Session 2

## Synopsis - **Session 2 -** A Curious House

**Session 2**

We begin this session inside the house of the children with the monster inside with their parents. Exploring the first floor, the trio make their way to a well lit marble hallway. Reffins takes to the stairs and ascends while Equuleus and Brig explore the first floor. Brig finds a longsword above the main hall fireplace.

Brig opens a closet, and then enter the dining room with Equuleus. Approaching, they hear laughter and clinking of silverware, yet when they enter they see nothing but a feast on the table.

Equuleus gorges herself on the food (low con roll) and ends up taking 1 poison damage and puking. She remembers Reffins has taken to the stairs and tries to make her way to projectile on him. Managing only to make it into the hallway, she yacks in the middle of the hall.

They then decide to explore what seems to be the hunting room. Brig feels like heating the longsword he just acquired at the fireplace, while Equuleus climbs furniture. As they look around, the taxidermy animals seem to shift slightly when they’re not looking, which prompts Brig to swing at one of their heads, knocking it clean off with a thunk and leaving the stuffing on the floor.

Meanwhile, Reffins upstairs goes into the library and goes to the desk in this room. Upon the desk, he finds a red sealed book with a black spine. Inside it details every aspect of his life up to this point, leading to the point where he’s reading this book. Then, a monster of darkness pools from behind a chair and creeps up to him, as he turns the last page a splash of blood covers the book. Reffins turns to find nothing. Creeped out he runs out of the room.

Rejoining Reffins upstairs, they make their way to the library to see Reffins exiting the room. They decide to go to the room opposite the library and find a music room with a dulcimer in the middle. Reffins excited to play, runs over and as he does he finds a small white dog. Noticing it’s emancipated and hungry, he feeds some rations from the Vistani camp and reads the name tag to be Laila. Sitting her on his lap, he begins to play the dulcimer. Brig claps along once again to liven up the house. Equuleus, not finding a dance partner this time, decides to lay down on the dulcimer.

Finishing the performance, the trio decide to ascend but Laila runs to the library and begins to bark.

The group find Laila barking at a bookshelf at the back of the library. Upon further inspection, Brig notices there’s a slight slit in between the shelves as opposed to no slit on the others. Brig finds an alchemy book and as he takes it to his bag it crumbles to dust. Reffins and Brig start to pull at books when Reffins notices a red book with black spine similar to the one he has about his life. Pulling that book, it reveals a hidden room behind that shelf.

Inside they find the remains of a man inside a chest half covered, and a bunch of scrolls and such on a table.

The documents are of trade businesses and titles to lands and buildings as well as the deeds to the house, all in their will being signed to Rosavalda and Thornboldt Durst. They also find spell scrolls :

* *1x bless scroll*
* *2x purify food and drink scroll*
* *2x remove curse*

In the chest they find a poison dart shooting trap wired chest, though the firing mechanism trying to fire, though there’s no more darts loaded.

In the chest they find:

* *A satchel with 4 healing potions*
* *A thievery kit*

Reffins divides up the potions, one to each with himself the greater of the difference. Also pocketing the titles.

Moving on they together now ascend the stairs to the 3rd floor. Attempting to enter a room, an animated armor attacks attempting to shove Brig off the balcony.

Thinking quick, Reffins knocks an arrow and shoots between the railing and into the armors shoulder. Brig manages to blast it in it’s chest and Equuleus adds some mild dents. The armor moves to shove Brig but only manages to punch him square in the chest.

Reffins moves in close and is infatuated with the armor and tries to seduce it by grabbing its arms and critically fails landing prone. Equuleus, inspired by Reffins, also goes to grapple and also critically fails, being knocked back and into a wall. Brig tries to blast it again, this time hitting the wall successfully.

The armor swings again and also critically misses, lodging it’s arm into the balcony banister.

Reffins, taking this opportunity to strike, crits and drop kicks the armor with a called shot off the balcony and it lands onto the first floor and pieces go flying splayed across the first floor hall.

Reffins decides to head down and grab it’s helm with the intention to get naughty with it later when they have private time.