rt 4 - Continuing you come to a trapezoidal room with a bunch of open secret doors in it and a number of people including all your old Party A members.  (see Party B thread.)

Hadrian II nods politely to the others -- who all seem preoccupied -- then proceeds through one of the doors.

Room track 5 - 40' square room, no other exits (can search for secret doors) 12 gold coins are scattered on the floor.

Vladimir enters.
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Hadrian II scoops up six of the coins -- leaving an equal number for the newcomer -- then begins searching for any secret doors.

Hadrian II steps through the secret door right after Khaaven but doesn't find him in the next room, a 20x10' affair.  A heavy chest is in the center of the room.

Party A walks in

Hadrian II nods politely at the group, then opens the chest.

Party A walks out.

The chest contains a gold and jeweled necklace worth 1476 gp.

Wallaby walks in.

Hadrian II takes the necklace, nods in acknowledgement at Wallaby, then backtracks towards the entrance.

Hadrian is successful at finding the stairs up and out!

Deposited my goods and money, healing 2 more HP, then heading back in.

Rt 2 - passageway, Ronia is here being menaced by a skeleton with glowing points of light in its eye sockets carrying a club carrying a stool carved in the likeness of a demon holding the seat he's using as a shield (heavy, furniture)

Hadrian II raises his sword and charges the skeleton.

15:17, Today: Hadrian II rolled 6 using 1d20.  To Hit.

Though Hadrian II misses the skeleton, Party C walks in, Moordenar II ends the skeleton's afterlife.

Do I get XP for participating? Or nothing because I failed to hit?

10 xp, you participated. (party C is talking you can check their thread.)

Hadrian II nods a greeting to the newcomers who assisted him, then continues as before.

Rt 3 - Side passage to left

Rt 4 - Stairs to the right that go down

Hadrian II takes the stairs down.

The faint light glow from the walls fades, the stairs continue into darkness.  (OOC You could feel your way down, but would be at a disadvantage without a light source. Backtrack or continue?)

According to the fence, there's nothing I can buy to provide light for myself. Am I at disadvantage just for proceeding and not getting lost? Or for everything?

There's Fire Beetle Glands at level 3.  They seemed to be dropping quite frequently on level one.

I was planning on adding torches under Always but hadn't quite figured out how to do them so they make sense for tracking.  1 gp, used up after changing a level I could start with.  I had made the first one someone found do d3+1 damage, but that's better than a dagger, so was trying to figure that out too.  Just 1 damage +1 fire damage I guess would be o.k. for a first draft.

PS. you can retcon buying them before you left.
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Torches for 1 GP and doing 1+1 damage sounds pretty balanced to me.

I'll retroactively buy three torches, and light one before proceeding.

The stairs go down and down and down.  They land at a natural cave tunnel, it's damp with stalactites and stalagmites It goes on past what your light illuminates.

Level Caves, Rt 1

Hadrian II shrugs, and starts exploring.