Journal of Rollo Lavius 1

Entry #31 - Vanderboren Mansion

(G31 - BG - Wed)

I awoke to find I had been rescued by Eriss and a tall elderly gentleman called Charro who turned out to be a cleric.

We talked for a few minutes, it turned out he was a cleric of Shaundakul, and while I am a follower of Silvanus, we still had a lot in common.

(In fact I would say I hold Chauntea in high regard as well, but that's another story.)

I convinced him and my little gnomish friend to help me against the creatures that had infested the Vanderboren Manor.

Firstly Eriss made us invisible and we crept in through the hole I had made earlier.

Some of the bullywugs were in the hall so I summoned a crocodile that tail slapped two of them into bloody tatters and chased off the third.

We then proceeded to explore the ground floor of the mansion, cautiously moving from room to room. We entered the library, then a trophy room where we killed two more bullywugs.

Then as we approached the eastern wing we entered a smoking room where four frogmen, one of them female were helping themselves to cigars. I was injured in the first attack and had to step back to heal myself, but Eriss, who is a very powerful sorcerer soon dispatched them with her Burning Hands spells. The only survivor was the female, who surrendered and told us she was Loblobtoob and that she was the chiefs mate. The chief was down in the cellar apparently and when asked she told us Lavinia was upstairs, being held by a half-orc and the crazy bullywug shaman.

We then locked the bullywug in the water closet.

Eriss had taken a nasty wound from a throwing axe, but Charro healed her and we made our way back round to the front hall. On the way along the south wing I found a kennel that contained three large hounds. I befriended them and they followed us.

At the hall we cautiously ascended the stairs to the first floor.