Adventurer Log #74: The one with wraiths, a boar's head, super large friends, and some gargoyles!

General Summary

Adventurer Log #74
Okay, we are still in the room with the paintings, masks, a sarcophagus, and an altar. After talking about what the fuck it all means, we decide that we need to put on the masks and recreate what's happening in the paintings. Steef was not comfortable with any of it. I do not blame him, but of course we Leeroyed on in!
Sagres claimed the painting with the lit candle. He found and grabbed a candle, stood in front of the painting, and put on the mask. Zug picks up a bug, stands in front of the picture of a man holding a bug up to his mouth, puts on his mask, and pretends to eat the bug. I weirdly found some chicken bones, put on a mask, and head over to the one with the woman holding a knife and a headless chicken. I often make poor life decisions. Finally, Eek was not willing to part with his coins (so fucking weird!), so he puts on a mask and stands in front of the painting with the old lady appearing to be tossing seeds. Once we were all in place, we felt a chill and I'm not gonna lie, I really thought we had figured that shit out, but nope! Three fucking wraiths appear from the bone piles around the room. They seemed big mad. They weren't too difficult to kill. Not to brag, but I did murder two of them. Zug kills the last one. Then turns into a fucking frog. FFS.
Steef swoops frog Zug up and puts him on his shoulder because "that's where Zug goes when in danger." #BFFs But right after that he puts frog Zug down... and fucking smooshed him! My first thought was fight or flight, but then Zug returned to his goblin form. Fuck yeah, Steef!
Back to the creepy room. Oh, and we're still wearing our creepy masks. So we keep the crazy train rolling and I try to open the sarcophagus. Doesn't budge. Steef tries. Nothing. We switched plans. Sagres summons a baboon, Baboon's Farm. He immediately sacrificed him on the altar. Nothing happened. RIP Baboon's Farm. So, we decide to re-enact the frescoes again, this time in order. It went exactly how you think it did. 3 more fucking wraiths appear from the bones. We are super pissed and quickly kill them. Now we take a few minutes to plot our next move. We're still wearing our masks, so I'm sure we look super normal doing so. *cheers
We find a door we somehow missed. Zug opens the doors. Eek follows. I didn't see this part, but they find embroidered curtains depicting a story. It was a party! People were partying it up, and having an awesome time. There was also a boar featured prominently in the scene. It looked safe so Zug steps in the room. He doesn't die. Eek pulls the curtain back to find another curtain. It was also telling a story. The fancy party people had gone cray, and the scene was pure debauchery. I'm talking orgies, fighting, drugs, and vomming. Ew. The boar was also seen on this curtain. That's weird. Eek had to see how this story ended, so he pulls back the second curtain to reveal.. of course it was another curtain. This 3rd curtain depicted pure horror. Blood and gore everywhere. The party goers are literally eating each other, in the bad way. The boar in this scene is laughing. Now this should have been our cue to run, but do we do that? Nope! Eek pulls back the last curtain. Of course it was a rotting boar's head, complete with flies. Fuck.
Well, that was a bust. Frustrated, we head back to the mask/painting room. Sagres picks up a bug, walks over to the shrine, and eats it! Nothing immediately happens. I go straight to the sarcophagus. It is opened, so I push it open. There were the bones of Khubazan, a pair of bracers with an image of a froghemoth etched on them, and an old quiver with arrows. I reach down without thinking and put on the bracers. You'll never guess what happens next! (Redacted) Khubazon rises out of the sarcophagus like the Great pumpkin. The air in the room gets super musty and thick. It feels like a swamp. My hair immediately frizzes. Steef announces he has a great idea, but I can't tell you what that was because Sagres and I run to the curtain room and begin to rip down the curtains. Then, we wrap them around our shoulders and wear them like a cape. Yuan-Team! Steef tries to move the boar's head. It ain't budging! Eek makes him large. It still wasn't quite enough. Sagres then makes himself large! What in the actual fuck is happening? Are we still wearing the fucking masks? Jesus. So, anyway, our two gigantic friends, holding a rotting boar's head swarming with flies, run down to the pit we found. Then they stop.
In the pit room there are 4 pedestals with gargoyles. Sagres places the head on the gargoyle in the northern corner. He covers it with his cape curtain. Am I still wearing my cape? I don't know. It was late. The rest of the party heads downstairs to the pit room. On the way downstairs we pass a plaque that explains the four pedestals represent 4 types of metals. In a diamond shape, Copper is the top of the diamond, Platinum is the left side point (looking down on the diamond), Silver is the right side point, and Gold in the bottom point. We go down the hallway on the east. It has a devil face at the end. Cool, cool, cool. When we enter the pit room we see the pedestals and also hear this mechanical grinding sound. Why didn't we run away at that point you ask? I have no fucking clue. With a thud, Sagres tipped the boar's head into the pit. Zug starts moving down the devil hallway. Sagres and Eek follow. And then nothing happened. JK. The fucking gargoyles on the pedestals came to life and started charging towards the hallway! It was like they didn't even see us. They were on a mission, and would happily smash our faces if we get in their way!
I hope I make it to tell you what happened next! If not, I want to be buried with my fancy flasks.
XOXO, Kaely

Rewards Granted

Glasses, worth 25 g Leather eyepatch, worth 50 g Hair pin, worth 75 g bracers, Kaely took Old quiver with arrows

Character(s) interacted with

6 wraiths:  Harro Torne Guardian Jim Carl Pierre
Baboon's Farm- RIP
Rotting giant boar's head Gargoyle statues

Related Reports

From Discord clues- drops- treasure: 
At the bottom of the grand staircase, a resonant mechanical rumbling emanates from a dark shaft opening up in the middle of this chamber's floor. Four cylindrical stone pedestals surround the shaft, each ten feet tall, five feet wide, and featuring a tiny slot in its side. Squatting atop each pedestal is a large four-armed gargoyle. Each gargoyle is contained within a square made of metallic tiles embedded in the top of its pedestal. Starting with the northernmost pedestal and going clockwise, the tiles are copper, silver, gold, and platinum.

Report Date

28 Apr 2022