Suliji’s the one who started it all—she and her withered patron. What do you know of what the Korholm Agenda’s done?
She summaries all the actions she's done to the Pathfinder Society, such as the Agenda’s attack on the Grand Lodge, the Society’s reprisals against key Agenda ringleaders, and the recent plot to steal the sun orchid elixir.
Kramolag's spirit then smirks and continues. Suliji knows how to manipulate. She pulled together a group of six of us. Some she lured with a chance for revenge, others with the promise of profit, and me with the looming specter of blackmail.
We did her bidding, coordinated her attack on the Grand Lodge, and ultimately suffered when the Society began attacking to avenge itself. No doubt you’ve felt very proud every time you executed another Korholm leader? We’ve learned the hard way that Suliji uses those happy feelings as a smokescreen to operate with impunity, letting you think you’ve won every time you kill a decoy. No doubt she sold me out because I looked too deeply into her real plans.
She pause before continuing Suliji’s an ambitious woman, but she covers her tracks well. I found that she returned to Ostenso regularly over the past two years—and not to check in at the Aspis headquarters. Instead, she was sneaking into the mausoleum of Jhandorage Vaulnder Alexayn. He is—or was—one of the Consortium’s founders who died more than a century ago. He was practically an informal saint of the Druman Kalistocracy by the time he died, so she might be smuggling his wealth out. More likely she’s found some other advantage within, possibly one tied to the Consortium’s early days that she could hold over the Patrons’heads or use to tear the Consortium apart.
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"So Suliji is our next target, and she's in Cheliax. How wonderful." The dwarf looks at the specter with an appraising gaze, seeming to weigh his words carefully. "Your magic will only keep you here so long. As a servant of Abadar, I can intercede in this matter. But as you are well aware, such tasks come at a price. Will you work for the Society, much as you did for the Consortium, in return for this boon?"
I think so. Go to Ostenso, break into Alexayn’s crypt, and learn what Suliji plans next. Assuming she’s not just aiming to give every child a puppy and a free education, you’ll probably want to
stop her. Says the spirit of the woman.
I won't work for anyone but for Science, if your society of no-name can provide me the tools I need for my research, I will gladly work for them. But, I was coerced once, I won't be a second time. I can repay your kindness with money, but I won't repay you with my life.
She could, If that is what she have wanted, but unfortunately for you, she not that kind of people.
On Professor Kramolag's corpse you found a ring of alchemy II , a torn red coat of the grand alchemist but she has broken down the power of the robe into its alchemical components in order to mix her special extract of speak with dead.
After a thorough-full search you also uncover several of Professor Kramolag’s lab notebooks, each written in a cramped hand. She details her studies of the Astral Plane, teleportation signatures in Thuvia , and their parallels with the mad ramblings of creatures closely tied to Yog-Sothoth. Apparently, study of these same eldritch entities helped Kramolag unlock her recipe for the God Fount, suggesting that the like of Outer Gods and Great Old Ones might be able to grant mortals immortality. You find also several of Kramolag’s contacts within a network of like-minded researchers in these notebook.
With Professor Kramolag dead, and the laboratories cleansed of their most dangerous experiments, you can depart Wingless Rock and report back to Marcos Farabellus.
He listens to what they found and comes to the conclusion that this intra-Aspis conspiracy could readily spin into the Society’s problem, and the only way to be sure is to investigate Alexayn’s mausoleum. He asks you to meet with their other agents, settle any other affairs, and begin preparations to travel to Ostenso for a highly sensitive incursion into the Consortium’s backyard.
Any suggestion that Suliji Peshar has been feeding the Society phony intelligence is deeply concerning. Farabellus muses that the Society’s key Aspis informant over the past year has been a very secretive individual using the alias “Three Rings” and might have also been Suliji’s pawn, as the informant consistently sniffed out Korholm Agenda ringleaders. He announces that he’ll begin checking the records and seeing if there’s a connection.
Aside from everything else, you likely also learned the terrifying truth about Conference Z: it runs as deep as the Aspis Consortium itself, has a history to rival its parent group, and is engaged in some of the strangest, most amoral, and most dangerous experimentations thinkable. You have thwarted Professor Kramolag’s specific divine experiments, but the bizarre things they learned about what took place in her labs—including the very real possibility that ambition combined with the power of the Outer Gods might spell a recipe for granting divinity to mortals—have likely shaken them to their core...
The head of the group, Maralyn Corwins, report that they had no difficulties on site, they manage to recover worthwhile occult informations left by the first Aspis team sent on the compound.
Athrax, the second in command of the scroll seeker adds he had no problem working with the Kernaug group and his knowledge in alchemy was of great help to succeed on this mission.
The group succeed with flying color !
Garl and Shrade are quite happy to explain how many monsters they have "fixed" during their mission until Janira speak up and explain what they have found in the facility.
Seems to corroborate what you have found on Professor Cramolag's research about esoteric being and use of live potient for her experiment to create a god thing through knowledge of the Great Old One...
Despite the numerous dangers they have been confronted with, it seems that no one in the group was injured nor marked by what they have discovered there.
It's a Resounding Success !