Session 19 - Relaxing with a glass of wine.

The party take a breath and look around, they are safe for the minute in a large room with 4 huge vats of wine. The brave Paladin Jamorin spots a tap on the wine vat and has a taste, immediately regretting as he feels the effects of the poison wine hit his body. 

While the rest of them laugh at Jamorin and the poisoned wine they hear a creak from the mezzanine catwalk and spot a strange looking human with moss in her hair and animal parts hanging from her cloak tipping a flask of silvery liquid into the vat. 

She calls out something in druidic and a small twiggy construct starts to appear from a crack in the end vat...then another and another. The Druid then runs away and hides.

Soon the floor is crowded with the twig blights and the party begin to battle their way through it, Grimdur makes a run upstairs while the rest whittle away at the twigs. 

As they battle away Grimdur encounters another Druid upstairs, he quickly makes some excuse for being there and tries to leave, the Druid slams him with a thunderwave in the back after he leaves the room. Slipping back past he heads back down stairs via the corner stairwell and moves to flank the twig blights. 

Pallas moves up to the mezzanine and snipes the twigs with firebots and magic missiles, while Baroman, Snowball, Gnarvick and Jamorin tackle them from the ground. 

They battle their way through the twigs and head upstairs, Pallas and Grimdur confront the druid who Pallas notices is holding a powerful magical staff, and after they attack the Druid jumps down through the cable hole for the winch in the room they are in and runs out of the loading dock. 

Meanwhile snowball walks past an open door and peers inside to see two much larger vine blights and a druid who is madly searching through the contents of the room looking for something. She sends out the Vine blights who begin to attack Gnarvick, and Snowball, while Jamorin and Baroman are still heading upstairs, Jamorin taking some time to fill a small cask with the poisoned wine and stuffing it into the bag of holding. 

Snowball pulls out his deck of illusions and throws down a card and a priest and two acolytes appear, the vines engage while the rest of the party wear them down with ranged attacks. 

Finally they defeat the vine blights and enter the room asking the Driud what she is doing, and she responds by attacking them, they take her down and search the room finding a key, and while they are searching they hear an attack on one of the illusions from the next room. The door had been opened and another Druid was confronted with the acolyte illusion and attacked. The party take the Druid down, and secure the building. 

While they are resting up they search the rooms, the master bedroom contains a chest and Gnarvick picks the lock, further searching of the room reveals to Grimdur a loose bed knob that has a key hidden in it and a secret compartment in the chest containing a locket with a drawing of a beautiful lady inside. 

The party clear out the loot, and set up shifts to get some well earned rest..