Lirassa disappears completely. Mon'Fargret, with Betham close behind, heads up the stairs. Both vanish as well.
"I don't remember that !" mutters Mey'Luskar as she starts up the stairs, Widjgleeby closing from behind. Pru follows uneasily.
"Is Ham alright?" calls Zeton across to Bina.
"He's just stunned!" replies the disgraced priestess as she looks over the Ibitonian. "At least I think he is! I don't see anything else!"
Over by the crystal's display stand, Nekshi and L'Toyei start a very low but apparently animated conversation.
Meanwhile, on the other end of the action, Mon'Fargret and Betham cross what appears to be a cloaking curtain, and everything at the top of the stairs suddenly comes into view. (At exactly the same moment, the thumping of loud but muffled music becomes audible.) What are apparently the front doors of the mansion stand open to the night. Two armored figures and one in ordinary (but professional looking) clothing lie on the floor with smoldering wounds. Granite Spear prods one of the armored ones to the left. Lirassa, weapon in hand, eases around the banister of the stairway to the right. On either side of the stairway, twin curved staircases arc upward to the next floor. There is also a door to the left and a passageway going right.
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M'F put his ear to the door to see if he can discern anything. He also turns his head to see if audio parallax can give more details about the direction of the music.
Mon'Fargret carefully steps around Granite Spear to the west door and puts his ear to it. Nothing can be heard. As for the music, it is strangely muffled, as if the source itself were muted but the floor and walls were acting as a conductor.
Reading the thought, Betham says, "I think its coming from that way." He points south toward the stairwells. "Somewhere behind the stairs. I sense a lot of people that way." Then he looks around at the smoldering bodies on the floor with disapproval.
Lirassa crouches, pauses, and then quickly jumps around the corner of the stairs toward the window to the east. After a quick scan with her pistol, she relaxes with a sigh and mutters to herself.
Mey'Luskar suddenly appears on the stairs, which then creak as if in agony.
"Ooh, that Farbett is going to wreck the place!" she cries.
Good. Place creepy. Need renovating.
"Let's hope the music muffled that," replies M'F.
"In any case, we'd better get a move on."
He proceeds in the direction indicated by Betham.
[I am not sure what the green is in the illustration and whether it is open space or wall. As a result, I don't know whether he is going up more stairs or quartering around them to get behind them (which seems to be what Betham indicated).
Also, I am going to be on vaca next week, so I will either reply a bunch or not at all depending on my internet access.]
(The green in the picture is the carpet. Leafy green, as tree-dwelling upper-class Yangae/Foldorians would prefer.)
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