Dear Gilra,
My senses were right, right after resting we found the armory to the side of the main tower. Next to the numerous axes and swords, there were also some weapons like the Fey bane longsword, which looked exceptionally suited for what was soon to come.
After the armory we decided to keep what we suspected was the throne room for last and circled back to the stairwell we came up on, next to which we found several abandoned guestrooms, alluding to a glorious past.
But then it was time to finally conquer the throne room, and as we opened the doors to the majestic throne room, with it's row of viny pillars leading up to the throne itself, it looked quite empty.
We all seemed to suspect invisible creatures, so before anyone else could react Gnomy decided to fill the room with black tentacles, hoping to catch anything in it, visible or not. In return, something suddenly turned him into a rat, which turned out put an end to his spell casting for the rest of the trip, as his rat squeaking couldn't say the required words anymore, even though his mind was still there.
Surprised but ready, Kinley was the next to respond. As he walked into the room, he soon spotted the air elemental swirling on the side. And like Kinley usually does, he was right next to it within seconds, whacking it with whatever he was holding.
Meanwhile, Worf had taken Gnomy's rat body and put it inside his pocket for safe keeping while the rest of us followed Kinley into the room.
The air elemental was no match for Kinley, so I moved to the middle of the room instead, looking around carefully to try and see what had turned Gnomy into a rat, and to my luck, Queen Rhoswen must have flinched as I suddenly saw her quite well hidden eyes in one of the pillars. While we now knew where the queen was hiding, it didn't make hitting her any easier, and before we could try to hit her, she had summoned another wind elemental to annoy us and moved to another pillar.
The wind elemental had appeared between Delgo and me and within seconds Delgo was twirling around inside it's vortex, creating quite a sight with his twirling hand still on fire from the magical flames he had been producing.
On the other end of the room at the pillar with the queen inside, Draco, Kinley and Worf were trying their best to hit the queen, but even with Drako's pseudo dragon Zar'roc landing on the pillar itself and trying to sting the eyes with it's tail, it was still hard to do, and certainly not helped when another wind elemental appeared only to be beaten down.
Meanwhile I was thinking on how to prevent the queen from hopping from pillar to pillar and the numerous oil flasks I carried were my answer, so while Draco was swirling around behind me and the rest was hitting the queen's current pillar, I was pouring oil into the pillar closest to me and apparently attracting the queen's ire, as suddenly I got the urge to laugh, an almost irresistible laughter that made me unable to do anything but roll around on the floor for over a minute, a nasty spell to say the least.
As I was rolling around laughing, Worf with Gnomy in his pocket had moved towards the throne itself from where Whorf fired some arrows at Delgo's air elemental, destroying it too and making Delgo drop to the ground again.
Back at the queen's pillar, Kinley managed to score a hit on the queen through the eye hole who in turn tried and eventually succeeds in casting that same laughing spell on Kinley.
With only Draco, Delgo and Worf still able to fight, Draco decides to call upon his army of critters, soon swarming the entire pillar with spiders, including two enlarged ones inside, keeping the queen poisoned and nauseated, after which Draco even entangled her with the pillar's vines themselves.
Unfortunately the spiders soon disappeared to where they were summoned from, so Draco called a flaming sphere instead, burning the queen inside her pillar prison, and when he started calling down lightning too, it wasn't long before the queen was toast.
While Kinley and I were recovering from our laughing spells, the rest found the Crook of Cildhureen among the queen's possessions. So onwards and upwards we went, as we head up towards the towers roof, quickly dispatching the spriggans stationed there and using the Crook of Cildhureen to reseal the prison.
Afterwards we managed to get out again the same way we came in without any incident, meeting the waiting Palombier as expected. He and his buddies quickly got us home again, while also returning Gnomy to his human form.
Seeing as we are now once again in Westtown and I managed to live that whole adventure and tell about it, it seems my diary has served it's purpose. So while I might still write down some short notes to remember, I think I'll be using that writing hour while my companions prepare spells to get in some extra rest or preparation instead.
So, until I write again,
Maruk
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tl;dr: Explored upper level, found armory, guest rooms and empty looking throne room, Queen Rhoswen was hiding in pillars, summoning wind elementals and putting transform or laughter spells on us. Defeated her and got the Crook of Cildhureen, moved up towers and cleaned up spriggans waiting there, used Crook of Cildhureen to seal prison and returned home.
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