After resting, we explored the room some more and found there were two doors on the south wall. Armaziti and Chiki entered one and found a library with bookshelves and tables. On one table was a large, ornate book with beautiful artwork. Lhoss and I (Gnorcia) investigated the cupboards in the room and found they were empty, then followed Chalkboi into another room where he had found a table and a shelf with an unopened wine bottle and two classes. I had the odd feeling that we were being watched. Lhoss poked at the south wall where there was an odd imperfection, but couldn't find what it was. Another door to the west led to yet another room that was clearly a grisly torture chamber, with torture machines and bloodstains. Again, Lhoss and I felt that we were being watched.
As we explored that room further, suddenly a door opened in the south wall and three nasty little goblins in funny red hats and studded leather armor appeared, yelling “Die intruders!” Battle ensued and six more goblins came pouring out of two more secret entrances from the walls. Armaziti fell to these additional goblins and passed out, bleeding, but Lhoss cast a sleeping spell on them and the six fell asleep. Chiki, Chalkboi, and my phantasmal force version of Calbach finished off the first three. Lhoss, Chalkboi, and the phantasmal force destroyed the sleeping goblins as they started to wake up. With the goblins destroyed, Chiki and Chalkboi explored back into the room they came from, where they found filthy sleep mats and a table with food scraps. Lhoss noticed yet another door farther down on the south wall and couldn't resist opening it.
Inside she saw a brightly-lit area. She tried to close the door quickly and quietly, but someone inside had noticed her and came barging through to attack! It was a large human wearing shiny mail armor and carrying a sword and shield. The Phantasmal illusion of Calbach attacked and Chalkboi, Lhoss, and Chiki joined in. His armor was strong and everyone facing him had to deal with that plus his shield, but Lhoss got behind him and attacked ferociously. He was slowly losing the battle and turned to run farther back into another room. Calbach, Lhoss, and Chiki followed him and knocked him down. Chalkboi stayed back in the room and blessed Armaziti so he woke up again, and they made their way down into the room just as the evil cleric died.
Examining that room, we found it was full of pieces of tattered, destroyed tapestries. Everything was vandalized with gibberish writing. There were also tapestries on the walls and more destroyed tapestries in a chest. Lhoss discovered a hidden door behind one of the tapestries and a room with some crudely-carved stone blocks, a large, exquisite statue of a snake, and a young girl wearing tattered robes and trapped in a cage! The girl said her name was Cirilly, and that she had been imprisoned after the rest of her family had been charmed by an evil naga snake. Her family had all fallen under the evil power of the naga and she was afraid because they no longer recognized her. She said a cult has infliltrated the village, the cult of the explicit defilus, bringing more and more people to be charmed, increasing the power of the naga snake.
We examined the statues and Cirilly said all but the snake statue were crude attempts by Abramo the evil cleric (who was apparently the man we had just killed), and that the snake statue was the image of the naga. Near that statue we found a trap door, but decided not to enter because it seemed to be over the priestess' room and could lead there. We divided up the armor, sword, and shield from the fallen cleric, as well as a robe that was hanging in his room and some coin from the chests in the statue room. We were tired and needed healing so we exited the way we came and returned to the inn. The innkeeper was happy to see the girl but horrified by her story. She fed us all and sent us to sleep, and between lots of rest and Armaziti’s healing we were all healed up by the next evening.
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