It's in Faiths of Purity
It's not on your character sheet's spell list. I'll give you this one as a freebie, but you need to keep a current list of memorized spells, either in your character profile or sent to me via email. Otherwise I will hold you to the memorized spells on the character sheet you sent me.
With the dinosaur leading the way, your group makes its way through the twisting streets of Niswan. You thought that people got out of your way quickly when they saw the lion, but Aquila's new form almost induces panic. They've never seen a creature such as this, and after a few minutes you think you all now know the Vudrani word for "dragon".
After about a half-hour of tracking you come to what seems to be the end of the trail. It's an abandoned cesspit under a derelict warehouse in the Surakport district of town. Even though the smells here are overpowering to those of you without keen smell, the transformed Aquila finds the severed head of a middle-aged Vudrani woman under a wooden plank among heaps of other offal and garbage. Judging from the fact that the head is still wearing the matching earring you found in the shop, you're guessing that this must be Vitusa. Turning over your grizzly find, you see that her soft tissue has been burned out by acid, the signature trademark of the cult of Dhalavei.
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"Blood and ashes!", the Ulfen curses at the gruesome discovery. "We are on the right track".
"You did well Aquila", he commends the dinosaur, not entirely sure if the beast can fully understand his words. "Now we need to find whoever dropped that here", he says indicating the severed head.
"This area of town isn't heavily traveled. Maybe we can find some usable tracks nearby".
"Someone see if there are some workers or beggars near. Anyone traveling these parts would stand out and was hopefully seen coming this way", the big warrior suggests.
"This area of town isn't heavily traveled. Maybe we can find some usable tracks nearby".
1d20+15
Luckily the ground of this abandoned cesspit is soft and muddy from recent rains. Ursus quickly finds unusual tracks, which seem to be the only ones around. They are definitely not human in origin, as the bare feet which made them are too long and end in claws. Crouching down to get a better look at these unusual prints, Ursus surmises that the creature who made them was either walking backwards, or had backward-facing feet.
Daxter will ask around if anyone saw anything unusual.
Diplomacy check(to gather information)
1d20 + 14
Daxter will also go through his encyclopedia-like brain to determine what kind of creature this is
Knowledge check(I have all of them)
1d20 + 14
Daxter racks his brain as to what kind of creature might leave such a track, but doesn't reach any definite conclusions.
Montesquieu aids Daxter in looking over the tracks.
Montesquieu can't make heads of tails of these tracks either. They don't resemble anything he's ever seen, although the creature is definitely roughly humanoid in shape and size and walks on two legs.
Seeing the unnatural tracks Ursus growls something in Skald and then quickly canvases the area.
"Whatever left those tracks is near. We shouldn't waste any time".
The tracks leading to and from the Vudrani woman's head are obviously fresh. There are other, similar tracks in the area, though, that are at least a couple of days old. They seem to have been left by the same creature that brought the incense merchant's head here. The older tracks are almost completely obliterated by recent rains, and become unreadable within 50 yards of the cesspit.
Looking around among the filth and the garbage, Ursus discovers the decaying remains of human limbs and bodies. They look to be anywhere from several days to several weeks old, and look like they have been heavily gnawed upon. The teeth marks on them are probably not those of any local scavenger found in the city, being to large and serrated.
Just when he thinks he's had about enough of this carnage, the Ulfen finds a damaged falchion among the debris. Looking at it carefully, he can tell that the blade broke in half, probably when it hit something hard.
Appraise check
1d20 + 19
Daxter's knowledge of weapons from this part of Golarion is not the best, but it looks to him that this weapon was made either here in Jalmeray or possibly in Vudra. He points to a mark under the handle of the hilt made by the forger. None of you have seen this particular mark before.
"Aquila, can you pick up the scent of whatever backward-footed devil left those tracks and chewed on those bones?"
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"Damn, it looks like we are not going to be able to track this thing straight to the cult", Ursus growls looking around again.
"We have a few leads at least. We could see if any of the locals saw who, or what, has been coming by here and dropping off these remains. We can try to learn more about whatever this thing is", he continues indicating the strange footprints and gnawed human bones. "Or we could see if someone knows more about where that blade came from - maybe Agni would know", the warrior explains.
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It's not on your character sheet's spell list. I'll give you this one as a freebie, but you need to keep a current list of memorized spells, either in your character profile or sent to me via email. Otherwise I will hold you to the memorized spells on the character sheet you sent me.
It's in Faiths of Purity
"I think maybe this blade may hold more information than we can gleam right now. Maybe we should see serah Agni."
Aquila will switch back to 'halfling' and search around some more.
Are there any birds around? As Aquila could ask them for information...
Perception 1d20+24
There are birds in the area.
Farouq will help and search around, if he can make out anything around, as tracks, items, whatsover.
Perception 1d20+16
Survival 1d20+16
Farouq looks around, but doesn't find anything else that he think might prove useful.
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Looking at Aquila Farouq asks him "Did you find any other leads? Maybe we should try other [places, we still have to follow some strings. We haven't spoken to Lord Mahindra the rumormonger, or Pravezak, the Thakur's spiritual advisor yet."
"Nope, haven't found anything yet. It might be a good idea to follow our solid leads first and chase wild geese later. I guess the chance people or birds would have seen anything and want to talk to us about it is very small. Let's not give the cult any more time to do their evil and try not to waste precious time."
"Let's go to Lord Mahindra. Rumormongers always seem to be a solid lead. Costly, but solid..."
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"Aquila, can you see what the birds have seen like you suggested while Daxter is questioning the locals? I doubt they miss much.
"Problem is that birds that are up now were probably asleep then and the other way around"
Aquila pauses and thinks...
"I could try to find a nocternal bird and wake him up, but I don't knwo how helpful he or she would be"
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"Problem is that birds that are up now were probably asleep then and the other way around"
Aquila pauses and thinks...
"I could try to find a nocternal bird and wake him up, but I don't knwo how helpful he or she would be"
"Well I didn't think you could turn into a lizard and track a dead woman's perfume either", the big Ulfen says with a laugh.
"Give it a shot little guy".
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Ok, I'll try
To determine what birds might have been active during the time the head was deposited. knowledge nature (+guidance)
Find the spot were the bird is sleeping. Survival
With speak with animals (using eagleshaman ability to speak with birds), try to ask for information. Diplomacy or Handle animal (birds)
Ok, I'll try
To determine what birds might have been active during the time the head was deposited. knowledge nature (+guidance)1d20+6
Find the spot were the bird is sleeping. Survival1d20+25
With speak with animals (using eagleshaman ability to speak with birds), try to ask for information. Diplomacy 1d20+15or Handle animal (birds) 1d20+11
Aquila looks around for a bit, but eventually finds some birds which might have been up at night. Activating his totem, Aquila "speaks" to the animals (actually a series of whistles).
Daxter will ask around if anyone saw anything unusual.
Diplomacy check(to gather information)
1d20 + 14
Daxter asks the poorest of the poor which make up this part of Niswan about goings on at the abandoned cesspit. He senses that they are afraid of it and avoid it if at all possible, but can't get any clear indication as to what scares them. The only thing he hears is that "angry spirits haunt this place".
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Activating his totem, Aquila "speaks" to the animals (actually a series of whistles).
"A little bird told me that a creature has been stalking about the smelly house lately. It saw him more than once and it's not a human. It seems to appear in two different shapes, one human and one ... not human"
"It was a longshot, but I guess it payed off! Now we know it's some kind of shapeshifter, anything ring a bell?"
Activating his totem, Aquila "speaks" to the animals (actually a series of whistles).
"I think that's all we are going to be able to learn here for now. Perhaps now would be a good time to see that information peddler".