Tongue tied

I'm really off my game today. All I needed to do was a simple bluff and then I fuck it all up by instead blabbing about the coin. What is wrong with me?

The day at least started well enough. Malakar couldn't talk to the dead aranaea. Maybe if someone hadn't cut her in two....

We went to the magical tower to try and figure out what was up with her. We found out she was the adopted daughter of the headmaster (oops!) but nobody seemed to suspect her. She was very studious and excelled at magic. It seems like it's likely that she was always an aranaea just wearing the form of a human and disguising it very well.

Then I went to the Basc trading company posign as an elven trader. I was told that Annie Basc would be with me soon. I really hoped that it was just a coincidence - what kind of crazy cultist would give themselves a nom de guerre that's a shortened name of their illegal evil cult? Obviously one that could flip around even my tongue. Well later on (after we had moved from the first hotel to a second one), I met her at a third hotel and convinced her (well not too well) that I wanted to trade in magic potions and other illicit substances. As she walked by the common room, Malakar sensed that she was a cultist of Bascaron (I wonder what other surprises he holds). So much for her subterfuge.

I went to meet her with Obegard as my manservant (I love that phrase, by the way). But she immediately figured out that I was not being completely honest. I really should have brought along a bodyguard as well. With scythes aimed for me, I was afraid that I would not be able to survive long enough to dimension door out of there. I lost my nerve for a second and suddenly somehow started blabbing about the coin. She didn't even know abotu the coin. At least I kept my wits with me enough to tell her that it was with the rest of my party (who was waiting around the corner). Thank goodness they were prepared and sprung a nice ambush. There was enough distraction for me and obegard to jump away safely. Malekar then cast wall of blades to trap them all in. We managed to capture alive two of the low level guards and I managed to literally scare the shit out of them. Dearthy of course split Annie Basc in two (again!) before we could talk to her. Doesn't he realize that talking with the living is much, much easier than talking with teh dead? I have to sneak in and dull his axe sometime.

Anyways we wound up making it down to the main temple (trap door underneath a crate,how typical) and are stuck in a battle with a creepy tentacle-face monster. Shouldn't be too hard to kill him, just long.... and hopefully durthy doesn't axe him like all the others