The PCs decided to follow the other set of footprints leading towards the back of the house. They very quietly go into the first room to look around. Fosco notices that one of the bricks looks obscured and tries to take it out. After he pulls it out, a hoard of spiders crawl out of the hole and onto him. Fosco screams as he frantically tries to get them off. Super stealthy. After a few moments of him getting them off, he finds an old tin inside the whole. He finds two pouches seeming to have alchemical items inside them, as well as some copper and silver. When they search the rest of the rooms, it seems to have been ransacked and picked over. They follow the footprints to the kitchen, and into a room that has broken glass on the floor and a staircase. Radril decides to stay upstairs, like the responsible one. Fosco decides to head down the stairs as Skari follows. With the very first step, there is a blood curdling scream. Surely that can’t be anything. After a few moments of Fosco playing with the step, they head down. The room they find themselves in looks like an old wine cellar with broken wine bottles and barrels. As they get down there, they find a corpse in the middle of the room that seems to have been beaten to death. On him they find a great sword, picked over adventurer’s pack, and beaten plate armor. After some convincing, Radril comes down to collect what they found, as Skari and Fosco have no use for it. They also manage to salvage what looks like a very expensive bottle of wine. As they are checking out the rest of the room, Fosco finds a hidden doorway. He decides to open the door, and *THUM THUM THUM* Fosco is berated with arrows and is knocked down to less than half health. Orcs and humans were waiting for them. After being hit so badly, Fosco yells to Radril and Skari to retreat, then scrambles up the chimney like Santa when he sees you left him Brussel sprouts instead of cookies. With Skari being the only person anyone can see, with Radril still being invisible, everyone goes after him. Skari and Radril stay and fight to get out, and they really land some good hits. Skari, taking the majority of the blows, goes down. Luckily, Radril found the two healing potions, and is able to administer the potion to get him back up. Radril using her new great sword, does a little invisible-stabby-stab, turning some orcs into confused shish kababs bringing them down to half health in one hit. As Fosco is still climbing up the chimney, one of the humans looks up the chimney, as he does this, Fosco launches a brick, smashing him in the face. With many of their allies dying and themselves being nearly demolished in one hit, they start to retreat. Radril and Skari book it out of the house. Fosco casts message to tell Radril where he is and what he is doing, hoping that they made it out okay. He finds himself on the roof, and jumps through the deteriorated roof, into the attic. There he finds a lot of old clothes, and a creepy doll. But as he moves it up, the eyes open. It seems to be weighted so the eyes open for children, however, the eyes are made of jade. Fosco bags it and sneaks out of the closest window. As he starts to run down the path he sees Skari and Radril running at the bottom. Everyone is safe…for now.
