We start at the Lexland Wood Company – Zaq’erb and Jartha head out while Kex (as Sasa) holds down the warehouse.

Zaq and Jartha decide to look for Neves. Zaq summons Joffrey. Joffrey tells us Neves is at the Lookup. Zaq’erb asks Joffrey to patrol, look for shipping activities. Joffrey mentions he likes whererats for snacks. We head to the Lookup.

We sit with Cooky – get a few ales. Peria says hey Cooks. Cooks wants to make her vampire blood sausage. Gonna need some vampire blood. Cooks talks about a crypt – just outside of town. The Kidd Residence. Lord and Lady Kidd. Cooks points out the Neves is over there. Jartha goes and talk to him.

Hail solider – good to see you again says Neves. Says he’s seen the owl. He’s having trouble reading the page. Requires the Lens of Time – which will enable him to read it. Supposedly in the treasure trove of vampire trove Samara. Jartha asks him if he’d join – he says yes even though he doesn’t often do so. Asks about the handsome one – Jartha says Oglesby getting a footbath. Jarth claims to have purchased many a footbath in his time. Jartha invites him over to the table. We talk about a joint vampire mission. Cooks says it’s 1/10^th of  days ride past the farm.

We decide to head out, go past Kennebeck farm. Moonlight night, we hear the howls of the Winchendon Werewolves. We make our way to the old farmstead. Barn, random buildings, one with a small room. Zaq’erb summons Joffrey.

We check out the building with the room.  Dilapidated. Passive perception picks up nothing. Seems like some marks near the fireplace. Zaq knocks around – notices tonal difference beneath the grate of the fireplace. Zaq and Jartha attempt to move the grate – it’s bolted to the floor. We look up chimney – flue is open – hence a draft. We poke and prod but nothing around the place. We leave the little house place. We check out more of the farm – very overgrown. We see the barn, the fields, the well. We decide to check out the barn.

Barn is in surprisingly good shape. Inside is like walking into another dimension. Well-furnished, new, of good construction. Outside decrepid. There are three wooden coffin beds. Jartha says Cooky we might have hit the jackpot – let’s check out these coffins. Well-built coffins, padded, comfy. Joffrey says there are a number of vampires – you would do well to be careful. Zaq’erb opens coffin 3 – empty. Zaq opens coffin 2 – there’s a creature/human in there. More asleep than anything ever. Cooks says he wants to  knife a vampire. Coffin 1 is empty. We decide to scout out the rest of the barn – and find a trap door. It appears to be open. We play it cautiously – go check out the well. No water in the well.

We sneak back to the barn. We open the trap door. A path of well-trodden dirt. Leads down into a dark gloom – at the end of a steep incline there is manmade stone flooring.

We go down the steep pathway and emerge into a small room – 15×10. Doorway to the north, illumination. We go down the hallway. Clearly a well-trodden trail. We find some other hallways, heights of ceilings raise to the north, not such straight and to the south. Different degrees of warn paths in various directions. Jartha talks to Neves about a spell to see traps and tripwires.

Jartha now has detect traps spell cast upon him by Neves.  Feels the doom coming from down the path to the west. Z tries the door to the south – doesn’t hear anything. Looks in the window. Lotta bones. I see a pedestal with some gems on it. With some sort of lever. Z asks Neves to check it out. Def magic coming from the gems in the back, plus a few items scattered amongst the floor. We go into the room. Z runs into some squishy goo – it pulls back and IN FACT IS THE WHOLE ROOM.  Initiative.  It’s a gelatinous cube. Fight night. Cooky drinks some stew – and doubles in size! We start calling Neves Emo Boy. At various times both Jarth and Neves (emo boy) get caught in the cube. We defeat the cube!

We find leather straps of bone-driedness – Jartha takes them. Find potion of greater healing – Jartha chugs. Small hat of waterbreathing – lux takes. Lantern of Revealing – illuminates invisible creatures – Lux takes. HE FOUND THE GEM. Neves found the gem/lens of time. We got a sack of gems.  Cookie starts cooking Gelatinous steaks. We head to the north door.

The door has a bar/brace on our side. What is in here? Zaq’erb hears something in there. Large footsteps. We assemble. Big cookie goes in first. Aint nothing gonna stop me.  Ya’ll ruined my fire!. Huge room. Cookie steps in – two extremely large skeltons with horns in the corner. They look like minotaurs.

We fight. It’s rough but we win. Lots of coin and a lever. Lots of copper coins. Jartha takes the minotaur nickels.  Jartha fashions some stakes.  Cooky hollering about twice baked steaks. Alright they’re burgers now. Zaq’erb pumps up Cooks to pull the lever. We hear, from the west, a kerplunk. Jartha goes and checks out the danger zone. Nothing stewing. Zaq pull another level (from gelatinous cube room) we hear another kerplunk off to the west.

We come to a doorway. Two vertical bars that lock it into place. Both counterweights are unlocked. Can tell a small burning on the other side. We go into the west door. Room with torches in the corner amongst a pile of treasure. And a lone figure! With her back to us. We creep in. She turns to us. Why have you come to disturb. Zaq’erb tries to sweet talk/show reverence. It slightly works. Cooks mentions he has her cookbook. Jartha asks why are you here and we give him bad looks. She talks about being locked in solitude bc she doesn’t want to taste blood. Lux tries to talk her into after dinner omelets. gets a lot of “your words are many and flowerous”. Cooky talks about wait we just ate.  Zaq talks Cookie into cooking after dinner omelets. Uses the bandelier spices. Makes a whole lot of gelatinous cube minotaur after dinner omelets. Julia asks about the cube – she eats the omelets. You clearly have studied well. My age-old text – I’m impressed. Zaq asks how we free her. She says basically I’m immortal, but I can’t eat anything with taste. Please kill me. Cookie protests. Jartha points a steak at her. She says hard and fast. Jartha kills Julia Kidd. Jartha motions to Cookie to get blood. Then crumbles to ash. Cookie got enough for one blood sausage. Now Cookie is the greatest chef that ever lived. “we’re gonna call it Jartha Vampire Sausage” Neves says he can analyze the letter next noon day sun.

We go back to Lookup Bar and Grille. Peria says oh it’s you – the one with the frog man. Merka. Tell him he’s welcome. Said he was looking for his friend. Confusion about frog men kex or no kex. Other frog man was headed to residential district – something about a wizard he wanted to look up. Boffurt. We crash at inn. The we head back to the warehouse.

Loot: suit of +1 chain mail, spatula weapon +2 for Cooks, wand of fireballs (7 fireballs)