A level two specialist!

So, since we might actually continue this, I (Dag) have calculated xp:

So far you have found:

400gps worth of cash and minor jewels - clerk and tentaclechild house
Bowl
Brass Mechanism
A Silver (possibly magical) dagger
Beautiful jewels and gold of Dwarven craftmanship (Possibly worth 3000gp)

As for XP:

Thrum has 420 xp
Shalom has 1252.5 xp
Barbossa has 1252.5 xp
Stirge has 1252.5 xp
Bjorn has 1252.5 xp

Stirge gains a level and is now a level 2 specialist, he gets two dots to distribute on skills and gets to roll a d6 for hitpoints.

This is most definitely going to protect him against the stuff that lurks in the towers. Lucky him.

Awakenings

There was warmth in the tower. She had forgotten what it felt like, lost in her dreamless sleep. Not much, but enough to change the feeling of the obsidian under her body. She stretched out her limbs, stroking the smoothness of the stone below her, as she stirred.

Below her she could her the faint noise of voices in the depths of the tower. She had been so lonely, for so long.

She was hungry.