Grimaldi, bows and gestures as to acquiesce passage.

In reply to Grimaldi (msg # 230):

James boldly steps through the breach, followed immediately by Percival. The room beyond has a few chairs, a small table, and a decent looking carpet on the floor. There are three doors, one happens to have a somewhat higher lintel. That door is next to one with a brass plaque that says "Office", and to the right is another.

"Which door is next, Oaf?"

In reply to James (msg # 231):

"The one to the right is our barracks. The one in the middle was for Chienne laChatte, the left had his office and quarters.  The upstairs office was mostly for show, he had clerks come in to move paper about, but I am not sure they could even read.  The back room up there had contraband he confiscated and would resell."

Grimaldi steps through the destroyed doorway, and looks around, noting the carpet. Curious, he slid it aside with his boot, to make sure it didn't hide a trap door, or cache of some sort.

Sederic joins the group. "No meikka, we mustn't kill him. That pleasure is reserved for our employer, but I promise to find you a substitute, when we're finished here." Sederic conversed with the broadsword that hummed in his hand.
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In reply to Sederic (msg # 234):

"Which path then?"

Grimaldi jangled the irons he got from the gendarmes, earlier.
"Lets get Connard in these, first. Then, we can search for valuables. Don't you agree, Sirs?"

In reply to Grimaldi (msg # 236):

"So which door again? I am not privy to your sorcery."

"He's holed up in his office, there."
Grimaldi pointed to the door with the plaque.

"Expect traps of some sort then, it's to his advantage and to our disadvantage and he's fled to his "panicroom". All evil bosses are alike!"

22:53, Today: Grimaldi rolled 16 using 3d6.  see secrets ~ 14 .
Grimaldi's spell fizzles.
"Confounded, fickle magical-pickled, pouch-snatchers!"

"I say, was that a spell?"

"Impromptu impertinence. Nonetheless, I digress."

*Opera Claps* "Bravo. Bravo."

In reply to Sederic (msg # 243):

After quickly determining that the door is in fact magelocked, they begin chopping the door into flinders. It takes five or six minutes and is quite loud.

Once done, the doorway opens into an office with a desk, table, two chairs and a glowing light source hanging from a chain above the desk. Another door is beyond.

19:25, Today: Grimaldi rolled 5 using 3d6.  sense foes ~ 14.
"Delectasti Inimicos Revelare!"
Grimaldi casts another spell, intending to pinpoint their quarry.

08:07, Today: Sederic rolled 5 using 3d6.  thaumatology 15.
"Very useful... I should learn this spell, myself."

In reply to Grimaldi (msg # 245):

You sense something beyond the next door.

The knights again check the door, and begin demolishing it
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In reply to Narrator (msg # 247):

Thirty seconds later, if you haven't searched the room, the ensorcelled door is no more, and the rom beyond is revealed.tapestries line the walls, except where one is pulled aside, and a canopied bed is beside a nihtstand with a bowl and pitcher and covered lamp. A dressing table scattered with empty bottles and another lamp, this oe uncovered and coolly glowing.
Of DuMentuer there is no sign, but there appears to be a partially open stone door where the tapestry is pulled aside.

Grimaldi maintains his spell, to track Connard, pointing to the moved tapestry.

"A secret passageway!"

In reply to Sederic (msg # 250):

"Perhaps our little friend has more exits than our esteemed ogrish employer is aware of. To the passage then? Methinks we need a lamp, perhaps the on on yon dressing table?"

15:58, Today: Sederic rolled 14 using 3d6.  Light 14 (spell).
Sederic conjures light from his finger tip, and has it follow the group, illuminating their path. "There you are, and hands free."
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"Careful... In my vision I saw him drinking potions. It might have been paut, but he could even be invisible, for all we know, and the passage could be trapped..."
Grimaldi said, looking around, advancing cautiously, following his spell's suggestion of foes.

In reply to Grimaldi (msg # 253):

The handsome knight boldly steps into the passage first.
"I say it is a bit narrow, barely a yard wide."
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