The Search Continues

The DM: In.

The DM: Welcome back Vafrandir.

Vafrandir: Good to be back! Always hate to have to leave.

The DM: So, what’s the plan?

Vafrandir: Let's get the loot so far moved to the surface. I'll ask Bjarni if the bats came out to the surface. If not, we may run into them later.

Lexent: "Well, Vafrandir, we've been exploring this upper floor, but the sappers seem somewhat interested in the area down the stairwell, and it doesn't seem to have the same dreadful feeling as some of the rest of this place. After we move the treasure, I'm somewhat more inclined to at least explore the rest of these doors up here. What do you think we should do?"

Lexent: I begin consolidating the treasure from the satchels, including collecting up to five empty flasks or bottles if I find any.

The DM: Bjarni saw no bats. The silence and air movement of the lower chambers suggest to the sappers that there’s nothing down there ... though there might be more bats or jellies, as there’s evidence of those creatures everywhere. Judging from a few quick sorties done by Helga, this seems to be where the main number of goblins lived and nothing more.

The DM: There are 37 ceramic cups and about 21 ceramic plates, 18 combs and 43 eating “forks,” with two long three-inch tines attached to a two-inch handle.

Lexent: When you say "combs" is that like a hair comb?

The DM: You can’t possibly count all the gems at this point, but for your records:

of the cairngorm gems, there are 85 cherry-sized, 635 almond-sized, 85 walnut-sized, 14 plum-sized and 1 apple-sized.

of the hematite, there are 27 cherry-sized, 475 almond-sized, 53 walnut-sized, 4 plum-sized and 3 peach-sized.

Yep, a hair comb.

The DM: Bjarni has completed the work and arrives in time to help you gather up the valuables.

Helga: This Grond fellow doesn’t care much about treasure, does he?

Lexent: I help move the consolidated valuables, including the chest full of raw metal and leather from the kennel, to the surface.

Marcule: in

Lexent: (To Helga) "No. I find his motives difficult to fathom, although he certainly seems threatening and unpleasant."

The DM: It takes about an hour to hoist all this stuff out; you are not disturbed during this time.

Vafrandir: Dishes are probably good for a few silver.

Vafrandir: Doesn't sound like there's much more here on this level. Let's try for another door out of the hall.