Oho! Not too trapped, interesting. ...Alchemist's fire? "How does alchemist's fire work? I've never heard of it! Definitely sounds like it should go in the sales pile, and the rest most likely the same. In the same drawer, after all."

Is that what exploded in the first vision. Did he keep non-magical force-triggered explosives around in his drawers. Why is that even a thing? What an insane choice. Well, nobody needs to know that she would have been an idiot about it now.

"I don't know, I'm not an alchemist. I think alcohol is a component?"

"—and magnesium and some other stuff, I don't remember the exact recipe." Julio, who has since entered the bedroom, peers into the dresser.

"That," he gestures at a jar labeled with an arcane symbol "I believe is saltpeter, which is sometimes used in explosives."

"Interesting! Are there other things like that I should keep an eye out for even when there's not magic? I would've thought you needed magic to get a decent explosion, but I guess that's what I get for not going to that Academae of yours. I don't think they take sorcerers anyway. It looks like that's all in here, unless something's hiding under the dresser, so what do you say we check the last room and get going?"

"There's a lot of alchemical items and they do a lot of usually minor things and I don't know most of them. I guess we shouldn't assume 'nonmagical' equals 'safe'... even ignoring alchemy there's mundane traps."

He walks over to the door. "The Academae sometimes purchases spellsilver directly from alchemists. It's used to craft magic items but the process to refine it is itself nonmagical."

"I guess it has to come from somewhere, and I know you don't make it with magic! Makes sense that the people who make spellsilver can also make other things that look like magic. Well, good to know. Time to look at the last room, carefully, in case there are any alchemical traps when we read the symbols or something? Can it do that?"

"As far as I'm aware, no. Alchemical substances require physical contact of some sort."

There's nothing of interest in the ritual room, as far as they can tell.

"Time to away, then! Be ready to use that Sleep of yours, it won't do us much good if you save it for after we're out."

Anton leads them through the caves at a brisk pace. They travel back through the winding caves the way the came, and across the rivers in the large cavern, and into the oddly-shaped tunnels.

They're about halfway through the tunneled stone to the maze ladder when Tencednil's shadow becomes alarmed. She remembers this.

Oh good, the rats. "Incoming! They sound small, your Sleep should help!"

One of the dire rats behind them lunges for Mika, biting the side of his leg.

Julio casts sleep. All three rats ahead of them slump against the floor.

Another rat behind them bounds forward and bites straight into Mika's shoe and down through his foot.

He screams. "Fuck! Bastard!"

Anton's bolt of acid sears into the foot-biting rat. It screeches but does not die.

She can Spray the rats, but only by being in bite range... eh, they'd leave themselves open to Mika to do it, and they probably won't stay up anyway. Blinding light to the face, both of you.

The two rats behind them are now blinded! and stunned! and unconscious!

Mika kills the one still stuck to his foot, and pulls the corpse off. "Ouch. Ow ow ow ow."

He limps over to the other three and finishes them off. "Tore a hole right through my foot. These things are worse than the goblins!"

"That did look like a bad bite, and the rats here aren't the cleanest. You should maybe get it checked out! Or I think we can get the money for the ring quickly, you could maybe put up an offer on a Remove Disease at the bank if you need one. Best to stay off your feet for the next few days either way, and treat it well! I'm sure you know how this goes." She continues chattering as the helps to crush the skull of the last one she Sprayed.

"I'll pay for a channel once we get to the bank. I don't want to burn money on a remove unless I really need it."

They continue, climbing up the ladder into the old stone maze, through the tangled tunnels, up the ladder in the cylindrical room, and into the sewers.

After a long walk through the sewers, they exit at the end of a steep tunnel. It's currently early evening; the sun has not yet set.

"I'll go track down my sales point and see if this will work. Do you all want to get this done today, or should we wait until tomorrow when everyone's more awake?" Fitting in as a normal generic adventurer unfortunately means skewing her schedule unreasonably early. She's seen the sorts of times humans like to wake up at, and it's best not to make them notice she's different there, so she'll just have to keep to their timing. Ugh. On her, really, and probably worth it, but ugh. 

"I'd rather get it all done now, if your buyer is willing. Perhaps I'll catch the last channel of the day."

"Makes sense. I'll be off to write up the contract and get their signature, then. Meet back at the bank in an hour or so?"