Journal entry from Zaaz Bloodfortune:
I write these words in my journal
sitting at a table in the fabled hut of Baba Yaga. It was a hard
fight and none of us came through unscathed. I’m mostly recovered,
but the damage to my mind still do be troubling me.
We came to the hut and it was just as
described, standing proud on two chicken legs, but chained to one
place. Before it was an Ice Golem, so Noname summoned four strange
Hyena Sheep. They rushed in and quickly knocked the Golem down, but
were then attacked by Mephits. Before I could do much to help, a
hand flew out of the darkness and touched me. My brain slowed and my
thoughts crawled. I recognized I had been hit by a touch of idiocy,
but could not seem to figure out what to do about it. “Fight!
There! up!” the voices told me. I looked up and saw the witch
that had hit me. It was Nazena, flying above us. Gathering my
strength I called upon the elements and throw a bolt of lightning at
her, but she mostly shook it off. I gathered my strength again and
tried to brush away the magic affecting me, but even with heroic
effort it was no good.
Yoska flew up and began to battle with
the bitch when she hit us with an Ice Storm. Noname lost his Hyenas
and so summoned a giant bat. A Mephit attacked Yoska, but he ignored
the creature and fought on. Noname cast a spell to enlarge Sadobras
and fought to get a line of attack on the witch with his adamantine
hammer. Dalomar finished off the Ice golem who has struggled back
into the fight. When it fell, it explored and damaged him and almost
got Sadobras as well.
Meanwhile Nazena summoned a mighty wall
of ice to split the party. This left how of her Mephits free to
attack Yoska and kept the rest of us from giving aid quickly.
Noname cast a spider climb spell on me and I quickly moved up to the
top of the wall. He then put Sadobras onto his summoned bat so he
could get back into the fight. Flying on the bat he made quick work
of one of the Mephits, but he and the bat were glitterdusted by
Nazena, blinding them both. Dalomar moved over next to Noname so he
could also get a spider climb spell and he began to scale the wall.
Yoska hit Nazena with a mighty blow of
his flaming sword, doing her heavy damage. The remaining Mephit
blasted him with cold, but was quickly struck in return. I wondered
how we would finish off the flying Nazena when suddenly she was
viciously attacked by the bat. It seems she forgot that bats don’t
need their eyes to navigate and it smashed her to the ground. With a
quick step, Baba Yaga’s hut stepped over and swallowed her down,
then spit her out. The battle was done and the hut was ours.
I moved up to the hut with the others
and greeted it warmly. Acknowledging out right to enter it opened
its doors. Before I entered though I searched to see what held it
in that place and examined the chain. When I touched it, I felt the
power of the black rider’s mantle surge through me and into the
chain, shattering it. I stood and walked towards the entrance, but
we noticed two bodies tied to the fence surrounding the hut. The
Red Rider and White Rider, known as the Red Son and Bright Morning,
were displayed in their repose. Wanting to do well for them, we cut
them down and took them inside the hut. We also searched Nazena and
took her powerful sickle, emberchill.
When we entered the hut we discovered
it was considerably larger on the inside than out and that it must be
some sort of pocket dimension. I practically salivated when I saw
the massive cauldron and spell components awaiting us there. Another
room had five thrones and a huge map. The first room we found has a
hidden door into a library, complete with spectacles of understanding
and a fine index of contents. One strange book seemed to bend the
reality inside the hut and allowed movement within the hut in odd
ways.
A voice asked us why we were in the hut
and when we explained we met Zorka the manager of the hut. Zorka
was a Kikimora and explained the use of the map and what was
necessary to move the hut. Dalomar soon discovered the trick to
actually making it move.
Not all was welcoming there though, as
Sadobras went into the map room he was attacked by a bone golem.
Quickly Yoska was encased in a cage of bones, Dalomar raced to get
there, Greta did good damage, but was quickly knocked down. I
attacked, but still impacted by the damage to my brain earlier, I did
little. Finally, Noname summoned more hyenas which finished the
creature off.
The hut more fully explored, we decided
it was time to move elsewhere. Noname tried to make it walk and had
some luck. Then after a time experimenting managed to figure out the
trick and the hut began moving smoothly. We then tossed the items we
had as keys into the cauldron as we had been instructed and the land
outside changed. Gone was the city park and fence. Gone was the
town, replaced by an area of mountains and forest. So now I sit, and
write in my journal, and wonder, gone we were, but to who knows
where?
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| Interior of Baba's hut is much larger than expected! |
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| Bone golum was nasty indeed! |
