Challenge Tower

I guess... have his new fish-friend see if he can talk and if he wants to hang out?

Meanwhile, everyone else can get back to work. John and Scruffy can get up there and see if the gargoyle statues like Rock Smash.

I guess we should go look for that moonstone already. But not before Joh, tries to shove the door open with Strength.

Nogeko gathers together some Stone Shards and puts them away before telling everyone what he saw in the window while John tries to pry the door open with his hands. "There was a woman in there, but she wasn't naked, so I wasn't interested. There was a chef too. But they ALSO weren't naked. This place is no fun..." John pushes and pulls with all his might, but the ancient gate seems incredibly powerful. Whatever is holding it in place will not budge.

Nogeko hands the stone shards to John and he uses Rock Throw to launch them with all his might through the window, shattering it. You can hear someone scream from inside somewhere. Flurrie inspects the area, looking around. The fountain is still there without much changing about it. The ground around it is all wet from the strange water humanoid splashing Hope. There is a wide variety of colorful plants around the area as well. It is a pretty nice courtyard. The gate blocks off the main entrance, so there aren't any accessible doors you can see. Some vines grow on the side of the mansion up to the broken window.

Flurrie approaches the fountain and looks inside. There's something down in the water she can't see very clearly. She cautiously reaches in and then pulls out what looks like a stone in the shape of a crescent moon.

I don't know that Waite could climb the vines? And let's... not split the party in this mansion. All in through the moon door.

With that team? The chef'd have everything he needs to brew up a nice cat pho, though it'd be a bit heavy on the diced onions.

Oh, Graite. Now I'm saying it.

Flurrie places the stone moon into the slot on the ancient mechanism. You can hear something click as gears start to turn and the gate opens up. Flurrie leads the way into the mansion, opening the giant doors. As she walks in, a gigantic main room takes up the first floor. You can see six doors on this floor not including the one that was just entered from. There's two on the right with strange platforms and symbols in front of them and two on the left also with the platforms and symbols. The two doors in the back do not have platforms or symbols. There is also a large staircase that goes up to the second floor in the center. Two more gargoyle statues stand at both sides of the bottom of the staircase. Something smells delicious. Someone must be cooking somewhere. There are a few random household objects around as well. Other than that there doesn't seem to be much else worthy of note. Everything is very elegant and extravagant. You feel like you're being watched, but nobody is in the room...

Actually, that lady you broke the window of screamed.