Look what we found!

We bound the Snakefolk and took them to Teacher Janatimo. When we arrived we heard panicked voices from inside. The raised voices were in speaking in Sylvan and obviously speaking about some sort of violence they had witnessed. We knocked and entered when told to do so. It turned out that these creatures were actually students at the Magaambya. Janatimo was able to show us one of their bead strands. He was very upset with us for running them down and capturing them. We explained our side of it and requested that he investigate to get to the truth of what had happened here. He said he understood our position but he would need to work with the other instructors to get to the bottom of this. He requested we follow him to the detention cells to await the results of this conversation. Once there we were each placed in a 5x5 cell inside of a force cage. We could feel that our magic here was weakened. The night passed.
The next morning several of the teachers filed in and told us mentally that we would each answer some questions. None of us could hear the other's answers due to the force cages we were inside of. The 1st question was "Why would you continue aggression vs. a fleeing opponent?" After everyone answered this, we were asked "Do you believe you should be punished as a group or individuals?" After the questioning we were asked to return to our dormitory until they could decide our punishment. They told us the 2 Serpentfolk had admitted attacking us and had been removed from the Magaambya. All of us were released, except Sevastin. Teacher Janatimo went to speak with him while the rest of us left with Teacher's Ot & Coriday. Laraena asked Teacher Ot about receiving some help to remove the curses from Argent and Imryll. He was happy to help, giving us a ritual that should help us remove the curse ourselves. Later in the day Teacher Janatimo returned with Sevastin in tow. He told us that the council wanted to expel the group, but Sevastin had offered to take the hit for all of us. We were all upset about this, including Teacher Janatimo. He had managed to use this ploy to save most of us from being expelled. Sevastin seemed accepting of his fate, since he had some letters from home indicating that his family needed assistance anyhow. We had a large conversation about how this turned out, with the group split down the middle on whether we should have chased them down or not. No resolution was reached, though tempers frayed by the end of the argument. By this time word had spread about Sevastin having to leave the Magaambya. It was a somber afternoon with many of the students turning out to say goodbye to Sevastin in their own way. Food was even brought to the dormitory.
The following morning Teacher Janatimo arrived and took Sevastin aside, using a ritual with some crystals to whisk him away. We spent the next few days helping out around the Magaambya while we waited for next steps from the faculty. Once we were summoned Teacher Janatimo apologized & tried to hide his disintegration of Sevastin... He then went on to remind us that we still needed to find out more information about the griffins attacking the building. He felt with the loss of Sevastin we were too weak to fulfill this request. He suggested a solution. He indicated a mannequin standing to one side. He said this creature had recently arrived at the Magaambya & perhaps it could join us to assist with this task. It appeared to be made of some sort of smooth metal. When asked, the creature introduced itself as TIX3. Upon questioning, it became apparent it was some sort of Druid. We agreed to take this creature with us. Our next stop was to head back to the Hababe building to continue our investigation of it. Our new companion TIX3 noticed a hole in a corner of the 1st room, where we fought the Serpentfolk, that was about 4 inches around. We surmised the Serpentfolk must be able squeeze down enough to slither their way through this to enter the room without touching the cursed door. We were able to avoid it by hopping over the door that Gazzean had removed from it's hinges last time we were here. As we entered the next room one of the wood piles rose up into the shape of a wooden golem. We hesitated, after our recent dressing down for defending ourselves here, but once Laraena was able to identify it as a Wood Golem, not some sort of student, we attacked! This creature hit hard(!), but we persevered. Gazzean took the brunt of the attacks, dropping repeatedly with half the party working to get him back on his feet for the entirety of the fight. After the fight we found some armor talisman's in the room. We finished resting up before continuing on.
In the next room we found a dead female Serpentfolk. She had died with a look of terror on her face that Amara felt was from dying to a Phantasmal Killer spell.
Opening the next door we found a very large snake and a man sized snake, that Orkbolt identified as a Giant Viper. Orkbolt tried to calm them, but it went poorly with him being attacked as he tried. The fight went downhill from there, with pretty much everyone dropped at one point, some multiple times, & Orkbolt almost dying from poison. After the fight we healed up and then moved in to explore the room the snakes had come from. In this room we found a lot of crafting reagents & a lesser Elixr of Life. While most of us waited by the snakes to keep knocking them unconscious we sent Imryll to get help from the Teachers to collect the snakes. They quickly dispatched someone to re-locate the snakes off campus. We went back to our dorm to rest before we opened the next door in this building.