You decide to rest here for the night. That leaves some time before nightfall; perhaps there's something useful in the lodge. Claire volunteers to remain behind with Charlotte and keep watch with her bow over the courtyard. She can't whistle a warning if you need to come out, but she can fire an arrow at one of the shutters and hope you hear it.
You and Pearl head out to the shop attic and down the stairs, out the front door. Claire closes up the barricade behind you. You ask Pearl what they were betting as you walk across the quiet courtyard.
"The goblins trade with someone who makes these candies." She digs one out and hands it to you. It looks like a clear glass bead with a seed encased inside. "We bet these instead of money, because money is what our group uses to deal with others. These are just a little luxury."
Your footfalls crunch softly on the snowy ground. A flurry of large flakes blows across in front of you. The sky is a high cotton blanket. It's becoming dimmer and you estimate 3 hours more of good daylight.
The lodge is directly across the courtyard, on the south side of the compound. Its steep roof has more heavily-decorated beams and eaves, carved to look like open-mouthed animals. The sturdy log walls give way to a stone foundation and stone steps leading up to the great front door, which is shattered. The pieces inside are mingled with broken piles of furniture, including all of the heavy tables and benches in the common room. All of the debris is centered around the front door.
The central common room extends across the whole width of the building. There's a bar with some rooms behind it. There are a pair of hallways that extend toward the back of the building on either side of the bar. Down those halls are doors on either side.
There are grand wooden stairs leading up to a second floor balcony that overlooks the common room and also runs the whole width of the building. Your gaze continues upward and you spot three great
antler-chandeliers coated in lumps of cold wax. There are doors leading further back all along the length of the balcony.
A fireplace sits on each side of the central bar. The fieldstone chimneys extend up to the second-floor balcony and up through the flat ceiling.
The windows are high on the walls, just small square holes for ventilation, and they're all open. Snow and cold light filter in.
Nothing is lit and the place is cold and quiet. All of the doors are open.
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You and Pearl are covered in dried, sticky blood, and Pearl is also grimy with coal dust.
Equipment
Clothes: Fur Cloak, Faded Green Shirt, Trousers, Belt with Dagger Sheath and Pouch, Floppy Boot Hat, Cloth-Wrapped Sandals
Armor: None
Jewelry: Ceramic Ocarina Necklace (0 ENC)
In Hand: Rusty Axe
Satchel [10/10]:a Big Heavy Book [Unlocked] (10 ENC), Densely-Written Love Letter (0 ENC)
Dagger (Belt Sheath)
Bottle [1/1]: 1.9 Pints of Peach/Apple/Pine Liquor
Mirror Shiv with Shirt-Wrapped Handle
Torch
Sausages x1.5 (1 ENC)
Bread Loaf: 3/4 left
Jug [1/4]: 2 Pints Hard Cider
Small Items (No Weight) In Belt Pouch
Compass
Pocketknife
Engraved Lighter
Pack of Serpent Tarot Cards
Engraved Gold Engagement Ring
Glass Candy x1
Equipment
Clothes: Black Cloth Pants, Black Cloth Shirt, Black Hooded Cloak, Black Leather Gloves, Black Leather Boots, Belt with Axe Loop and Pouch
Armor: None
Jewelry: None
In Hand: Bow
Sturdy Backpack [7/20]: Hardtack x9 (1 ENC), Salamander Hide x3 (3 ENC), Salamander Head (3 ENC)
Hand Axe (Belt Loop)
Quiver [1/1]: Arrows x36
Bota Bag [4/4]: 7 Pints Water
Small Items (No Weight) In Belt Pouch
Tinderbox
Chunk of Soap
Archer's Finger Guard
(Unknown)
Equipment
Clothes: Black Cloth Pants with Two Dagger Sheaths, Black Cloth Shirt, Black Hooded Cloak, Black Leather Gloves, Black Leather Boots, Bandolier with Six Dagger Sheaths, Belt with Sword Sheath and Pouch
Armor: None
Jewelry: None
In Hand: Short Sword
Cute Square Backpack [4/10]: Mixed Nuts x2 (1 ENC), Dried Meat x3 (1 ENC), Rolled Blanket, Brick of Soap
7 Daggers (Belt Sheaths)
1 Melty Dagger (Belt Sheath)
Bota Bag [4/4]: 7 Pints Water
Small Items (No Weight) In Belt Pouch
Tinderbox
(Unknown)
Equipment
Clothes: Dark Purple Fur-Lined Pants, Grey Cloth Shirt, Brown Leather Vest, Deep Green Hooded Cloak, Brown Leather Gloves, Brown Leather Boots, Belt with Dagger Sheath and Pouch
Armor: None
Jewelry: Silver Bracelets x5 (0 ENC)
In Hand: Dagger
Satchel [10/10]: Dried Fruit x4 (1 ENC), Dried Meat x4 (1 ENC), Pearl's Spellbook {Pyrotechnics, Whispered Message} (5 ENC), Coffer [Locked] [2/3]: 108 oz Gold, 100 oz. Silver
Bota Bag [4/4]: 7 Pints Water
Small Items (No Weight) In Belt Pouch
Hollow Reeds and Cobweb x34 (Whispered Message)
Guano and Sulfur Balls x22 (Pyrotechnics)
Lockpick Kit (1 ENC)
Chunk of Soap
(Unknown)
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