Day 26 of Patchwall
After my morning prayers and mediation, I headed to enjoy a filling breakfast the inn had cooked up for us. It was quite delicious. When I sat down to enjoy the meal, I absent-mindedly sat down next down to Burne, the mage in charge of half the town it seems. Any who, he wanted to all about the day's previous adventures in the moathouse. He mentioned that nobody had been there in a hot minute and was quite interested in what the group encountered while there. I of course told him about the giant spider attacking Maeve, the large snake attacking the group, and some large tracks that were discovered, possibly by a humanoid creature. Since none in the party were rangers, we couldn't make heads or tails of the tracks. Burne thanked me for the information that I could provide and mentioned possible rewards for further information: if we brought scalps or other things of value from the suspected bandits that call the moathouse home. He said that the moathouse was once a base of operations for an evil cleric who worshipped a demoness name Loth, and this evil cleric was a member of this bandit gang.
Following this chat the group chatted up the new hireling, that is free with his ale cups, named Elmo. He demanded a battleaxe before he will join the party, and oddly enough the party agrees. Emberia went to the local trader and purchased one, but not before apparently being hassled by the shop keeper about how the previous hireling Charles was treated. When the elven fighter delivers the axe, Elmo took off, apparently to get ready for the adventure. Constristo and I went to the traders. He needed some glasses bottles or vials I think, and I wanted to kill time. The shop keeper wanted some additional answers from me and Constristo, and we tried to answer them as best we could about the group's treatment of Charles. I think he accepted our answers a little more than Emberia's. We headed back to the group when Constristo got what he needed from the shop. The group is met by Elmo who is ready to go: fully clad in chain mail armor and battleaxe in tow.
Elmo is one heck of a guide. He guides us in more efficient paths we wouldn't have thought to take, and we make it to the moathouse in record time. When we enter into the ancient den of evil, Elmo takes notice of the footprints and comments that they are less than a week old. He points out the different prints: some belong to the party last time they adventured here, other prints belong to other humanoids, and some belong to a gnoll. He decides (with group consensus) that it would be best to sweep the tracks as well as those of tracks we leave behind. We show him the various areas we have explored, and upon seeing the headless corpse of the snake, he comments and takes offense. He says something to the effect of respecting natures creatures, and then puts the body of the creature in the moat. I don't know about you, but I respect something until it tries to eat me, then all bets are off. The group does a bit more exploring and Emberia finds a pouch of broken glass, Maeve finds a leather ball, and Eris finds a pair of ugly green boots. She uses her cantrip and dyes them black, and immediately puts them on. She is a weird one for putting on garbage boots without checking them first. Tylendale finds a bottle of reddish hue liquid which may or may not be a container of blood. The group entered a room with a few wooden chests. When Emberia gets close to one of the chests, a creature bursted up from its hiding place and attacked Emberia. It is a giant lizard.
Constristo, trying to show off I think throws some daggers at it, and misses it wildly. Maeve missed in her thrown attack as well. The lizard, who initially saw Emberia, attacked her, but she easily dodged out of the way. Tylendale hit it with his staff, and that made it mad. The party tries to hit it, but most miss their attacks. The lizard does bite Emberia, but I ended up healing her right back. After several more misses Elmo strikes and kills the creature. The lizard was guarding a light crossbow and bolts, and a scale mail tunic. Constristo graps the tunic and Tylendale grabs the crossbow and bolts to sell in town. Maeve heals Tylendale (he had been hit by a few of the party's darks) with one of her healing potions.
Emberia leads us to a room that looks kind of like an old kitchen. When she enters, a large tick-like creature attacks and attaches itself to her face. She tried to clear it off with her sword, but the angle was too awkward, and she is unable to do so. The rest of the party are unable to figure out how to attack or remove it without hurting Emberia. Elmo finally just rips it off and throws it against the wall, killing it. In the commotion, another tick showed up to attack the party and attacked and knocked out Tylendale. The party takes turns attacking the creature, but I finished it off squishing it with my staff.
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