

Saturday was
That is Lareth up there; I guess he was the model for Third Edition's epic blackguard. So, you know, he's pretty obviously a bad guy. We were playing fast & loose with him; he was healing us, so we were giving him the benefit of the doubt, but our paranoia was pretty amazing, too. You know, talking in Elven to figure out if he knew they language-- he did-- & just in general keeping him at arm's length. Doing an image search for him I found a picture of him all messed up; I don't know if Lareth the Beautiful gets acid on his face later, or if he's always been ugly & his "beauty" was an illusion or what. Anyhow, Lareth & the group explored the Moat House at some length. We killed a giant tick, killed a giant snake, avoided a bunch of bats with soothing tunes, that sort of stuff. Found a dead guy with a bunch of cultist stuff on him, used the sigil of an Evil Eye to convince an ogre we were where supposed to be there. You know, usual adventurer stuff. Because Raz is a bard, he gets to try to identify magic items once a level-- of course he didn't roll well for any of my stuff, but James found out that the weird magic mirror he has can do all kinds of crazy stuff. Including reading minds, & teleporting. Between the mirror, & the magic medal I stole from Darkstrider, we read some sinister intentions from him, & when Vigda cast charm person on him, it all spilled out. He's an evil cultist alright! Summoned some skeletons & everything. Well, Oney was invisible (so that is what that potion does!) & Curulókë was hidden, so we jumped him & made short work of him before he became a bigger problem later on. Then I gained a level...but rolled another 1 for my hitpoints. Dagnabbit.