Day Eleven

From the bedroom in the keep, we entered the door. We walked a hallway to the west exploring each of three rooms to the south along the way. In the second room, we fought two vampires and prevailed. At the end of the hall, we passed a spiral staircase going up and entered the final room.

There was a large feces smeared dais that also sported a few dead rats. There was a door to the north that we suspected lead outside. There were also two doors to the west. We entered the first one and found a hallway leading to a circular room. We checked the other door and were attacked by five vampires. After this fight some of us were pretty beaten up. Some had suffered vampire bites and their constitution was dropping. We decided to rest in this room.

Unfortunately, we forgot to lock the door and a vampire broke in. Victor slew him with one attack. This time we locked the door and piled some broken chairs in front of it to hinder any intruders. We slept through the night without any more attacks. However, we periodically heard scratching at the door, followed by pounding at the door. A little later, we heard a squishy thump at the door. After that there was a chopping at the door, but no one got in.

The next morning, we opened the door and a dead feral vampire slumped into the room, his head smashed in. There was some superficial damage to the door. There was no other evidence of what had transpired. We walked back to the spiral staircase and went upstairs. We were in a hallway leading north and south. We proceeded north and entered a door. This was the master bedroom, but there was a coffin in the middle of the floor.

Being daytime, we tore all of the curtains off of the walls and opened the coffin. The vampire inside instantly turned to dust. We looted the remains and obtained the Amulet of Abyssal Warding. We cheered heartily.

Still weak from the day before, we decided to leave the keep rather than explore the rest of it. We left the keep and walked far away before discussing our options. We knew that we were somewhere in Sembia. The bard suggested that we head west towards Cormyr. We walked for two days whereupon we found a road. It led to the southwest and we followed it. Upon evening of that day, we found a farmhouse.

The farmer showed us much hospitality. We had dinner and then he sent his kids to bed. We asked for directions to the nearest town or settlement. He said that if we walk east across the fields for two days, we would reach the main road. If we took that to the southwest for two days.


He suggested that we swap some tales. We spoke briefly before finding out that that Cormyr had been overrun by goblins months ago. We were quite puzzled because we had not been gone for that long. Apparently, refugees have been coming into Sembia.

We spent the night there and in the morning, we had breakfast. The cleric offered to bless the man's well and livestock. He accepted. We decided to head to the closer town, Holka, to the east. We walked thirty miles that day and arrived in Holka.

We spent the night in Holka and looked at a map that one of the villagers had. We decided to walk back the way we came towards Derelune, 75 miles to the southwest along the road. We wanted to get close to Cormyr and plan our next step.