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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 in to investigate
- Shithead smells a dead body in the vines
- Corrin speaks with animals
- Shithead goes into vines and they attack
- wither and bloom makes the plants shrivel
- the vines holding 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 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 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 goes in to investigate
- rotten staircase
- go upstairs
- many taxidermy animals
- As ../Characters/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 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
- the desk has a poison needle trap
- ../Characters/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
- ../Characters/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 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 scoops some into his belt pouch with dry cup
- Corrin opens the gate
- Corrin cleans the zombie flesh out of 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
- Secret door leads to a side room covered in yellow mucus
- a side side room contains an idol of ../Gods/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
- 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 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
- it's magical
- conjuration, divination
- ../Characters/Luka Votsk tells the story of ../People/Baba Yaga
- lives in a hut on chicken legs
- surrounded by a gate with skulls on top
- this may allow us in
- find ../People/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
1854G and level up!