18 Erastus, Wealday

We have stopped briefly to allow some of our associates to rest, so I decided to add some of my thoughts about our day so far. We came into Brinewall and found a run-down Light House. Inside it was rubble but in the rubble was a strongbox with some stuff in it. I don’t recall what was in it, I was to busy keeping my eyes on the water. Kali’s Bird friend informed us of a dead Drake in the bay. This put several of us on alarm.

We continued down into town only to discover that it had been raided by what seemed to be people from the north, as there was a long boat there. We found a few useful items, such as rope and other tools that Sparna picked up.

We decided to check out the Graveyard and found it oddly kept up. Someone or something must be in there. We entered and check out some of the more noticeable features. There was a Crypt which, I believe to be a vault but the Group chose to pass by it. They may be right. We also found a shrine to Desna (at least that what the others said. I thought it was cool that the Water that was placed in the bowl was magically altered. I took 3 vials of this Holy water. I wanted to experiment more, maybe use Blood or something (though of course I would never tell the others what). I did ask them if they thought it would work with other liquids they said not to.

Soon after that a little butterfly lady came out and started talking to us. Apparently she was please with several of our Group. I chose to keep my mouth shut through most of this, at least until she said that it was WISE for the gods to give advice in the form of riddles. I partially blurted out that I thought it was ridiculous. How is it wise to confuse your followers or allies instead of just giving Straight up clues that will help us finish our task quicker.

So our group comes up with some crazy plan to storm the castle (which is run by some bird men) that reminds me of some tale I heard of the Heroes of Sandpoint luring out goblins. Perhaps some of our group have hero envy. They were trying to figure out animal calls for different things and I figured I would suggest some crazy animal to go with there crazy scheme. I told them to use an Elephant noise. I figured some might not know what that is especially Anavaru since she calls her Camel a Horse. we ended up going with the sound of a sick Rabbit (not sure I have ever heard what that sounds like). It was a good laugh for me though. I like this plan it is amusing.

The Plan was hatched and we advanced on the castle hiding in the bushes. They made the noise of a pig and had an illusion run down the path. This failed to get any notice, so they tried calling out as though they were hunters. Shortly after I heard the bird people chittering something and the gates opened. A group of what looked like hunters advanced down the path. I was tired of waiting, so as the first one passed me I went to strike him but a branch got in the way and I missed. This got everyone in the group going and shortly after we had some dead bird men and open gates.

We found a way to get on the wall and ran around to the other side where we say a set of bird men readying a Catapult. They were quickly dispatched and despite my recommendations for using the Catapult to make a grand entrance, it was disabled. I figured since they disabled it it would be alright for me to light it ablaze, again I was shot down. I do understand their concern though.

The Castle was entered and soon we heard more chittering. Soon we were in another fight. I stayed back this time and try to give a little misfortune to our foes until a Bird man came up the hall near me. Olmas advanced on it and between me and him we were able to bloody it enough for Anavaru to steal our Kill. I say this because she declared that she killed it. You know the final blow is Not everything.

Some in the group started to explore rooms. they discovered a room with different forms of MOLD growing. I was called to investigate. It was impressive the room was covered in mold and in the center was a clump of colorful mold. I investigated further discovering that they were the remains of some bodies with their arms and heads cut off. It was quite fascinating, and I would have investigated the room further but was called to by the group. Apparently there was a cute Child with a foxes skull for a head that was taking the energy from Olmas and stole Qatana’s voice. It was quite intriguing. Here we are now waiting to see if they recover.