3rd Book: the Book of the Mountain
Copyright© 2025 by Luvirini
Chapter 6: Exploring the Rest of the Place
June 2
Kieron heals Neeia, and after that, Jaysek begins to heal her with a ritual. Forty minutes later, it succeeds, and next, they rest for about ten minutes, and then Jaysek performs the ritual again. After this, Neeia begins to be in better condition. They rest for about half an hour before Kieron repairs Neeia’s and Ra’s willpower and appearance. After this, they then go outside to rest. The clock is already approaching three in the morning, but when they come outside, they arrive at a beautiful sunrise. The weather has cleared and is beautiful. They first go under a tree where Ra heals Neeia. After that, they rest for about twenty minutes and then heal Kieron and Jaysek some more. They are about to go to finish exploring the manor when a whirlwind appears on the scene, from which a spirit emerges with a turban on its head and a large broad-bladed sword in its hand.
The spirit first orders Jaysek to draw one card, and after that, he tells that Jaysek has won and will receive six months’ worth of earnings for free as a new customer benefit. Jaysek buys half of the djinn’s clearance shelf.
After this, the group goes into the manor and is heading to the cellar, but halfway there, Neeia decides to go and explore the remaining rooms of the entrance floor after all, the others sigh and follow her. After this, they move to the cellar. They first examine the laboratory there and then move to the kitchen. From there, two small about 10 inch diameter tunnels lead forward, and one larger 2 foot diameter tunnel. In addition, three doors lead forward from there. One of them leads to a wine cellar, which Neeia and Ra go to investigate. Kieron and Jaysek, in turn, go to look at the larger tunnel. Kieron crawls into the tunnel and gets a few yards forward and comes after a corner to a section where a giant rat is visible. The creature is about three feet long and looks angry. Kieron strikes the rat with her sword and then begins to retreat when the rat attacks.
The rat makes a jump toward Kieron, and Kieron manages to put her sword in front, and the rat impales itself on it because it cannot stop. Kieron retreats out of the tunnel, and after that, Jaysek and Kieron begin to hack at the rat. Neeia hears the sounds of fighting and rushes to the scene. Ra also wakes up a moment later. Ra runs to the scene, hears the rat’s sounds from behind the table, tries to jump onto the table, but fails and crashes against the table, ending up lying on the table.
Because he ends up lying on the table, he can reach to hit the rat, but he doesn’t hit it. Neeia strikes the rat from behind and kills it, just as Kieron is about to kill it too. Neeia notices that Kieron is attempting a killing blow, so she pulls the rat away before Kieron hits.
Next, Ra gets water form from Neeia, and then goes to explore the tunnels. Neeia goes back to the wine cellar to explore it, and Jaysek and Kieron examine the servants’ room. Ra finds only one elf ear in the tunnels.
Neeia finds a secret door in the wine cellar, and behind it a few quite valuable wine bottles are found. After this, the group heads to the underground tunnels. Ra goes ahead sneaking, and the others follow. Ra comes to a larger space from which narrow cracks lead forward. He asks the others if they should explore those cracks now.
When Ra opens his mouth, a large swarm of bats rushes out of the cave from the room. However, they do not attack. The others say that they should explore the room first. Ra starts sneaking forward and gets almost to the other side of the room before, the group is attacked by a really large bat.
The bat doesn’t hit Jaysek, and after that, it moves to attack Kieron, who also dodges all attacks. Neeia strikes the bat from below and hits quite well multiple times. The bat gets annoyed and moves against Neeia. The bat bites Neeia on the hand in a really nasty-looking way and gets Neeia in its grip. Kieron recognizes that the creature is an undead bat, not any normal bat.
Jaysek creates a fire portal for himself and then shoots a fire bolt directly from the portal at the bat. Jaysek hits so well that the bat is forced to drop Neeia. The bat continues attacking Neeia. A little later, Ra manages to strike the bat away. The bat flies toward Kieron, who dodges, and the bat crashes into the wall.
Jaysek begins to perform first aid and further treatment on Neeia, while Kieron and Ra begin to examine the pile of corpses. They find a pearl ring, which according to Neeia is valuable. Kieron finds a long sword and looks at it thinking, “bah, wrong model of sword,” and then throws it over her shoulder, whereupon it stick sprisingly far in to the ground. Ra goes to examine the sword and states that it is a good quality adamantine sword. Next, Kieron finds a disguise hat. At this point, Kieron recognizes that one of the corpses is Shaz Redshiv Bilger, who is a known highway robber, for whom a bounty has been promised. Kieron says that the head needs to be cut off as the whole body is too heavy to take along, but her stabbing weapons are not very good for that, so she asks Ra to hack the head off with his sword. Ra hacks the neck about ten times and then gets the head off. Kieron explains that a bounty has been promised for this robber, which is a good thing, because now you don’t have to return that sword to his heirs.
Kieron ensures that there is nothing dangerous in the room by looking into every small crevice. From the first, she finds a flock of bats that leave immediately after one attack. In the next crevice, Kieron acts very clumsily as if there’s something there, but everyone notices that she’s acting poorly.
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