Scene 3: The Dungeon

Merton melts out of the gloom and the halfling rogue nods at Firina. "I'm Merton." He then fades back into the darkness.

As Hindle potters about, he does find a few missed items including: loose change totaling to 100 gold and a shortbow.

A wand of the war mage would be great. :) Not that I got more than 10 gp left ...

Merton melts back out of his hiding place and steps over by the door to the tower, beyond the cells. He fishes out a torch, lights it, and wedges it into a good spot like he did in the cellar. He then starts to fiddle around as the rest of the party discusses building a sieve.

Trying to be helpful and learn more of her surroundings, Firina takes advantage of her darkvision to see if she missed learning anything else about where they were and her new companions. As she looks around, she sees a small shelf near where Merton works on the door and steps over. She picks up the bottles that lay there and finds a couple with labels. One says 'Potion of Healing' and another says 'Potion of Speed.' She also finds a small pouch with 150 gold pieces in it.

The adult gelatinous cube shimmers a little, one would almost think it is happy to have items it no longer wants removed, and stills again. Leana and Brickowsky take the loot over to the others and lay out what they were able to salvage. Many rusty, half-dissolved items are discarded to the side for now and only the items that may still be useful are laid out to dry.

- Glowing yellow gemstone, Brickowsky can already tell it is a topaz
- Alax's silvered frying pan, he moves over and picks it up exclaiming "Thank you so much! I wouldn't be able to make my chicken wing croquettes without this!"
- Skull
- Iron censer attached to a solid wooden handle with an iron chain (could be used as a flail), it sparkles a little with something else
- Shortbow, sparkling a little with something else

The group hears a click and Merton steps back. "Done." He takes a quick look at the items, but shrugs and melts back into the darkness.

Brickowsky and Leana continue to work together to puzzle out what has been salvaged from the cube and found in the dungeon. With renewed vigor, Brickowsky identifies all but one item.

The frosty staff is clearly a Staff of Frost that can project a cone of cold energy (5 charges), or a fog cloud (1 charge), or create an ice storm (4 charges), or a wall of ice (4 charges). In total, the staff has 10 charges and will not renew again until the next day's dew. It also gives the wielder resistance to cold damage.

The topaz, now looked at more closely, only glows because it has a Continual Light spell cast upon it. Perhaps someone had enchanted it before being consumed or captured?

The skull is nothing special on its own, but clearly belonged to the headless skeleton they had first encountered in the dungeon, the one that held the scimitar so tightly in its death grasp.

The iron censer is a Devotee's Censer that can be used as a flail and a holy symbol. It can cause extra 1d8 radiant damage with its hits and, as a bonus action, speak a command word to emanate a thin cloud of incense that stretches out to 10 feet for 1 minute. At the start of the wielder's turn during that time, the wielder and any creatures in the cloud regain 1d4 hit points. This bonus action can only be used once until the next day's dawn.

With one final look, the shortbow sparkles a little, but not clear if it's due to the slime it was covered in or something else.