(G301 17/12/16 via Roll20 - AP, JF(GM), MJ, HK, NG) SS15
DAY 277 (12th Nightal)(December) cont...
[Merlock Tomes continues his report]
And so I, Merlock Tomes, acting on behalf of my masters in House Dusklorn continued to
follow the trail of destruction left by the group of adventurers known locally as the
'Buffalo Bunch'.
The evidence in the kitchen was that at this point they were joined by Billitoppe. This
resourceful gnome must have been the source of the small tunnel I had discovered in
the 'Advisor's Room'. I should imagine he purchased a Potion of Burrowing from Es Sarch
back at the Dripstone Inn.
Together with the others (Fenrir the Warlock, Durz the Barbarian, Dwerry the Sorceress and
Arahel the Druidess) they entered into combat with the denizens of the kitchen. These were
two large Ghoul Mimics that were disguised as shelves and five Tomb Motes, smaller undead
beings made from bones and ash. It was a chaotic and desperate struggle, items of kitchen
equipment were strewn everywhere. The Ghoul Mimics fight by sticking to people so I can
only imagine the confusion.
Still, the undead creatures were all slain in the end and from what I see from following
the trails of blood, the 'Bunch' then returned to the Guard Room to rest.
Now, as I also discovered myself, the tower of Maroe is full of apparitions and spectral
phenomena. As they rested, every hour or so they were disturbed by spirits entering the
room and screaming, or some similar disruption.
Despite all the interruptions from this sort of thing they spent the rest of the day in
this room.
DAY 278 (13th Nightal)(December)
From my hiding place in the Shrine I heard them leave the Guard Room and enter the
secret room they had found behind the kitchen. This led up some stairs to the Charnel
Pits area of the Spike.
This consists of a long walkway across two deep pits full of corpses. Here they were attacked
by a Flesh Golem as well as swarms of Bone Rats and Corpse Rats.
Fenrir picked up Dwerry and carried her while she shot at their enemies with Magic Missiles.
Arahel turned into a giant beetle and was soon covered in the swarming rats, tossing them hither
and thither with her armour plated horns, stamping and squashing. Slowly she broke up the swarms
with her bulk.
Billitoppe and Durz took on the golem and while Durz held it off the gnome shot it with two
deadly arrows that were enough to finish it off. I was impressed as I once saw a Golem take
on a horde of Inheritors. The Inheritors fired scores of arrows and the thing was a pin cushion
but still standing. Even with twenty or more arrows in its hide it still killed all of the
fish and frog people. This gnome, with his mental powers focused into his missiles, killed the
golem with two arrows. Remarkable!