Abadius 28th 17 - Kicking the Queen’s Badonkadonk

The group rested uneventfully overnight only an hour away from the Manholds at it seem to make sense to tackle the location in daylight.

When the approached the area, they were in awe of the imposing manor that stood before them even if it did stink of burnt grease and fat.

Exploring the grounds only showed two ways into the manor, a set of double doors on the eastern and western side of the manor, which after a flip of a coin it was decided to start with the double doors on the eastern side.

What presided over the next couple of hours was a maze of doors, corridors and secret doors! It turned out and took the group a little while to figure it out that the manor had been rigged so that every time someone opened an normal door it would set off a very very very! Hot stream trap, and as every room had one door in and another door out it got very steamy.

It soon came apparent that the real route was through the maze of secret doors which were not trapped at all and eventually lead to the centre of the manor where a very large set of bronze double doors stood.

Cautiously Miro checked the doors for locks and traps but found nothing, so the rest of the group one by one also did their best to check but still they found nothing so reluctantly they pushed the doors open.

The doors opened into a large cavernous room that had been assembled as a waxworks and amongst the large vats of molten wax was a ginormous queen ant whose attention had been brought to the opening doors.

“Intruders!! Thieves!” The queen shouts whilst pointing at the group

“Whoa! With a ass like that I’d think twice about slimming round tight bends!” joked Miro but the queen heard the comment and made the Halfling the focus of her outrage.

Queen attacks Miro by shooting a globule of wax but misses the Halfling,

Otto piped in with the challenge “You started this, we’re finishing it!” and then let of a lightening bolt spell which found its mark at the queen,

Boss shoots but misses,

Vaneer casts flame strike and hits, seeing very pleased with himself he turned to the group to see the shock on their faces,

“What?” asked the cleric

“You said no fire spells as we didn’t want to set the place alight before we entered!” exclaimed Otto

“Oh yeah! Whoops! Ah well no harm done” Vaneer smiled

What the cleric then didn’t see as his back was turned was that the spell had alerted the 4 wax constructs living in the vats that the queen was under attacked and so emerged from their slumber.

“Um! Vaneer you might want to….” Natalia mentioned whilst pointing in the direction of the queen.

Vaneer turned round, “Oh come on! Seriously! Hey that’s not my doing ok guys?” he protested.

Constructs(1)&(2) smash into Vaneer,

Construct(3) attacks and hits Miro,

Construct(4) attacks and hits Boss,

Queen attacks Otto and hits,

Hugo attacks Construct(3) and hits,

Miro attacks and hits Construct(3),

Otto casts Haste on the party,

Boss shoots and hits Construct(3),

Vaneer lets off a Healing Burst,

Construct(1) misses Vaneer,

Construct(2) hits Vaneer and locks the cleric into a grapple,

Construct(3) misses Miro

Construct(4) hits Hugo and grapples the fighter,

Queen attacks Otto but fails to land a blow,

Vaneer mentions that if the queen is defeated the constructs should stop attacking,

Miro tumbles over to the queen but fails to land a hit,

Hugo and Construct(4) are still grappling,

Otto casts a scorching ray just as he is knocked by the tussle of combat and hits Vaneer instead of the queen,

Boss manages to drive his attack deep into the queen’s chest dealing critical damage,

Vaneer lets off another healing burst whilst still in the clutches of construct(1),

Construct(2) punches Vaneer and knocks the cleric out cold,

Construct(3) attacks Miro but fails to land a hit,

Hugo and Construct(4) continue their grapple match,

Queen attacks Otto and hits the sorcerer,

Miro stabs the queen dealing the final blow as screams in agony whilst at the same time the magic holding the constructs together fails causing them to melt into puddles on the floor.

Boss runs to Vaneer’s aid and administers a healing potion down the clerics throat bring the cleric back to his feet where he shortly starts to heal up all of the parties wounds.

Whilst searching the area for some grubs they eventually stumble upon the queens token a pair of diamonds shaped as hands and shortly there after they soon find the jackpot of grubs where they gather as many as they can before heading back to the volcano.