Session 15

# Session 15 - 2022.03.08

Back from the someplace else, and back from a pointless sidetrip to get head from Agdon (who could not satisify Clapperclaw's needs)

## Reading Other People's Journals

Before heading to Bavlorna's the group goes through her Grudge Book to see just who she hates, who she's taken her grudge out on, and who eludes her. Zybilna is not mentioned, but

* two names are listed early on, her sisters: Endolyn Moongrave, Scabbatha Nightshade - she hates them, and they are also part of her coven, the Hourglass Coven .
* Their mother's name is "Baba Yaga" - an ArchFey
* Also named is 'Iggwilv' - Iggwilv was adopted by their mother as a fourth daughter. The section on Iggwilv is mostly illegible, so the group can't tell much more.
* Agdon - explains how she got back at him: attached the long scarf that can't be removed
* The FrogKing - not yet revenged upon...

The group spent some time debating what they were doing.

1, they would ask Bavlorna to return all the things people have lost to her or had taken.

2, ToMF will ask if she knows anything about Zybilna's disappearance

3, Aria wonders if they can be helped going home?

## Off To Meet the Witch

As they approach Bavlorna's cottage, Buckie can feel that which he is missing from himself is stored there.

### In the Cottage

The Entry room is basically a large stinky pool of stagnant water, with a lily pad and a dressing mirror in opposite corners. There is a 10ft wide walkway around it. There is food everywhere (eggs, bugs, fish, frogs...). In one far corner of the room there are 7 dressing dummies. 6 of the dummies are wearing terribly stitched clothes and the 7th is naked but has a black witch's hat on. ToMF walks toward the pool to peer in.

Fiento approaches the dummies in curiousty, as he draws near, the black hat leaps at his head, attempting to maul him! It managed to land on his head and get a firm grip. Fiento attempts to pull it off. He succeeds, and combat begins. Solus looks up from a nightmare show in a side room and ENDS IT.

After the fight, the group examines what's off the entry room. On the left, there is only one door - to the room of animal corpses. To the right are 3 doors. Fiento opens the middle door to see a staircase, a dark shadow in the corner at the top. The lower door leads to a small room with a cupboard. The cupboard has an hourglass shadped mechanism that ToMF is able to open easily.

Things from the cupboard:

* Cauldron with piece of paper with Spittlespew on it.
* Loose buttons of various shapes, colors, and materials
* Stray cutlery (all from different sets)
* Unopened love letters (not written or addressed to Bavlorna, but to long-dead people with whom Bavlorna has had dealings)
* Old, frayed, coiled-up belts
* Pressed flowers and loose dried petals
* A horseshoe
* Feathers from various birds
* A chipped teacup

Before they open the final door on the right, ToMF examines the water well. He notices it is slightly acidic and suspects a gelatineous cube or something is wedged in the well. It reminds him of the wells that periodically flood in Prismeer and he decides to send some eldritch blasts down the well to knock free anything that might be clogging the well...After doing so, a 15ft wide gelatinous tube explodes out of it. They slices it, Sally bites it, buckie shoots it, Aria tolls it, Fiento hits it \*so\* many times. Solus shoots it very hard. And the cube simply brings They and then Fiento inside itself. Sally continues biting and Buckie runs forward to pull his friend from the cube. Fiento explodes out of the cube in a blur of attacks, collapsing to the ground once free. Aria invokes a healing power on the badly wounded warrior monk. She tolls the dead over the gelatinous tube. Laying gasping and acid burnt on the floor, ToMF blasts the cube before even trying to get to his feet. And the cube slumps down, dead.

The kid looked the cube/tube for (( 1 hide scrap, 1 leather scap, or silver.))

## Exploring the House

Buckie checked the north-most west rooms. Full of fabric and yarn scraps. Buckie dismisses it, but the Kid does a search and finds 2 weird dolls. The kid pockets them before going out the south door onto the porch. He is greeted by loud chorus from frogs, and he tries to speak with those animals, but they do not acknowledge him.

They then head upstairs. Portraits show people in various states of unhappy emotions. The Kid looks in a mirror, and his reflection shows no emotion. After a moment of trying to get his reflection to mirrior him, he felt certain there was, and could just barely see, a door. He was attempting to pull it off the wall when his hand got stuck in the some white stick stuff,