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Both of the creatures seem to avoid the brunt of Greadon's flames as they press forward. The hunchbacked man grabs a bottle from the table and drinks it.
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"I really hate undead," Vyk muttered before diving past Vincent. He charged his rapier with arcane power.
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Vyk stabs Mr. Marrow with what should have been a killing blow, but it appears the simple puncture wound did not do as much damage as Vyk expected. The new guy and Mr. Marrow converge on Vyk Tyr attempting to beat him into submission.
Mr. Marrow nearly connects but Vyk is quick on his feet and dodges out of the way.
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"You got it, Vince!" Vyk said after extracting his rapier from the zombie.
"That really should have done more damage."
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Tuich manages to get a small hit on the new guy while Garedon hits Mr. Marrow with a magic missile causing him to stumble a bit. The hunchbacked man screams,"HOW DARE YOU TRY TO DESTROY MR. MARROW!!" He grabs a small vial off his belt gives it a few shakes and tosses it at Vincent.
In his anger his throw goes wild hitting the wall south of Vincent. A wave of frigged cold hits Vincent and Vyk Tyr.
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Vyk stares at the hunchbacked man incredulously.
"You name them? You need to get out more."
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Vincent's blade does in fact cleave the second zombie in two causing a gush of foul smelling fluids from the wound. Miko throws a spell at the crazed man.
Which he manages to shake off.
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"You need to get out more."
Tuich gives Vyk an equally incredulous look as she takes a step towards the room. "No he doesn't!" she exclaims. "Doctor Creepy is just fine staying down here!" She shudders at the thought of running into him, or someone like him, in a dark alley... and launches her scarf again after another invocation.
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Tuich strikes the man with her steal scarf while Garedon uses his wand causing the man to cry out in pain and anger. "Mr. Marrow was my first creation I gave him life again and I just finished that other one and didn't even get a chance to name him." He pulls another vial from his belt and gives it a shake before throwing it at Vincent.
The vial slips from his fingers as he throws it causing it to hit the ground between Dr. Creepy and Vincent.
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Vyk managed to avoid more freezing shards, but still took some to his shoulder.
"That's enough out of you, " he roared defiantly. He brought his hand up and unleashed a swirling chaos of multicolored lights.
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"At the risk of denying him the second best gift in life, would someone have the power to stabilize (preferably) or, possibly, simply heal the doctor?" Garedon tries his best, however.
"... Hmm. That may be sufficient to the task at hand... It seems that controlling the 'spurting' wounds is generally an important, first step towards stabilizing a dying individual."
After he is stabilized, Garedon casts detect magic and scans the 'doctor' and the room. He then searches the prone form and helps secure him with ropes, and searches the room and inspects the papers afterwards.
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Scanning Dr. Creepy he has ? Potion (2), ? Potion (2), ? Wand and ? Spear. He also has a few alchemical items two acid flasks, two alchemist fires, two smoke sticks, two thunderstones a tanglefoot bag, a quality set of embalming tools, masterwork studded leather armor and an alchemist formulae book.
Garedon also finds a set of books in the north west corner about creating undead through alchemical means. Being a lost and forbidden knowledge the books are worth a bit of money to the right buyer.
Miko heals the creepy man and he wakes up looking at the group. "Who are you and why are you doing this to me."
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"We are Pathfinders (i.e. individuals belonging to and acting under the auspices of the Pathfinder Society) working with the Pharasmin authorities to clear this level of the ossuary complex and to determine the cause or causes of missing corpses. The latter would seem to be something that you may have particular knowledge regarding."
"Additionally, the reanimation of the dead (as opposed to resurrection, raising or reincarnation, or as I have formulated a mnemonic phrase, the "Three "R's" of Good Clerical Practice") is universally considered an evil act (invoking and powered by evil energies and forces), even in these days of moral relativism..."
"More additionally, given the myriad types of evil undead choices already available to the average necromancer, the creation of a new type of zombie seems ... unnecessary. I would thus imagine that the aforementioned Pharasmin authorities will be most interested in your efforts and persistent in the inquiries."
"Before pursuing such unpleasantries, however, I would care to hear your explanation of who you are and why you are doing this, to turn the questioning phrase back to yourself. Among topics you may wish to touch upon are the identity and nature of 'Esme' and whether you consider yourself an alchemist, a cleric, a wizard specializing in necromancy, a practitioner of another class, or some mixture of the previous..."
At this point Garedon stops, feeling someone's elbow jab him in the ribs.
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He listens to Garedon his brow slowly furrowing the longer he talked. He chuckles a little when Miko elbows him and answers Miko. "I am down here because the fools who lead the monastery did not understand my work. We could use alchemy to reanimate the sacred remains here to free up space and double our manpower. They called me a heretic and excommunicated me. So I came down here to show them just how much this lost knowledge could do."
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Vyk pops the top off one of the potions and takes a long draw.
"Ah. Refreshing," he said after smacking his lips and staring at Dr. Creepy. "Oh, I'm sorry. Was this yours?"
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Vincent, once the potions are identified, drinks a CLW potion and takes one of the Enlarge Person potions for later use.
He gives Dr. Creepy looks of vague disappointment that the man didn't put up a better fight. "Alchemical zombies sound interesting, but I can see why you'd get branded as a heretic. If I walked up to the church of Gorum and told the warpriests that lobbying and petitioning are how people should reconcile their differences, they'd kick me out too. Perhaps you should find a different deity to serve with your particular set of skills. Or some agnostic alchemists' guild?"
He continues, "Please remember that you lost the fight, and by Gorumic code you're no longer in a position to make demands." He finds a clean looking rag on the table and starts wiping blood off of his sword.
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Interesting? This man unleashes unspeakable nightmares upon us, and you call it interesting?
Miko is visibly upset at Vincent's words, but in the end it's nothing compared to her anger at the mad alchemist: Are you insane? What kind of way is that to treat a soul?
Tuich is right, what kind of sick conspiracy is this? Were the Pharasmins in on this all along? Bodies gone missing, they surely must have had a hunch. To think we're risking our lives here!
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"One should never suspect conspiracy, when incompetence is wholly more likely," Vyk said with a pointed look at Miko and Tuich.
Vyk then addressed Doctor Creepy. "And don't think we haven't noticed you've neglected to give us your name. So out with it."
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"Hmm. It is true that the leadership are often fools and he does have a point about the efficient use of available resources..." Garedon pauses, briefly considering the myriad possibilities. "However, the last would-be necromancer we found was a corpse, killed when his own creations turned on him, creations which then tried to kill us. I would suggest an improved version of the spell commonly known as 'Unseen Servant': fewer religious complications, and essentially no hunger for brains that I am aware of."
"As Vyk Tyr has called attention to and attempted to rectify the apparently-deliberate unmentioned state of your name, I would also so note that you appear to be deliberately not forthcoming in explaining the identity and nature of the person or entity with the name of 'Esme'. I would thus also strongly recommended that you ... 'so out with it' ... since we are likely to be much more sympathetic towards any matters of importance to you than would be the Pharasmin authorities."
"Additionally, please answer the following question, which I have enumerated to make the question more comprehensible and easier answered: Given that the animation of the dead by standard means is an evil act, powered by negative energies and forces and commanded by evil entities, would you consider yourself and your method of reanimation, by your best objective estimation, however necessarily subjectively viewed and judged (you may have the list repeated at any time): 1) evil; 2) insane; or 3) deranged (i.e. highly irrational to a negative, destructive effect); or 4) some combination of the aforementioned three choices; or 5) none of the aforementioned choices?"