## [[2023-06-01|2023-06-01]] - get our spell slots back this time - Belorin gives us an inspiring speech over breakfast - while traveling we see a wagon trail leading to a chateau - late afternoon - about a mile away but trail looks a bit overgrown - we go closer to investigate - sign nearby reads "L Ch t au luant - Vin Sup ior" - some of the letters have fallen off - used to be a winery - wall is crumbling in some places - Belorin peeks over and sees many vines that are untended and rotten - Corrin sends [[Shithead|Shithead]] in to investigate - [[Shithead|Shithead]] smells a dead body in the vines - Corrin speaks with animals - [[Shithead|Shithead]] goes into vines and they attack - wither and bloom makes the plants shrivel - the vines holding [[Shithead|Shithead]] wither but don't let go - party eventually kills off the vines - find the body - potion of lesser restoration - Wrelen takes - 150G worth of jewels, agates, garnet - has been here a long time or decaying quickly - wither and bloom cleared out plants well, but clearing vines might take some work - Bayden starts hacking and slashing through vines - [[Shithead|Shithead]] doesn't smell any other bodies - but smells something else gross at chateau - takes 6 minutes to work our way to D - 3 room house / workshop - shuttered windows are stuck shut - Wrelen opens the door - anvil and cooper's tools inside - adjacent room has all furniture smashed to bits - small bedroom connected by half open door - misshapen lump on the bed - [[Shithead|Shithead]] says it's a dead thing - we leave it alone - hiding spot in loose board in paneling - find a sack of coins, silver mirror, oil flask, 196G - go to look at other building C - structure is rickety looking - sign on door says "Do Not Open" in blood - smell of undead and vinegar and shuffling sounds - Corrin watches for a few minutes and sees 8 humanoid and 2 horse zombies - should we set it on fire? - we check out the well - 40ft deep, clear water at the bottom - bunch of huts behind the chateau - for workers and their gardens - nothing there - we go investigate the chateau - [[../Characters/Corrin Grosbeak|Corrin Grosbeak]] goes in to investigate - rotten staircase - go upstairs - many taxidermy animals - As [[../Characters/Wrelen Steamsparker|Wrelen Steamsparker]] tries to enter, gargoyle drops down on him - grabs Wrelen and flies up 30 ft - Wrelen squirms out of its grip and falls onto roof - gargoyle grabs Wrelen again and flies up - Wrelen defeats gargoyle and falls to the roof - Gargoyle and Wrelen fall through the roof - Wrelen is unconscious - Belorin dashes up the stairs - Belorin stabilizes Wrelen - Bayden notices a small door under the stairs - Finds some old bottles of white wine - Labeled Le Chateau Glauont - Wrelen remembers a bunch of things about this place - Chateau produced wines for 200 years - Family was very wealthy - Worth 65G/bottle - Rumored the undead walk in the night around the chateau - Should not open the old crushing tank - Should bring fire and oil if we go there - Brimstone is good for killing rot - Family collected silverwork hidden in their quarters - Djinn hidden in one of the bottles - Variety of djinn, for each element - May be good or evil depending on element - Passage to the caverns below from the upper level - Don't mix sulphur with water, will make witches brew that can melt anything - Enter bedroom - See a skeleton with long hair and a brush - Dumbwaiter with shutters closed - Corrin opens, sees nothing - Bayden thinks the brush looks expensive, takes it - her hand falls away - Bayden also takes a sapphire from the desk - we go back downstairs - Wrelen sees some rubies in a bear's mouth - parlor is a woodworking marvel - dusty and has burn scars - heap of ruined and blackened chairs - [[Shithead|Shithead]] runs in an sniffs around - 48 rats come out and swarm him - we take care of them one at a time - find a silver locket under some furniture - find a bedroom - large down bed - a crude map shows where to find [[../People/Sasha|Sasha]] - the desk has a poison needle trap - [[../Characters/Corrin Grosbeak|Corrin Grosbeak]] hacks into the back of the desk - finds journal written in abyssal - assistant grew jealous of the Glauonts' making wine with help of djinn - assistant Suey started cult with workers and rose up against Glauonts - Suey turned on other cult members, killing them one at a time - Suey tried to convince the djinn to give him powers, djinn refused - Suey made an offering of the djinn to his demonic god [[../Gods/Lumaszu|Lumaszu]] - [[../Characters/Belorin Forechaser|Belorin Forechaser]] notices a loose floorboard - large jug of wine, about a gallon - go back outside to enter wine cellar - moldy clothes and skeletons - halfling size skeleton - had 3 bottles of Glauont white wine - next room with capstan and plates we think is the crushing room - [[../Characters/Bayden|Bayden]] raises the plate off one of the barrels - see an ooze in the barrel - Bayden sticks his torch into it - we keep attacking it, and it dissolves into a puddle of wine - continue into wine cellar - 50 barrels of wine - entrance into a natural cavern behind the gate - pile of sulphur, [[../Characters/Corrin Grosbeak|Corrin Grosbeak]] scoops some into his belt pouch with dry cup - Corrin opens the gate - head down into the cavern - around the first bend we see 10 zombies - [[Shithead|Shithead]] bites one - some zombie flesh landed on [[Shithead|Shithead]] - wither and bloom is very effective - we defeat zombies - Corrin cleans the zombie flesh out of [[Shithead|Shithead]]'s fur - Find a domed chamber - stalactites dripping ooze - circles stepping downwards - symbols and abyssal script written in blood - bowl altar - inoperable winch connected to chain above bowl - remains of humans in the bowl - Ooze slithers out of bowl over to us and attacks - Bayden slices off a pseudopod and ... it becomes another ooze - Corrin shoves water flask inside sulfur pouch - Belorin drops stalactite on it and it flattens the ooze, causing flask/pouch to explode - half ooze down - Bayden chops half oozes into quarter oozes - Belorin smushes a quarter ooze with a catapult stalactite - Corrin kills the other quarter ooze - Abyssal script is an offering to [[../Gods/Lumaszu|Lumaszu]] - Secret door leads to a side room covered in yellow mucus - a side side room contains an idol of [[../Gods/Lumaszu|Lumaszu]] - Wrelen checks a few of the wine barrels but they are all vinegar - We try to long rest - Hear a slime demon splooshing down the hall - It shots that its name is [[Suey|Suey]] - throws acid balls at us - Bayden gets a festering wound on his shield arm - Corrin tries to put holy water on it but it has no effect - Corrin, Bayden, and Belorin are unconscious - Shithead dies - [[../Characters/Wrelen Steamsparker|Wrelen Steamsparker]] dies - skin is burned away - experiences foggy version of this plane of existence - didn't have full senses - could see fellow party members - but couldn't really move - like moving through tar - saw a few other spirits - spirits don't wear clothes - felt like people that worked at the winery - Corrin goes back to the secret door - goes into room with idol - takes idol and related treasures - books are on fine wines and "Fungi and I" - uncorks the bottle and djinn comes out - Corrin asks djinn to remove the door and its magic doesn't work - has been in bottle for at least 10 years - promises to give us scroll of raise dead - Corrin releases genie from his service - skull with ruby inside says property of [[../People/Baba Yaga|Baba Yaga]] - it's magical - conjuration, divination - [[../Characters/Luka Votsk|Luka Votsk]] tells the story of [[../People/Baba Yaga|Baba Yaga]] - lives in a hut on chicken legs - surrounded by a gate with skulls on top - this may allow us in - [x] find [[../People/Baba Yaga|Baba Yaga]]'s hut ✅ 2024-01-01 - we find 2 barrels of fine wine which don't smell like vinegar - worth 26K gold in total - earn `1854`G and level up!