Outside the hut, were at top of tall-grassy hill on little chunk of world floating in pinky stew of chaos, a bit queasy-making. Down path at bottom of hill, little stream with bridge, orb-capped post (at center of worldlet by my guess, probably the magic thingy maintaining it), two small buildings, another hut and a crypt.
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Figured we might as well choose order of fights and went back to first red frog. He came out swinging but we took him down. Broken Guardian dragon in hut, v. sad. Went back to crypt and were jumped by other two frogs sneaking through grass. Took them down too. Checked over bodies - Korenn noticed claws were hollow, like could have poison, but no one seemed poisoned. [These were, of course, red slaads.]
Opened crypt with key - inside Guardian dragon chained to post going in circles. Talked to it, unchained it. Down stairs, the Clue to the last Nothoreadel key: little statuette shifting between human-sized guy and halfling-sized guy. Lucan and Ceder. *Well*. Sense of a presence, and something bad. Went to big building, orb-key on pedestal in middle of blue pool-thing, which snatched rocks, arrows out of air over it. Formed up into a horrid melty shapeless thing, presence (sort of feather floating briefly out from pool) said not to touch it. Well, it got in a hit on poor Grettir which could have turned nasty but Grettir v. tough and we got it destroyed before it could do anything more.