Journal 4759 Gozran 1st

We arrived at Schloss Caromarc home just after midday and it was not what I was expecting. It was up against a mountain with a chasm with a fast running river below. We decided to wait until dark before I would start scouting out the place. As we waited for darkness we noticed a carriage coming up the road. We went out to meet it because Gregor thought it looked to be Andivion Adrissant. It was and he had a vision or something bad is going to happen to us. Gregor did some strange thing with the cards again and told us we have to be care full but we need to go in and stop something from happening. Just after dark I shape shifted into a bat form and Gregor rub the rest of the ethereal oil on to me. I left the group and flew over the bridge noticing trolls and goblins watching the gate. A strange looking creature was resting at the entrance of the house. I went into the house it has two floors and only on the first to the right of the entrance in a room is a statue that looks like it was made to defend the house. It was dark and I found no one in the building. Left thru the kitchen to a narrow cross walk to another building which looked like his lab but it looked like something went wrong and there was an explosion that destroyed part of the wall to the left. There also seem like something was hiding in the rubble in the back to my right. I moved on across another narrow walk way into another building. This look like his trophy house or were his experiment lived or did live. To the right is a room that has a present of something that is on the ethereal plane or close to it. Also, in this room in the right corner is a stairs going down. Those stair lead down to the water but there is a strange creature something like wretch guarding that way. The other rooms appeared empty. I found a door leading to a narrow path around the mountain to another building that looks like it was partly destroyed. There is a strange present in this building I believe hiding in the ceiling. The stairs going up have been destroyed so we will need rope to climb up. Also, this looked like where he kept strange creature locked up. It also, looks like they starved to death. I see three huge hairy ogres, but not an ogre, that look to have died a few months ago. The upstairs lead to a tower and there seem to be something in the tower but could not see it. The tower had a view that over looked the whole area. I then went down to the river to find a way across the river to the landing that we could use those stairs to get in, but did not. The place looks like no one been around for at least a month maybe more. We decided to use the cover of night to attack the trolls guarding the gate to cross the bridge. Gregor agreed to try and lead the trolls away as Hadhod and I move in from the other side to attack whoever stayed behind at the gate. It did not go as planned as all three trolls went after Gregor leaving just the goblins. Hadhod and I got close when the trolls stop chasing Gregor. Gregor fired on them and another troll on top of the gate house got up to shoot at Gregor as the trolls head back to us. I cast my spike stone to protect me if anything came at me. Hadhod was seen by the trolls so they ran to him. A couple of trolls had to go thru part of my spell to get to Hadhod. Hadhod used his hammer attack to kill one of the injury troll. Gregor came back to help Hadhod who had two trolls on him. The goblins started to help us by attacking the trolls, too. As Gregor got there Hadhod had killed the second troll with the help of the goblins. I had to use my fire spell to make sure the trolls stayed dead. Now we were able to kill the last troll on the ground with only the troll in the gate tower. Gregor used his leader voice to tell the troll to jump down and he did but jumped into the water in the chasm instead of facing us. For some reason Gregor scared the goblins into running and they ran at me killing themselves from my spell effects. Hadhod was able to open the gate door for us to enter the keep where we rested first. We rested and thought about how to get the strange wolf to come to us. We started to yell for it to come to us when the wolf charged the gate. Hadhod was able to grab the wolf paws for Gregor to cut them off which caused the wolf fall off the bridge without us getting near the creature. Gregor thought it best if Wretch stayed behind and guard the entrance. Then we went to the main building to check it out. Just as we entered the building the statue I saw last night attacked us. This was not going to well when Gregor was able to hit in the very spot I just hit with my flame strike to destroy the metal statue. We search the upstairs first finding nothing to help us but Hadhod did take some valuables that we found. Then downstairs found some brooms and mops keeping the floor cleaned. But, the dining room was very dusty and we found that it had an anti magic spell cast on it so those items could not come in. I knew there was a hallway to the outside door and it took us awhile to find it in the dining room. When we open the secret passage way door we found the hallway which leaded us to the door outside. We went thru the door and cross the narrow bridge to another building. This building looked to be his lab which had an explosion destroying the lab. Just as we started to look around two creatures attacked Gregor armor instead of us. It was a quick battle but Gregor armor was partially damaged. We noticed that these creatures had partially destroyed the structure that held up the building. We also found a lot of chemicals in jars. I then show them a wooden rope bridge we had to cross to get to another building that housed strange creatures that had been stuffed. It looked like only one person should cross the bridge at one time. Hadhod decide to go over it first and when he got halfway across two harpies flying on opposite sides called Hadhod to him. For awhile Hadhod was resisting their singing as he shot at them. Then all of a sudden Hadhod jump waving his arms like he could fly and fell into the river. He survived the fall and was swept away by the current. Now it was Gregor who killed the first harpy when the second one tried to call Gregor to fly to her. The two of us brought down the last harpy. Then when we were looking for Hadhod from the bridge a creature that looked to be how Wretch described his girlfriend. She told us to leave and not come back. We found out that with help from the cult of the whispering way she was able to keep her master alive without killing him and she did not want us to rescue him. She broke the rope bridge on her side and let it fall leaving us no way to get her. So, we left to find Hadhod before coming back to face her. We knew we could not find him in the dark so we rested in the gate keep to sleep before starting our search for Hadhod.