Erastus 18, 4712
Up the stair of the in the tower seemed like a library. Sitting up there reading was a harpy. The harpy we now know as Zaiobe seems to have be the silent love mystery. Qatana communicated with the harpy through some sort of telepathic power the harpy possessed. She asked us to kill her demon lover who happens to be the one writing all of these stupid plays. I was so caught up in the idea of the demon lover that I missed that Zaiobe was an Oracle maybe like me. She did reveal that Kikonu is from Tien and that back in Tien he is considered a monster. My learning of Tien is making slow progress. Kali has picked up on a lot more of the language then I have and I feel like it is going to take me a little longer than Kali.
Zaiobe’s best idea was for us to find a place just outside the castle to ambush the demon Kikonu. The plan actually worked very good. Once he entered the trap room l fired off a bane arrow. By his reaction it is clear to see that bane arrows are great against demons. Clearly if I was going to be a demon hunter then I would get a bow with bane outsider subtype evil. The day in Rallo’s shop when he suggested learning to make my own magic weapon now seems interesting. Any way I got some shots off but it ended up getting congested so I had to just let the Melee people finish him off.
The harpy hung around for several more minutes while we search the demons body. After everything was identified the Harpy told Qatana that she was heading back to her library and that we should meet her there in the morning.
She instead started flying around and shooting us. It seems stupid that she would attack such as large group of people. After a good hit on her she decided that I was the threat with the bow. I followed the other to some cover in the trees, healed myself and then continued to put arrows in that harpy. Riddled with arrows the harpy fell to the ground dead. She had some potions, normal armor, and a +1 magic composite longbow with +1 str. I am currently using this as by weapon as it is a magic weapon that does the same damage as my masterwork +2 str composite longbow but it is magic. Anavaru considered this a downgrade as it does less damage then her bow. I really don’t know what it is like to do the amount of damage that is coming from the fighting types in the group. I have loaned by masterwork bow to Sparna so he has something that can do damage at range. I also picked up all of the arrows and used mend on them while the others search and identified the items on the harpy.
We traveled out fo the castle and back to the cemetery to rest for the night. The others really needed to recover spells and such. On the way out I paused and recovered the arrows that I used on the way into the castle as we were in a rush at the time. I felt bad as Spivey had to use scrolls to provide healing but that is what Spivey chose.
Erastus 19, 4712
Today during the short mediation I finally understand my new spell. Just like before I work and work on learning the spell and then one day it just seems to click. Looking over at Radalla and Sparna this morning it seems clear how to shoot a arrow into melee combat.
I had plenty of time to finish breakfast while the other spell casters did there hour of mediation. This is an odd group but I am beginning to trust these people, even Olmas. it is very interesting that the non-spellcasters are very skilled in seemingly all forms of combat and the 3 primary magic wielders are very versatile and skilled as well. The amount of damage the melee people inflict is a little staggering and they are all very skilled at using the bow as well. Magic wise Etayne’s hexes and Qatana’s channeling both are better ways of healing that don’t require expend spells so there is no need for me to focus on healing.
This morning I finally the lesson I was being taught way back when I was first learning to be an Oracle. Near the end of our trip here Kali was explaining the creation and usage of scrolls and wands. It tooks a few days but I now understand why he was trying to tell me that some spells are not worth learning as an Oracle as a scroll or wand is as effective as casting the spell. I get it now and it is time to start looking at spell that I am able to cast with the thought of buying scrolls or wands. If I was still traveling with Qatana and Kali in the future I could ask for their help on this. I can only hope that future adventuring groups are as good as this one. I am beginning to wonder if the gods have sent us on this adventure for a reason. Spivey even being here is another mystery. Is Spivey powerful enough to prevent them from destroying everything in the cemetery? At first I thought Spivey to be a powerful follower of Desna and then she seemed like a soul in need of help. I have to wonder if she isn’t hear to just to guide us. That just seems crazy. We are just a group of people working together on this one quest and then we will be going our separate ways. I suspect that most of the other plan to return to Sandpoint and I see little value in travelling all the way back to Sandpoint.
Once everyone was ready we headed back into the castle and to Zaiobe’s library. We all search for a while and right now the others are looking over books and maps found in the library. I have to admit the map to the upper part of the castle is handy. Time to continue adventuring.
After the library we followed the stairs down into rooms with Troglodytes. My god these things smell bad, I gag and almost lost breakfast when I entered the room. It wasn’t easy getting shots off as it was congested. With 5 of the 8 of us basically preferring melee combat working around them it part of the deal, saves me from having someone hitting me with a sword or club. One of the Troglodytes seem to yell something in there tongue down some stairs, I believe it was Sparna or Kali that said they it was asking for help. No help arrived and these and the sleeping Troglodytes in the next room soon were dead.
Orge-kin female was next on the agenda. I got a shot off but mostly I moved in out of the way to let the melee fighters have room to deal with the orge-kin. Once the loot was taken we moved on.
We then moved into the room that Qatana insisted was wrong. After much debate I think it was determine that they likely ran out of money when building so this room was not created to match the plans. It gave me time to catch up on the journal so I guess there is something good about it. Hopefully they will be wrapping up the discussion about the room soon.
Moving to the double doors we heard someone talking to someone else. After awhile it appeared that this person was likely talking to itself. We opened the door and the creature began talking about taxidermy of people. Luckily for us Kali drop glitterduct on the little creature and the battle begain. Oh my god this thing is fast and without the glitterdust I am not sure if we would have been able to see it move. The other engaged the quickling and began hurting the creature when with a blur it got past all of us with just a blur. My last attempt to shoot the quickling hit and the little thing dropped dead. There is know way I would have been able to see it if not for the glitterdust. Search and looting were under way when Etayne and Qatana decided to check the murky pond. We had seen it from above and I had no interest in investigating. I watched as Etayne and Qatana moved through the door into the court yard. They soon came running back in and said there was a massive beetle in the court yard. I ran upstairs to the so that I could shoot at the beetle in safety. Other joined me and we were able to kill of the beetle. Now I had to go into the court yard to reclaim my arrows. I guess there was some concern that people were running of in different directions.
Next was the wights. Qatana said the the touch felt cold and was not good. I wonder if this is one of those creature that drains you instead of normal physical damage. Luckily the fighter were able to kill bot of them quickly. Kali recognized the helm on one of these as captain of the guard for Brinewell castle. Hopefully he is free now. Once again I have some time as the other look through papers. I did hear them say that the corbies had attacked the castle before and that it looks as if this castle was built ontop of their home.