Moffdust continues her incantation, repeating the last few syllables over and over to hold the spell until she's ready to release it. She does not enter the room until one of the rogues has checked the trap. But her eyes are fixed on the four chests all in a row and her little claws are twitching in anticipation. She strains her eyes to read the labels... could it be Meg, Jo, Beth and Amy?
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Minmorc will snort and call out "got beds an stuff in ere." He'll then reach out and open the door to room seven, poised and ready to stab the next Ikean to cross his path.

In reply to Minmorc (msg # 294):

Oopses moves to harvest the roast centipede legs.

 She realized the cenner-peed was dead so she went to help Moffdust with the chests she'd found in the other room.

 "Whatcha gotz Moffdust? Hopez itz sumthin good! And wez gonna haz uz a feest tonight. Scream of mushroom supe and cenner-peed steaks!  Mmm!"
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Raven would have to pass Dregz, Bulldust and Moffdust before she walks through the doorway into room 10. Does anyone intervene?

Minmorc opens the door to room 7, which turns out to be another storeroom. This one is full of brittle old carpets, mattresses and blankets.

OOC: Main game map updated.

Bulldust pulls his finger out   of the trap-hole above the doorway.  He puts a big paw on Raven's shoulder and points up to the row of holes in the ceiling just inside the door.  "Hey birdie girl.  Inside the room deres four chests.  But here in da doorway deres pointy iron bars up inside dese holes, like bars could drop down and block off da doorway.  Can you look fer traps an find a safe way ter get ta da chests?"

He lets go of Raven and replies to Dregz.  "Dats a good idea Dregzie.  Better safe dan full of pointy iron bars.  Min found beds an stuff so I'll get some."  He moves into room 8 and looks for a solid bed frame and chairs ...

"...ya uln...ya uln..." Moffdust keeps repeating to hold the spell. She shrugs when Raven asks what she's found but gestures for her to have a look.  When Raven mentions the food she grins and rubs her tummy then she wanders off down the passage past Minmorc and continues out of sight through the door at the end. Cat the bat flutters on ahead of her.

Arlein takes the centipede as the highest seat in the house and lords over oopses as he forages from the corpse, and the hectic shuffling of bugbear and orc, and others.

Minmorc will stomp across their pantry grumbling something about various stupid items of furniture and will try to open the door to room 15. His spear is poised in the air, hungry for the blood of carpentry, beware home wares, beware!

For the time being Jurz just lets everyone get on with it.  The magic stick has been claimed from the gnomes, they put the ghostly spirit back in the box and he already found a room full of books and bookshelves.  Now everyone was rushing about ...

On a whim he reaches down and opens the door to room 14.

 She looks up at the holes in ceiling above the door and jumps back with a squawk! She cocked her head this way and that studying the holes with one eye and the other then both, dipping her head up and down as she thinks how the trap might work.

 "Awk! Me go look yez!"

More rooms are opened up by the explorers as the rest of the group focusses on finding a safe way to enter the room with the four locked chests. Raven, Dregz, Riza and Bulldust all try to figure it out but in the end it is left to Bulldust to try to wedge a bedframe between the floor and the section of ceiling with holes in. He nearly manages to get it into position but as soon as he starts to straighten it up to vertical position it presses down on the floor, which turns out to be a pressure plate that releases the heavy trapdoor from the ceiling. The trapdoor swings down in an arc to slam against the open doorway sending row after row of 6-inch long metal spikes to protrude out of the holes in the wood and skewer anyone caught inside the room by the swinging trapdoor. Fortunately Bully was far enough back and protected by the bedframe, so he is just pushed back from the door as the trapdoor swings down.

However, the spiked trapdoor was then wedged in place and required some considerable muscle to push it back up into position. Luckily Bully and Minmorc are big enough and strong enough to manage that and finally the trapdoor can be propped up in position on the ceiling again with a solid beam of wood from the broken bedframe braced diagonally down from one of the holes to the corner of the room just beside the doorway. As long as no one is careless enough to dislodge that beam the trapdoor is now secured and it is safe to enter the room.

Cat the bat flutters around the room and Moffdust tells Raven to open the chest to the right of the doorway first.  Raven quickly picks the lock and lifts the lid of the chest to reveal its contents. It looks like a decent collection of gold and silver temple ornaments, all bearing a holy symbol that consists of a crescent moon in front of a new moon surrounded by about 14 stars.

Eventually all of the other rooms along these northern corridors are opened without finding any more monsters lurking inside. The previously unopened western and central rooms (#5 to #8 and #20 to #25) are all storerooms of various kinds, holding spare furniture, clothing, bedding, camping supplies, cooking, cleaning and gardening equipment, etc. The eastern rooms are
#13: Armory (various non-masterwork weapons and armour up to chainmail and banded mail in human and halfling sizes (no half-plate or full-plate armour) – leather items are dried and brittle; steel is rusty but still serviceable)
#14-#15: Craftsmen's workshops – carpenter, leatherworker, tinker, tailor, candle-maker (tools and supplies are still there)
#16-#17: Laundry.

OOC: Main game map updated.

Minmorc will gleefully busy himself carting and steel armor and weapons to room 11 and carrying any corpses to what he's referring to as the larder, room 19. He will leave his masterwork cauldron in the larder with Oopses. "Oi Oopses, wen yer done yer butcherin an yer set up yer fire pit let me know an I'll gets Nuffle ter put sum water in der pot fer boilen. First we doz der lootin, den we doz der feastin!"

 She worked on the other trunks as well once she had grabbed a shiny or two just to admire and hold for luck. She pulled out her master work tools and picked just the right tools, then holding her ear very close to the lock, she closed her eyes and listened to the mechanism and felt with her fingertips as she moved the picks just so and... click! The second lock snicks open! She stepped back so Moffdust  can open the chest.

01:49, Today: Raven rolled 12 using 1d20+7.  Open locks 4.
01:48, Today: Raven rolled 14 using 1d20+7.  Open locks 3.
01:48, Today: Raven rolled 27 using 1d20+7.  Open locks 2.

The second trunk is full of copper coins. All old and tarnished and of an unfamiliar design but still valuable enough in human lands. There must be thousands of them in there.

Riza will assist Raven in unlocking the chests if any locks seem to be giving trouble. Failing that she will call in Minmorc and bulldust to apply their subtle persuasion on the locks.
While the others rummage through the chests Riza will busy herself with the centipede corpses, before heading back and seeing if there is anything she could use from the items discovered.

Raven and Riza work together to pick the locks on the last two chests. These prove a bit more tricky but eventually they manage to unlock the third chest, which is full of silver coins. All old and tarnished black and of an unfamiliar design but still valuable enough in human lands. Again, there must be thousands of them in there.

Eventually they manage to unlock the last chest, too. But when they lift the lid of the chest a sudden rush of smoke pours out of the chest to engulf them! Raven gasps and coughs for a moment then collapses on the floor.  Riza manages to hold her breath and is not overcome by the smoke.

OOC: Main game map updated.

After the trap is triggered there can be heard the odd clunk and clatter from the mist as riza tries to make sense of what happened.   a few moments later riza is seen dragging or attempting at least to drag the unconscious raven out of the smoke. Holding her breath does not seem to bother the small lizard. Once she has gotten clear of the smoke she breathes again. bloody traps she turns to bulldust. bully can you call the others, I don't have the skills to see if raven is okay
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While the others concentrated on Moffa’s room, Jurz rode Rog around the rooms, picking over the various weapons armours and tools.
Eventually he made his way back to the book room,  and starts looking for a book with pages made of nice soft paper.  For some things, soft paper was much more pleasant than leaves.  And it came already packaged.

When the spluttering and coughing starts accompanied, as it almost certainly will be, by the Ooohs and Arrhs of the others - Jurz makes his way back to the corridor to see what is happening.

"Oh dears, oh dears !"  Dregz rushes into the room to provide Bargrivyek's succor to the striken member of his tribe.

Moffdust returns from her walk down the corridor still muttering "...ya uln...ya uln..." but also carrying an earthenware urn. When she returns the room is full of smoke, Raven is stricken and there is still nowhere for her to cast her spell. So she abandon's the spell and sets down the urn. "Just opens de ones wid de golds." she offers helpfully.

Then realising that that was not really much help, she casts Detect Magic to see if any magic auras linger in the room or on the piles of armour and weapons and books that Min and Jurz are hauling out of the other rooms. She grins at Jurz' practical use for the book he found, but comments to Dregz "Sometimes a holey books just wont do."
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"Oooh!  Arrh!"  Bulldust sounds alarmed as the smoke trap goes off.  He calls for Dregz and Jurz as Riza asked, and takes the unconscious Raven from Riza when she drags her out.  He delivers Raven into Dregz care. "Da birdie girl got smoked.  Can ya fix er up Dregzie?"  He finds a piece of tattered tapestry and fans the room from the doorway, then holding his breath he dives inside to haul out the chests one by one into the larger space across the passage.

The smoke cloud was still expanding and by the time Riza drags Raven out the smoke completely fills that room. It seeps out the doorway making the 5-foot section of corridor outside the door smoky as well, but it doesn't seem to be expanding any more.

Bulldust retreats as the smoke advances so he is not affected. Raven doesn't seem to be injured, just unconscious. She is still breathing.

Moffdust stands as close to the smoke as she can to scan for magic inside the room after everyone is out.

Meanwhile Bulldust fans the smoke from the doorway and that does seem to be having some effect as the smoke does seem to be thinning and clearing.

OOC: Bully won't need to drag the chests out as the smoke will dissipate after a few more rounds. Raven will be unconscious for at least a minute, maybe longer.
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Luckily Dregz is concentrating on his patient and doesn't hear Moffa's heretical words.

The little priest intones a prayer to Bargrivyek, maintaining a low chant as he pokes and prods raven, finally advising with no little relief that, "she's alright - jus' sleepin' !"

"Awww, how sweets!" Moffdust tucks Raven's head under her wing.

She goes back to concentrating on Detect Magic. "No magics on all dose rusty armours an stuffs, but deres someting magics in de smoke rooms. So lets me sees..."