After overnighting and overnighting in the hayloft, a gently spinning pitchfork troubles the group’s grip on reality. After a strategy session they decide to passwall through one of the hose stalls and see what lies beyond.
Beyond consists of a rat room with a half-chewed door, followed by the maggot-ridden corpse pile that the paladin sifts through to find Bela Lugosi’s cloak. Beyond that lies a triangular room, empty save for the smell of the rotting corpses next door.
A secret door is found and this leads to the discovery of Ophelia – a buxom lass – the last surviving member of a party that entered the Monastery in a place that sounds vaguely familiar to the elf…but who trusts elves?
She is smitten by the cleric and fawns all over him while acknowledging the elf as the obvious leader of...
Climbing the stairs, the group investigates a landing that leads to a room from which strange moaning can be heard. After the wizard lobs a large fireball through the door, the ensuing conflagration wipes out the contents of the room, and the mummies lurking therein. More investigation reveals a hall of trophies (severed limbs, mummified heads, suits of armor and battle standards) and another staircase. This one leads to a wizard’s study, complete with magical music box and an armchair of mental relaxation. A door leads to a long unused bedroom and some more plunder is extracted. From here, a final set of stairs leads upward. The last few steps are soot covered and show signs of having been subjected to extreme heat.
Suitably alarmed, the group climbs the narrow stairs…Paladin in front, fo...
After releasing the laughing green head from the mirror and smiting the evil knight, the group continues investigating. They uncover a trapped firepit. While the rest of the group continues on looking for traps, the elf enters the room to look for secret doors. Meanwhile, the Lad is across the hallway looking after a large ruby found on a pi;e of bones. The cleric, mage and paladin press on and seem to find some sort of amphitheater.
Goldpiece exits just in time to see the door to the room closing behind the Lad. As he goes to open the door he has a taboo thought…what if this is a mimic?
Well, if this were a mimic it would explain why the elf is being masticated by the door. A brief but pitched battle ensues and the creature is slain...
The quick trip to the ghostly dining hall leaves several party members poisoned and the wizard frolicking on the wall like a drunken spider. A few instances of poison neutralization leaves the group in a weakened but not-dead-yet state.
They emerge from hiding after a few days and spend some time casting hallow on the evil chapel of the abbot – found a few days before. After that is done, they resume their haphazard wanderings, finding untrapped doors and opening them.
They find a room adorned with a red tapestry depicting skulls teardrops and pentagrams. They find a room with a potted apple tree bearing a plaque inscribed with an epitaph for Sindara (written in high elvish).
A knight is found, praying before a wooden cross – which bursts into flame as the undead knight attacks...
Read MorePost-rope trick party begins investigating anew. They find things. Mostly strange things. They find a room full of instruments and a duo of ‘ghostly’ figures provides them with song, though the instruments are old and likely incapable of music as such. They also encounter a dining room where plates of food appear before those who sit at the tables. Ghostly companions fill the dining hall with sounds of merriment and conversation. The kitchen seems to be run by a golden rat as far as they can tell. They find two large lizards that seem intent upon eating them until they are slain. Chanting is head and an ice-wall is erected. A giant snake is found and slain. A pipe-smoking skeleton clad in a crushed velvet jacket and a par of BDSM lovers are also encountered...
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