Reaper Errant Episode #007 can be found on YouTube here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EBMk6b_s4Io
We were on the second floor of the witch’s weird, bigger-on-the-inside chicken house, still searching for the witch. Pujol had just found a caged area with zombies in the cage, and we had a couple doors yet to look through. After some discussion, Gooseneck and Corn Cob spiked the cage door. Hopefully that would keep the zombies safely contained. While they were doing that, Fathom searched the desk and found a spell book, a potion, and a scroll that apparently had been half read. Weird – that’s not usually a thing that can happen, according to the magic folks.
Abran opened the interior doorway with his foot, ready to attack if necessary. Turn out…it wasn’t. Two oxen were stuffed into the tiny room. Pujol went forward to talk to them and try to make friends (moo!), but it didn’t look like it was going well. He did find out their names are Lox & Nox, and that they ate a book, and the witch left the room in a hurry.
Gooseneck checked out the porch door. Nothing out there, but he did see that we were moving very, very fast up a mountain.
One door left. On the other side of that door was a spiral staircase going up. Pujol liked Abran’s plan – send the oxen up first! We started up the stairs (oxen at the back with Pujol). Probably just as well the oxen stayed toward the back…I have no idea how we’d get them back down the stairs.
At the top of the stairs was a hatch leading in to the top of the tower. Abran went through first. I thought I heard the weird language of a spell being cast, but I wasn’t sure. Corn Cob went next, then Gooseneck. By the time I got up there it looked like she’d taken some damage, but was still in pretty decent shape. It was also getting crowded. I managed to shoot an arrow at her, then Fathom followed me up and cast a spell. We were probably whittling her down. Pujol stuck his instrument up through the hatch and played a merry tune.
We heard a metallic clang as the zombie cage opened on the floor below. So much for the spikes. The oxen were still at the bottom of the stairs, though…the zombies would have a hard time getting through, though the oxen might not come out of it so good.
The witch reached out to Abran and made him…uncomfortable. In return, he swung at her with his sword and hit her quite solidly. The rest of us all attacked again. That seemed to do it. The witch fell to her knees, begging forgiveness from….something. An image appeared, telling the witch she was unworthy, that she had failed. The image said they was going to take their house back. The house started shaking, and the witch fell to the floor, dead.
Well, ding, dong, the witch is dead, but now we have other problems. The house’s movement was becoming very rough and we were all unstable. Pujol almost fell off the stairs, and the zombies slid into the lower room, off balance. He considered cow tipping as a combat strategy – pushing one of the oxen onto the zombies. Instead he came up through the hatch and joined the rest of us.
A window appeared, and the house tried ejecting us through it. We all tried to resist, but most of us were pushed out. Only Gooseneck and Pujol got pushed out. Gooseneck grabbed Pujol and jumped out. Gooseneck landed well, but the rest of us got banged up. The witch’s body was ejected with us.
We searched the witch’s body and found an amulet with a red gem that was warm to the touch. Fathom inspected it, and was fairly sure it was the focus of the transmogrifying curses. Corn Cob smashed it, and the gem shattered. We looked at the biscuit from the witch, and a bracelet that apparently came from the rat-children. The biscuits had turned to worms (yuck!) and the bracelet was cracked, so we were pretty sure the curses had been broken.
We followed the house to look for other survivors, and found the oxen had been turned back to their humanoid form. Good! They were also surrounded by zombies. Bad! We killed the zombies pretty quickly. Now we need to rest and recover, and decide what to do next.
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