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Jeloon heads into the room and over to the window where the spider went out.

Till fends off the first attack and readies for the next while trying to determine where to strike the nasty multi-legged creature... He tries for the abdomen, the largest target, to be sure...

Initiative [1d6] = 4

To Hit, Short Sword +1 [1d20+1] = 19+1 = 20

Damage, Short Sword +1 (Small/Medium) [1d6+1] = 2+1 = 3

Fearing what could happen if the spider is able to bite Till, Yosef will immediately cast his last magic missile spell...

Magic Missile vs spider:
[2d4+2] = 6+2 = 8

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migellito wrote:Jeloon heads into the room and over to the window where the spider went out.

Bruard follows Jeloon.

OOC: How big is the window? Can we get through it easily and on to Till's side of the building?

Head out the window after the spider when he can...

When Jeloon gets to the window, can she see the spider? Is it completely outside? If so, she will vault out the window and attack it.

I'm kind of hoping the spider is dead at this point.

rredmond wrote: Those spiders were less of a nuisance than I think originally intended. Of course an unwary party walking into that back room...

What is this word you speak of? "Unwary"?
<shakes head with incomprehension>

Till cleans the spider goo off himself as best he can with his hands, wiping them on the nearest object (ground, grass, side of the building...).

"Let's see if any previous travelers were more unwary than us..."

Till heads back into the building and goes into the back room, sword still drawn, just in case, and begins searching the room for anything useful or valuable.

Till examines the piles of bones more carefully, moving them around with the tip of his sword to see if they reveal anything. He also examines the desk, checking it for secret compartments by examining depth of any drawers compared to the depth of the whole desk, looking for dead spaces. He also checks the height of the inside of all drawers against the outside of all drawers to ensure there are no false bottoms to any of them.

He then examines the floor more closely, looking for loose stones in the floor or stones that have marks indicating they may have once been moved/removed frequently.

Finally, he cuts down the webs with his sword and puts them to the torch to make sure nothing is suspended within them.

rredmond wrote: But careful examination of the desk reveals that it has a long side compartment hidden in the drawer. The drawer won't come all the way out though, there's a lip holding it into the desk at the drawers end. There's no catch evident to open that secret compartment. The wood doesn't seem very sturdy (made of the same stuff as the drawer).

Very carefully, Till uses his dagger to begin probing the area of the drawer with the secret compartment, looking for any seams where he might begin wedging his dagger to pry the drawer apart. If it is in the side of the drawer, then... he'll start with the front of the drawer, seeing if he can easily (or with some careful effort) remove the front. If the front is nailed to the sides, then he'll pry at it. If the front is dovetailed, then he'll try knocking the side of the drawer off the front board. To do this, he'll pull the drawer out as far as it will go, then use the pommel of his dagger to hammer the inside face of the side of the drawer (the side with the secret compartment) out, removing it from the drawer front.

(Dovetails on drawers should be cut so that the wedging action of the dovetail joint maintains drawer integrity when it is pulled out of the desk (forward/backward motion). But the joint is easily knocked apart (glue aside) if you apply force in the perpendicular direction where the wedging action of the dovetails has no power.)

Hopefully, being such a thin compartment, it doesn't contain anything breakable. Even in his use of force, Till will be as careful as possible to avoid damaging anything that might reside in the secret compartment.

"We'll crack this nut yet!" Till says with a smile as he pries at the secret compartment.

Once the last spider is blasted to gooey bits, Yosef will move over to the outer wall where he can make eye contact with Van or one of the others with the DAMs and give them the hand signal to show all clear. He'll wait to receive their status via hand signal as well before returning to the main party.

Once back, he'll nock an arrow and keep watch by the entrance of the building currently being searched, making sure to keep vigilant eyes out for trouble whist Till and the others thoroughly search for stuff in the back room!

Till reaches in and grabs both items. He passes the scroll case over to Bruard to see if he can make heads or tails of it.

"If you can't make heads or tails of it, we'll have to see if Yosef can..."

Then he gets right by the torch light to more closely examine the ring.

Woot!

Alethan wrote:Till reaches in and grabs both items. He passes the scroll case over to Bruard to see if he can make heads or tails of it.

"If you can't make heads or tails of it, we'll have to see if Yosef can..."

Then he gets right by the torch light to more closely examine the ring.

Woot!

Bruard takes the scroll case and opens it. "Good job again, Till! You've got an eye for secrets that's for sure!"

If it contains a scroll, he'll pull it out and see if it looks clerical in nature. If not, he'll hand it to Yosef.

Jeloon watches Till intently, as always resisting the temptation to simply smash the desk wholesale. She is relieved when he pops the lid on the compartment. "Ah! Interesting! Could the ring be magic?"