Of Bloody Bastards and Boar Knights

The mysterious lyre-playing woman seemed to be set up for a tea party including cakes and dainty teacups. She invited us in but we were all suspicious of the chalk circle that surrounded her. Aodhan accepted the invitation to take a seat and then the circle vanished! The ghostly woman introduced herself as Lucretia and briskly departed, leaving an empty sarcophagus and all of the other accoutrements vanished as if they had never been, even the fairy cakes! We then remembered that Lucretia was the wife of the tyrant - oops.

We followed the corridor out and through several turns until we found fresh footprints in the dust leading into the darkness. Bastonn decided to check out a doorway to the north and we came into a room decorated with murals, inscriptions and most importantly four heavily armed people apparently guarding stairs leading down. One of them was dozing but the other three greeted us cautiously, explaining that they were working for Belynda the Bloody and were recovering from a battle with the boar knights on the next floor down.

Aodhan inspected the murals seeing a picture of chained, hooded figure - possibly the tyrant, in chains and hanging from a scaffold. The other murals were of nun like figures with elaborate white hoods and hawklike faces. The tablets were witness testimonies from the trial of the tyrant and his tyrannical tyrannies.

We backtracked and followed the footprints to a wall that turned out to be an illusion leading into a room where we found Belynda, her mage Florian and four of her wounded mercenary bastards. She was sharpening a large axe whilst the mage was tending to the wounded. Aodhan wasn't impressed by the mage's fancy robes. "I'd rather be Einstein than Liberace!"

Krisanna cast some jealous glances at the mercenaries collected loot but eventually they all agreed to team up to take out the tyrant.

The warband returned to the library and headed down the stairs with Krisanna in front. We came into a large room with a barricade =between us and the Boar Knights - heavily armed skeletal knights with pig like helmets. Aodhan called out in an ancient language to ask who their master was and what their role was.

In return they challenged us to prove our honesty by awakening the hawk sisters and driving out the pretenders - at this Belynda and her crew started to draw their swords against us, shouting "kill them all!"

Aodhan cast a fireball at Belynda, scorching her and Krisanna threw a dagger which ricocheted off the mercenary's armour and back at the unfortunate halfling. Makander weighed in with his axe ripping Belynda to shreds. The Boar Knights calmly killed half of the mercenaries before the remainder turned tail and ran.

We headed back up the stairs to the library and took the east door which lead us into a room where several giant beatles were eating spilt food. There were four fonts on the wall of different types on the walls. Curiouser and curiouser.