Neffia the Small pt 4

Neffia the Small pt 4

 

Continued from: She gets the lock open but bends her best tool in the process.  Damn it!  She won’t have ‘advantage’ on this type of roll anymore until she can get a new set of thieves’ tools.  On the other hand, she has found a shortcut!

 

 

She lifts the lid of the trapdoor and slips into the narrow shaft that it reveals.  There are ladder rungs attached to the shaft’s wall and she descends fifteen feet before reaching a slender tunnel somewhere on the first floor.  It runs in two directions.  Neffia doesn’t really know which to take, so she arbitrarily goes to the right.  The tunnel ends at … not quite a door, but a dead end with a fairly obvious door shaped seem cut into the wall with a handle in the middle.  She listens at the door.

 

Does she hear anything?        

 

Applicable clichés?: None

 

1d6= (2) (No)

 

Hearing nothing, she shrugs and twists the handle.  The door opens into a scullery.

 

Is anyone here?

 

Applicable clichés?: None

 

1d6= (3) (No, but)

 

The room is empty, but she does see a plate with a half eaten, thick slice of bread and a wedge of white cheese resting on the counter under a row of hanging pans and pots.  Someone will be coming back for that any time, thinks Neffia.  She scans the room for exits.

 

Are there more than one exit?

 

Applicable clichés?: None

 

1d6= (4) (Yes, but)

 

There are two exits in the scullery.  Neffia is moving towards the closest one when she hears approaching footsteps.  There’s no choice now, she dashes for the other exit, throws it open and hurries through, pulling it shut behind her.

 

Is this new room lit?

 

Applicable clichés?: None

 

1d6= (4) (Yes, but)

 

This room is lit, but only dimly.  A candle, burned down almost to the nub sits in the centre of a table in this room that appears to be a servant’s quarters.  She quickly scans the room.  Is anyone here?

 

Applicable clichés?: None

 

1d6= (5) (Yes)

 

That candle had burned down pretty far – it’s possible this person fell asleep.  Is the person asleep?

 

Applicable clichés?: None

 

1d6= (6) (Yes, and)

 

There’s a bed in here, and it’s occupied! But Neffia isn’t too worried.  There’s an empty wine bottle beside the bed and the man who occupies it is snoring softly and drooling on his pillow.  Neffia doesn’t even have to try to be quiet as she crosses the room, scanning as she goes for anything of use or value. 

 

Is there anything?

 

Applicable clichés?: None

 

1d6= (2) (No)

 

Nothing of interest here save for the door on the opposite side.  The door has no lock.  Neffia briefly considers listening at it, but with the snores of this servant in her other ear, it’s no use. She opens the door a crack and peaks into the hallway beyond.  The hallway is empty and she slips through the door, shutting it softly behind her.  There are several doors in this new hallway.  She approaches the first and this time she does listen at it. 

 

Is there anything to be heard?

 

Applicable clichés?: None

 

1d6= (1) (No, and)

 

Neffia is confident there’s nothing alive beyond, asleep or awake.  She pushes on the door.  Is it locked?

 

Applicable clichés?: None

 

1d6= (5) (Yes)

 

She’s going to have to pick the lock, but with her bent tool, she loses her advantage.

 

Is she successful?

 

Applicable clichés?: None

 

1d6= (1) (No, and)

 

Damn it! Another tool is ruined and now Neffia will take a -1 if she tries to pick another lock.

 

Cursing, she moves down the hall to the next room.  If that room was locked, it might be the room she was looking for.  People didn’t lock rooms that didn’t contain valuables.  Hopefully there’s another way in…