Gadren raises a hand keeping his sword ready. Unsure if the simple steel would have much affect gouts of flame are spewed forth from his his hand over the specter.
Maria grins, holding her glowing sword enhanced by Lazar and swings fiercely at the apparition
but her eagerness betrays her as she swings off balance.
The Splatterman shudders as the page is torn from his book, then is lightly touched by Gadren's flames, he shifts back and begins the gestures of a spell as Maria's blade just misses him.
Empowered Summon Monster II.
Whatever the spell is it's taking some time.
Everyone else is able to act now.
Leaving the book to Phaedra, Lazar concentrates once more on Maria's sword.
Maria sets her face with grim determination and steps forward to attempt to interrupt the spell.
Mishtes enters another rage and attacks Splatterman this time:
Mishtes performs a perfect strike, only to see his scimitar pass through the ghost harmlessly. This throughs off his strike with the handaxe enough to miss.
Maria her weapon enchanted strikes truly, her blade cutting deep into the undead.
Phaedra tears another spell from the book. Drawing a howl of both pain and despair from the Splatterman.
Cedric moves to where his channel can reach and calls upon his god again.
Savaged by the parties attacks the Splatterman does not get his spell off successfully.
As Maria has gone it's Gadren's action.
Gadren can't quite make out the spell but manages to get a minor one of his own off. "We'll be sending you to a much grimmer prison for eternity!"
Gadren's spell hits the Ghost, which responds by slipping back in a 5' step and blasting Lazar with a maximised Magic missile spell.
4 bolts of arcane energy slam into Lazar for 20 points of damage.
The party may now act. Gadren and Maria's actions come after the others though.
Gadren uses the cantrip again hitting the specter right between the eyes. He quickly takes out his potion of cure light wounds and holds it in his hand offering it to Lazar.
Maria steps up, front and center with the ghost, looking to end his attacks.
But she can't quite manage to land her blows. Frustrated, she calls out "Mishtes, come flank him with me!"
Cedric runs up to Maria, resting his hand on her blade and gives a nod. As before the blade glows with a soft golden hue.
Maria grins her thanks at Cedric and raises her sword high for the next blow.
Lazar steps back from the impact. "Ugh!"
Feeling he can't endure another discharge, he steps back and uses a curative blessing, leaving his friends to end the Splatterman's.
"It's okay for now, thank you. Focus yourselves on finishing him" he says to Garden.
Mishtes drops his scimitar, realizing it's useless against splatterman, and then hold's Lopper's axe in his main hand and moves in to attack the ghost again.
Phaedra will tear out another page from the Splatterman's book....
The Splatterman is pressed on all sides and unable to slip away, so he reaches out with one spectral hand to harm Cedric
The party may now act.
Mishtes roars "Die and stay dead this time, damn you!", and takes another swing at Splattrman with Lopper's Axe:
Gadren tries to keep whittling down the ghost with his cantrip.
Even as the Splatterman's hand wounds Cedric he dies as a bellow from Mishtes "Die and stay dead this time, damn you!" marks the Lopper's axe cutting him down.
Vesorianna's voice thunders through the dank halls "You shall not return!" and the last of the five spirits is ended.
At the bottom of the flooded oubliette you find the items stolen from Warden Hawkran.
Loot.
Longsword +1 Keen,
Mithral dagger +1,
A ring of protection +1.
Any last things you need to do?
As soon as Splatterman is gone, Mishtes slumps to the floor to catch his breath .
"Well done, everyone! It sounds like we've banished those five ghosts for good.
"I think we should all go back to the professor's house for a good rest!"
Maria grins with pleasure at seeing the apparition disappear. She nods to Cedric, hefting her weapon. "Thanks! I think I'm getting the hang of that. I'll pray to Iomedae to see if I can do that too." Then she turns back to the loot. "Who wants what here? I don't have much use for any of this save the ring. But maybe someone else could use it ever more. Right now, I say it's time to work on the iron maiden. Will someone keep an eye on me? Wouldn't want that thing to try at my mind again." Maria will try to haul the maiden to the shaft then use her block and tackle to raise it to the first floor. She's willing to spend a very long time lugging it outside then will come back with a borrowed cart.
Lazar agrees with Maria, and tries to help, but adds "I would like to check on Vesorianna before we move out. It's been a long wait for her final rest, wouldn't hurt to check."
Cedric us caught off guard at the ferocity of the attack and kneels in pain as color is seemed to be drained from him. As the spectre falls, he clumsily stands and calls upon the light further for himself and the others
After catching his breath, Mishtes looks at the loot found with Splatterman.
"If nobody minds, I fancy this fine looking sword", he says pointing to the +1 longsword.
Mishtes will also lend a hand to help Maria get rid of the Iron Maiden and help someone put the warden's remains to a proper resting place too.
"I had my eye on it but you'll get a bit more use out of it Mishtes. I think checking on Vesorianna is a good idea before departing for the night." The surprisingly robust wizard helps move the Iron Maiden.
Phaedra is in agreement to check on Vesorianna before they leave and will also lend her assistance in hauling out the Iron Maiden to be melted down.
Vesorianna seems to be more refined when you return to her, and has a look of satisfaction on her face. "One thing remains to be done." she says calmly. "Have you found my husbands badge of office?"
What are you doing now?
"That we did, ma'am." says Lazar when Mishtes presents the bag.
Maria bows seriously to the lady. "I aspire to what you have done, fighting and destroying evil even after death."
Vesorianna takes the badge reverently, somehow able to hold it even in her ghostly hands. "It is a symbol, a symbol of authority. My husband once held full command of Harrowstone, and now I do."
She raises the badge high and her voice echoes through the entire prison. "By my authority I say "
A wave of lights burst from Vesorianna and the badge, it washes over you, leaving you feeling refreshed and somehow clean. The light doesn't end with you, it travels through the walls until the entire prison is washed in it.
She looks at you all and smiles as she fades away. "Thank you." The badge drops to the ground with a clatter as she is gone.
The badge continues to glow softly from then on, and functions as a Rod of lesser ectoplasmic metamagic.
You can now return to Ravengro and report back to Kendra
Maria picks up the badge. "Huh. Could one of you use this?" She looks mostly at Gadren.
"Guess we should head back."
Lazar feels the relief, enjoying once more having done his job proper. "We should check on Kendra. I didn't like some looks she received from the locals."
"Agreed but as for Maria's question I think longterm it should be someone who is staying in the area. The building might one day serve a better purpose than languishing as it has now things have improved."
"So long as Kendra is well, I'd say this has been a good day all round!"
Arriving back in the village you find Kendra awaiting you, she anxiously asks after your health, and after your progress. There have been a number of minor disturbances in Ravengro while you've been away.
Incidents which can only be put down to wicked undead.
"Then, only an hour or so past we saw a bright light shining over Harrowstone. Has something happened?"
What are you doing now?
"Yes!" Maria actually laughs a clear, sparkling laugh. "The place has been purged!" She grows serious again when she hears of the disturbances. "Sounds like undead in the rest of the town? That's not minor..." Maria wants to hear more about these disturbances.
"Are the disturbances still ongoing? Has anyone been dealing with them?"
"I'd like to know too. We were too busy purging that old prison."
"We may have to ourselves. We've gotten a bit of practice in of late you could say."
"The Lady would be glad if we did. But we could have a tasty dinner and a well deserved rest before."
Though you search carefully there is nothing to be found in Ravengro, in fact after a quiet nights rest the village is reporting nothing but peace everywhere?
Gibs Hephenus the surly old man who tried to stop Professor Lorrimor from being interred in the graveyard comes forward to confess it was him painting the bloody letters on the Harrowstone monument. "It were a voice in my dreams, every night telling me to put another letter up. I couldn't speak of it, or even remember it clear during the day, but every night it would bite at me over an over until one morning another chicken would be dead and another letter was up there!" He shudders, looking pale and frightened. "But last night there was nothing, the voice is gone! Whatever you did has ended the ghosts."
With Gibs testimony, and the end of the little signs of evil spirits infesting their village, the residents get together and gift the party with 3000gp as a reward for ending the danger.
All that is left for you to to honor the Professor's last wish and deliver his books to Lepidstadt.
What are you doing now?
Lazar feels happy to have fulfilled the task that the Lady has presented to him. Now that all that's left is going to Lepidstadt, he wonders what Kendra's going to do. "What are you up to, Kendra? Are you going to stay here in Ravengro?"