"I know Common, Draconic, Infernal, and a little Thassilonian."

"Common, Infernal, and Ignan for me."

The left room has a bed, a nightstand, and a dresser. She detects one magical aura in this room, emanating from within the dresser.

The right room has a ritual circle drawn in fading blood, three meat hooks chained to the ceiling, and the bones of two human skeletons spread across the circle. She doesn't detect any magical auras in this room.

She retreats back to the others and speaks quietly.

"The only aura in that room is inside the drawers, probably an item." She indicates the room to the left. "I also haven't spotted any in the other room, but animated skeletons don't detect as magical. I don't know if the bones were disassembled skeletons but they might have been, and I don't want to risk it. No magic there also means no wondrous items. We'll be here all night anyway, because you two need to be able to move before we can get out. We can try it then, when everyone's able to move quickly and throw a few cantrips if we need it. Mika, do you have a blunt weapon somewhere? Daggers and swords don't handle bones very well, we should prepare just in case when we're ready."

"I've got my hammer, but I don't usually fight with it."

Julio walks over to the desk once Tencednil returns. "Let's see here... black onyx! That's good. We're making a tidy profit even if we can't get anything else out."

"We won't be getting anything out until you two are able to cast without killing yourself, unless you want us leaving you here alone. It's a good point though. Let me see what I can figure out about the items. They're probably worth something, and one of them might even be helpful."

Detect Magic again, but this time she's not focusing on schools. What do these items look like they could do? Anything she recognizes?

The ring is a typical ring of protection. The books are all coated with some sort of magical preservative. There are three more magical auras on the red book—they're spells, but she can't identify them.

"The ring is a Protection ring, the standard buckler style. Definitely worth something, but not going to help us here and now. Unless we get into a fight. The other auras are coming from that book there. I'm not sure what they do, and I'd rather not touch them, given how much I know some wizards do to protect their spellbooks. The other books are preserved with something minor, probably how they lasted this long. I don't know why he bothered, though, and my guesses are all worrying.

"The room without the ritual circle looked safe. Magically, at least. Mika, you should sense for more physical traps. It would be strange to have those in a hidden storage space, but the books indicate he might have been planning to return after a long departure, and we have the time."

"So, we're officially rich. Rings of protection are, what, 2,250 gold sails?"

"Closer to 2,200. When sold by a reputable vendor."

Mika creeps over and peers into the bedroom. "Doesn't look like it's trapped, 's far as I can tell."

"We're not exactly reputable, but I can find someone who will want it at a reasonable price." Mother works for the Abadarans enough, she should be able to get something useful for it.

She follows Mika into the bedroom and heads over towards the dresser the aura came from. "If he had a headband, it should be in here."

She rifles through the drawers. What can she see?

The drawers in the dresser are locked!

Well that won't do. "I'd rather avoid breaking things when there's an aura in that drawer. Open the locks, if you would."

"Sure." Mika walks over and starts working on the lock. A little under a minute later, the lock on the top drawer clicks open.

Mika looks uncomfortable after he opens the drawer. "So. There is a trap. Spring-loaded. Got lucky with that one."

He steps sideways, away from the front of the dresser, and carefully pulls a thin blade out of the drawer. "Bet the other drawers have 'em too."

"He probably didn't have permanent Magic Aura, but a lead box works just as well. If he trapped this, it's probably because there is something that matters in here. There also might be something cleverer than this in the next drawer, and if you start bleeding out, things get worse. Leave it, we come back to it tomorrow when the two idiots in the other room have useful spells hung."

"Okay. Top drawer's open, bunch of bottles and jars and things, if you want a look."

She glances over the contents, and puts up her Detect Magic again in case the drawer was lead-lined. Or this might have been where the aura was, she was too far away to be sure.

The drawer contains an eclectic collection of vials, bottles, and jars. Components of a strange, half-disassembled metal and glass contraption sit in the back.

One cylindrical brown glass jug, filled with a clear liquid and labeled in some arcane notation, is magical. She recognizes it as the preservative used on the books.

That's the aura here accounted for. She takes that, and a few other things which look interesting, pretty much at random. The traps are strange if that's all there is, though, they should check for lead. Tomorrow.

The rest of the day passes without incident. It's quite boring and everyone (except Tencednil) is injured, so nobody's having a great time. Anton and Julio are using Mika's caltrops as dice for some game they're playing on the floor. Nobody brought a bedroll, so the party sleeps on the rug.

Some time later, the party wakes up.

Julio yawns. "Anton, what spells do you think I should prepare? We need two infernal healings between us."