TPS Report 8

Containing a song, with a report following

Mammy Graal’s farm
(sung to the tune of Bob Dylan’s Maggie’s farm)

I ain’t gonna fight at Mammy Graal’s farm no more
No, I ain’t gonna fight at Mammy Graal’s farm no more
Well, when we arrive
there’s a Hogre runnin cross the lawn
A yellin and a screamin
You can see he wants us gone
It’s was quick the way we killed him as he roared.
I ain’t gonna fight at Mammy Graal’s farm no more

I ain’t gonna go in Mammy Graal’s barn no more
No, I ain’t gonna go in Mammy Graal’s barn no more
Well, there are 3 Hogres and a still
And 3 prisoners in a cell
Above a huge spider web
And Grok he nearly fell
A traitor means the BlackArrows just lost one more
I ain’t gonna go in Mammy Graal’s barn no more

I ain’t gonna go in Mammy Graal’s house no more
No, I ain’t gonna go in Mammy Graal’s house no more
Well you walk and fight Hogres
And see flesh upholstered chairs
And then Mammy and her dead husbands
Are waiting down the stairs
But Kyra’s silence spell made her Dimension door
Ah, I ain’t gonna go in Mammy Graal’s house no more

I ain’t gonna fight on Mammy Graal’s porch no more
No, I ain’t gonna fight on Mammy Graal’s porch no more
We try and chase her down
To find out where she hid
She flies out of the barn
And releases her pet arachnid
But she wont fight us in hand-to-hand no more
I ain’t gonna fight on Mammy Graal’s porch no more

I ain’t gonna fight at Mammy Graal’s farm no more
No, I ain’t gonna fight at Mammy Graal’s farm no more
We finish Mammy off
With Bock’s arrows and Valdaire’s spells
Then we go down to the basement
And fight a horrid creature that smells
It ‘s the kind of battle the Seekers are made for
I ain’t gonna fight at Mammy Graal’s farm no more


Report 8.0:
(clarifying a few points mentioned in the song)

We arrived and killed Hogres (half-human/half-ogre) on the farm. We found 3 prisoners in the Hogre barn. Jakandros (Patchy), Shilelu’s step-father, Vale (Stretch), and Kaven (pretty-boy). They had been captured by the Hogres after they had seen Fort Rennik fall. Kaven had apparently had problems that had delayed their return to the fort, so they became Fort Rennik’s only survivors. Much of Kaven’s story seemed hinky, so we as a group agreed to check it out later. I noticed that Kaven also had one of the Sehedron tattoos on his leg. We did however learn that an erase spell would remove them. We took the freed prisoners back to town and through the use of zone of truth and careful questioning, with Valdaire sensing thoughts, we indeed found out that Kaven’s story had more holes in it than a Wartle prostitute’s teeth. Kaven had been commissioned by Lucretia (possible Lamia) to give her the blueprints for the fortress. Kaven, suspecting something bad was going to happen, deliberately delayed his patrol from returning until it was too late. For his crime, Kaven received justice and was hanged.
We returned to the Graal farm with Jakandros and Vale in tow and proceeded to wipe out the Hogre vermin that infested it. There were many traps, some detected, some not. Bock was able to find the bones of female Hogres that apparently were Mammy Graal’s daughters and possibly eventual rivals for her power, so she had them slain and thrown down a privy. Upon coming to Mammy Graal’s room, we were met with her wielding a wand which contained the Ray of Enfeeblement spell. Taking Grok’s lead, I snatched it from her hands, while Kyra kept her contained and from casting spells within a silence spell. In the meantime the corpses of Mammy Graal’s husbands animated and nearly succeeded in killing Nando.
Mammy was able to break free of the Silence spell and Dimension Door away. We dispatched the rest of the room and sent the rangers out to seek her. While they were looking, we fought the Hogre that had made traps for the house. After we had slain it, we got a message from the Black Arrows and Shilelu that Mammy had been hiding in the barn. She flew out and released her giant spider to fight us. I did my usual hit and run technique on the spider, while Grok met it head on. Bock and Nando used their bows effectively to take down Mammy Graal’s mirror image, and Valdaire blasted her with spells. The fight ended with the Seekers triumphant. We then went back into the house to finish clearing out the basement. We fought some sort of vegetation creature then checked the house for any valuables before planning to somehow help take back Fort Rennik.