“Yes, good, I thought you looked Esquimaux, and your people are the right type of people for the job, indeed!”

“What did this priest want?” asked Narrhil in genuine curiosity. 'Wolves he thought, hungry and lean in this time of the years of Hyperborea.' He thinks.

After he finishes chatting with Tillak, he watches his new comrades explore the dais.

'Gold harp,' he thinks, 'that will help with my identify spell, but I usually am exhausted after use and I sleep for twenty-four hours thereafter,' he shakes his head at his own weakness. 

Still, the fire was low and they needed shelter, he moves to the door on the opposite side of the harp to look beyond.

The cryomancer does not want to use one of his precious torches as he only has four of them left, so he summons an icicle that rises from the palm of his hand which he then gently takes a grip of, he holds it high to get a better look.

[OOC: ICICLE
Once per day per level of experience, evoke a 12-inch icicle to rise from a loosely clenched fist. It glows violet, shedding light in a 15-foot radius. An icicle can function as a single-use dagger (mêlée or missile); otherwise, it lasts 6 turns (1 hour) before crumbling or melting.]

Votin pushes the lectern closer to edge of the dais near the fire tipping it over far enough away as to not put the fire out. If the lectern doesn't break Votin hacks it into manageable pieces.

Narrhil moves further into the room, he examines the windows, whether they wooden framed or iron. He would cut the skin from the  two wolves and then secure their skins to the windows to stop any drafts.

He searches for a secure area from the cold, Votin had mentioned a downstairs but also mention destroying its door.

[OOC: are the others well, he not sure how they look, but if they going swimming, he can cast Cold Resistance on the swimmer? Or just to help them endure the harsh treatment of the freezing wand].

A step inside the space and the fragile light falls up on the back wall
=13pxof the 10 x 20 ft room. Its stone walls are blackened with soot.
=13pxA long charred table centers the room beneath the 2 broken out windows 15ft high on the far wall. 
=13pxInside the far wall,  a large kettle hangs at the end of a long chain disappearing up the fireplace.
A small wooden door hangs from its hinges in the right corner. The skin of the wolves remains intact on their hides back in the main room, and the windows are much too high over your head to affix anything.

bald_headed_yeti wrote:

Votin returns to the raised dais and holding the axe with both hands probes the murky water.

"Keep an eye on the water should we disturb something mean and nasty!"
 

Votin lowers the axe into the murk. He has not reached a bottom as his hands are fractions away from the frigid filth.
 

bald_headed_yeti wrote:

Iron Ranger wrote:

bald_headed_yeti wrote:

Votin returns to the raised dais and holding the axe with both hands probes the murky water.

"Keep an eye on the water should we disturb something mean and nasty!"
 

Votin lowers the axe into the murk. He has not reached a bottom as his hands are fractions away from the frigid filth.
 

Votin withdraws the axe...not particularly fond of rank water...he looks under the dais for the source of the water.
 

The dais is made of stone and built with the floor.
 

bald_headed_yeti wrote:

Votin looks around for loose stone and perhaps some rope laying about, maybe downstairs?

Votin can't find any loose stone here.
There is rope tying the pews to the front doors.
There is no downstairs atop the dais.

bald_headed_yeti wrote:

[OOC: Downstairs meaning through the broken door and down the steps]

Votin leaves Tillak atop the Dais and joins Narrhil in the next room.

The room is freezing but at least the roof is intact and the constant rain of snow is off his head. Though it is hard for the warrior to abandon the warmth of the fire just renewed by the dry wood.

There is a strange glowing Icicle rising from  Narrhil's palm, casting just enough voilet light to almost see into the dark corners of the space.
 

At this moment

Votin is with Narrhil in the ktichen area.
Tillak is on the Dais.
Malak seems to be missing.