A Brighthorn Reunion, in the making

Listening at the door and listen for a moment but hear nothing. Testing the latch you find it not to be locked and cautiously open the door. Faint light from the night sky barely illuminates the room but you relax as you confirm it is not a bedroom and appears to be vacant. The room beyond is clearly used more than the hall you currently stand in and contains several chairs around a table with a large shelf on one side.

Do you want to light your lantern or one of the candles in the room to search more closely or just move on?

Shale hisses as you bring light to the dark room but you ignore him as you quickly look around. All around the room are scattered maps, scrolls, rubbing of markings, and even a couple books. At a quick glance the maps appear to be of the mountains and most of the books and scrolls deal with legends of the area or records from before the Shattering during the Dawn War or during the Dawn Age. Then you find a small book that is much newer and filled mostly with empty pages. Flipping through it you find notes and realize that these are records of the search and focusing mostly on accounts from locals. Quickly you scan the pages and find that your family name is mentioned and indeed your father and mothers names are listed several times, though the notes focus on your father. Then in one of the last filled pages you find notes that seem related to and having additional details on the story about a small party finding and ancient structure. Most of the notes are on the location and details on the event leading up to its discovery. The author is obviously quite excited about this and makes note to "bring along that buffoon and his nag" Only a couple pages have any notes after that and they seem to be compiling other maps and notes in preparation for departing.

Now convinced you parent are in the sorcerers clutches and likely being held captive somewhere you feel a surge of elation knowing they are still alive. But where can they be. Elsewhere on this level, higher up, or back down in the basement?

sorry man, I thought I had replied a few weeks ago!

Egbert takes the book, and leaves the room.
He then looks to see if any other footprints are are observable in yhe dust of the floor.

Egbert listens for a while and hears nothing . . . but a slight disturbance just as you are about to give up. Was that from inside the room or something else moving . . . most like someone moves in the room as Shale is still anxiously peering around nervously next to you. Concentrating you grow certain something did move in the room but it is now silent again. The door has a simple latch without a lock on this side but is clearly a roughly made recent replacement to the original door. Though it is newer and looks to be thickly made does not fit tightly to the frame and has a slight gap at the top, bottom, and side with the hinges but is fairy close along the side of the latch.

The ancient and crumbling construction comes to you aid as you easily peek under the door. A faint red light illuminates it dimly, suggesting coals to one side of the room, and you can see several objects that you take to be a bed, desk, dresser, and other less identifiable items. Slow and deep breathing can be heard coming from the are of the bed.

The hallway is empty and save the door you came by and the rooms to the sorcerer and his apprentice there are no places you might hide.

The swings inwards easily and your lantern casts it's light into the room. Angling the light spilling through the doorway to not directly strike the bed you still see the blankets covering a sleeping form. The room is filled with several book shelves, a large table, and a large board covers one wall and is filled with a multitude of pieces of paper pinned to it. A table next to the bed has a heavy robe thrown over it. As you continue to scan the room the bed creaks as the figure in it shifts their weight, possibly reacting to the light or slight sound the door made as you opened it.

Stepping into the room your lantern illuminates the area more clearly. You set your stone onto the robe and now clearly see the figure in the bed is a bearded man of large stature. Turning you glance glance at the papers that cover the wall board. You see multiple maps as well as what looks to be pages ripped from books and simple scraps of paper with hand written notes. Many of the maps contain similar features and a half appear very old while the other half are much more recent. As you step towards the papers to examine them more closely you note the pages are written in a variety of languages including arcane, the script used by magi, and divine, which is used by the gods and their clergy. As you near the board you hear movement from the bed. Looking back you see the man lift his head ans squint against the light. As he lifts his head you feel as if you feel a sense of familiarity but at the same time are certain you do not know this man.