October 18, 2020

We concoct a plan to retrieve our weapons: we send Genjamin shapeshifted as a bird running tongues with a bowl of soup to distract the guards while Linzi and Shump Shump, both invisible, following behind. They sneak in past the gate and Linzi is able to load our weapons into the bag of holding and escape out. The birds squawk at Genjamin and launch a boulder, striking him. Shump Shump picks up his limp body and carries him back to the woods, then we all run back to town. Ameiko is stable and murmuring about her grandfather. We take a long rest, during which Laudius sneaks up to Shump Shump, steals the hydra egg, drop kicks it out the window, clubs the baby hydra over the head, then leaves the body in the outhouse for good measure. When Linzi discovers it they give it a proper burial. We sneak back up to the tunnels. Dionaea lures out a lizard creature out with a cricket sound and thorn whips him off the edge of the cliff. We then sneak into the caves and see a number of lizard creatures and a large angry armadillo. Dionaea sneaks up behind them and hides while Laudius lobs in a fireball. The armadillo jumps up and crushes Dionaea, then Borris jumps on top of the armadillo and bites him. We kill them and continue exploring the caves and go back into the castle. We fight off many lizards and kill the hill giant. Shump Shump takes his belt of hill giant strength as a trophy.