"Good day is there anyway we can help?" Herm says not sure what to make of a Ghost trying to hang itself.
"How do you want to help? I killed all these people. The whole population of Feldgrau!" the ghost sobs.
"How did you go about that? Why as well?" Herm asks his blade still in his scabbard
"I pushed for legislation that encouraged political neutrality during the civil war. The legislation allowed me to cater to passing troops without prejudice, including the troops who would become Feldgrau’s conquerors. In the end, Neska’s troops bought my hospitality, but put Feldgrau to the sword and torch the next morning. I hid, but upon witnessing the horror of the troops slaughtering the townsfolk, I returned to my inn and hung himself in the storeroom." the ghost tells.
"And now an even greater peril has come to Feldgrau, one that threatens to rob its restless dead of their souls and spiral them toward oblivion."
"Yeah, when you put it like that, it sounds pretty bad."
"It does yes, did this company move on? Or are some of them still here?" Herm asks. "What do you know of this other evil?"
"This peril has a name - Auren Vrood - a Whispering Way necromancer who is exhuming Feldgrau’s bodies one by one and turning them into the walking dead." the ghost tells.
"Good, we were after him and we will drive him out of your home." Herm says drawing his Mithril Long sword. "Is there anything we can do for you before we go?"
"No. But if you bring me his head, I can read his mind for you:" The ghost offers.
"Interesting, then that we shall do. Do you know where he is staying? Would ave us sometime." Herm asks again
"Somewhere that direction. Where the tower stands." the ghost tells and points the opposite direction you came into the inn.
Taking a look out of the window you can see the town square in front of a tower. There are two Whispering Way cultists busy unearthing bones from a mass grave. The main work force are a dozen skeletons.
Jomida takes a look. "Well. That's a lot of walking bones. Are they dangerous?"
Kendra takes a look too. "No, they are not especially dangerous to us. But those cultists may be. And it's in the open. If it isn't over quick, others might come to their aid." she assesses the situation.
"Yilgwi could take them all out with some of his divine channels, then I can focus on 1 cultist while Kendra and You Jominda take out the other?" Herm lays out their plan
"Awww." Jominda comments. "I was hoping to make some explode! But it is more effective this way."
"So, Yilgwi charges in first to clear the coast, or shall I start with bombardement from above?"
"You could bombard from above if you wanted too. Just don't hit Yilgwi though." Herm says
Jominda takes some more time to create two extracts. "Yilgwi, healing is now your task. So I can provide you with this invisibility potion. I'll take one too. I fly out and start the attack with a big bang, and you move in to destroy the skeletons."
After handing the extract to Yilgwi, Jominda drinks hers and disappears from sight. Then the door all came in through opens again by an invisible hand.
As nothing happens Jominda starts bombing away at one of the cultists, selecting the one by trying to get as much skeletons into the blast as possible.
The Whispering Way curate has not seen it coming and is hit hard and set aflame.
Jominda keeps bombing away at the evil women.
The skeletons act agitated, but the can't sly and have no ranged weapons. The curates have options. One casts a spell the other has her scythe attack by magical hand.
Jominda shakes off the attempt of magic at her and easily evades the scythe.
Herm moves towards the cultists with his sword and shield out, Swinging if he can get close enough.
Herm charges towards the battle, and strikes at one of the skeletons, that block the way to the cultists. But his blade slides off the bones, not harming the undead at all.
Yilgwi charges as well, showing off his nifty Holy Symbol and channeling positive energy. "You skeletons are too skinny!"
All skeletons in Yilgwi's area of holy energy burst crumble to dust. Which leaves only a select few of them standing.
The cultists couter Yilgwi's calling by holding up silver symbols depicting a death’s head moth and channel energy too.
Herm grunts as the unholy energy washes over him. "You will not deter us from our mission." Herm says moving towards one of the cultist.
Herm slashes out at a skeleton
"Your lousy god is a pipsqueak. What do you do for a living? Tortouring the pet of little kids?" Jominda angrily shouts at them, before dousing them in more explosions.
Herms takes care of another skeleton. And Jominda proves that cultists have only a limited ability to resist explosives. The first curate is badly hit and dies. The other one is set aflame.
Kendra stays alert in the distance. None of her spells would do a lot good in this situation. But the battle preparation could have been better. A haste could have helped. she ponders.
Yilgwi moves around and channels again to get rid of the remaining skeletons. The unlife leaves the abominations and the bones fall apart and crumble on the ground.
The curate takes the insults personally and attacks Jominda with her scythe.
Jominda crosses her arms and tries to make a straight face. That scythe left a bad cut. She is ready to end that annoying cultist, but leaves it to Herm and Yilgwi to do so for now.
Herm moves to the closest of the Curates, "You have forfeited the chance to surrender I will end your lives to preserve others." Herm says as his longsword swings out.
Herm stabs into the curate. Yilgwi joins with his axe, but with less success.
As Jominda is not willing to take another hit from that woman, she bombs her out of existance.
The curate is blown to pieces. But it is unlikely that this battle in the open has gone unnoticed.
potion of cure serious wounds
unholy water (4 flasks)
+1 breastplate
+1 scythe
pearl of power(1st level)
onyxes worth 450 gp
silver dust worth 25 gp
spell component pouch
silver unholy symbol of Urgathoa
"I will take these symbols and have them destroyed." Herm says looking the gear over. 'We should put these aside if we won't use them and come back."
Jominda takes the nice looking black stones and the silver dust. Then she takes the cloak of one of the curates and dons it. Next she grabs a scythe. "What do you say? Persuasive?" She takes on the doom and gloom expressions she'd expect from a cultist with a death wish.
Kendra comes over to join the consultation. "That idea is only half bad. We have a certain lack of skeleton followers to make it really believable, but it might deceive a casual onlooker." She grabs a cloak and a scythe for herself.
"It feels kind of powerful, to wield such a thing. If only I knew how to use it properly."
"I will stick out very badly but you could have taken me prisoner I guess and we could see if that works. I could have dispatched the skeletons." Herm says
"We just need to find another cultist with a cloak." Jominda suggests.
Whatever the solution will be, can we leave this open place now?" Kendra objects and turns to leave towards the house again.
"We can yes." Herm says taking the lead as Kendra heads towards the house.