bodies down to their respective crypts and places them in the coffins.


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(A crypt better than a dusty bedroom? Idk about that 😂. Maybe killing the parents released their spirits tho, and burying them all will allow them to wander about the whole place freely?)
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When Grahf picks up the bones and removes them from the room, the spirits of Rose and Thorn disappear. Grahf brings them down stairs and places each into the crypt. As he does so, their spirits rise from the bones again, smile, then fade into nothingness.

(Congratulations! For laying Rose and Thorn's spirits to rest, the entire party gains Inspiration! Basically, it is a one-use you can use when you roll a d20 to roll it with advantage - roll two d20's and take the highest.)

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(ayeeeee, nice 👌)
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(So, onward to the chanting? 👏)
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Yes onwards toward the chanting.
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Lets move on to the chanting.
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I wanna join the game. Dark elf wizard.
Str 08
Dex 14
Con 13
Int 15
Wis 12
Chr 10


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Please?
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(I'll poll the group)
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The group gathers together and heads down the stairs to the second level of the basement. The ghostly chant fills this room. Characters can discern a dozen or so voices saying, over and over, He is the Ancient. He is the Land. Along the walls are thirteen niches with the following items:

  • A small, mummified, yellow hand with sharp claws on a loop of rope
  • A knife carved from a bone
  • A dagger with a rodent skull set into the pommel
  • An 8-inch-diameter varnished orb made from a creature's eye
  • An aspergillum carved from bone
  • A folded cloak made from stitched skin
  • A desiccated frog lashed to a stick
  • A bag full of bat guano
  • A severed finger
  • A 6-inch-tall wooden figurine of a mummy, its arms crossed over its chest
  • An iron pendant adorned with a devil's face
  • The shrunken, shriveled head of a halfling
  • A small wooden coffer containing a withered tongue

There are two western exits from the room. The one to the north leads to a straight hallway that curves to the north while the other slopes down at a 20-degree angle into murky water and ends at a rusty portcullis.

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Player Summaries:
Eikka - 11/17 HP - 16 AC - Channel Divinity: ⬤ | Relentless Endurance: ⬤ | Spell Slots: 1⬤⬤⬤
Grahf - 20/20 HP - 16 AC - Breath Weapon: ⭘ | Divine Sense: ⬤⬤⬤  | Lay on Hands: 10 | Spell Slots: 1⭘⭘
Roberts - 17/20 HP - 19 AC - Action Surge: ⬤  | Second Wind ⬤
Snerp - 13/13 HP - 13 AC - Bardic Inspiration: ⬤⬤ | Spell Slots: 1⬤⬤⬤





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(was the chain maille we found i.d.'d or detected for magic?)
(shield gives me +1 to armor?  can I dual wield a long sword and the silvered short sword w/o penalties?)
(since I have membership dues to pay anything not useful but that can be sold I will collect provided I don't get over encumbered)

Any protective and useful spells should be used prior to us entering the room provided they have some duration.
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(was the chain maille we found i.d.'d or detected for magic?)
(Yes. No magic was detected.)

(shield gives me +1 to armor?  can I dual wield a long sword and the silvered short sword w/o penalties?)
(Shield gives you +2 to armor. If you dual wield, you will lose that AC bonus. You will still retain the +1 AC you get from Defensive Fighting Style)
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(ok I will dual wield)
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so uh... what should we take? (lol)

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We need to kill them quickly, I fear if they are given the chance to use magics against us we may not succeed.
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Kill who? I don't see anyone yet 😐