Having gained access to the villa of Viscount Gilbert via the tunnels the Cauldroneers determines to explore the rest of the villa. By quick wits they determine the weight of torches racked ready for use is wrong and that they have been loaded with gunpowder as a deadly trap to the unaware.
Proceeding gingerly by candlelight they proceed up the stairs. Entering the kitchen they open the shutters and see steak knives are missing perhaps taken by Gilbert’s lunatic nephew they suspect is on the premises. They then enter Mosaic room with a haunting figure of death on the floor dressed in red with the motto ‘fire is my medium.’
Going to the main hall and inspected the chimney they find iron handholds – Antoine scales the passage and finds a secret door into a hidden chamber with a casket with holes around the outside and a depression in the top. Fortunately he has the wits to try the ring acquired at the statues in the garden in the depression – this disarms the ‘devils box’ which would have fired pistol shots in all directions.
A veritable Kings ransom of gold coins, crucifixes and 50,000 of (sadly defunct) Elizabethan English pounds is found. The party split it and exit.
They explore the arms room – noting a suit of armour which appears to provide eyeholes into the main entrance chamber. They also note missing pistols.
Travelling out through the kitchen and the library they see a expensive horde of books leave carefully by the front entrance and
Poor Pierre Davide, Joseph’s lackey is splatted by a gargoyle pushed off the Villa tower. Incensed Joesph steps out and fires an arrow up but takes a pistol shot to the arm. Antonine quick wittedly sets fire to the library and the adventures escape through the tunnel.
Leaving the maze they see a figure fleeing the burning villa on the roof top – Jean tries a shit but loses the target in the smoke as the roof collapses…
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