Unless someone can cure him, the best we can do is end his suffering.
"The doctor knows best."
Know arcana
Atajay, you realise that this is not a natural disease, it is more of a supernatural one. Once it has been allowed to progress this far only powerful magic such as a limited wish would remove it.
”I’m afraid it is well beyond my capabilities,” he tells the others as he explains the supernatural malady.
Trevor sighs. Then we should send him on his way and burn the bodies.
"It is sad." if no one wants to do the deed, Penith will lift something really heavy with her mind and crush the poor man quickly.
"My most powerful heal won't help."
Penith manages to lift a really heavy rock and drops it on the creatures head, killing it instantly.
Trevor burns the bodies
After burning the body you head on up the stairs and reach a landing. This cylindrical room is empty, but is so tall as to have no apparent ceiling. About 120 feet up you can see another landing but there seems no obvious way to get there.
I guess we will need to fly. Anyone have some Crimson Cow drink? I hear it allows you to fly.
"I can... um... use my mind to carry myself up there. Maybe tie a rope for the rest of you?" Penith admits, though it is obvious she is nervous about going up there by herself.
"Or everyone could stand on something flat and I could lift that up there?" she likes that idea better but is rather uncertain if it would work.
"I can make us all fly. I have kept the wind walk spell up. But, I have a better option."
Senn casts mass fly.
Penith smiles at Senn as she floats about in the air without having to PUSH downward.
The archer tried to get his legs underneath him as he magically took flight!
Trevor spreads his arms wide! Weeee!
You fly up the shaft, when you are about halfway up the gravity suddenly reverses and you find yourselves falling upwards. Thanks to the spell you are able to control the fall and land safely.
A few bedrolls, a handful of spilled grain, and the ashen stain of a long dead fire occupy the centre of this nearly triangular room. At one of the three vertices, a hole in the wall opens to the outdoors, well above the ground below.
Perception
Atajay, Penith and Trevor you all sense a feeling of a growing, unholy energy.
”This feels like an evil place,” Atajay warns the others.
It is getting bigger! The energy! Something is going to happen!
"We know we are entering a profoundly evil place. Are we prepared?"
Ready to kick evil butt!
Senn, you think that this is a haunt.
Haunt initiative: 10
Upon hearing of the haunt, the archer floods the area with positive energy.
ClW
Trevor punches the haunt!
"What do we do?" Penith asks, as she flings a rock at it in case that helps.
In a burst of healing power Atajay damages the haunt.
Trevor and Penith's attacks both have no effect.
As the haunt starts to fully manifests you can see a dozen of Lowls' hirelings gathered around a fire. Suddenly one falls over and convulses as fungal tendrils emerge from his eyes. The others reach for weapons and begin striking their fallen comrade before heaving his corpse into the fire.
Will +1 vs charms and compulsions
Will:
Trevor, Penith and Bitey you all feel as if something has bludgeoned you, as you are thrown to the floor.
Senn will also do damage to it.
Whoah, what happened?
Domeric can do nothing but start his song, it appears.
Penith slams to the floor and picks herself up as Senn heals them all. "Is it invisible?" Penith asks as she looks around for anything that might tell what just hit them.
As Senn channels energy it bursts out into a blast of positive energy, striking the haunt and causing it to dissipate.
"Well, I hate haunts. Hated them my whole gods damn life. I can't figure them out for the life of me so I just blast them down. I'm kind of a bad cleric that way. But, I have other skills."
Looks like a dead end here. Wonder why those angel dudes were hanging around here.
Moving on you find a path leading upwards in a twisting fashion. Ropey strands of sickly fungus stretch across this rough hewn chamber's walls. Vine-like growths hang down from the ceiling, some ascending through a ten foot wide aperture more than forty feet above.
Any fungus monsters in here?
"I'm sure they'd be pretty fun-guys!"