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 Afterwards we explored the north end of the Asylum, and found where most of the inmates were holing up. There was a make shift camp that seemed to be full of cultists and strung up dead bodies. One of them came over to us, indicating that we should follow him and play along as cultists. He introduced himself as Wren Elbourne, a doctor who was looking after these people before getting caught up in whatever was going on. Ulver is apparently responsible for everything that is going on, having convinced everyone that he is a prophet who will lead everyone to the land of dreams. There is also a woman named Aggie, who is a dangerous psychopath who was responsible for the dead bodies in the camp.
-According to the Doctor, Ulver claims to have made his dreams real, and has locked himself away in a maze of fog somewhere upstairs. He calls his acolytes the oneirogens. One of them is in a tower on the northwest of the island, and we decided that there would be a good place to start to try and make sense of this insanity.
+According to the Doctor, Ulver claims to have made his dreams real, and has locked himself away in a maze of fog somewhere upstairs. He calls his acolytes the //oneirogens//. One of them is in a tower on the northwest of the island, and we decided that there would be a good place to start to try and make sense of this insanity.
+==== Session 7 (2017/06/12) ====
+Beyond the cultist camp were the kitchens and gardens, the latter of which were apparently filled with undead. The chefs assumed that we were just another bunch of cultists, so gave us free access to the area. Apparently they are also very short of food, having subsisted over the last supplies of potatoes left in the asylum.
+Beyond the safety of the kitchens we encountered some strange creature that looked very much like a silvery lizard. When it attacked us, I suddenly came over nauseous as Catiana seemed to take control of my link to her, growing greatly in size and strength. After I recovered, the lizard was dead.
+We did make our way around to the other side of the garden, keeping to the ruined rooms and passages, but nevertheless ran into some ghouls that broke through a wall to get to us. Fortunately we managed to fight them off. Seeking recovery, we headed back to the chapel and the library, and read some of the books there trying to make sense of this place.
+==== Session 8 (2017/06/19) ====
+Last night we were woken in the night by invisible humanoid creatures we later determined to be //soul slivers//. They seemed to be trying to kill Winter and steal the statue of Desna. My sister took control of her manifestation again, and together with the rest of the group managed to slay the creatures.
+In the morning Sheena mentioned that she had been awakened by a voice in her head, though nobody else had heard it. The creatures were female and both had mirrored skin, with flesh underneath. We never determined where they came from.
+We spent the rest of the day exploring the north western part of the asylum. There were more ghouls, and also a ghast, and eventually discovered one of the //oneirogens// in the tower which was spewing fog. We slew it, and the fog seemed to weaken a bit. Outside of the tower we could see a number of large cancerous oozes which were trying to climb the walls to get to us. We drove them off and decided to head back so as not to attract more.
+Finally we cleared the garden of the ghouls that dwelt there, and saw a unicorn.
+==== Session 9 (2017/06/26) ====
+The unicorn we found today was not friendly, and seemed to be contributing to the yellow fog - or at least, it cleared a bit after we killed it. For the night we headed back to the library to rest and read up.
+Unfortunately Sheena 'discovered' some waxwork statues which we hadn't noticed before, and fiddling with them caused them to come alive and attack. They were being controlled by the ratling sorcerer we had met earlier, and this time we managed to find and slay him.
+The following day we decide that we had to deal with Ulverzandalus and his final henchmen, so go up to the first floor where he and his acolytes live. We encounter the murderess Aggra, and after a tough fight manage to slay her. Looking over her possessions, we find a Harrow Deck, which I take a look at, getting a feel for it's history.
+It was not a good experience. I have vague memories of a cold, arid place where many realities came together. There were three people there - veiled and robed humanoids which felt totally inhuman. One of them pulls down their veil, to reveal horns and clawed fingers with a mouthful of tentacles. If it wasn't for the others pulling me out of the dream it had spun, I probably would have been lost to the //Denizens of Leng//.
+==== Session 10 (2017/07/03) ====
+Beyond Aggra's quarters the floor was covered with rubble from the floor above and the rooms filled with the thick yellow fog. There were more //oneirogens// here, four of them, and we managed to slay them, though trying to see anything through the fog was difficult.
+It was then that we finally came across Ulverzandalus, who seemed capable of causing great pain just by looking at us. After we defeated him, his wounds began to spew forth fog, and his body began to dissolve. Expecting some terrible void to open or something, all of us expect for Sheena fled back to the previous room. Sheena yelled out that it was changing into something, and ran back to us.
+It was then that we saw what it had become - the Tattered Man from our nightmare which we awoke from when we discovered ourselves in this place. Eventually it was defeated, and it's body dissolved into mist. Almost immediately the fog cleared from the island, and in the distance we could see the shore, and the jetty where a small rowing boat was moored.
+Returning to the ground floor the cultists seemed to be pleased to see us, possibly freed from whatever mind control the Tattered Man/Ulverzandalus had over them.
+Winter wanted to go back to the mainland, so Sheena and myself accompany her leaving the others to finish tidying up in the asylum.