Aegis' Dungeoncrawler In-Character II

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After finishing up with the Hydra, Levi detects no magic, hears and sees nothing of note at the door. The swarms don't have an easy way through - while it is not air tight, the gap is small enough to pose difficulty even for insects.

The Wraith, however, has no difficulty passing through the solid door. After several tense seconds it returns and provides its report. It speaks Common in a raspy voice like a whisper echoing from the deep recesses of a long dry well: "The laboratory appears unguarded."

With no signs of danger, the team opens the door revealing a dusty laboratory filled with long, curved marble-top tables, various wooden stands, metal shelves, and a few chairs. These crowded furnishings hold cauldrons, beakers, flasks, pots, tools, lumber, strange stones, a kiln, a small forge, articles of clothing, simple jewelry, barrels, crates and things that defy simple description. The desiccated carcass of a griffon is suspended by hooks and chains from the ceiling. The walls appear to be covered with arcane diagrams and construction plans.

Some of the crates have been opened, their straw-lined contents spilled out around them. Broken glass lies scattered across the floor, and one of the tables is tipped over with a mess of small objects strewn about.

It seems most of the valuables in this room have already been looted and a good deal of the more fragile equipment was damaged during its prior ransacking.

Levi's scan for magic eventually identifies a crate that still has a magical item within its contents:
A Potion of Invisibility
2x Sunrods

If you could transport some of the larger items out of this laboratory, specifically the kiln and the small forge, they would be worth 10,000gp though they will not fit through the mouth of a haversack or bag of holding due to their bulk. These valuables aren't able to be disassembled without significant damage so you'd need to find some other way to loot them.

The arcane construction plans appear to be an incomplete schematic for some kind of half-baked super-weapon.

Spoiler: Kn: Arcana DC 16

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It's some kind of Disintegration device schematic

Spoiler: Kn: Arcana DC 22

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The goal of this schematic was apparently to make an unlimited Disintegrate device - something that would Disintegrate all of even very large objects... perhaps even the entire island of Solum. Fortunately, it's so incomplete there's no way this was actually built.

There are no new exits, just as before, exploring up the stairs leads to another large door, while the stairs continue to ascend.