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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Brakkart" data-source="post: 1878289" data-attributes="member: 19617">DM's Log of Session TwelveRising early on Marpenoth 21st, the party turned to its healers (in particular Zamtap), to rid them of the effects of the poison in their blood, and the Gondsman did just that. In the morning light, they notice that the giant ants have removed more than half the ruins during the course of the night, and there likely will not be a gatehouse remaining at all very soon. The group pack up their things, and trek up the carriageway towards the looming edifice that is Wolfhill House itself, the structure massive and heavily overgrown with vines and creepers, most of its windows having shattered. The group are briefly puzzled by the enormous anchor sat in the middle of the carriage turning circle in front of the house, until Elena points out that it is from a galleon, and Zamtap remembers that Hezekiel Wolf was a noted mariner. The party entered the house through the broken brass front doors, walking into a large ballroom, strewn with dead leaves. Empty apart from a large statue, and a pair of staircases that curled up to the upper floor, they shrugged and headed to investigate several of the doors leading off the room. Elena opened the first, and walked into a small powder room. Sifting around, looking for treasure, she lifted aside one of the remaining curtains and was immediately grabbed by it, the swathe of green cloth wrapping around her body, holding her helpless as it began to constrict around her throat. Her choking sounds drew the attention of Gylippus and Zamtap, they coming to try and help her, bashing and cutting at the curtain even as the sounds and struggles from Elena became less and less. Ki joined in, trying to pull down the curtain rail which it hung from with a grappling hook and rope but to no avail, as Gylippus used magic to weaken the cloth's hold, but even that did little to relieve Elena's plight. As Jebodiah and Thols raced to try and help, Elena made one last effort to free herself, finally slipping from the weakened curtains deathgrasp as her friends slashed at it.As she healed herself, her throat painful in the extreme, so Gylippus decided to keep what was left of the killer curtain, wrapping it another curtain carefully, and tying it up. The party also decided to keep two small ceramiic vases they found, figuring that they could fetch some good coin back in Waterdeep. With that brush with death behind them, the group decided to stick together as they progressed through the west wing of the grand old house. Jebodiah bashed in the door to the parlor, and then as the others went off to explore the library, he and Thols headed out onto the patio and went peering in other windows from the outside, staying in close to the house lest they attract the attention of the giant wasps buzzing around the roof two stories up.The library proving to have many hundreds of books on the sea, Elena was crestfallen at the realization that she couldn't possibly take them with her, and sulking went to join Thols and Jebodiah outside. After the brush with the curtain of death, Aeron quickly grew wary of all furniture, refusing to condone entering the museum of stuffed animals that Gylippus and Zamtap discovered, lest they animate.While the others explored the librarys contents, the three fighter types went for a walk around the outside of the eastern wing of the house, peering in the broken windows and they walked back into the ballroom at the same time as the others, reporting a room filled with suits of armour and a giant stone head "We're not going in there, they'll animate and kill us all" said a paranoid Aeron, as well as a massive conservatory in which there was hanging a skeleton of a sperm whale of all things. Deciding that was soemthing they had to see, the group opened the door into the large octagonal glass walled chmaber at the back of the ballroom and walked in, seeing not only the whale skeleton suspended on cables up above, but also a large statue of a naked human woman with lobster head and claws, which Zamtap identified as beign a representation of the Koa-Toa goddess Blibdoolpoolp... which led to a couple minutes of them all falling about in laughter at the deitys name!The trio also made mention of a room at the back of the west wing with intact windows, that was completely empty, and had a staircase leading down. Gylippus decided that was their best bet to finding wherever it was that the Yuan-ti were lairing and the group made its way around the the back doors to the room. Finding them barred from the inside, Thols, Elena and Jebodiah, walked back a few feet and then as one ran at the door, and shoulder charged their way inside... to be met by Gylippus who had simply smashed a window and walked in that way.With the dwarf in the lead and the paladin right behind him, the group proceeded down into the cellars under the house, walking down the stairs into a vast pillared chamber with corridors leading off in three directions, a large pile of coal in one corner of the room. Jebodiah had barely cleared the stairs though before he was savagely set upon by a trio of hulking histachii, claws and teeth tearing into him.Seeing the danger, Zamtap leapt forward, rolling and ducking through the throng of broodguards, and slapping a cure spell onto the dwarf, tumbling out the other side of the furious melee without a scratch on him! The rest of the party surged down the stairs, leaping and dodging into positions around the histachii, even as another of the scaled monsters ducked out of the shadows and launched itself into the fray, hissing and spitting as rage overcame it and its fellows.Seeing Thols go down, as two of the creatures bit deeply into him, Zamtap waded into the fight, warhammer swinging and rescued the servant of Torm, healing his wounds, even as the histachii turned their claws on him, tearing gouges in the clerics flesh. Staying back up on the stairs, Aeron used his spells as best as he could, the speed and hardiness of the histachii thwarting his best efforts to stun and incapacitate them.Fighting to great effect, his nimble form able to get to where he could deal the most damage quickly, Ki slew two of the creatures, and another fell to Gylippus' rapier as he had wasted no time in getting into the thick of the fight, rather than rely on his spells. The last of the broodguards was pinned against a wall and massacred by Elena, and the angry company of Thols and Jebodiah, eager to get payback for the wounds they had suffered. Recovering a gemstone from each of the vile things, the group looked about and could see only three tunnels leading away into darkness...DM's Notes:Well to my credit it was 12 sessions before this lot ended up in a dungeon, but this is D&D and they've already had a dragon, so this was kinda inevitable! I am using the maps and most of the details from the "Slave Vats of the Yuan-ti" adventure from Dungeon magazine, with a few notable changes, which will be explained later on.I do enjoy having some laughs in any session, I find a bit of comedy works well in most games (with Ravenloft being a notable exception), and so I have to laugh at Aeron's insistence that everything is going to come to life and attack the group somehow... I'm not saying it won't, but it is funny!</blockquote>

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