Another log with minimal literary value. Lucdalen is an elf-in-denial wizard/thief, Kurt is a hobbit fighter, Felcanis is an elf cleric of the god of light, and Bill is a mule.
The PCs shrug after Horace storms off, and keep resting.
Four giant vipers show up, no surprise, Kurt yells at them, and they slither away.
After resting, they check out the door to the east. They follow the hallway beyond eastward, and see a dead naga body. Lucdalen remembers the warning of the living nagini, so they keep away. They check out a door beyond the dead naga body, see that behind it is a bathroom, and walk back to the garden.
They walk into the garden, and see the body of a dead rat, with its eyes agape and eyes gone. From there, they go over the bridge, then back through the door on the other side of the bridge.
They then go back through the room with the Parkay Blades, then into the next room, where there are puddles of clear liquid on the floor and a sign nearby in the Old Erstokkese tongue. Nobody knows that one, but since Mannish comes from it, they think it says something like “Water no body.”
Next room, they go into a room with smashed glass cases and a trapdoor in the floor which Lucdalen spots before Felcanis steps on it. Lucdalen and Kurt also see oak doors in the wall, but Felcanis cannot. Lucdalen picks the lock of the supposed door, then he and Kurt go into a room with murals on the walls, an altar on the other side of the room, and rotting pews in the middle. After a few minutes there, they come back out, to a befuddled Felcanis.
They go to the north, and into an old privy, with a pouch on the floor. They see that it is magic, and has a sweet, pungent smell coming from it. Lucdalen touches it to pick it up, and suddenly seven little demons with spears show up.
There’s a short battle. They take down Lucdalen fast, getting stabbed after he botches the Iron Arm spell, but Kurt takes them out while going nuts, while Felcanis does get a smash before falling. She does get up, and keeps fighting, and helps take them out before healing Lucdalen.
From there, they go back into the hallway, then go around a corner, smelling cooking meat. Lucdalen casts Invisibility, and everyone creeps inside, sees an ogre eating bull meat. After the some bickering, another ogre, Mek, comes from back room to join the first ogre, Grak. After some bickering about how long to cook bull meat and how much pepper it needs, Grak and Mek see Kurt and Felcanis and want to eat them.
Ogre fight: Grak and Mek come to make appetizers of Kurt and Felcanis, but Lucdalen stabs Mek from Invisibility. Grak smashes Kurt on the neck with his maul, then Felcanis heals Kurt. Lucdalen casts Choke on Mek but he resists, after which all spells mysteriously all stop working, including Continual Light. Right after this happens, Lucdalen gets off Iron Arm to block a blow from Mek, and Grak misses turning Kurt into steak tartare by smashing him in the head. Felcanis casts Continual Sunlight in a small area, solving their light problems. Then Lucdalen gets Mek’s maul to Explode. This cripples Mek’s arm, and fragments hit Kurt, Grak, and the mule. Lucdalen passes out from casting. Kurt chops up the two ogres, with Mek’s last words being, “Fast food.”
Felcanis heals the mule, and they let Lucdalen rest. A group of armed folks come into the room. The leader, a woman in plate, introduces herself as Paílē, and she chats with Kurt. She mentiones that they had been in a crashed metal boat in Bérelos Peaks, and the wizard of the group, Gēršūnús, says he got a device there that shoots fire when he touches part of it. All go into the back room, and before going inside, Paílē makes an offer: if they find a sword in there, she gets it, otherwise Kurt and friends get the loot. In the back room, they see eight cots and a trunk. It turns out there’s no sword in the trunk but coins, gems, a chain, and some small jars of makeup. Kurt gives Paílē about a fifth of the loot, and she and her friends go on their way. After Paílē gives Kurt a peck on the forehead, she and her friends go on their way.
Lucdalen casts Share Energy, and Felcanis uses it to heal everyone. Then they eat dinner.
