Horror Adventure The Vampiress and the Magi Archivist

[SillySpyder]

Thessalia frowned deeply and glanced amongst the pews. "I did find a map of the monastery and apparently there is a secret exit. Apparently, they made two exits in case one was blocked by storms and such, so somewhere there is a secret door that leads down into a cavern which leads to a cave entrance. I read it from the floorplan of the building. Maybe he was talking about a brick down the secret exit?" she asked him, wondering if there was even a secret exit and if they could find it. "It wouldn't make sense to put it somewhere hidden. I've been here for a while and haven't found a clue. The map just shows the tunnels leading out, not where the exit starts."

 

[PlagueDoctor]

"Where did you wake up, exactly?" That detail would hopefully lead him forward. Ben figured that Viktor may have planned to hide here near to where he hid his tome. It still bothered him that the Counsel assassins got such a jump on him, either he thought the Counsel had no idea what he was up to or he thought he was way smarter than he was. His move to this abandoned monastery would've been noticed though. Nothing added up. "How did he turn you? If he himself was a vampire how did you not notice until it was too late?" He asked, too many questions- he needed some simple answers.

 

[SillySpyder]

"Let me think." Thessalia stated and then stood from the pew and walked around the location before going into one of the back rooms and revealing that the mattress on the bed had a lot of dried blood on it. And the sheets. She explained what had occurred in a quivering voice. "It happened when I was sleeping. He came into my room and without warning, subdued me on the bed. At first, I thought he wanted to rape me. However, he instead bit into my neck and drank my blood. So much that I ended up losing consciousness. When I finally woke up, I found myself covered up in the sheet, as if I had been assumed dead. I don't know whether he did it or the assassins. Why I wasn't buried, I'll never know. I found a note nearby." she said, pulling up the piece of paper and held it up. She read it aloud. "Demon possessed. I took care of her so her soul would know Heaven." she told him.

"But since this new awakening, I've gone through nothing but Hell. Constant fear. Watching my back. Every move, every traveler that passed by, I worried they might be brave enough to venture inside and find me."

 

[PlagueDoctor]

"I would wager they through your were dead and performed some sort of pointless exorcism before leaving." That was out of character for an assassin, very interesting. "I'm going to look for and map out any secret passageways which will, hopefully, lead me to finding that brick hiding place. I suggest you stay here, can't guarantee there won't be sunlight in the passages given how deep the crevices and valleys are in this mountain. Be safer for you to stay here." He pointed out, he spread his magical feelers out and felt the walls of this room to see if he could find any seams in the stone and brick work, any voids beyond the walls.
Ben knew she could feel him doing this and hoped it wasn't rubbing on the wound of her own lost magics, he was curious as to what her specialty had been as it had been of interest to Viktor and might shed some light on his studies. He hoped he could find that damned tome.
There were two hidden hallways in this room, one to the left and one in the back, hedging his bets he decided to search the left one first as it seemed more likely that the tome was hidden down the other one. Get the least likely one out of the way first.
"I believe I have found the passages, I need to find the mechanism to open them though." He'd felt part of it but that only gave him a vague direction to look in for the switches.