Exploring the Misgivings

Lamashan 14, 4708 – Getting back so late we slept most of the day. It is late evening we gather to head back to the misgiving. Andrian was able to talk the sheriff into letting the goblin he captured out to go with us. To me I have no idea why Andrian wants to have this goblin with us. He never wants any of the sheriff men to go with us. What is Andrian connection with the goblin?

Lasmahan 15, 4708 – As we travel to the misgivings we where see more ravens all thetime. As he arrived at the misgivings the ravens where landing in the tree in the front yard. This is strange for it just a few hours past midnight. Why are the ravens flying around at night? Andrain goblin did not want to go in so he let her stay outside. As we enter what appear as a trophy room with a creature in the main room. Carufinwe all of a sudden seem to be acting like he is on fire. We help him out by pretending to put out the fire with him. But, I only saw red marks were I believe was from him trying to slap out the fire in his mind.

We then went upstairs looking for another set of stairs up but only came to the end of the hall. Andrain and Lyk entered the room and then Lyk falls to his knees sobbing in a child's bedroom. As we walk around Andrain figures out where the weeping is coming from he believes it in the attic. We enter a big music room and talked about the beautiful stain glass windows and why are they still here. We found the stairs to the attic and stairs to the basement. Andrain finds a silver plated and gold hilted poignard and tries to cut his own throat with it. Lyk attempts to stop him and Andrain stabs Lyk then seems to return to normal. I was able to take care of Lyk wound. We entered the mansion's library and Lyk begins staring at a beautiful Varisian scarf and then stops breathing, he turns blue while clawing at his throat. Lyk fell unconscious and is pushed out of the room by Andrain. Lyk appears to be okay. We crossed to another room and Andrain drops becomes frightened and scoops up Riley and runs for the front door calling Riley "Lorey" before reaching the front door he snaps out of it. In the adjacent room that Andrain run from Andrain kills a disgusting tumor-covered bald rat with his new dagger. In the next room Lyk claims to speak to someone that isn't there and dances frenetically and is exhausted from dancing.

We finally went up to the attic and notice the weeping is close. We eventually found what looked like a private study where Riley discovers a painting by a famous Magnamarian artist and 3 arcane ritual scrolls. Then we cross the hall and enter a locked room that contains a weeping woman staring into a mirror. Upon approaching her Andrain discovers that the woman is a living rotted corpse. After many unsuccessful attempts to speak with the thing Andrain asks me to take over to put her to "rest". Before I could, Carufinwe suggests that someone should try to destroy the mirror that she seems so fixated upon. Andrain turns the mirror around and the creature that appears to be Iesha screams expletive at someone named "Aldern" and begins hobbling rapidly out of the attic. We follow her through the mansion as she seems to be hunting something or someone with the unerring efficiency of a bloodhound. "Iesha" eventually arrives in the basement and when she enters a spiral staircase headed to some unknown dungeon we give up pursuit. We talked whether we should search the basement instead. After a brief debate we decide to pick up the corpse's trail and begin following her again. At this time we were attacked from behind by two rat swarms. Despite two well placed fire bombs from Andrain, Riley (in rearguard position) is quickly overrun and torn apart by the disgusting tumor-covered blind bald rats. Just before we lost Riley I was able to heal Riley so he could run for his life. The rats were eventually slain by the combined powers of the rallied party. However the subsequent rest meant that we will no longer be able to catch up the Iesha-thing.

We check out the other rooms and found the rat nest which has many holes which could lead to more rats. We found a wine room which the rats did not bother and in that room Andrain found a concealed room with eight old wine bottles. Andrain set them near the stairs to get them on the way out. No other rooms had anything of interest before we started done the stairs. We entered what appears to be a network of nature tunnels, but the one on the left seems to have been created only a hundred or so years ago. We took that tunnel and were attacked by an undead bat which we destroyed quickly. This tunnel led to the well. They where looking for something or where creating another entrance/exit from these caves. Andrain threw down a piece of rotting flesh he found to see if anything was in the water. Nothing happen but we need to get that rotting flesh out of the well water so it does not ruin this well as a source of water.

We went back to the other tunnel and ran into four ghouls. We had a tough fight because they where able to get around us. Lyk had them bottle up front and was keeping them from attacking us. Andrain threw so kind of light bomb to blind the ghouls getting a couple of them. But, there was a tunnel that led around our tunnel and they could attack us from behind which they did. Andrain decided to see if that tunnel led around to the ghouls because he could do nothing else to help Lyk. One ghoul got by Andrain to attack Carufinwe in the back. Lyk ended up fighting two up front and Andrain fought one. We where able to kill three ghouls before the forth one ran. We only chased it a short distance as it quickly out ran us.

We decide to rest at a choke point so they could not get around us again. But, before we could fully rest we had another group attacking us. But with Lyk holding them off at the choke point they could only get one ghoul attacking us at a time. We could all help Lyk but only one ghoul could attack Lyk at a time. Once again we defeated them and one ran way again saying they need to inform the master we are coming. But before we could rest again another group of ghouls attack us. This time Riley created his flaming sphere and put it just ahead of Lyk so the ghouls where on either side of the sphere taking damage. We where able to defeat the ghouls but one ghoul again run away. This time we where able to rest before moving on.

This tunnel led into a big cavern which was slippery. We tied a rope around us to help us from falling off. About half way down was a door which we decided to check out first. Since Lyk had taken so much punishment from the ghoul attacks we decide to keep him to the back until he was needed. We entered a hallway, removing the rope, which leaded into a small room just big enough for all of us. There was Aldren Foxglove and the three ghouls that ran from us. Aldren Foxglove invited us in but I would not enter all the way in keeping a choke spot so they had to attack me first. Aldren Foxglove asked for Lyk but Andrain decide to tell Aldern that Lyk was killed by the attacks. Because the hallway had a bend and Aldren could not see Lyk way in the back. Aldren was sad hearing this news and that he did not get to see Lyk die but he was okay with it. We still wanted us all in but I refused to go to him. Andrain threw the dagger he found at Foxglove just missing his head. This angered Foxglove who sent his pawn the ghouls on us. The ghouls attacked me first but I only got hit by two of them. Carufinwe and I were able to destroy one ghoul which was badly injured attacking us earlier on the first wave of attacks. Andrain attack Aldren Foxglove with his magic dagger hitting him a couple of times. This anger Aldren to put the mask on and came forward to attack us with Andrain going to him, too. As I fought the ghouls with the help of the party Andrain got in some good attack on Aldren forcing him to retreat and putting up darkness around him self. This gave us time to destroy another ghoul and with Lyk moving up from the back to get into the fight. Aldren Foxglove went for Carufinwe and when he saw Lyk. Aldren went even more crazy after seeing Lyk. This gave us the opportunity to beat on Aldren and destroy him and the last ghoul. The battle was won but now he had the feeling that the house hated us even more.

We left the house needing to get the priest to do an exorcism on the house. We noticed that all the ravens are gone, too. As we travel back to Sandpoint in the early hours of this new day. I was thinking about the blood soak painting of Iesha and the note. Aldren Foxglove must have been killed and as he died was looking at the painting of his wife. I believe it Aldren blood that is on the painting and he died to become this undead for his master. Another piece of the puzzle which leads to the murders that seemed to be needed for some ritual for some evil deed. We arrive back at Sandpoint being back Aldren Foxglove body and mask (which we will destroy) to show the sheriff we found the murderer. We told the sheriff very thing we did and found. We will need to talk to the priest to go back with us to do an exorcism tomorrow.

Lasmahan 16, 4708 – We travel back to Foxglove mansion for the exorcism. Father Zanthus went to the front room down stairs and thought this to be the strongest point for the exorcism. We all got around Father Zanthus to project him while he performed the exorcism ritual. Once Father Zanthus started the Ghost of Vorel Foxglove appeared and attacked us with his ghostly powers hurting all of us. I was able to heal Father Zanthus while the other attacked Vorel Foxglove. I had healed Father Zanthus as best as I could and Lyk could not move to take the attack to the ghost. So, I made the first move to confront the ghost hand to hand. The ghost did not seem to care about me but wanted to kill Father Zanthus. This seemed to be Vorel Foxglove big mistake. The group was able to continue attacking Vorel Foxglove. Lyk and Andrain got free from his hold to attack him hand to hand. Once we did we defeated the ghost of Vorel Foxglove giving Father Zanthus time to continue his exorcism ritual and released the hold the ghost had on the house. Once Father Zanthus finished there was a major groan and then all the windows in the house shattered. Father Zanthus said it is finished and the house is at rest. We looked around the house with light coming in the house no longer looked haunting. We headed back to Sandpoint with a feeling of accomplishment.

Lasmahan 17 & 18 – Andrain and Riley wanted us to go thru the house looking for clues and more valuables. I agreed to go with them. We did find many items of interest and even some magic items. We will probably have to take them to the big city to sell them I do not see anyone in Sandpoint buying them.