Our story continues with the heroes outside the door of the ogre. Kyler decided to enter as the party's consensus was to slay the ogre. The party entered the room and saw the ogre chained to a well in the center of a large room. This room was the enterance of the area they are in. It contains a well in the center as well as stair cases leading to windows on the second story. There is also a balcony that sits in this room where the owner could greet his guests. Saloch started the fight casting flaming sphere on the ogre. The party moved in and killed the ogre without too much damage. During the fight however a small creature attempted to stab Saloch in the back but was killed soon by the combined efforts of Saloch and Ellie. As they slayed the Ogre they could here the sound of a door opening and footsteps. A man in a featureless mask save for two small holes in the side of his helmet stood there with a strange stringed instrument in his hand. He played a deep bass note and began speaking to the party. While he did this Saloch crept up behind him asecending the stairs but blocked by a portcullis. The man confirmed his association with Zalon and claimed that they must be the group that killed his apprententice. He then proceeded to bring the ogre back to life with a strange spell and went to leave before getting ambushed by Ellie and a wolf summoned by Saloch. The strange man cast magic missile knocking Ellie out of the air and dropping her to -1 hp. As Saloch wolf disappeared the strange man picked up Ellie's body and left down a hallway. The party now battled with a vastly stronger zombie ogre who continued to deal a great ammount of damage to everyone. The battle took a turn for the worse when the ogre landed a crippling blow killing Voskas. After a great struggle the party finished off the ogre. They began deciding what to do with the loot of Voskas. Bl'nx wanted to donate it to the church in hopes of the act benefiting Voskas's soul. Kyler wanted to sell the loot and split the gold amongst the party members and let each do with it as they please. As they argued they could hear more enemy's approaching down the hallways. Saloch suggested they grab all the loot and leave the castle to recover their wounds. They decided to flee to the sprites for protection. As the mounted their horses they could see a group of hobgoblins and Zalon exit the castle. Zalon told the hobgoblin captain not to follow the party and when the leader began to argue Zalon struck him down with a lighting bolt. The party fled to the sprites who took them in after making them play games for 4 hours.
