The Farm

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Episode no.	Episode 40
Date	2009
Game Master	Abbe
Characters	Dorothea Gloriana Honeypot Nell Velicia
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The rain got worse and we got ready to continue on to Fort Rannick when Honeypot said
"The bear want to go into the woods."
"Then let it." I answered.
"It's well kept, better than any wild bear would be." Honeypot said.
"It's probably the companion to one of the rangers from the fort. It might be looking for it's master." Velicia suggested.
"Alright, let's follow it." I said pulling the reins over Creampuffs head to lead him into the woods instead of riding on.

Walking through the dense forest we noted several simple traps that was easily avoided. We reached a small clearing from which we could glimpse a farm up ahead. Honeypot cast her telepathy ritual so we could talk without being heard and hear each other over the rain and distance. We left the horses and slowly continued through the wood toward the farm. Gloriana and Velicia stayed a little behind, but we others continued to the edge of the trees to get a good look at the farm. Peeking through the heavy rain we saw two more deformed half-ogres with too many fingers working the field in front of a really big barn and an equally oversized house. Honeypot and I sneaked around to the barn through the very dense forest and found even more traps along the way. When we got there we tried to peek through the slits, but the wall was covered on the inside by something that I thought looked like simple tapestries, but that's strange to have in a barn. Honeypot said that she thought it was cob web.

We told the others and continued on to the house. The main door was facing the field and there was a side door also visible from the ogres that we could see. We sneaked around again to get a better look at the back of the house. Honeypot almost walked into one of the traps but saw it at the last moment and we got there without any further trouble. There were no doors on the back side of the house, but there were windows. They were blocked and I sneaked up to one to try to get a peek inside. There were planks nailed sparsely over the window and instead of glass there was a tense skin. I tried to cut through it to see in but there were curtains too.

We decided that to get into the house we had to go in through one of the doors and then we had to get rid of the half-ogres in front of it. I and Honeypot sneaked up as far as we dared and waited for the others to get into place. Gloriana started by attacking one of them with her lighting magic. A big fight followed where the poor bear got attacked by really large snakes coming out of the woods from behind. We killed the half-ogres and scared off the snakes. I was worried for Creampuff. If the snakes couldn't get a bite out of the bear they might attack the horses. We got them and left them in front of the house instead together with the bear as we entered the house.

There had been a lot of traps in the woods surrounding this place so I looked for traps on the door before opening it. I was sure there was none and we opened it. There was a kitchen inside, but Velicia who entered it soon looked as sick as I felt from just standing outside. There was a stench from old rotten flesh that was at least as bad as Aldern's cave under the Foxglove manor. I remembered that I had promised myself to buy perfume, but haven't yet. We left and headed for the other door. As the kitchen door hadn't been trapped I wasn't up front to check for traps, but luckily I noted some strange contraptions on the porch before Velicia who was at the door had time to open it. There was a trap making scythe blades swing down from above if the door was opened without disabling the trap first, so I did. We entered a room with an awful couch made from body parts. There was still a stench but not as bad as in the kitchen. Suddenly Dorothea fell through the floor. It turned out that there was a trapdoor in the floor in front of the couch. There were sharp spikes at the bottom but Dorothea seemed to handle it well and teleported up from there.