Dear Gilra,
After resting, we decided to explore the west end of the courtyard before risking another trap in the main corridor. As it turns out, the animal pens are to the west, so as we opened the door we came head to head with two worg, vicious looking over sized wolfs.
Gnomy was the quickest of us and seemed to have gotten inspiration from the vines, as the worg came to a sudden stop while black tentacles spouted out of the ground all around them. Pleased that for once it wasn't us who was being groped in unpleasant places, Draco and Kinley were quick to follow, Draco with his trusty lightning bolt and Kinley by charging into the enclosure.
It was Kinley's charge and sudden stop that revealed the true situation to us, as he started yelling back that there were four more worg waiting around the corner. Seeing an opportunity to channel the worg between the tentacles and the wall, I was soon standing at Kinley's side, holding the worg back as our companions dealt out some ranged pain from behind us.
While worg can be a real threat once they surround us, I think our quick thinking and the black tentacles channeling effect, allowed us to take on the worg's in smaller numbers, offering an easy victory to us once again.
With the nightmarish images of the field of rubbery black tentacles suppressed, we quickly moved on to through the next few doors, storming through the barracks and smaller towers, defeating several spriggans along the way. We finally barged into the man tower room, where we saw what appeared to be queen Rhoswen, pacing back and forth and paying us no attention.
It took an arrow and some disbelief, but in the end even this strong illusion faded to our inspection. So with the first floor cleaned out of any threats, we took the main towers stairs up and stumbled into a ballroom filled with dancing people. As they approached us and tried to make us join them in the festivities, Kinley felt three arrows bounce of his armor. Reassured by this that something was up, we once again managed to see the dancing people for the illusions they were and started looking around for the source of the arrows.
It didn't take us long to figure out that these shooters must be similar to the invisible pixies we encountered before, so Draco sent his pet Velo out to sniff them out, just as Manon went to the center of the room and cast an invisibility purge centered on her, revealing all invisible creatures around her.
With their invisibility gone, the three pixies we found didn't last long, so before long we were out exploring the second floor again.
A few doors down, we found two more satyr waiting for us, and when they cast a sleep spell on us all, they succeeded on me and Worf. When I woke up again it was with one of the satyr trying to coup-de-grace me, and only my quick wit to save me. Worf was more lucky as he had fallen asleep back in the safety of the hallway behind us, so within seconds we were all dealing out some heavy punishment on the satyr, who didn't last long enough to do much in return.
After dealing with them, we continued through what ended up being the kitchen and came out into the roof garden next to an angry looking plant creature. Luckily for me, Kinley was the one being grappled this time, as the plants heavy damage would have killed me in seconds while Kinley managed to put up quite a fight even while being held tightly by the plant.
With the plant occupied by Kinley, the rest of us managed to surround it and start dealing damage as well, and soon the plant was down and Kinley received some much needed healing from Manon.
By now we were once again getting winded from the fighting but decided to push on to the last floor before resting anyway.
Up there we soon stumbled onto the balcony where we discovered a badly hidden spriggan. While fighting that one however, his three better hidden brothers joined the fight. It took some work but even in our winded state these four spriggans were no match for us.
However, one of the spriggans managed to deal me a heavy blow to the head, making it hard to think, and we were now also running low on prepared spells, so resting seemed like a good idea.
We are now closing in on the queen's quarters, and according to that satyr in the basement, the armory must be around here too.
Until soon,
Maruk
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tl;dr: Continued exploring the first floor and fought several worg and spriggans, as well as an illusion of queen Rhoswen. On the second floor we encountered an illusion of dancing people and three invisible pixies. Followed by two satyr in the kitchen and a plant creature(barvus?) in the roof garden. Moved on to the third floor, fought four spriggan on the balcony and decided to rest.
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