Ruined Monastery (day 5)

The door to the room north of the entry hall was stuck. With a loud crack, the door finally gave way and opened, shattering an ancient wooden chair propped against it on the other side. The room beyond is dark and smells deeply of dust and decay. The mummified remains of a dwarf rest in the middle of the chamber. Wearing the garb of a blacksmith, the dwarf has the shattered shards of a glass vial in one hand and a scrap of ancient parchment in the other. Written in dwarven, the parchment reads, "Forgive me, dark father of the forge, my toils shall never be enough". Tucked into the belt of the long-dead dwarf is a silver light hammer with an unknown religious symbol carved into the head.

The small room south of the entry hall has a few moth-eaten rags hanging on pegs and a single soiled hat resting on a table.

The double doors leading into a chamber southwest of the entry hall are shattered and broken, one of them lying on the floor. The room beyond is in an equal state of disrepair. What was once a library is now a shattered mess with one corner being completely collapsed and dominated by a wide pool of stagnant water. Thick fungus grows on most of the books that still remain on the shelves lining the walls. The fungus that lines the shelves in this room is hazardous if disturbed. When Tok moved the books the fungus let off a puff of spores that damaged his constitution. In addition, he has strange shadows and flittering movement appear in the corners of his vision. Atop one of the bookshelves is a single tome that has managed to avoid the destructive fungus. This book is written in Dwarven and contains hymns to Torag. The book is beautifully illustrated. Folded into the last page of the book is a scroll.

The door leading into the chamber across the library from the hallway was locked. The device was quite ancient and Hrol broke down the door. This small chamber appears to be some sort of sitting room, complete with a single table and a pair of chairs, both in relatively good condition. Resting atop the table is a half-eaten crow next to a crude knife and a cracked mug. A net sprung up near the ceiling held a number of stones and a small metal anvil, which fell on the room when the heroes kicked in the door. The heroes, thinking this trap was made to warn a creature further in the ruins, bluffed cries of alarm and pain, without much success.

The small cramped chamber past the guest quarters holds two beds (one of which is covered in bird bones), a small sack, and an array of old tools. The other bed looks recently slept in. A kobold hid under the bed, gaining total cover. The kobold used the cramped space to his advantage whenever possible, preventing others from entering the room. He focused his attacks on Mrunk, but was eventually bested by the heroes, who nevertheless stemmed his bleeding. On the spare bed is a complete set of masterwork artisan's tools useful for Craft (stonemasonry). In addition, these is a small sack containing 62 gp in assorted coins and a single ruby gemstone.