October 11, 2020

Linzi attempts to speak to Kelda, the prisoner who watched us fight the bird creatures, and learn that there is a secret passage out. They give them 100 gold for the information and 25 gold to cover for us. We enter into the secret passageway and close the door behind us, it slams shut behind us. A vision of Pharasma appears and tells us that this is a place of peace and to discard our weapons, but we go through her. Through the darkness we see blinking eyes and tentacles, and Thassalonian runes on the walls. The tentacled creature says it cannot be killed because it does not believe in the prophecy. Naturally, we then begin to attack it. Shump Shump parcours and slashes its tentacles, Laudius's mask takes a bite of calamari, Dionaea whips it to the ground, and Borris bites and pins it down, and Linzi runs in and finishes it with their longsword. We find 500 gold, a bag of holding, a scroll of hold person, a statue of winged dragon-like creature which we recognize as Pazuzu, and a circular disc made of dark oak wood with silver etching of a castle and moon. We climb up a steep face and find empty sarcophagi, a painting of a blue-skinned woman on a throne, and a door that leads back into the basement of the castle. We block the door with a sarcophagus, then Linzi goes invisible and investigates the tunnels, discovering a way out. We head back to town, Ameiko starts to stir and sleep talks that the disc we found is the first seal. We rest at the inn, Laudius fails to kill the hydra egg, and we left off discussing our plan for getting back our weapons and finding the third vault.