After a long day of negotiation and figuring things out, we stay the night at the Muskrat this time. The owner lets us use our rooms that we had already arranged for. We drink at the bar and have a good time. Gottfried and the crew stay here as well.

The next morning we have breakfast. As we are here, a letter is delivered to Jean by someone named Leviticus Hanik. He has invited us to his home. We decide to go and head up to his house. It is an older area of town. We make a loop around the house and see that it’s not very well taken care of.

Going up to the front door, we see a note stuck there that says to wait in the smoking room, as he is taking care of a small matter. It is signed by Hanik. We head inside and it is quite dilapidated here. There is a mist inside and it is cold, even though it is summer outside. There are pipes all around and we take a look.

Suddenly a small hookah and figurine on the mantle emerges and begins smoking and an avatar of flame begins emerging. It attacks Brokk but he is able to get out of the way. He tries to smash the figurine but breaks part of the mantle. Geeves uses a breeze spell but it doesn’t dissipate.

The elves grab a rug and smother the fire spirit with it, and it goes out. Jean looks outside and sees people walk by, but suddenly they appear as if they have older fashions, as if they have traveled through time.

We try to get out the front door, but it is locked. The door will not break and neither will the windows. We search the smoking room and find a small bone key inside a drawer. There are no locks to open in this room, however, and the key doesn’t work on the front door.

All of us head into the next room which is a dining room that is all set. As we enter, the doors slam shut and the candles light. Geeves uses a spell to make a gust of wind again and the candles go out. Suddenly the candles and steak knives rise up into the air and menace us. Brokk jumps onto the table to attack one of the knives and slips and falls on the ground. A candelabra smashes him on the head. We smash them after a long battle.

We head out of the room and Vedasi hears a strange scraping sound. It is kind of like metal on metal. Also, the elves smell meat cooking. We go into another room and we see a horrific scene. There are two zombies and one is turning some meat on a spit. They turn to attack us and Brokk begins seeing visions of small men. It’s all very bizarre. We destroy the zombies and the little men, and search the room but find nothing else.

The door to the south of us is larger with gargoyles on it. We see a lock and the key fits into it. We open the door and there is a grand staircase.

We go into the door next to us and there is a small room. A spectral entity attacks us and wraps its hands around Tobruk. Brokk is terrified. Thankfully Tobruk kills it, and Brokk finds a gold ring under the bed.