Episode 29: Invisible Manic Laughter

* Finished a short rest in the cell block beneath Deathcrawl's lair. Talked for a bit about whether or not to kill Warden Aisling or torture her for info. Decided to kill her so as not to waste time. Vahlka decapitated her with Sethokesh.
* As we're leaving we hear reinforcements up ahead and decide to lie in wait in the cellblock and jump them when they come down. We do so!
* Fight is far tougher than anticipated. Consisting of Diruzel the Wise, a bronze half-dragon warpriest and Annabelle Redling a human rogue as well as several Dragonwings. As the fight turned south, Tristram cast invisibility on Vahlka. Diruzel cast silence, inconviencing our spellcasters greatly. Vahlka immediately downed herself being a moron and swinging Sethokesh at someone with full-plate on and 5 hp. The fight was turned around when Ander decided to get involved and started flinging some pretty powerful spells into the mix.
* Godfrey shoves a healing potion in Vahl's still invisible face and she gets up and demolishes Diru with a crit smite. Ander and Lucius have a wizard-fist fight with Annabelle, which quickly turns in their favor when Diruzel dies and the silence spell fails.
* Lucius puts several drakes to sleep, including Balefire - who Barkley later adopts.
* Vahlka tears after Annabelle, invisible, slightly smoldering, and rolling obscenely high on an intimidate check while laughing maniacally. Decapitates her while she's held person-ed by Ander? Barkley? I don't remember?
* Take care of the last few stragglers, whom we tried to capture but they were too zealous/afraid to cooperate so they ended up getting slain when they tried to flee.
* Loot the boots of spider climbing and gauntlets of ogre strength, which are attuned by Barkley and Vahlka respectively.
* We take our NPC allies, Des, Deacon, Tristram, and Ander and beat a speedy retreat up to the mushroom forest again - we find a safe location and take a long rest.
No Chatzy!
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