Diary Entry 2

Dear Diary,

You know what’s even worse than a decrepit haunted house? The basement of a decrepit haunted house. What should have been a normal wine cellar had a CORPSE in it, and the corpse had ROT GRUBS – which must be just about the grossest thing in Faerûn.

At least the corpse had a blood trail that led to the – you guessed it – SECRET PASSAGE WITHIN THE FIREPLACE! I KNEW that would pay off one of these times! Beyond it was a series of rooms – from what we can tell, it seems smugglers have been making use of them.

Whoever’s been down here, they warned everyone away from one door in particular with a big ‘DANGER’ sign – but Art Fight’s never been one to pay too much attention to big danger signs… inside was a bunch of skeletons and I think maybe the ghost of the wizard who used to own the place? Wisteria got a nifty luck stone off of the wizard – and we found his secret laboratory too! All the books and stuff were about alchemy, and there was a bunch of gold stuff in there – maybe that’s the treasure Mad Molly wants?

Anyway, I should probably mention that right now were in a series of cavernous passageways that seem to lead from the basement to the sea. Marty taught us we need to watch the ceiling for acidic green slime – that stuff will eat away at you like a motherplucker!

We also found some valuable bolts of silks and casks of brandy down here… but more pressing is this battle that seems to be going on near the water’s edge… Dietanium says it’s some humans and some… fish-people?? Something tells me I don’t want to be pals with folks on EITHER side…

XOXOXO,
Red Erin