Everlife Noble District
At dawn we assault Sabre Khaludz’ mansion. We see the Vrock, and it is alone in the dining room, eating people. The Vrock is alerted when we silence the room and smash through the window. A brutal fight ensues, hindered by the piled remains of gnawed corpses. The Vrock has eaten well.
We defeat the Vrock, and take on the cultists. They are just outside in the hallway. They put up a fight, but not a particularly good one.
We investigate the main floor and find a captured woman, blind, deaf, and mute. She has been terribly abused, and is cowering. We make her comfortable and will get her to safety once we secure the mansion.
We head into the basement, find a labority guarded by two Flaming Skulls. They burn us with fire and we retreat upstairs. They do not follow.
We head up to the second floor and encounter Octavio, insane, naked, and hiding under the master bed. We defeat him. When searching the master bedroom, we find another shrine to Vecna, the same as the Lord’s master bedroom. We also find a journal and some sort of disturbing vecnan artifact, hidden in the bed post.
In another room we fight 2 Bone Nagas. They can curse and mind control, as well as poison with their bite. We defeat them. They are guardians, so we take apart the room to figure out what they are hiding. We find a number of Abyssal texts and a vial of Dust of Disappearance.
We head up to the top floor, a trio of hellhounds attack us, breathing fire. We defeat them.
The upper level has hidden in a cupboard 3 infants, sickly and mute from deliberate operations on their throat. They are alive. We take them and the blinded deaf/mute woman back to the Spire.
We spend an hour resting at the Spire, and return to the Chaludz mansion. When we return to the basement, the Flameskulls had been destroyed by something else. We aren’t sure who. The lab in the basement has been used to make magic items, and for darker purposes.
We are then attacked by two gorilla-like demons, who have brutal melee attacks. We defeat them.
There is a horrible altar in the basement filled with bodies, the unholy energy making it very difficult to enter. When we finally do, we see another mirror, exactly like the one we saw way back when we tracked down the missing herb shipment bound by Southspire. The Artistry is exactly the same, so it must have been made by the same person. We destroy the mirror, which explodes and knocks Codex into the Altar, who is burned by unholy energy.
We find a secret passage to what is likely the secret tunnels out of the city, same as the Lord’s Manor.
We take valuables out of the mansion and then use the lab to create an incendiary device, and burn the whole mansion to the ground.