quartz/content/Journal/Day001.md

## [[../Sessions/2022/2022-09-23|2022-09-23]]
- Letter says to meet [[../People/Baba Fatt|Baba Fatt]] in [[../Places/Orlane/index|Orlane]]
* Go to [[../Places/Orlane/Slumbering Serpent Inn|Slumbering Serpent Inn]]
* Learn from [[../People/Belba|Belba]] that townsfolk have been leaving
	* Sometimes go on a short trip and return
* Go to [[../Places/Orlane/Golden Grain Inn|Golden Grain Inn]]
	- Some people inside, but no one talking
	- Heavyset bartender [[../People/Bertrand|Bertrand]] greets us cheerfully
	- Offers beer, wine, or brandy
- [[../Characters/Luka Votsk|Luka Votsk]] asks patrons about [[../People/Baba Fatt|Baba Fatt]]
	- Get a disturbingly accurate description from one of them
	- No one else knows anything
- Pay 1 gold for a room
- [[../Characters/Bayden|Bayden]] tries to stay in [[../Characters/Wrelen Steamsparker|Wrelen Steamsparker]]'s room
	- Ask him to leave so I can go to sleep
	- [x] Need to apologize to [[../Characters/Bayden|Bayden]] for kicking him out ✅ 2023-04-02
- [[../Characters/Corrin Grosbeak|Corrin Grosbeak]] smells stench of decay in the cellar
- [[../Characters/Belorin Forechaser|Belorin Forechaser]] and [[../Characters/Corrin Grosbeak|Corrin Grosbeak]] head upstairs to wake others
	- Hear a shuffling sound
	- People are dragging other party members down the hall
- They duck into a nearby room to hide
- [[../Characters/Belorin Forechaser|Belorin Forechaser]] makes it sound like someone is walking up the stairs
- Men stop, momentarily confused
- Continue moving bodies downstairs
- Place unconscious party members in horse-drawn cart

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## [[../Sessions/2022/2022-10-06|2022-10-06]]
- Take the "bodies" to [[../Places/Orlane/Temple of Freya|Temple of Freya]]
- Conscious party members ([[../Characters/Corrin Grosbeak|Corrin Grosbeak]], [[../Characters/Belorin Forechaser|Belorin Forechaser]], [[../Characters/Luka Votsk|Luka Votsk]]) follow
- Pretend [[../Characters/Belorin Forechaser|Belorin Forechaser]] is unconscious and bring him to temple gate
- Gate keeper leads them into temple
- [[../Characters/Luka Votsk|Luka Votsk]] puts gate keeper to sleep
- [[../Characters/Corrin Grosbeak|Corrin Grosbeak]] ties up gate keeper
- Party explores side rooms
- Hear someone on other side of door
- [[../Characters/Belorin Forechaser|Belorin Forechaser]] pretends to be unconscious again and [[../Characters/Luka Votsk|Luka Votsk]] carries
- [[../People/Misha Devy|Misha Devy]] lets them through into Statue Hall
- [[../Characters/Corrin Grosbeak|Corrin Grosbeak]] tries to sneak past and fails, stabs her on the way and keeps running
- [[../People/Misha Devy|Misha Devy]] closes door behind them
- Proceed down stairs
- Find room with 8 skeletons
- Skeletons animate when second hero enters the room
- They defeat the 8 skeletons
- Next room has a table with 2 comfortable chairs, an unopened bottle of wine, 2 clean glasses
- Next room has a table with straps and some person sized crates
- Side room has 8 sleeping goblins
- Open next door and chimes sound
- Try to barricade door to goblin room
- Goblins start pounding on door
- [[../People/Abramo|Abramo]] tries to "bless" them with his mace
- Defeat [[../People/Abramo|Abramo]] by turning into goo
- Find secret door to room containing companions
- [[../Characters/Wrelen Steamsparker|Wrelen Steamsparker]] puts most of them to sleep
- We tie them up
- [[../Characters/Luka Votsk|Luka Votsk]] disguises himself
- Goblins come around the corner and we try to convince them everything is fine
- [[../People/Serilly Findlar|Serilly Findlar]] is caged in corner
- Identifies 2 of the masked (dead) people are brainwashed townspeople
- [[../Characters/Belorin Forechaser|Belorin Forechaser]] finds keys on [[../People/Abramo|Abramo]]'s belt
	- he also had magic armor
- Chest contains fine clothing
- Interrogate 2 remaining cultists
	- Were indoctrinated by [[../People/Bertrand|Bertrand]] and [[../People/Misha Devy|Misha Devy]]
	- No one has resisted, others fed to crocodiles
	- There is a secret trapdoor above statue, leads to [[../People/Misha Devy|Misha Devy]]'s quarters
	- They took [[../People/Baba Fatt|Baba Fatt]] to [[../Creatures/Explicika|Explicika]]
- [[../Characters/Luka Votsk|Luka Votsk]] thinks that killing [[../Creatures/Explicika|Explicika]] may break hold on cultists
	- Normally dominate would require concentration, so [[../Creatures/Explicika|Explicika]] must be powerful

## [[../Sessions/2022/2022-10-27|2022-10-27]]
- Ogre is coming
	- [[../Characters/Corrin Grosbeak|Corrin Grosbeak]] sets trap, camoflage with straw
- Free [[../People/Serilly Findlar|Serilly Findlar]]
- Ogre triggers trap
- Party escapes through trapdoor
- [[../People/Misha Devy|Misha Devy]]'s quarters are empty
- Ogre smashes through trapdoor while party breaks down door
- [[../Characters/Risu Parvus|Risu Parvus]] pushes desk onto trapdoor
- Open the next door and we see [[../People/Misha Devy|Misha Devy]], now sandwiched between her and ogre
- [[../People/Misha Devy|Misha Devy]] freezes [[../Characters/Wrelen Steamsparker|Wrelen Steamsparker]]
- 4 [[../Creatures/Troglodyte|Troglodyte]] come up through trapdoor
	- Party kills 1, puts 2 more to sleep
- Ogre comes up through trapdoor
- [[../Characters/Corrin Grosbeak|Corrin Grosbeak]] kills [[../People/Misha Devy|Misha Devy]]
- We get out of there
	- Pulling cart with unconscious [[../Characters/Risu Parvus|Risu Parvus]]
- Travel through swampy area
- Long rest