Back to the Abyss

Didn't sleep well, kept think of the giant brain thing. Didn't help that I woke to screaming. Quinn was over the lizardfolk from yesterday. Thing was covered in mucus and had it's skull split in two. Saw one of the brain dogs dead on the bed. Squished it. Didn't seem fully developed, didn't care. I wash my hands and Alroy offers to clean them with magic too. I went for breakfast w/Blu.
Others come by, Rose and Locke show up. Alroy does his thing being Alroy. Some self mumbling with the eureka moment. The plan for the day was to visit Ketzu and get some magic things for fighting the brain. Aloy spotted Mako the halfling for the trip. They chat a bit and he asked about the mayor. Alroy fills him in as we walk to Ketzu's outside of town. We passed the church on the way I whistle over a cleric that was with the purifier, the Ursine that walks the streets at night with protection magic or something. Guess they were going to Daemon's to deal with the after mess or something. Alroy tells him where we'll be in case they need witnesses.
Once outta town, Alroy tells Quinn to flip his bag of holding inside out to get the stuff out that was making it not work. Faena put down her tent as a catch. Seems to work. he packs everything away except some box that was the culprit. was a puzzle box with language. Birdman was kept busy with that.
 
We arrive at KeZU's place. turns out he's a twin of KetSU that we met the other day. I chill in the corner trying to nap like Rose. He pulled out a bunch of boxes and stuff to showoff to the group. Rose wanted some sort of charging belt but didn't have the full coin. They were looking at trading some of the one the skele-mage gave to us. Rate was about 660gp/coin. I figure if they are as old as Alroy says we could get more elsewhere and offer about half the price of the belt from my fund. It's good to have someone like Rose owe you ~2500 gold. Looks like I will have some approved PTO in my future. Rose told me later that the belt makes you hit like a bigger creature when you charge. I'm going to have to send a order for the wall for Blu and I later...
Went back outside to find Quinn and Faena getting the box open. It started to fog and some weird undead looking thing crawled out of it. Was about 7ft tall and handed Quinn an eyeball and thanked him in sylvan for letting him out. Thing turns back into fog and dove into Quinn's recently restored bag... Describing it to Alroy he says it was probably a Bag Man. Only really heard rumor about it, but I thought those fey were from Morkai's forests. Quinn is disturbed and inverts his bag again and Mako "helps" us by tossing his bag into a portable hole and carved out a nice crater as everything got sucked into the astral plane. That is exactly why we warn the dumbass recruits about those... Faena tried to crawl into the magical box and I yanked her back out via tail. After that she was enthralled with it and kept playing with it to get it open again. Not really sure why.
 
After that fiasco, we go back to town. Rose, Blu, Faena, and I go to the tavern to refill flasks with booze, and the others go to the mayor's for a new look around. We got a nice berry honey mead and then went to go get Rose some rock chisels for her hammering. We ended up at Ketsu's for the bits and rods before heading to the mayor's ourselves to go back into the cave. Didn't really notice it now, but whispers are getting more faint. Don't like it. Figure that they should be consistent until that thing dies and then it gets cut entirely. Makes me thing it's moving away.
We travel back into the shitty caves and the others keep passing Alroy a bunch of this and thats for him to identify. Pretty boring, so I just start into the book I got last time I was down here. Kinda wanna see what kind of tasty treats they got down here. When we arrive back at the Drow's camp the whispers couldn't be heard. Still not to happy about it yet. I wanna see the corpse before I relax. We get escorted to the Queen and Find Blair the human from before there.