This week was rough. I got behind quickly due to a lot of other demands on my time. I discovered another person writing their descriptions in Obsidian, and I'm thinking about doing some reorganization based on some of their comments.
On Thursday, my wife had a late class, and I was able to use that time to write up my missing days' descriptions. I've also gone back to some earlier entries to connect them to things I wrote this week and I touched up the map (including adding numbers for two more encounter areas). You might notice I skipped a couple of rooms. I plan on going back to fill those in this week. I was trying to hit some of the areas that I felt inspired about.
8 Chapel
This room is filled with broken, wooden pews that once faced a statue at the front of the room. The statue is gone, leaving on an empty plinth, and scratches in the floor leading to the North Transept.
Frescoes adorning the walls have been defaced.
If anyone shows signs of regret for the damage, or reverence for what was once a sacred space, a sorrowful voice will whisper "Cleanse my house. I will reward thee."
9 Northern Transept
The burnt and rotting remains of a wicker man. The charred skeleton of a person lies within the litter of branches that remain. Soot stains the ceiling.
10 Southern Transept
Broken pews and litter are pushed back against the walls. A thaumaturgic circle is inscribed in chalky brown on the floor in the cleared space. Some of the tracings has been rubbed through, although this is hard to detect without a careful, knowledgeable search.
Anyone using this circle for spell casting is in for a nasty surprise.
11 Garden Hall
A 10' wide covered walkway surrounds the monastery garden. A plinth stands in each corner of the hallway. Deep gouges along the floor show something heavy was dragged away from the plinths and into the garden itself.
12 Outer Kitchen
Large kitchen tables are overturned, thick wooden tops facing the north doorway. The wooden slabs are marred with deep gashes. Smashed crockery and simple tableware litter the floor. A skeleton, missing the skull lies in front of one of the tables.
A POLTERGEIST haunts the room hurling debris at anyone entering and muttering or wailing indecipherable words.
If the skull in the Dining Hall and the skeleton are appropriately laid to rest, the POLTERGEIST will be appeased and show their benefactor the hidden silver place setting in the Dry Pantry
14 Dry Pantry
There is a secret panel behind a pile of broken pottery shards. It conceals a small compartment. The nook contains a finely made, complete place setting in silver, including a wine jug, goblet, charger, and plate.
17 Well
The well is solidly constructed and still has clean water at the bottom, though there is neither rope nor bucket with which to draw it.
Vines have overgrown the shaft, hanging down some 20' along the walls. A silver holy symbol can be seen glittering on a ledge about 15' down.
A VENOMOUS WATERSNAKE hides in a hole in the wall just above the ledge. It can easily climb the vines and hunts small animals in the area. It will not attack, except to defend itself from anything drawing too close to its lair.
The snake wants to be left alone. The shaft of the well gives access to the crypt.
18 Dining Hall
A pair of large tables run nearly the length of this room. Cracked pottery plates, bowls, and mugs are set out as though for a meal, but any food in them has long since rotted away.
A human skull lies on a wooden carving plate at the head of one table. This belongs to the POLTERGEIST in the Outer Kitchen
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