Alice witnesses the huge explosion and can't believe she pulverized nearly all the skeletons with it

Yayy!
We need more of those boom sticks! Way more!


Alice wants to jump down to meet the others but Yulya frantically waves her arms gesticulating to move in her direction. Alice sees the destabilized ceiling...
Oops, that probably was a bit too much! You guys get up here!

Looking SW she spots something that looks like a tent that warrants exploring.
For now she proceeds o go back to the explosives and packs up the last bundle and the last two free sticks, then readies her bow should anything appear from the South and waits for the others.

Cat brushes skeleton remains off her fur and starts searching them and then the 2 ghouls. She takes a look at the ceiling to assess if it is likely to collapse soon then returns to the elevator to rest. If there is time Cat will hone her sword.

Alice Nya that was supper effective but - loud Nya! Stand guard while we rest Nya!

[Time: Tuesday, Spring 25, 2215, 9C Deathly calm]

Ashley Panther goes to her clothes, kicking Mrs. Bigglesworth off who'd found them first, nestled in the soft fabric and leather, and with a purplish glow, the indigo hair begins to fall off, revealing white pristine skin. in a matter of seconds, Ashley emerges like a flower erupting from a velvety flower bud and collects her clothes, putting them on. "That was easy, huh Nixie."

Mrs. Bigglesworth settles for a rest on the bags instead.

With a sigh, she searches for ores in the areas already revealed. [LUCK 1d4=3, PERCEPTION 1d20+8=18]

Though there is some low grade ores, she rejects them, these need to be high grade.

Alice searches the Ghouls finding they have nothing on them. Their clothing ripped to shreds, their armor in a sad shape, they're covered in blood and singed by the explosions. [LUCK 1d6=(2,4,2,6,5,2)] Because of their state, their ears are mostly damaged, but one ear on one of the ghouls has been spared.

Yulya points to the area south of the platform where the ghouls emerged earlier and Ashley takes Nixie with her to check it out and indeed there are the remains of bandits; the remains of two unfortunate humans lay here, stripped and half eaten, disemboweled with their major organs removed. Their hearts are missing as well as their eyes, and their skulls have been cracked open revealing half-eaten brains. Their equipment is here:

"Eww."

(All equipment has default pricing and weights in good condition.)

2x Leather armor
2x Set of clothes (Garments, boots, clothes, fur lined coats)
2x Water skins
2x Daggers
2x Short swords
2x Short bows
2x Quivers (18 arrows each)

She finds coins still in their purses equaling 12 gold, 15 silver, and 25 copper in total. She takes 1 gold, 7 silver and 2 copper and gives the rest to Yulya.

[Current Coins:]

149 Gold
110 Silver
23 Copper

Nixie sniffs at the corpses.

"Ugh, don't eat that." Ashley snaps her fingers and Nixie pops back out of existence, calls over Mrs. Bigglesworth, then settles on a small bench to rest.



Cat finds nothing of value on the corpses and after surveying the damaged ceiling, she understands it would make for a good trap but is otherwise stable if barely. She retires to the platform and begins honing her sword.

Yulya looks over the documents on the table, written with the same handwriting she recognized from the quest paperwork at the guild, they're fresh papers penned by Gundren, or perhaps his brothers that look like the beginnings of plans for excavation and areas unknown mapped and marked for detonation. The maps outline some of the myriad passages that go off into darkness. Nothing of relevance is written here.

To the Southwest looks like standing water, to the West there are more barrels containing part A and part B of the explosive constituents. Again there are the makings of explosives though the recipe alludes you all and any trials could be potentially very dangerous as even the vapors are explosive without proper care. To the Northwest the passage continues past the scattered bones and scraps left of the Orc skeletons.

[Decide what you're going to do, where to next and how long to rest.]

Yulya is glad Ashley took over investigating the corpses and speaks a prayer for them. Bandits or not - they were humans eaten by monsters. Yulya inspects the equipment Ashley brought back and takes the money.
Thank you Ashley!
It is odd there do not appear to be any brooches. The bandits stated they were of utmost importance to them. I wonder what happened. Were they perhaps stripped of their brooches because they fell out of favor and left to die here? Or did someone else take them after their death? The ghouls did not have them.



Yulya notices the ladder leading up to a small passage
Uhm Ashley would you mind sending Mrs. Bigglesworth up there to see if anything is hidden in this passage? We most thoroughly search everything!



Yulya brings the bandits equipment over to the elevator to let Cat decide if anything should be taken and settles to rest at the elevator.

While the others are eating, Alice pays her respect to the fallen bandits (?) by engulfing their remains, cleaning up the mess and absorbing nutrients worth half a ration.



After everyone has rested and the party is gathered around the table with Mrs. Bigglesworth sitting on Gundren's papers, Alice slowly approaches and attempts
to touch the cat's ears

Nyaa that was a good rest. Where do we go now Nya?

I wanna go South and look at the tent! We should find more clues there. Also there's water. Leave exploring it to me!