Greyhawk 11: A Dance with Death

A report from Dax Mokudash.

Well, I guess I better write this thing since Willow is out of commission for a little while. Today, we started sorting through the attic when some freaky invisible spider attacked me (Dax), Willow, and Findere. We circled up so it wouldn't get the jump on us but that spindly bastard was an evasive one. We swung our blades around with reckless abandon until we eventually severed a few of its legs and it skittered off somewhere. A shame we couldn't rid ourselves of that little prick. Afterwards, we sorted through some of the boxes. It was mostly books (BORRINGGG) and there was some crate full of sciency bottles and stuff that Willow seemed enamored by. Lame. While she looked through all the old junk, I checked out another door in the attic that lead to a balcony. It had an old winch so the lazy ex-owners of this house didn't have to haul their crap all the way up to the attic. I also leapt onto the roof to search for any other hidden attics or anything really. There was nothing. When we came back, Willow was reading some note about how people owed Zagyg a good amount of money that he didn't spend with some person named "Gembolt Trougarn". They seemed to be the supplier of Zagyg's stuff. There was also a chest in the attic with four buttons on it. We pressed them all at the same time to find 3 magic books in them. Findere offered me 35 gold pieces and the next magic item he finds for me to give one book to him. DO NOT FORGET THAT. They had some pretty fancy spells in them. Afterwards, we went to the illusory window, said some magic phrase, and figured out that phrase (I am a man, not a boy) is what controls the magical darkness. We then went all the way to the basement to do some exploring. Down there, we checked up on the orc warchief still stuck in the magic mirror. Same as always. Then we went through the green crystal door to check out the tunnels.

Still quite a few snakes in there but willow used some spell to make em piss off. We went down a tunnel, I think to the left, to find a dead end with nothing of value. We turned around and took the tunnel all the way to the north where we found a room with yet another tunnel continuing onwards. But there were snakes here. We decided to try our luck. Shouldn't have done that. Willow stepped up while me and Findere took potshots at them. I was a deadeye but Findere seemed to struggle a bit. Typical of elves, what can I say? Anyways, Willow got merked. A snake took a good sized chunk out of her, and for a scrawny gnome, that's pretty bad. I think I saw her still-beating heart as she fell unconscious. Can't have my handy spellcasters 6-feet under, so I finished off the last snake, slung her over my shoulder and sprinted back upstairs to wake up Miles. Why is he sleeping during the day anyway? Don't these men of gods have better things to do? He patched her up and she'll be alright. She also gave me dibs on the first magic weapon she finds next as payment for saving her life. It was within everyone's best interest to keep her alive, it's not personal. Findere also needed my help moving stuff out of the attic. I should increase my gold rates if they keep this up.