G13 - Avoid the 4th Floor

Date: Planting (4), Feyday 13th 761

With the Gray Render dead, the party took a moment to catch their breath. Mel investigated the beast's thick skin and claws. Jimmy Sprockets repaired his damaged robot. With that out of the way, they headed to the 2nd floor.

The 2nd floor had plush long purple couches adorning the room. A large pet bed is placed at the corner, a tea serving stand was positioned by the entrance. A magic flame lit, and the teapot placed itself on it, starting to make tea. Aka Noone broke the teapot on a bet. Olar found some change between the cushions while investigating the room and noticed that the pet bowls for water and food were empty and dry, presumably they belonged to the Gray Render they fought.

3rd floor was bigger than the size of the tower itself somehow. Multiple cages hosted hybrid animals, an ape with a chicken's head, a dog with three human heads, one still alive, three birds with female heads, a crab with a scorpion tail to name a few. The female headed birds started arguing in a language the party didn't understand, and they suddenly sprang their trap. They produced a key and opened their cage.

A fight broke out as the harpies started opening cages, releasing an owlbear, and a large bird. Mel stood toe to toe with one of the harpies, Volgis stood his ground, allowing the rest of the party to attempt to deal with all the threats. After some agonizing minutes the party persevered, Mel took the brunt of the damage.

Tired, the party decided that they should rest. After some debate, they felt that the tearoom floor was probably their best bet. The tearoom decided to start harassing Aka Noone for breaking the teapot and attacking him, preventing him from going to sleep. Olar and Jimmy mending the broken teapot. The teapot happily made some tea for them.

Rested, the group went to the 4th floor and decided to ignore the wizard's wishes. The ceiling was covered in spikes, a circular room was in the middle. Everyone went closer to the inner room, Olar decided to stay by the steps. Jimmy unwittingly triggered the pressure plate that reversed the gravity of the room, making everyone fall up and hit the spikes. A minute later, they fell to the ground, which made Jimmy re-trigger the pressure plate. After the second time things triggered, Jimmy used his potato powered teleporter to get to the stairs.

Understanding how the trap worked, they used Volgis' shield to walk over the pressure plate. Jimmy went in and saw a black room with a magic circle made out of salt and a book on the ground, and thought better of it and left. Volgis decided to explore and found out that the circle was broken, a pickle jar was right next to it with five dried pickles. The book itself was bound by what looked like human skin, and it was slightly water damaged. Then he just closed the door, but didn't lock it.

After some healing to recover from the traps, they headed up to the 5th floor, which was the living room and dining room area. It was impeccably clean. Jimmy found a magic broom of cleaning that he got for the Guild.

The 6th floor was the alchemy lab as the wizard had informed them, they found an array of rainbow-colored potions with the indigo potion missing, presumably it was the potion that was broken on the floor. Jimmy identified the potions, the rest of the group looked around at the alchemical table, the burners and test tubes. Various body parts were being preserved in jars, they decided to leave those alone.

At the top floor, the 7th there was a door at the top of the stairs. The door flickered with rainbow energy. Wisely, the party left the door alone and headed back to the 1st floor.

The 1st floor still had a door with no handle or key. After looking more around the area, they realized that the globe could be spun counter clock wise to slowly opened the door. However, as soon as the globe was released, it would spin and close the door. Aka Noone drunk a potion of giant strength to help Jimmy get out after the party made a run for it.

Outside, they managed to run away from the birds almost untouched. The party made the treck back to the well, determined to kill the pickle wizard. As they approached, they heard the pickle say "leave me" to Julius. After some negotiating, teasing and double-talking the party gave the potion to Julius.

The flying monkey flew up to the pickle jar up on the tree and purposely dropped the potion on the ground, breaking it. Julius then grabbed the pickle jar and threw it to the ground as well. The party realized something had gone terrible wrong as the flying monkey laughed. The pickle wizard laid dead by the well...or so they thought.