We rest for the night at the top of Ashwell tower. Come the morning we break our fast and agree to explore the tower cellar. Salmer opts to come with us rather than remain alone.

We check the ground floor first. Appears to be a single room used for storage – barrels, boxes and crates. Barrels are ale, sacks are grain, crates are dried fish and meat. Looks like we can survive on this for a while. Something has been in here and had a sample of everything..!

We head further down tithe basement. The door is ajar and opens into a corridor. Smells mustier… Nailen girds his loins and opens the door. A corridor indeed, while an open door on the right. No sound emerges so we enter the room. More barrels and boxes, plus shelves on the walls. As we are checking the floor some rats appear and want a fight. In fact, they stream past us although one takes the time to bite Mahan’s leg.
The barrels contain spoiled water. The bottles contain wine and the boxes contain dried fish. We exit the room and head down the corridor, suddenly a well appears as if someone just thought they needed to put one in… The well appears to provide potable water. Nailen speculates on the possibility of there being an entrance to the Newtling lair…

Next to the well is another door, strongly bolted from this side. We ponder what mightbe behind it and then open it. The room is half paved, there is a ladder on the floor and a hole in the floor in the far corner.. The edges of the hole are stonelined and there appears to be a room below. We lower the ladder and descend with gay abandon. The room contains a bed, desk, chest of drawers all ornate and expensive looking. We search the room in pairs. Someone else has been searching the room as there are marks in the dust. We find nothing of interest.
We open the door with bows drawn. It opens into another room, furnished and carpeted. The room is large with divans around the edge and an oval carpet. Again the furnishings are ornate and expensive looking. A 7 foot tall skeleton advances towards us, bearing a staff with a blue crystal. Before we can consider retreating, MahN fires an arrow and Olsen does too. Nailen draws Trollbane and charges. During melee he suffers an electric shock to the arm but still manages to drive his dagger into the chest of the monster and it collapses. His arms hurt! We scavenge some gold from the skeleton.

the room it emerged from has 4 statues of tall people – the Lordling race, and a large oil burner in the centre. the statues are all of the same lady with different phaes of the moon carved into her chest. she carries a cup at full moon, a book at waning crescent, a sword at new moon and wears a headress at waxing crescent.
The west exit takes us to a long room with a long table and long benches. In the other direction from the statue room is a vestry, with many sets of robes, again corresponding to the phases of the moon, plus a mirror.