[OOC] A Trip to Remember (OOC)

[Mindsiege]

[Togot]

[Mindsiege]

@Togot:
For now, please give me another secreted, spoiler-protected Investigation (INT) check. We'll use that post for all of Derek's required checks throughout that month if he needs any further rolls than that one.

[Togot]

 

[Mindsiege]

[Togot]

[Mindsiege]

All right, I haven't really gotten confirmation from the group who among everybody is going to Lee, so I'll just assume it's everybody. Going as a party of six (including Baka and Rolen) your group would find that Lee's apartment and the two adjoining apartments as well have been entirely burned out, which you'd immediately recognize from standing in the middle of the street. Are there any further steps you'd like to take moving forward from that?

 

[Corwin]

Oguun would definitely go. I've started writing downtime for him but it may not be up for a day or two.

If the apartment is burned out above ground, he'd head for the basement if it's still accessible.

[Mindsiege]

Originally Posted by Corwin

If the apartment is burned out above ground, he'd head for the basement if it's still accessible.

Upon checking, Oguun would discover that the basement exists and is accessible. If he goes down there to investigate, please give me that skill check. You can do so at advantage because I'm sure either Geghard or Aurora would follow too.

[Togot]

[Mindsiege]

 

[BarrowB]

Dice Ogun's investigation with advantage from Aurora:

2d20+3kh1

(18, 20 (keeping 20) )+3

Total = 23

Well well well.
Looks like we became experts of basement searching.

[Corwin]

Originally Posted by BarrowB

Well well well.
Looks like we became experts of basement searching.

Nice!

[Mindsiege]

Originally Posted by BarrowB

Well well well.
Looks like we became experts of basement searching.

It was certainly an expert roll!

So, here's what your party will find. First, the basement is entirely burnt out as well, but your party realizes fairly quickly that it has been fully deliberate. For one, the fire never properly spread through the staircase, but also the party could distinctly discover two seats of fire, one upstairs and one in the dungeon. To boot, while there are a burnt remains left in the basement, it comes very clear to your group that the devastation of the basement wasn't entirely left to the fire and there is some fairly deliberate destruction caused that most likely occurred before the fire was started. It's possible that some of the inventory was removed before the inferno was properly started, although someone attempted to make it look as if the fire was great enough to leave as little remains as there are, with nothing of any interest left as far as the party discovers. Especially prominent is the floor which the party remembers as fairly peculiar from the dream. On the edges of the room it's still recognizable that the glazed and polished floor must have existed at some point in time, yet especially the center of the room which in the dream had been occupied by the pentagram has been so thoroughly burnt that it's broken and brittle to the point of being unrecognizable from its state in the dream, giving no evidence that it could have ever even supported an arcane circle like the one that the party recalls. In conclusion, someone was fairly thorough in making this look like a basic, if not It's peculiar because it's below the adjoining building instead of below Lee's apartment.peculiarly positioned basement, but the party comes to the distinct conclusion that it might very well have once been exactly as they had seen it in the dream.

Given your great roll, I'll also answer any further questions that you might have left for the scene. Good job.

[Corwin]

Any sign of surviving items or furnishings? Particularly shelves with scrolls or the table with the hidden drawers under it