The Meeting

* Struth decided to stay behind in the bar while the rest of us left to see if we could find the 4 brotherhood men. It was decided to take them out so we could fill their places.
 
* Once outside, we could see that the barn's doors were part opened so went to check there first. We found a bloody scene. The brotherhood were standing over 2 stable-hands that they had bludgeoned to death. Putting the Elder Brotherhood cloak I had, Mal reacted by firing at one of the guys with 3 arrows. The man then ran at Mal with an axe and hit him. Mal did quite some damage with the hit.
 
* Petros retaliated by freezing the guy to the spot while I ran into the barn to the next nearest guy. "What is going on here?" I said, as I pulled out my rapiers and attacked the man.
 
* Another came over to attack me with an axe, just before I was able to kill the first man. Pulling back my hood, I revealed my face and I pointed my rapier to the remaining guy. He sneered and said he would do things with my dead body. This made me mad and I pointed to his groin and said "Not if I cut it off first."
 
* The third guy was struck by some arrows and then began to cry. Shortly after, he got up and headed for the other door. Something stopped him in his tracks and he turned. I could see that he was not under his own will and he started to walk back. I knew that Petros had fascinated him.
 
* I attacked the man who continued to taunt me with words of what he would do to me, as I stepped up into his personal space to come face to face with him. I glared at him. This allowed for Mal, who had killed the first man, to come up behind him and smack him in the back with an axe. He then drew his dagger and dealt the killing blow.
 
* Struth arrived by this time to help.
 
* Getting some information out of the fascinated guy, we learned that they were merely thugs who had been hired to guard the meeting room doors. No one was allowed to enter. A drow had hired them. I searched his body and was able to find a coin purse, small St Alban's medallion and a small flask of liquor. I took off his cloak and threw it to Mal.
 
* While the party discussed what they would do with the last guy, I searched the other bodies. Looking up briefly, I saw that Mal had gone over to kill the guy.
 
* We quickly hid the bodies under the hay and would later dispose of the bodies. We hurried back inside, had a drink before going upstairs to guard the doors.
 
* Waiting around for 10 minutes, no one came but then we heard a loud humming coming from the room and then it stopped. Then voices could be heard talking about how they had solved the riddle to get into the underground cavern. Our party had been mentioned as pesky due to flooding their underground headquarters. Egog was then brought up which caused argument around the table a to whether he was myth or not.
 
* Looking into the two keyholes, I was able to discern that there were about 16 people. Henry and his lady drow were there. She was waving her hands around as if she was casting a spell. The others around the table were of different races and wore similar cloaks but in different colours. They were perhaps of different ranks or possibly different groups.
 
* We entered the room, and were met with the stares from everyone in the room. Henry asked if there was anything wrong that we had interrupted the meeting. Struth spoke up and said there was a disturbance downstairs. He was told to take care of it, while the rest of us were to return to guarding the room.
 
* Struth turned around as if he was heeding the order and Petros began to sing. He was able to fascinate the female drow and she stopped what she was doing. This caused the others around the table to disappear with exception of Henry. "What is this devilry?" Henry asked as he looked to Petros. Struth turned back and ran across the room with a "I'll save you" towards Henry. Henry thanked him as Struth took position behind him. He took the opportunity to stab Henry and Mal then quickly threw his axe across the room, killing Henry.
 
* I walked over to the drow and realised that something was off. She seemed to be here but not, almost like a mannequin. She was half sticking out of the wall. Looking to Henry, he also looked similar. "What is going on? It is like they are here but not!" I touched the drow then the wall. The others came over to look as well. Had Henry actually been killed or not? All I knew is that we had to race but to Alisar.