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Episode 8: Fanged Revenge

Here, the rain-slicked walls of Castle Sloak overlooking a miserable, gray little village here at the eastern edge of Gormalay, three of our companions cling to the wall. I will ask you for a final time, do you want to go around the southern edge of the castle here, or would you have gone around the northern edge of the castle over here?
To remind our viewers, in our last episode our adventurers made their way to Sloak from the Dahapshanee Wood (chasing down the treacherous Casimir Gavendale and also looking for signs of the fugitive brother, Talcydimir Pridesire, Teor's younger brother). You made your way from the faeries of Hawthorn's Glade and the terrifying undead monstrosities of the Wraith Tree north, crossing the border into Timmony, where you met Tholomine the acolyte, you met Tasker the older shepherd, and made your way up the King's Road, hearing fomentation and agitation from preachers of the Candescent Creed (learning about the druidic waystations of travelling dogs and hounds all throughout the Kingdom of Timmony. You discovered some history about King Augustus Valian (or as those who fought with him refer to him, King Gus) and eventually arrived on an apple cart outside of Sloak. There at a tavern in the middle of the night, you met Dame Morgaine (one of the hounds of the king, a herding dog capable of speech who was able to speak to your perfectly fluently and made reference to the mastiff that Thimble had seen out in the darkness, referring to him as Hawkins).
Making your way to Sloak, Thimble spied on the converging of the envoys of the House Tachonis (seeing the Lord Doset and the Lady Univere along with an unnamed knight of the House of Seremai) who delivered the deed of title to Casimir Gavendale (who you saw here screaming about the injustice done to him). They had said they were going to make him a baron and give him a castle, and they did give him a castle. Rotted, crumbling, in disrepair, overlooking a village that Casimir has threatened to double taxes on, but I'm not sure how it works to double nothing. He certainly seems intent on making life miserable for those denizens of the village below this moldering keep.
With some quick thinking, Wicander Halovar and the demon Tyranny masqueraded as Wicander Halovar and Dr. Finger. Also discovering that Casimir's plans have been foiled here, for he wanted to hang Cyd for stealing the title from him back in Dol-Makjar, and those representatives of the House Tachonis told him that Talcydimir was no concern of his. Which makes you wonder if perhaps there was a sleeping lion upstairs in that tavern. That remains unclear, but what is certain is that you are standing in the cold and freezing rain (the howl of wind cascading off the stony mountainside). You look here at rot and ruin, hearing noises from inside the courtyard. Wick, Tyranny, you are within the courtyard, having just spoken to Casimir, who seems delighted that the House of Halovar is here to help him.
Thimble, Kattigan and Teor are outside. There is dim light everywhere, so visibility is not limited. Past 40 feet is disadvantage on Perception checks but no disadvantage on attack rolls or combat. This is a dangerous place to fight, right? In driving rain?
What you can see is that there's a lot of farms that are up on cliffsides (which means that soil and mud is coming down). You look and see some ruined structures on the moutainsides around that clearly mudslides have taken out. Everyting here is moss, slick rock, mud. You think there is a non-zero chance that if you were to haul ass here, you would probably-- you've diagnosed this terrain as pretty hazardous.