Session 17: Stolen Away - Part 2 Report

General Summary

Recap:

1. After discovering a secret passage, the party arrived in the second half of the manor, which appeared to be a long roundabout hallway littered with various rooms.
2. The hallway wrapped around a central room, locked by some kind of puzzle.
3. Nestled in a chest unlocked by Rainer, was one half of the central door's opening mechanism; a small lever arm separated from its socket in the door.
4. Inside one of the smaller rooms appeared to be the other half of the opening mechanism for the central door, three small colored flames burning Red, Green, and Blue.
5. Gathering that the mystery of the colored fires may be solved by exploring the other rooms, the party attempted to go through one of the larger rooms; a sauna that very quickly dehydrated and exhausted any creature that stepped within.
6. Hurrying through to a connecting door, Celrin was caught by a bear trap, but was luckily released and pulled out of the room with the assistance of the party.
7. To avoid further traps, the party tread with more caution, arriving at a small study room where a notable book was found. The book was taken from the study, and placed onto another book stand in a much smaller room; seemingly dedicated solely to the pedestal within.
8. During Eleonora's confident placement of the book, the floor beneath her gave out, having a brush with death due to the severity of her fall.
9. Rainer helped Eleonora out of her predicament after the party handled a particularly terrifying specter, and the party moved on to discover what placing the book on the pedestal had done.
10. Eastward, one of the hallway doors was opening, showing a small children's room that contained a hidden lever between the bed. The lever was guarded, and after being pulled, opened one of the other locked rooms; a strange shrine room on the western side.
11. After some deduction, it seemed as though there was a connection between the colors of the flame, and the colors of specific objects in some of the rooms. The Red napkin from the kitchen, the Green bottle from the children's room, and the Blue bucket from the sauna were all brought to the fire room, and used to douse the three flames. Once the fires were no longer lit, the central door was finally able to be opened.
12. Making their way into the central chamber finally, they discovered it to be a tower, with a spiral staircase leaded upwards of fifty feet. The center of the staircase lent itself to a long shaft, with a caged and unconscious Wren at its apex, and a deadly spike pit at its bottom.

Notes

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