Pud stiffles a giggle.

"Think theres heads behind the other panels? Let's take a look."

Pud looks at the panel next to the one hiding the bugbear head and inspects the latch. If he doesn't find anything concerning he'll open the panel slowly.

Perception check: 19

Matilda goggled at the boat and water, " Thats.....unexpected...."

The empty sailing vessel turns about and drifts to a stop near the edge of the black, shimmering water. The boat looks like it can hold about eight people safely, although its methods of propulsion is a mystery. Titaani can see glimmers of movement just below the surface.

Meanwhile, Pud opens the second hatch carefully. Inside is another square cavity containing another decapitated head, this time of a harpy. It opens its eyes and barks,

"Bah!"

Then it closes its dead eyes and falls silent.

"Yah...Bah..." He pauses and looks back at the others. "Okay, I gotta open the other ones now!"

Pud proceeds to inspect the other latches to make sure they aren't trapped and then opens the other two panels.

The third panel contains a hobgoblin head.

“Gah!” it barks.

The last contains an ogre's head:

“Bah!” 

All four panels are open. The decapitated heads are all still and silent.

The boat near Titaani remains still as well, awaiting any passengers to step aboard.

"Yah..Bah...Gah...Bah.." He stops and scratches his head. "Does that ring a bell for anyone?"

"I wonder if we can move these heads around and change the order. See if they say something else."

Pud stands there sounding out the words again. Something about these words, or snippets of words sounds very familiar.

""Yah..Bah...Gah...Bah..

Bah...Yah...Gah...Bah..

Bah...Gah...Yah...Bah"

Horatio walks away from the screaming heads' wall. "This place... And we're trying to save this queen?" He mutters to himself. 

Matilda frowns at the heads and their weird speech, but it means nothing to her.

" So? We getting on the boat?"

The empty boat remains motionless. Titaani spies thin, pale faces staring back at her from under the dark water. She also sees shadowy monsters swimming past, and glimpses of distant realms. 

The four decapitated heads remain perfectly still and quiet in their hatches.

What do you do next?

Ben:

”Truly, this is a strange realm, and it is hard to know if what we are doing is best.  Let us keep trying to make the next right choice, if we can.  For now, it appears the boat is the way forward,” Ben says, walking up and stepping aboard.  He holds his hand out to assist any who want to join him.

"Nooo!" Titaani screams at the sight of the faces, leaping away from the water. She turns to Matilda, her eyes wild with fear, and begins jabbering in gnomish. She only switches to common half way through her sentence: "-and I can't, I just can't, there are things in there and this is just like a scene from my worst nightmare, they're dead, all dead, and they'll surely kill me too-"

Pud calls out ”I got it! Baba Yaga!”

But he’s startled at Titaani’s hysterics and loses his train of thought. He closes the panels and runs to Titaani.

 ”Titaani It’s gonna be okay. Breath. Breeeeath. I’m sorry if my futzing around with those panels made you upset. 

I just think there’s something to ‘em. Maybe a clue or something.”

Pud's calming tactics seem to work as Titaani follows his example, taking in deep gulping breaths until the panic and fear fades from her eyes. She slumps down, crossing her arms over her legs, curling up into a ball with her head down. 

"I don't want to get on that boat," she whimpers. "There's something wrong with that water. It's even worse than usual."

Ben:

Shrugging, Ben looks kindly at Titaani and says, “Then we skip the boat for now, if you like.  Do we want to try climbing up the vines into the detached tower?”

”What do we know about Babayagah?” Ben asks Pud, the unfamiliar word/phrase rolling clumsily off his tongue.

Matilda looks very happy.....she had after all wanted to climb that giant plant since she first saw it....

Pud nods at Ben's suggestion.

"Ben's right. We don't have to go that way. There's plenty of places we haven't explored yet."

Pud giggles at Ben's attempt to say the name. 

"Its Baba Yaga. Remember those goblins back and Endelyn's place? One of 'em mentioned something about that Charmay lady making a pact with someone named Baba Yaga." 

Pud turns back to Titaani. 

"Hey, Titaani, didn't you say something about you having a pact or that you got a patron or something? Do you know anything about a Baba Yaga?"

"Hmm? Baba Yaga?" Titaani pokes her head up, uncurling herself and getting up from her seat on the floor. "No, I don't know anything about that. My patron is Titania, the most beautiful, elegant, kind arch fey in the universe. But I've learnt I can't rely on her for everything. She may have given me my magic, but it's up to me to use it for the betterment of others."

"Maybe Charmay is the same, but she chooses to use her power not for the benefit of other people but for their detriment instead."

Horatio, visibly growing impatient, says, "I know this is supposed to be the Queen's house, but we need to speed this up and being delicate with every door is slowing us down. Let's just break down the doors we've passed that were locked. I have prybars, hammers, and we can use heat and cold if needed. Hell, we can probably go through the walls the way they've been damaged in so many places. We keep chasing down anyone still alive with the vague hope they will help us - or not kill us. How long until the really bad ones realize we're here and come at us in force? This Baba person sounds like they probably helped hang those heads, and that means they may have magic, right? We got the jump on the Hags and barely won, lets not get turned into screaming heads." 

Ben steps onto the boat, and then off again. It looks like it can be steered by the use of the tiller, although its propulsion is a bit of a mystery.

As to Baba Yaga, anyone may wish to make a History check to see what they might know.

As to the vines, you got a glimpse of another way to access and climb them just outside the Hall of Hatches, some 30' above the kitchen.

"Oh, okay. I kinda hoped...

Anyway, I''m gonna try something with the heads. I'm gonna rearrange them and see if that does anything."

Pud reaches for the panels and pauses.

"Might wanna plug your ears and look away, Titaani."

He then attempts to rearrange the heads so that they would say Bah Bah Yah Gah. If nothing happens he'll close the panels and then reopen them to see if that triggers their speech.

History check: 8