TotTRB - Episode 3 - Down the Well, Actually
General Summary
Returning to the Frollbie Estate the members of the Company of the Plumdart realize they need more information. Fern uses her ability to communicate with animals to enlist the aid of a local badger to dig beneath the road and discover the source of the sounds. A pair of pipes is discovered that must lead somewhere. However, in enticing the badger to their aid, the party soon finds itself waylaid by an entire cete of badgers, eager to be fed like their compatriot. With a promise to help them deal with the farmers to the west who won't allow them forage in the fields, they are soon sent off.
But subterranean pipes still need investigating, and the party realizes that the abandoned well is their next best route. Havoc leads the way, using their wings to safely descend and begin the exploration. This abandoned structure opens out to a deep cistern, now overrun with rats the size of dogs. Cutting through the vines and roots that have taken over the passages forces the party into tight quarters and combat with the murine threat. Pushing them back successfully, until they reach the central chamber. A swirling pool of runoff and wastewater drains into someplace deep below, and the rats are emboldened to defend their nest by the presence of a horrid werecreature with eyes of a roden and claws that slice through armor like it is butter. The party is nearly wiped out by this adversary, but quick thinking of behalf of Havoc and the help of vanishing powder allows them to escape and regroup.
Finally able to return and dispatch the wererat, Havoc and Alagad push forward hearing the cries and screams that inspired the noise complaint in the first place. These pipes connect underneath the Frollbie Estate and seem to carry the sound with them. This must be the source. Here, they find a shuffling and horrid decrept, a Screamer chained against the wall and a makeshift living space. Someone has been keeping him here in this undying state.
Returning to the surface, they barge into the home of Hilda Gurty and question her. Finding that she is but a grieving widow, keeping her dead husband chained below, unable to part from him for the last three years. With some negotiation and compassion Alagad convinces her that the time has come to let him go.
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21 Aug 2022
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