At the farm the scene is what one would expect;screaming farmers,including obviously the owner of the animal,Father Grimb. and three acolytes helping in taking away the body and not much more.
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After following some of the nervous neighbors,which were in turn following others running toward the Town Square,Kendra and Jaylen hear rumors about another animal having been butchered:a mule belonging to farmer which lives on the eastern border of the town has been found dead an hour ago,the throat opened.
Kendra takes her leave from the house while her guests are pondering,but after a few minutes she comes back,an uneasy expression on her face. "Sorry to trouble everyone,but looking from the entry path here i think there is a commotion in the nearby houses.I hope nothing else happened but they aren't normal morning activities."
Aemrelara: You don't remember hearing anything like that before;obviously it isn't a normal dream,and given that you are starting to see hints of some "presence" around town,maybe this phenomenon has been caused by an outside "force"
Marzio's will save:
"Indeed Ms.Jaylen we had the same nightmare.This cannot be a coincidence.We should really manage to take a look at some of the town archives."
Raven Knight will save:
The Raven Knight comes downstairs, says hello while sitting at the desk for breakfast,than notices Kendra's and Aemrelara's mood. After hearing what happened to the girls,he claims he had a weird nightmare too,but managed to rest after it.
You are running along a seemingly endless road,your hooves scattering small stones and dirt all around your pawns.You look at the ground you are running on,and it is more painted in red each time your eyes meet the path,with each increasing in shade of reds the noise caused by your running changes from a pounding on ground to a splashing on a liquid,a red liquid.
All those who were sleeping in Kendra's house had this nightmare during this night,and all wake up panting, their heads aching.
Apart from looking,neither of the "tourists" found anything interesting in the local market.Jaylen had a day of relax , apart from some local children's singing that she couldn't understand.
Everyone returned Kendra's place at evening and prepared for the night.
Aemrelara is by far the best of the performers on show at the tavern,and even though the audience is scarce she is acclaimed (but not paid).
Aemrelara:the girl take you to the parents of one of them,but all you get to know in the end is that the song came in popularity around here few years after the burning of the prison.
The girls let Aemrelara talk and play with them,they are pleased to let the elf.
Put her body on the bed
Watch the blood come out the pipe
Drops of red so sparkly bright
With a hammer killed his wife
Tricksy father tells a lie
Then we are waiting for Ishmell and Beckett. On a side note, Sajan, if you study all the day with professor's lorrimor library you can open that spoiler about the book with a brass scarab at will,no need to roll(the one which had a DC25 knowl arcana.) Here it is, easier.
the book with the brass scarab: The book with the scarab is one of the principal books of the Esoteric Order of the Palatine Eye, a secretive sect whose members have deep interest in all things political and arcane
The group to which jaylen asks is afraid of a stranger and runs to their parents.
Put her body on the bed
Watch the blood come out the pipe
Drops of red so sparkly bright
With a hammer killed his wife
Tricksy father tells a lie
Metti il corpo di lei sul letto
Guarda il sangue scorrer fuori dal flauto
Con goccie di rosso brillante
Ha ucciso sua moglie con un martello
Il frate imbroglione sta mentendo
Is everyone still out for Easter?
Be it investigating,exploring or simply poking around the stands,Aemrelara,Raven Knight,Marzio and Jaylen (Sajan were busy with books) run into a group of small varisian girls dressed in shawls that are playing a skipping the rope and singing game.
The varisian song: Put her body on the bed Take a knife and lop her head Watch the blood come out the pipe
Drops of red so sparkly bright
With a hammer killed his wife
Tricksy father tells a lie
OK,you find the book with the arrow saying RIGHT HERE DUMBASS, now you have to roll to see if the arrow points in the right direction or is deceiving you :P
Jaylen: The Ravengro Forge sells all normal weapons and armors from Corebook,plus farming tools.It also sells several masterwork weapons and armors.For other info you need higher trust or very good Diplomacy.
Current date:Wealday,3 of Pharast,4711 AR 3nd day in Ravengro
Aemrelara: Sarianna Vai looks at the elven girl with a judging eye :"Well my dear,you sure have the good look,and i have been told an elf did a fine singing performance at the professor burial; i guess it is you.Performers here are rarely paid if that is what you are thinking,but otherwise i'm always happy to hear new talents.Come back here tomorrow in the evening for a little test will you?"
Aemrelara: The guardman says he is called Mardhuszy and seems eager to flirt with the elven woman,but also his comrade calls him back to duty.The two men greet the elf as she leaves for Lorrimor's place. The Outward Inn is a large and well kept building;from the outside Aemrelara can tell it can have about 10 rooms,and the main floor is clean. Sarianna Vai welcomes the elven girl with good manners,more because she considers her a guest than real sympathy.She is a human woman about on her late fourty but still good looking. “Welcome to the Outward Inn my dear.How can i help you? Do you need food and lodging?”
Jaylen: The people arrived and the fight occurred produced a lot of new tracks.Impossible to tell which are from the culprit.The area around the statue has no hidden objects or similar clues.
While the scout girl is searching,Gibs arrives,having finally awoke;seeing the commotion he too asks what happened,and when he is told his angry reaction to the desecration of the monument is,or rather looks,sincere. Father G. is willing to draw the map,but tells Jaylen that maybe it is not needed.The body was found inside the prison courtyard at the feet of the furthest wall from the main gate,and behind the large murky pond of water that created over the years on the ground along the gap in the crumbled eastern walls.
: The Wispering Way is a sinister organization of necromancer that has been active in the Inner Sea region for thousands of years.
Aemrelara:
Raven Knight: without researching the temple archives father Grim knows very little.
Did you notice anything strange about the circumstances of the Professor's death, or his remains? "Unfortunately no one ever goes up there.After several days of absence kendra asked for extensive research of her father,and we finally found the corpse under that huge gargoyle statue along a wall of the prison ruins.Don't know what the professor was doing there,but looks like a mere accident" Did you notice anything strange about the circumstances of the Professor's death, or his remains? "The bodies are too old or ruined to be recognizable,maybe some nameless dead buried in the nearby grounds before we came here" Why is this monument frequented by lovers? Is it only youthful trists, or do older coupes also come here, and why? "I think it is just because the monument is one of the most intimate place of the town, and far from each home.Like you said it is just youthful consuetude" Besides us, and pror to the Professor's death, has anyone strange or new been seen in town? "I don't,but the ruins are far enough from the main town so that the locals never go there,kind scary if you know what i mean."
Jaylen:
Aemrelara:
Sajan and Raven Knight:
Will update tomorrow guys.Have a nice Sunday.
Eventually someone leave to look for father Grimburrow,which should be at the Pharasma temple now. The housewives take their children away from the horrific view of destroyed undead,while other say it is uncommon to see those things in Ravengro,even though Ustalav is known to be hosting a lot of necromancers in hiding. More, Raven and Jaylen come to know that the monument is usually frequented only by young loving couples,and not very often.
Sajan: You are sure this isn't a necromancy ritual.You can't be sure about the time the chickens died,but you walked along the same path yesterday when you arrived for the burial,and there were no dead chickens
Some farmers from nearby houses begins to approach,intrigued by the rumors and shouts.
Knowledge history or local DC15:
Harrowstone was built in 4594,with Ravengro immediatly after as support and food producer for the prison employees.The fire that killed all of the prisoners and most of the guards destroyed a large portion of the prison underground eastern wing,but left most of the stone structure above relatively intact.Ther prison warden perished in the fire,along wih his wife,although no one knows why she was in the prison when the fire occured. This statue commemorates the warden and the guards who lost their lives and was built in the months after the tragedy.
Apart from the blood splattered all around the statue basament and around it on the ground, there are no real tracks to follow.
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