GM Nayr's Carrion Crown AP

Game Master Nayr Trebrot

Crimes of the Beast:

The murder of 10 citizens of the village of Morast a year ago
The slaying of six children in the farming community of Hergstag 7 months ago
The arson attack 4 months ago at the Sanctuary on Karb Isle, which killed a Doctor Brada and his patients

Members of the court::

The Three justices - preside over the trial and decide the verdict. The decision need not be unanimous. The justices are Chief Justice Khard, Justice Aldaar, and Justice Daramid, whom you of course know.
The Holy sister of Justice - Pharasman cleric in gray robes watching for unauthorized casting.

The Herald of the Court - clad in black half plate armor with a full face visor, he calls out official announcements with the striking of a gong, calls witnesses, and keeps order.

The Clerks - Five elderly, pale, and bookish clerks with ink-stained fingers accept and record evidence.

The Prosecution - Appointed for the Palatinate of Vieland, Otto Heiger wants to see the Beast burn

The Defense - Barrister Gustav Kaple

Deductions:

You realize that a blood caiman attack should have left scars, but you don't remember seeing any on the Beast.

Another thing that strikes me is that Lazne says Charlie was screaming curses and oaths while being chased. Charlie was quite inarticulate when we questioned him

This isn't adding up. Flesh golems, such as Charlie, can see quite well in the dark. This night vision extract would not be useful to him. And I doubt whether he even knows what such a thing is. Someone else has their hand in this incident

Six graves in the boneyard have been dug up

Hergstag:
One of the homes shows no sign of forced entry

Loot Sheet

Current equipment:

======Potions:
4 CMW -found in safe
5 CLW -found before I joined game
5 Lesser Restoration -3 found in safe, 2 found prior to my joining game
2 Remove Disease -found in safe
7 Holy Water =2found in cabinet, 8 provided by town, - 3 uses.

======Scrolls:
1 x detect undead - found prior to my joining game
2 x hid from undead -found prior to my joining game
1 x protection from evil -found prior to my joining game
1 x Lesser Restoration

======Wands:
1 x wand CLW (15 charges)

======Equipment and devices:
10 arrows +1
5 arrows +1 ghost touch
2 arrow +1 undead bane
four sun rods

Loot from Vorkstag and Grine:

Poton of CLW (3), Vial of black smear poison - 5 doses, potion of invisibility, potion of water breathing, dust of tracelessness - 2 doses, plus Vorkstag's formula book containing blur, fire breath, bomber's eye, jump, shield, true strike, bull's strength, cure light wounds, darkvision, endure elements, invsibility, and spider climb. Plus, a wand (unidentified)

Current date:
Wealday, month of Pharast, year 4716

Knowledge of the prison

Whispering Way::

The Whispering Way is a sinister
organization of necromancers that has been active in the
Inner Sea region for thousands of years.
Agents of the Whispering Way often
seek alliances with undead creatures, or are themselves
undead. The Whispering Way’s most notorious member
was Tar-Baphon, the Whispering Tyrant, although the
society itself has existed much longer than even that
mighty necromancer.
The Whispering Way itself is a series of
philosophies that can only be transferred via whispers—
the philosophies are never written or spoken of loudly,
making the exact goals and nature of the secretive
philosophy difficult for outsiders to learn much about.
Exact details on the society are difficult to discern, but chief among the Whispering Way’s goals are discovering formulae for creating liches and engineering the release of the Whispering Tyrant. Agents often travel to remote sites or areas plagued by notorious haunts or undead menaces to perform field research or even to capture unique monstrosities. Their symbol is a gagged skull, and those who learn too many of the Way’s secrets are often murdered, and their mouths mutilated to prevent their bodies from divulging any secrets post mortem.

Professor Lorrimor's Last Will and Testatment:

“I, Petros Lorrimor, being of sound mind, do hereby commit to this
parchment my last will and testament. Let it be known that, with
the exception of the specific details below, I leave my home and
personal belongings entire to my daughter Kendra. Use them or
sell them as you see fit, my child.

“Yet beyond the bequeathing of my personal effects, this
document must serve other needs. I have arranged for the reading
of this document to be delayed until all principals can be in
attendance, for I have more than mere inheritance to apportion. I
have two final favors to ask.

“To my old friends, I hate to impose upon you all, but there are
few others who are capable of appreciating the true significance of
what it is I have to ask. As some of you know, I have devoted many
of my studies to all manner of evil, that I might know the enemy and
inform those better positioned to stand against it. For knowledge
of one’s enemy is the surest path to victory over its plans.

“And so, over the course of my lifetime, I have seen fit to acquire
a significant collection of valuable but dangerous tomes, any one
of which in the wrong circumstances could have led to an awkward
legal situation. While the majority of these tomes remain safe under
lock and key at the Lepidstadt University, I fear that a few I have
borrowed remain in a trunk in my Ravengro home. While invaluable
for my work in life, in death, I would prefer not to burden my
daughter with the darker side of my profession, or worse still, the
danger of possessing these tomes herself. As such, I am entrusting
my chest of tomes to you, posthumously. I ask that you please deliver
the collection to my colleagues at the University of Lepidstadt, who
will put them to good use for the betterment of the cause.

“Yet before you leave for Lepidstadt, there is the matter of
another favor—please delay your journey one month and spend
that period of time here in Ravengro to ensure that my daughter is
safe and sound. She has no one to count on now that I am gone,
and if you would aid her in setting things in order for whatever she
desires over the course of this month, you would have my eternal
gratitude. From my savings, I have also willed to each of you a sum
of one hundred platinum coins. For safekeeping, I have left these
funds with Embreth Daramid, one of my most trusted friends in
Lepidstadt—she has been instructed to issue this payment upon
the safe delivery of the borrowed tomes no sooner than one month
after the date of the reading of this will.

“I, Petros Lorrimor, hereby sign this will in Ravengro on this
first day of Calistril, in the year 4716.”

Party XP:

23,450