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That he does. It contains a red liquid, darker than human blood.

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Oh good. Time to wait! And if Mika wakes up first, she can ask him if he wants to use the potion on Julio to get this all done quickly, but potions are expensive enough that he probably won't. Still, this is much better than waiting for them to heal naturally.

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A little over an hour later, Mika awakens and looks around.

"Owwwwww. This might be the worst I've ever taken it. We all still kickin?"

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"None of you are dead yet. When Julio finds his way back to this side of Desna's domain, he has an Infernal Healing for one of you. And then we can wait for one if the wizards to prepare, because neither of them even left an open space this morning. Unless you have something in your pocket, of course."

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"O-Okay... wait for the wizard..." His eyes drift shut.

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Either he missed the reference or he doesn't want the potion used. She wasn't exactly subtle there, but he's not at his best either. Waiting for the wizard it is. 

Another hour sitting here! She should bring a book of her own next time she does something like this, it didn't seem worth the weight when she thought this was going to be quick.

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An hour passes. Julio does not wake up. The others are still alive, but don't seem to be getting any better. They might have fallen asleep.

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Well it's not like she has anything to be doing. If he doesn't wake up for another few hours, she'll ask Mika again, but until then, she continues her cantrip refining.

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Two hours later, Julio finally stirs awake.

"O-Oh." He sits up slowly. "What happened?"

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"You suffered the expected result of preparing absolutely no spells that could harm the undead while venturing into a necromancer's hideout. And apparently you're the only one here with any ability to heal today. If you would get one of yourself and Anton back up, perhaps we can finish this quest of yours after sleeping."

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Julio grabs his wand off the ground and stands up shakily.

"You look fine. I'll get Mika up, I don't think we're getting out of here without him."

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Julio limps over and casts what is presumably infernal healing on Mika. By the time the spell wears off he looks much better, if not perfectly healthy.

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He stands up. "Ah. Shit. That went poorly."

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"You can say that again."

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"Alright. We should find what we came here for and get out. I wouldn't touch anything in a wizard's lair without knowing it ain't magic first, and I don't got the magic sight."

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Julio walks over to Anton and shakes him awake.

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He takes a moment to get his bearings, and then stands up and leans against a wall. "We're looking for books, spell components, coins, and wondrous items if we're lucky."

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"How sure are you there are no other zombies in there? If anything at all is in there, hasn't come out yet, and does when we investigate, you two will both die."

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"If there were other zombies in here they'd have attacked us by now. It's been hours." He pauses. "–and Matei was fourth circle, earliest you can make intelligent undead as a wizard is sixth."

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"Unless these two got loose, and most of them are still stuck in with the rest of his things. Or he set an audible Alarm and anything nearby hears it. Or he left a Glyph of Warding with a summon behind as well. If there are magic items in there, I can't tell them and traps apart with a Detect unless we get very lucky. If you want to take the risk, it's you two who can't run."

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"There's only two other rooms in this place, and the zombies came from one of them. It's not a whole crypt... look if you don't want to explore, his desk's in here. We can at least see what it has."

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Matei's desk and chair are in the bottom left corner of the room. A dried-up inkwell, a pen, and some papers sit atop it.

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"Fine, it's your heads."

Detect Magic! Again! (...sigh.) Anything magical in the desk?

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The desk has two compartments. She can detect eight magical auras.

The first has a red book titled in an unknown language written in a script she doesn't recognize, a book titled Serving Your Hunger in Common, eight black gemstones of varying shape, a clear crystal cut as a dodecahedron, and a few dozen old mint gold sails. The books are magical.

The second has a green book and a grey book (both titled in a different unknown language), a silver dagger, and a ring. The books and ring are magical.

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"Definitely some magic here, but this looks complicated. It'll take me time to even have a guess what they do. If there are spells, though, they're only on the items or the books. Maybe he wasn't that trap-prone. I'll sweep the other rooms for magic as well. 

"What languages do you all know? I don't recognize some of these books, and one of them might be a spellbook but there are three here."

While they're processing that, she swings her Detect cone around, letting it play over the contents of the other two rooms for long enough to see the individual auras resolve into place.

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