16th of Mirtul, 1376, Year of the Bent Blade

 We continue on. We reach a bunch of boulders and gravel, where we need to lead the horses. We find another stone door! As Vondal approaches the door, the boulders start moving. We kill them.

The door that attracted Vondal was made by hill dwarves a long time ago. It is covered in Abbathor symbols. Vondal enters and we go explore. We find a room and there is a floating skull. Turns out it was in one of those blob guys. I found that out the hard way. We kill them. We continue and we find some fiery lizards and a bunch of dead animals. 

We continue looking, and find a room full of web and blue giant spiders. We defeat them, after Vondal tried to trap himself in the room with fire. We leave and make camp with the horses. While setting camp, we heard loud rustling noises and a pair of giant elk bounded over. They see us and run away. Vorest shouts after them and catches their attention. She offers them our protection for the night. She then continued to speak with them for a while.

Greengrass Holiday, 1376, Year of the Bent Blade

We find the orc "house" (previously belonging to cultists of some sort). We enter and find a bit of a maze. You can see a lot of big rooms. We find 6 orcs and what I imagine are 3 lady orcs. 4 more orcs and a leader comes and helps the fight. We manage to beat them. 

We continue exploring. We find an orc room, presumably the leader's, and loot it. We continue exploring, and find a door that appears to be barricaded. 

We decide to take a long rest in the leader's room. 

We return to the door and start clearing the barricade. We go in and see a circle with fancy sigils (I don't think religious ones?) and 3 boulders - and 1 very flat orc. Vondal says he thinks it's a summoning circle, maybe, and Vorest says that there are earth-ish sigils.

Vandederp and Vondal try to open the stone door (avoiding the circle). It is stuck, so they go to the iron door, and wake up a stone. It now looks like a stone guy. After fighting it a bit, it wakes up the other rocks. We manage to beat them and Vondal ran across the circle to see if anything happened. Nothing does.

Vondal breaks down the stone door and charges in, yelling "Orcs!" We beat them up.

We explore more. We find a giant purple mushroom in a room that looks like a kitchen.

More exploring. We find some blue and white spiders. They seem to pop in and out of existence.

As we are leaving, Vondal walked into a gelatinous blob. We pause for the night (after getting rid of the blob).

 

1st of Tarsakh, 1376, Year of the Bent Blade

We search the tower. There are no books, so there must be a hidden area. Vandederp found a hidden doorway, that Vondal chipped at, and Vorest found a button that likely opened it - No matter what Vondal claims.

We headed down the stairs behind the hidden door. Down, down, down. It opened to a room with a couple doors. We open one, which has hallways that end with 2 doors, both locked. One was super fancy a grotesque, the other, wood. Vondal tried to open one, but it was stuck.

We went through the other door, and Vondal got swallowed by a slime thing that burned. Then, it moved and got Vorest and Vandederp! I was so scared at that point - nothing looked like it hurt it. Luckily, they managed to get out, and it did, eventually, die.