Of hawk nuns and boar knights

Krisanna was feeling thirsty (and reckless as usual) so she took a swig from the Hawk font and suddenly found herself floating like a balloon - wheee! Aodhan tried the Boar font and found that his skin was thickening into leathery armour - nice! Orla was left with the defaced font and found that the water was stagnant and sulphurous - yuck.

Krisanna opened the door to the north west and saw six silent golems standing guard, apparently motionless and showing the sad face from their selection. Krisanna floated across to the opposite door, noticing a faint hum. She reasoned that there must be something good in the next room and thought that the door looked fine. She tried to open the door and got a static shock, and heard the ominous sound of a gong as the golem's faces rotated to angry. Oops. 

Orla reached for her bow and shot two arrows, fumbling and hitting Krisanna, knocking her unconscious in one shot. Oops again. The others pulled her to safety back in the font room where Krisanna took a swig of boar water - mmm, bacony skin! 

We then opened the next door on the west wall to see a room with a set of stairs heading down. Krisanna's treasure sense started tingling so she scampered down the stairs and into a stone chapel with pews and a dark red marble altar. The wall to the north was covered with frescos of hawks. The wall to the south had a large painting of a hawk headed woman with a sun halo radiating out behind her. Behind the painting Krisanna discovered a golden thurrible in a niche whilst Aodhan recovered an illustrated manuscript from the altar. Orla lit the candles and heard a distant sigh. 

Krisanna opened the door to the east, disarming a trap in the process, revealing a room with 4 sarcophagi that set Krisanna's treasure sense tingling, She sang a hymn from the manuscript which seemed to lighten the atmosphere. She opened one of the doors to find a floating hawk nun who disapproved of our adventuring ways. A bit of questioning told us about sealing magic and they seemed happy for us to use the banishment scroll, although they did ask for some chamomile tea to go with a biscuit. 

We returned to the other set of stairs leading down to the boar knights who seemed happy to let us pass when they heard that we'd woken the hawk nuns. Bastonn offered them employment as castle guardians once we'd finally banished the tyrant. We followed the east passage to a room where a black and shriveled heart was suspended in chains. An inscription above the door read : 

Beyond these doors lies the corpse of Lucius Tarquinius, the tyrant of the hunt. May his bones turn to dust. May his flesh moulder. May he never rise again to trouble the living. 

After some debate, Aodhan read the scroll as the heart started to beat more strongly. We realised that we needed to open the door using the chains on either side. The tyrant slowly materialised and offered us many temptations to free him instead of banishing him whilst Aodhan tried to read the scroll. Things rapidly started to go wrong as the tyrant started overpowering our will and Aodhan fell asleep mid banishment. Krisanna leapt into action and poured a healing flask into his mouth. The tyrants wife Lucretia appeared and tried to drain Orla which she resisted. Bastonn rallied our spirits and attacked Lucretia in turn revealing her true form. 

Orla managed to knock Lucretia's deadly lyre to the floor, but the ghosts of the hounds were now materialising - time was of the essence as they tried to attack us. Makander parried one attack and absorbed the other on his armour. Bastonn desperately tried to parry a bite and attacked Lucretia again finally banishing her. The hounds fell to our assorted knives, swords and arrows. Orla managed to fail another dual shot losing her arrows. Thrice oops!

The remaining hounds desperately tried to bite Aodhan one last time as the tyrant turned into a giant flaming skull. Aodhan finally finished the ritual and the tyrant was banished once and for all!