[CENTER][h1]Elemental Plane of Air[/h1]
[h2][color=6ecff6]Ishaan's Palace: Grand Hall, Right Wing[/color][/h2][/CENTER]

All Brutrumukk and Jub hear is eerie laughter echoing around them. The sound of the laughter bounces off the walls and bookshelves around them, causing them to sound more and more distorted. Brutrumukk can tell that they are further inside. It seems like going straight ahead is the best option, for now at the very least. 

[@XxFellsingxX][@rush99999]

[CENTER][color=598527][h1]Hither[/h1][/color][/CENTER]
[CENTER][color=00746b][h2]Bavlorna's Cottage: Bavlorna's Bedroom (B18)[/h2][/color][/CENTER] 

The stairs creak loudly as Aurora leads the way upstairs. Zavakri follows after she speaks to Rearden, "You should come with. Just in case we encounter anything..." Her irises still appear as golden clock faces as she speaks and moves.

Upon reaching the top of the stairs, the party is able to take in the sight of the room.

A ball of light bobs above the rafters, casting shadows over this room, in which the owner's messy habits are on full display. Rumpled and moldering rugs share floor space with food scraps, stacks of dirty dishes, and tipped-over clay pots whose plants have long since died.

A bed that occupies one corner of the room has a pile of straw in place of a mattress. In the opposite corner stands a squat chest of drawers with a watering can resting atop it. The only other furnishing of note is a stocky wooden chest with a sturdy iron padlock. It sits in another corner between two closed doors. 

The ball of light drifts down towards the party, but it doesn't do much else. 

[hider=Aurora Only]Aurora, you notice a faint glow of white light begin to shine from one of your pockets. Should you pull it out, you realize it's the Iron Key you received from Telemy Hill. Your attention is pulled to the East Door in this room, where the lock is giving the same glow as the key. 

Instinctually, you realize that this key was meant to open that door! 

After coming to that realization, the glow fades.[/hider]

[@Dark Cloud][@ctrlsaltdel][@Lurking Krog]

[CENTER][color=00746b][h2]Bavlorna's Cottage: Bavlorna's Hoard (B19)[/h2][/color][/CENTER]

Sshizna...you have been in this room for so long now, you practically know this room like it's the back of your hand! 

This musty room looks like a miser's attic. Lying in tall heaps are discarded blankets, quilts, cushions, and clothing of all shapes and sizes, not to mention musical instruments, toys, dolls, jewelry boxes, flower vases, child-sized caskets, and broken furniture.

Among the heaps of junk are a few oddities, including a stag's skull hanging on one wall, a white porcelain jar with chicken legs standing on a table, a fancy helmet placed on the faceless head of a wooden mannequin, and a five-foot-long bronze statue of a giant frog squatting in a corner, its mouth agape and filled with impenetrable darkness. 

Most days have been boring and uneventful. But today was the noisiest and busiest day you noticed thus far! New voices talking loudly below...and a show taken place in front of your eyes. The evidence of that show lies on the ground: A dead lornling in the middle of the room.

Now...you hear footsteps climbing up: Four sets of footsteps! It's definitely not Bavlorna...

Could it be...?

...Freedom is so close, you can practically taste it in the air!  

[@Vertigo]