Roll To Dodge: I'm rather surprised to not find this here.

>Enter the manor, and try going through the larger door.

> Investigate the area to the right of the lobby.

>Pick up one of the mysterious vials with the extra liquid, maybe it'll be useful later.

>Check the sides of the shelves, see if there's any cracks or small openings. Attempt to push them aside.

Cathari Sarad(3[+1]): The efforts to get through the door require some force your warhammer. You swing it hard against the withered wood, where few holes break open from where you struck the front. A bit more comes falling off, crumbling to the floor. As you push off the remaining bits yourself, you take a little step through the doorway. It's a dark, small hallway, where you can't exactly see the wall opposite of you. Small rays of light hit the walls adjacent to you, showing off other doors. Presumably bedrooms. There's an odd scratching sound you can't place..

Cyber Controller(2[+1]): Without any proper chalk to make this work reformation work, you're going to have to improvise here. Luckily, you've done some extracurricular studies and taken up some studies on the power of spoken work magic! As you chant away, focusing your energy on the chandelier, you can hear the glass shards slowly forming themselves together until...... it stops. You open your eyes, only to see it half-brought together. Seems like you'll need a bit more power..

Savaget 1337(5): Your light feet keep the rickety stairs intact. Not a creak or wobble comes from any step or side of the railing, and neither does the floor as your reach the top floor. You are a scout, after all. You notice that this floor is similar to that of the bottom- no large center room to go up, but doors on either side of the floor will take you to either hallway.

The Great Commandy One: The door practically open up for you, as one push has them opening wide. The center of the room seems to be a makeshift mix between a.. living room of sorts, and some kind of school house. Cauldrons and books scattered about sit scattered about and toppled over, and a few desks are knocked off of their legs and turned over. and green slime covers a majority of the room. The lanters on the walls have long since burned out. There's a painted portrait of some man hanging up above you on the walls.

Chip: The room to your right takes you to that of a kitchen. From where you stand, you can see a few things in the darkness.. cupboards flung open, a counter for preparing food and in the middle ovens to cook it on along the sides.. drawers with old, dingy utensils pulled right out. That green goop from before covers a multitude of surfaces.. especially on a strange, out of place item that sits on said large counter. There's a door that leads out of the room opposite of you.. the only thing is, you swear you can hear some movement around you. And it's not from the people outside.

Ace Defective(2,4): You pick it up, acquiring a vial of strange liquid! You're not sure what it is.. but it may be good. Can probably help you out in a pinch.

There's nothing you can see along the sides from a first glance. To see something so tiny within the darkness is going to be a feat. Yet, you push anyways. You stand at the side of the shelf in particular, pushing hard and with a steady grip... in order to reveal a dug out cave of sorts. Said cave descends deeper into the ground.. There's a deep echo from your movements that makes the darkness even creepier.

> Attempt to go into the first room to my left. If it seems to be locked, try to open the door to my immediate right. Repeat for up to three more pairs of doors down the hall until one of them opens, but do not try breaking them down.

> If a room is successfully entered, immediately close the door behind me unless there is something trying to attack me, in which I swing my warhammer. Examine the room I'm in.

> If I do not successfully enter a room, try to ascertain where the source of the scratching sound is heard and be on guard.

edited 28th Mar '18 4:30:21 PM by CathariSarad

>Search through the books and read anything particularly interesting.

>"Well, even the greatest of Alchemists have snags!"

>Look for that Kara chick. Maybe you could team up.

>Head through the door on the left.

edited 28th Mar '18 6:30:29 PM by Savaget1337

> With shield in hand, cautiously investigate the item on the counter.

>Using some of the pickled body parts and weird liquid, try to concoct some sort of flammable liquid.

Cathari Sarad(3,2,1[+1]): The first few pairs of doors are all locked or blocked off by something. Maybe more rubble and wreckage fell, or they were locked with the intent of protecting whoever was on the outside from harm. You can't really get through without force... However, one door is a bit looser than the others. The scratching has stopped by now, but as you push against the door, twisting the handle, you can only open it so far.. until whoever sits on the otherside. The door is flung open with a burst of force, the door flings itself open to reveal some amalgamation of bone and green slime- some of which stick to the door. You can see the faint, corroded structure within the slime- this thing is a remnant of some human being. You can't open the door, as you're stunned by the encounter! It's not fast, being that it's reduced to crawling around on the floor, but you're not exactly mobile at the moment! You stumble back onto your behind, watching the being lurch forward at slow speeds.

The Great Commandy One(3): Interesting is a subjective term here. Most of these books are detailed studies on the history of magic, its uses throughout histories, coupled with imagery that presents the use of magic circles and their attunement to specific items. A few others are scientific, more so, in that they detail the chemical compostion of a number of components and their ability to be transmutated, as well as how to handle them. There's math, some more history, spare notebooks... and a diary, it seems.

Cyber Controller(4): Sounds like a good idea. Especially since you just heard a loud bang from that direction in particular. You make your quick sprint over to meet with her, only to find that she's been temporarily disabled by some slime beast of sorts!

Savaget 1337(1): You make light steps, careful not to stir up any trouble with your movements.. although, despite all of that, you can't exactly reverse time, nor the age on this house, as you approach the door, the floor before you comes crashing down. Your pathway to the halls through that way is blocked, and so is the entrance to the halls through the left door on the bottom. Damn.

Chip: The item in particular isn't booby trapped or anything. In fact, it's just a simple key. To what? You're not sure. But you've got it saved. Yet, just as you pick it up, there's a loud explosion that feels like it came just underneath you!

Ace Defective(6[+1]): You put your alchemical ability to the test as you cook up something special! Mashing up the pickled limbs and combining it with the strange vial in one of your own bottle, definitely seems to be doing the trick! It's bubbling up.. q-quite a bit, actually. The bottle you've put it in starts to rumble, and before you can even put a cork in it, the chemical reaction explodes, taking the bottle with it! You're knocked onto the floor, and you've kinda hurt your hand a bit here. Glass is currently cutting it up. Noted: the weird vial of chemical stuff is VERY reactive and unstable.

>"Ewww. Die, foul beast!"

> Use my Fire Rod to destroy the slime monster before it gets near Kara.

> Attempt to pull away from the slime and let Cyberus deal with it.

> Quietly open and pass through the door beyond the kitchen, looking for a way towards the explosion. Pay close attention to those noises from before. If a pathway is found, head down it carefully.

edited 2nd Apr '18 12:40:18 PM by Chip

>Shrug and go through the door on the right.

>Take the diary and take a look at the slime. Cautiously, from a distance. Hopefully not dying to the most abundant of all rpg enemies, up there with orcs and rats.

"Huh, looks kinda like the stuff at the explosion site. Did we just break into some random mansion? Probably best not to talk out loud to myself."

edited 2nd Apr '18 7:37:48 PM by TheGreatCommandyOne

>Try to make a healing potion, just using materials from the body parts, don't touch the volatile liquid.

>Also, make sure I haven't missed any other exits.

edited 3rd Apr '18 2:06:57 AM by AceDefective

Cyber Controller(3): Nothing a bit of fire can't handle! You pull out your trusty Fire Rod to set this beast ablaze, the tip heating up rapidly as your train your aim. The outcome isn't all that powerful, though- as it flies out, it's a ball of flame that's smaller than expected, sparks flying off of it. It smacks the slime in the side, a crispy sizzle crackling, with a pained moan following afterwards. Guess this thing needs time to properly work.. [Charges Left - 4]

Cathari Sarad(6): The slime manages to grab at your foot for a second before you slip away, getting the proper footing in a mere moment. Yet, it's a short lived moment of balance before you slip on the same slime that covered your foot, falling right on your bum, slamming your back against the wall on the other side.

Chip(1): Your plan goes well just past the first step you take. As you proceed forward, the floor underneath you caves a little bit. Without any kind of extra warning, you tumble through the floor and into some dusty, dirty cave like section. Your body is littered with dust particles and other bits of debris as you fall into the rugged floor.. so much for being quiet.. for the most part, at least you're getting somewhere. There's an.. oddly structure object right before you, almost like a shelf of some kind..

Savaget 1337: You enter through the door on the right, leading to a road of bathrooms. It seems like the layout of the place is split between the utilities and the dorms. And even still, it looks more like a house than.. what it might have been intended to be. There's a little trap door up above with a string attached to it, leading to what you presume it's cracked open only slightly, but you can see something glimmering within the open space..

The Great Commandy One: You've acquired a diary. Upon further inspection along the front, the name presented to you is labelled.. "Timothy Brent." Pulling your attention away from that, you keep an eye on that slime. If you look close enough, you swear you can see the tiniest bit of movement. It appears to be extremely adhesive, and you can testify to that. Most people could barely get themselves off of it! But, the properties seem to.. fluctuate? You remember others not being able to get onto it in the first place... luckily, there's no one around to hear you talk to yoruself. No one besides the pcitures on the walls.

Ace Defective(5): Even in moments of what seems to be failure, you manage to succeed! Mashing up the ingredients together, along with whatever else is on your person, you've cobbled together a intermediate level potion of regeneration. This thing seems to work in both ways opposite and similar to the properties of the pickled limbs. It staves off death, but it also preserves life by granting you an extra health shield of sorts! Can also be used as a perfect preservative for food and.. other things in its place. You haven't noticed any other exits! The quick look around you've done doesn't really warrant any open spaces to check about.. except for the great, loud crashing sound behind that same shelf you checked before. Also groaning and moans of pain.

>”Well, maybe if the power of the inferno doesn’t work, the power of the blizzard will!”

>Use the Ice Staff on the slime monster.

> After Cyberus's attack, attempt to strike the slime with my hammer.

>Pull the string and see what's in.

edited 7th Apr '18 6:25:38 PM by Savaget1337

>Carefully check behind the shelf again, whilst trying to hide and not draw attention to myself.

>Try and move the painting on the wall, in the name of secret loot!

> Discarding stealth, investigate the shelf-ish object and area around it. Keep your guard up.

edited 9th Apr '18 10:24:09 PM by Chip

((AGH, MY DEEPEST APOLOGIES FOR HAVING PUT THIS ON HOLD!!! I'm coming along to the last stretch of college where finals are starting to roll around, and I'm putting most of my focus on that!))