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=== Second Floor === | === Second Floor === | ||
[[File:SecondFloorManor.png|center|frameless|632x632px|Second Floor of Manor]] | |||
==== 1. Guest Bedroom ==== | |||
All of the guest bedrooms are similarly furnished: a single bed, a wardrobe, and a small writing desk. All are musty, and moths flick in and out of view. Most of the bedchambers show signs of having been used, such as the blankets being rumpled and shoved to one side, but even so, everything is covered in a layer of dust that would suggest years of disuse. | |||
One of the bedrooms contains a spellbook written in a cryptic cipher. A hero that makes a DC 20 INT/Arcana check can decipher it, learning that this spellbook once belonged to a [[halfling]] named Wick. Once the spellbook is deciphered, the creature that deciphered it can cast each of the following spells once, spending the correct amount of SP each time: | |||
[[Circle of Warding]], [[Conceal Spell]], [[Energy Siphon]], [[Fly]], [[Frost Beam]], [[Grounded]], [[Locate Magic]], [[Minor Illusion]], and [[Sense Magic]]. | |||
==== 2. Ballroom (Balcony) ==== | |||
The ballroom balcony overlooks the ballroom dance floor. It has circular tables covered in tablecloths, like those on the ground floor of the ballroom. They are also covered in stacks of books. | |||
It is possible for the heroes to find books of great relevance in this room. If they search for books and succeed on a DC 12 AWR/Investigating check, the heroes can find a diary penned by Sir Nikolai Zaffroni. Reading through his diary, they can learn the following information: | |||
* Nikolai was visiting Uvior along with a great | |||
many adventurers of middling import. Uvior made | |||
connections with many adventurers, including Nikolai, | |||
in his youth. | |||
* Uvior was known to only stay with an adventuring party when it benefitted him directly, especially when he got a large share of magical treasure. | |||
* Nikolai did not like Uvior and described him as an insufferable snot, but nonetheless it seems that Nikolai respected Uvior’s skill with arcane magic. | |||
* Nikolai’s primary adventuring party included a halfling [[mage]] named Wick and a human [[cleric]] of Rasheen named Humphrey. | |||
* Nikolai and the other adventurers that responded to Uvior’s summons came unsure what to expect, but they found that Uvior had prepared a grand banquet for them. | |||
* Nikolai’s last diary entry describes his confusion at the whole ordeal, given that Uvior was never one for shows of generosity. | |||
* The last diary entry is dated to just over six years ago. | |||
There are no stairs or ladders down to the ground floor, but heroes that affix rope to the balustrade could climbdown. Jumping down without aid results in 1d4 falling damage, but a hero that makes a DC 16 DEX/Tumbling check can ignore this damage. | |||
==== 3. Foyer (Balcony) ==== | |||
The second floor foyer is separated by an empty space looking down on the first floor. On both the north and south side of the foyer, hallways lead deeper into the east and west wings. On the south side of the foyer, a wide staircase leads up to the third floor, and doorways open out to a balcony overlooking the manor’s main entrance. | |||
==== 4. Crenelated Balcony ==== | |||
The crenelated balcony has empty quivers mounted on the insides of the crenels so that archers can easily stock up on arrows and quickly fire on enemies below. There is otherwise nothing of interest on this balcony. | |||
==== 5. Library (Balcony) ==== | |||
The second floor of the library is functionally the same as the first floor, though without a hidden doorway. It connects to the second floor of the foyer, is across the hall from the chapel’s balcony, and has staircases to both the first and third floor of the library. | |||
==== 6. Chapel (Balcony) ==== | |||
The chapel’s balcony overlooks the auditorium, and the candle of faith described in the ground floor’s chapel section is visible from the balcony. It has the keys to the pipe organ, which is badly out of tune. If the heroes play the pipe organ, it immediately triggers the Undead Horde encounter as skeletons come to investigate. (Note that undead are Sickened in the chapel balcony, as in the main chapel.) | |||
=== Third Floor === | |||