Animal Farm

The crew wake up in the clearing and set off down the road, stopping briefly to observe a turf war between centaurs and gnolls. They travel a bit further until they come across a farm where none of the animals seem to be making animal noises, and on closer look are all staring at them. The three party members approach cautiously and have a strange conversation with the animals who reveal they help the Master. Hearing something inside the house, the group asks what is inside the house, knowing obviously that something is strange. Insisting they can't let the group leave, a voice from the farmhouse calls them into the house one at a time. John goes in by himself and is almost charmed by the figure inside. He crashes out back through the door and shouts a warning, where all the animals turn against our heroes. A heated battle ensues, and once the travellers cut down enough of the animals the voice asks them to just leave. Poison convinces him that they should talk first and he lets her in, but not before charming John and Daisy. Poison meets the first drow she has ever seen, standing inside the farmhouse. He tries to pretend that he has been here his whole life. John, shaking off the charm, begins to investigate the premises. Seeing that John was scouting around, Tanvast becomes agitated, and tells Poison to tell John to stop, which she refuses to do. The drow immediately begins covering his bare skin. John finds a patch of earth that has been disturbed and begins digging, eventually finding the body of a family that had been buried recently. Realizing he had been found out, Tanvast rushes for the door but is blocked by Poison, who follows behind him as he rushes upstairs and crashes through a window. Poisonblade lands on top of him and slips a gag in his mouth, preventing him from casting more of his spells. He struggles, but Poisonblade comes out on top, pinning him to the ground with her daggers.

As John searches the place for valuables, Poison notices Brob looking fairly interested, and decides to ask him a few questions before returning and Tanvast and torturing him for information. According to Tanvast, he was part of an expeditionary force who got lost and holed up in the farmhouse where they found him. He found overlanders despicable and longed for when the black queen would spill darkness into the sky and make the world liveable. The group went to sleep.