D&D D20 - Irongate

Dear Diary,

Tenser is old looking, his place is nice, but there is also so many different weird objects laying around. Before going on, he seems not happy about us. Ohhh, he wants us to return special gloves to Celeste that she gave to guard's family. I feel so ashamed that she is willing but I was not willing to give something to help. The others also did not give much, but I control my own actions and willingly did not.

He now gives information about the Kuss and Worm prophecies(Age of Worms), what ever they are. Triad is part of the mystery. Kulith Mar is location to create undead(Must be a bad place). Bucknards is a researcher, has information about Kuss. We need to find more information about Kuss. Tenser wants to have the Artifact left here with him and will trade 5 scrolls of greater teleport. We decide in the end to accept the offer. Maren gives his gloves of dex +4 to her, she gave Maren a luck stone, Alphonse gave back begrudgingly the gloves of dex +2 to Maren. And off we go to Bucknards residence. We leave our horses behind. I think Maren likes his horse, I just found out he named her, something to do with a girls name. I always thought you only named ships girls names, I guess Maren is weird like that, but I still like him.

We get our bearings and head to the Manor, as we approach, there is clues that indicate something is wrong. Maren says that there is not that many lights on, with very little activity going on. It is late evening and raining, most have not been able to see anything. Traubon says to go break in, I immediately said no, then Del just opened the door which indicates that owner is not thinking of privacy but it is odd. But then I did not notice the blood on the floor till someone pointed it out to me in the mud room. I whole heartedly agreed then that something is wrong and we need to help save any survivors in this big place. Inside past the mud room it seems like a foyer(not sure that is correct word for room we were in), but we are accosted by undead(former living staff and hired hands employed by the manor), we quickly vanquish them and move farther in, only to find that we have much more powerful forces involved, according to Alphonse, there is someone watching us through the eyes of the undead creatures. that is not all, when some of us go down a hallway, we are touched by undead creatures that can travel through walls and any solid object. Very freaky, luckily I can bounce around fast and makes me hard to hit, but it also seems that they are also hard to hit. I feel disoriented when I see my hand go through one of these Shadow creatures(I think that is what Maren called them). In meantime, Alphonse takes the extra effort to call some cold magic to put out the fire that is starting to go out of control in kitchen. Ohh, I almost forgot, I do not know what to do, I have almost missed every single attack against the Shadow creatures and this situation is not improving,  Maybe Maren knows something to help, so far he has not offered anything. Maybe I will have to ask him when there is more time.). Later for now, we have more of the Mansion to look around in and hopefully save someone from here.