====== 2021.08.01 Enter the Faerie Realm ======

++++ Search the Manor |
We go downstairs.  Mostly the same, except a large statue of a Greek god or hero in the base of the tower (not the main hall.

WynchellTheAlchemist notices that the statue is some sort of steam powered automaton.  It seems to be powered by peat.

AldwynnTheBattlePriest finds notes about a keystone on some blueprints he found on a table next to the automaton. 

HildThePaladin finds a drawing of the ghost woman, with a man and a child. 

UlfTheDane and WymanTheWarrior investigate the lump on the bed.  It is a poxy man! He calls "Have you seen my Sarah".  We notice the door we came in is no longer there, and the far door is now an ornate mahogany door.

There is a man seated at a table at the far side of the room mumbling in a language none of us understand.  He is sweaty with bloodshot eyes.  Seems to be deeply anxious.  Twitchy.

HildThePaladin shows us the drawing, and the man is the poxy man in the bed.

WymanTheWarrior opens the armoire leaking blood.  A waft of putrid air fills the room.  Hanging in the wardrobe are several human skins dripping blood.  He thinks they were former tenants of the house.  He calls us over (gross).  HildThePaladin is shaken.

The mumbling man seems to be speaking French.  We remember the Frenchman who bought the house 10 years ago and disappeared (we were told about him in the town).

Maybe the poxy man is the Alchemist?

We break open the iron chest--contains many cold iron weapons, which we take.  It also contains a old, locked book (maybe arabic?).

AldwynnTheBattlePriest shows the book to the poxy man and the two men stand up and explode, splashing off their skins revealing two glowing spirits!
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++++ Skin Spirits |
WynchellTheAlchemist and AldwynnTheBattlePriest flee
  - Round
    - Spirits
      - One attacks UlfTheDane (vision of his greatest failure [becoming a weak monk]) but he shakes it off
      - WymanTheWarrior counterattacks and one near him (but the sword seems to pass through the spirit)
      - One attacks WymanTheWarrior, but he seems to shake it off as well
    - WymanTheWarrior attacks again.
    - HildThePaladin blesses her pistol and shoots the spirit near Wyman (was the Frenchman), shaking it.
    - AigneisTheDruid stabs the Frenchman with her spear, but does little damage
    - AldwynnTheBattlePriest is still shaken
    - WynchellTheAlchemist boosts WymanTheWarrior's fighting
    - UlfTheDane goes berserk and kills the poxy man
  - Round
    - WymanTheWarrior attacks and destroys the Frenchman
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++++ Tree Man |
WymanTheWarrior follows AldwynnTheBattlePriest through the garden door.  AigneisTheDruid does as well.  AldwynnTheBattlePriest recovers.

The largest tree in the garden comes to life!

  - Round
    - UlfTheDane runs out into the garden in a rage, but misses the tree
    - Tree shoots 2 tentacles:
      - At wymannTheWarrior no damage but entangled
      - At AigneisTheDruid gets wounded
    - HildThePaladin is still distracted
    - AigneisTheDruid recovers and struggles in the tentacle
    - AldwynnTheBattlePriest ...
    - WymanTheWarrior struggles mightily but the tree is enormously strong.
  - Round
    - WymanTheWarrior breaks free
    - WynchellTheAlchemist lowers the tree's strength
    - UlfTheDane swings ineffectively at it.
    - The Tree pulls AigneisTheDruid into it's maw.
    - The Tree grabs UlfTheDane, but he slips away.
    - HildThePaladin increases her shooting, and shoots the tree (little damage)
    - AigneisTheDruid Entangles the tree
    - ...
  - Round
    - UlfTheDane kills the tree
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++++ Door into Faerie |
We open the mahogany door to reveal a long corridor.  We enter.

We open a door to the side on a circular room.  Seems like a den or study (books, fireplace, wet bar).

We wander a bunch.
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++++ Demons |
  - Round
    - AldwynnTheBattlePriest curses them
    - WymanTheWarrior stabs one.
    - HildThePaladin casts smite on her pistol.  Shoots and hits; shaken
    - AigneisTheDruid slings at them.
    - Demons
      - ...
    - WymanTheWarrior kills one.
    - WynchellTheAlchemist boosts UlfTheDane's fighting
    - UlfTheDane kills one
  - Round
    - WymanTheWarrior attacks and kills one
    - AldwynnTheBattlePriest attacks and kills one
    - HildThePaladin casts boost trait and shoots; kills one
    - AigneisTheDruid hits one
    - WynchellTheAlchemist throws a smoke bomb at them and shakes them.
    - Demons
      - ...
  - Round
    - AldwynnTheBattlePriest ...
    - ...
    - They break and run (1 gets away)
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