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 and Honeypot and I stormed right out into the field. 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.

We went up to the side door. As there had been a lot of traps in the woods surrounding this place I looked for traps on the door. I thought about how stupid those inbred half-ogres was putting traps everywhere when Gloriana told me in my head to keep those thoughts to myself. Oups. I'm not really used to that telepathy thing yet. I was sure there were no traps on the door 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.

I got a closer look at the door before we open it and that too was trapped. I thought I dismantled it but a swinging scythe missed Velicia when she opened the door to a corridor and we continued into a dining room that had human head on the table. Through another trapped door was a nursery. There were lots of grotesque things in there and drawings on the wall of a devil throwing children from a cliff and a monster with tentacles in a lake. There were also two "children". They were as large as me and the one I saw best had deformed legs and was playing with sculls. I threw my dagger from the dining room hitting it in the neck. The other ogre laughed and said:
"Ha, ha. You got a dagger in your neck."
The others charged into the room, but the one I attacked ran out to me and shut the door. I made a riposte that I learned recently. The door was opened and I got back to the others. We killed the young half-ogres but I felt guilty afterwards. They thought we were playing, but the game killed them. Perhaps my own childhood is part of the reason for my feelings. Usually I don't feel for monsters such as these.

We took a short pause while Honeypot performed some cleansing rituals on Gloriana and Dorothea. I regained my strength and collected my thoughts. Next we looked through a bedroom and a storage room that had been used as a toilet too. While Gloriana, who was magically protected from filth hesitated to search the last room Velicia used her magehand. The last room was a really grotesque room with several corpses, body parts and flesh. In that dimly lit, awfully smelly room was also an incredibly fat female half-ogre that could hardly move at all. When we attacked it, three of the dead bodies started moving. It was half-ogres that probably was its own offspring that was animated using some evil magic. The fight that followed was initially fierce but soon we had destroyed the zombies and it turned into a fight against the fat half-ogre. Its fat often protected her making my daggers bounce, but in the end we killed it. Shalelu was heavily wounded and retreated mid fight.