October 4, 2020

The door to Brinewall castle opens and reveals a dark room. A voice announces that Kikonu will see us, and we walk in to see two bird guards. They ask us to put our weapons in a box, which we mostly comply with, then open the door to an open air courtyard. Shump Shump manages to hide a sword in his pants. We enter the main hallway and Linzi plays a song, convincing Kikonu to give us 200 gold and let us stay the night. Ameiko abruptly passes out, and is unable to be revived with Goodberries and doesn't appear injured. Without blowing his mime cover, Laudius casts detect magic and while there is a magical effect he don't recognize the spell school. We attempt to prop her up until we get to our room but she is clearly incapacitated and we ask to have the doctor visit her when he can. We take her upstairs where the bird folks are eating soup. Linzi watches the performance rehearsal, it's an Italian opera or sorts. They learn that the plays occur about once a week to no audience, and catches Kikonu not making a lot of sense about his domain and rulership. Dionaea finds a chanting bird in robes in one of the rooms upstairs, but whenever we go into a door the birds squawk and stare at us and we can't communicate. After a short rest two birds lead us past a growling door down a very dark flight of stairs. A hill giant was instructed to take Ameiko and has us not follow, but Genjamin shape shifts into a Kikonu look alike and instructs him to go away. We follow through a few more doors before a group of bird creatures start attacking us, and after some friendly fire Shump Shump takes them out with a tree trunk.