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Juriya's bomb and Arrian's attack hit the ghoul at the same time, removing any chance it has to continue biting.

The woman is regains her reason once she sees Ethan. She is still very shaken however.

@Doni: Yes, you can exclude yourself.

@Juri: Haste at least gives you bonus to hit.

The three ghouls charge the group. Two of them get their heads bashed in by Alicia's hammer. The third one, however, gets close. Ano tries attacking it, but the thought of fey distracts her and her thrust is wild. The ghoul tries biting Arrian.

Seeing its fellow ghouls be cut down distracts the last one, and it nearly faceplants.

Party's up. Wrap it up!

In Brazil there's a saying "Bad luck in a game, good luck in love". The game refers to gambling, but still....

@Juri: What's the range increment on that?

Funny, you all noticed Cherry only now...

Ethan shoots an arrow that flies wide. Donimah casts a spell that makes the groups fast.

@Doni: The spell is 1 target/level, so that's 5 targets. You only have to pick one player to exclude.

The woman continues running towards the group. She is in complete panic and cannot muster a word, let alone a sentence. The creatures are taken by surprise at the group's appearance.

You all win initiative. Some of you went before the pregnant woman, but I just moved her anyway because this is what she would do regardless.

The way is peaceful in the dead of night. The group meets nobody on the road and they're already very tired as they hustle out of the Lost Coast road.

Everyone take 7 non-lethal damage

The road that goes next to the Foxglove river is also well maintained and the group makes good time. Nearby there's a piece of woodland known as Whisperwood.

About half an hour before you reach the manor, you walk towards a crossroad with a tree. I'm assuming you're carrying some sort of light for the non-night seeing PCs. A woman shrieks and runs towards the group. She seems to be pregnant. Behind her are 3 creatures, two of which are feasting on a body near the tree. The third seems to get up from feasting in order to follow her as she runs toward the light source. She is clearly panicking.

Still in my boss's workshop.

@Juriya: FYI you guys still aren't level 6 because you haven't rested yet (if Thassilonian comes at lvl 6)

@Alicia: I'm ok with the Leadership feat. In fact, I soft prepared Orik and Gogmurt to sort of be cohorts if you wanted them.

@Everyone: I may not be able to update the hike until probably Wednesday morning.

The tiefling nods at Alicia, although he looks at the weapon inquisitively. He takes it and the tip immediately drops to the ground. He obviously underestimated its weight, showing this is the first time he held such a weapon.

Dude is a level 1 rogue, give him a break!

Ok, here is where we stand.

Overland movement is what we want to do. There are only 2 options: walk and hustle. The game forbids attempts to run (I think Aragorn, Legolas and Gimli aren't part of Pathfinder).

If you walk there, you'll have no problem. If you hustle, you're fine for 1 hour. After that, you take 1 nonlethal damage for one hour of hustling. After that, you take double the nonlethal damage from the last hour.

If you hustle, you'll take 4 hours to get there. That is an accumulated 7 nonlethal damage.

I don't believe any of you took the horses you were gifted in the previous book, so you can't try to mount there.

@Ano: I'm an idiot, the moth landed on the SW window and that's the direction, yes.

OMG, you guys!!! Is there a Captain Planet equivalent of Golarion deities?

For a moment, the group sits in silence. The guard that came with Redmane stops his scribbling for whatever reason, and even the winds seems to stop its howling. A lunar moth lands on a window to the southeast of the building. Just as quickly it flies away to the southeast.

The stink from the wizard's spell can still be felt. Although it produces no disabling effect, it is still unpleasant. The dark of the night seems to enter the building.

The silence and the mood are broken by an egg that falls and breaks from the kitchen part of the room.

There's divination magic to ask specific questions. This is the best I could do. Interpret it as you like.

Alicia is killing me!

So, all I need now is the decision of whether you're resting or going off to the Misgivings straight up.

Lol Alicia

Guys, let me help you make the decision about the path to take.

Next time you rest, you're up to level 6.

OMG you guys are awesome! I was planning to ask who was here, but seems you guys are on top of things.

The room falls silent as Alicia sings. Even the wind outside seems to tone down is howling to hear her sing.

As Grayst dies, he doesn't struggle, but his face looks relaxed, accepting.

@Arrian: You have the necromancer's map. You can check the map yourself, it's linked in the campaign's header. There are a few ways you can take. You can try to cross Cougar's Creek that runs next to the sanatorium, then try to reach the Lost Coast road by walking by the Ahsen Rise. You're gonna have to swim for that. You can also try to try to walk upriver and then around its source. You're gonna have to do some climbing for that. Or you can go back to the Lost Coast road from this side of the river, then walk the road until you reach the Foxglove River, which you have to walk downstream to reach the manor. The latter would take two hours to reach the road, then 2 additional hours of walking the road, then you don't know because you're not sure of the status of the off-road path that leads to the manor, but it would take at least 2 to 3 hours.

Redmane lets Ethan do it.

So, what else we doing tonight?

Redmane nods at Ethan and asks him what the most respectful way to do it would be. He figured a quiet room would be better than a bunch of people singing and doing other things like it was nothing. Ethan senses that the corporal is only trying to do it in a non offensive manner, and doesn't relish in the task one bit.

While he doesn't know, Father Zantus is very grateful that the heroes allowed him to sleep.

Corporal Redmane assesses the situation and asks Ethan to bring Grayst to a peaceful room, if there is any. Since he's spent a few hours in the sanatorium, he chooses Habe's bedroom, just north of the main reception. Redmane asks for respectful peace and quiet, and to be left alone with Grayst. He closes the door, and it is clear what he wants to do.

Meanwhile, the other guard starts writing down a bunch of stuff. Anyone who peeks into his worksheet sees he's cataloguing everything, from objects, their positions, state of the building, and even some technical details about the type of white paint on the walls and quality of cloth he finds, on clothes and sheets and curtains. He even estimates the thread count on it.

We sacrificed Donimah to increase our powers; I hope that's okay? ;)

In my RL tables back in Brazil we used to call the PCs of the players who were absent "brave PC", since they were always the characters to open doors and step on sus hallways.

Around midnight, Ano and Arrian and two guards arrive at the main entrance. Inside, it seems there's a singing party going on.

So far the forums are the same for me.

Guys, let's keep the separate scenes spoilered.

@Juri: Lol

Oh man. Hope nothing bad happens to the games.

If we do get something revamped, I hope they fix the PMs. They also bug out for me.

The sheriff is getting back into the garrison when Arrian and Ano catch up to him, huffing from the way back.

After conferring with someone more knowledgeable than me, this is what happens:

All souls go to the Boneyard when they die, waiting to be judged by Pharasma. After being judged they go to the appropriate plane of their judgement.

Making an undead involves fracturing a tiny part of the soul to keep it in the undead body. Once this body expires, the soul is made whole again, and the soul is judged normally. This is why one of Pharasma's edicts is to kill undead, so they may be judged by her.

This answer your question?

Gurnak cries when is embraced by Alicia. He doesn't register as evil. He teaches her a hand signal they know together. About finding Gortus, he says "We did talk about hiding in Magnimar if things went south, but my brother's smart. He'd imagine I was captured and would release this information under torture, so he could try to be somewhere I wouldn't predict. He could be anywhere by now, really."

@Juri: Are you cdg'ing him despite Ethan's attempts? Just want to be clear.

@Donimah: There are 2 other wands that were on the necromancer that you can also roll for.

The tiefling is completely engulfed in Alicia's gentleness. He opens up. He is called Gurnak while his twin brother is called Gortus. They escaped slavery in Cheliax. They stowed away on a ship bound for Magnimar, which is a story he tells with many colorful details, of how awful it was, riddled with rats who served both as companions and food.

In Magnimar, they responded to an advertisement for work up along the Lost Coast. He explains that the promise of pay, free room and board was good enough, but adding that it was a place to hide out for a few years, this job fit perfectly. All they had to do is care for Habe's safety from the more violent patients. He explains that there are a few more patients upstairs. Blind Sedge, an old farmer who has no family and lost his sight in a goblin attack. There's also Wald, a really really old man who refuses to die but, by Gurnak's description, is completely senile. They don't take well to people they don't know and may shriek if the group comes upstairs, but they like to stay in their own cells and are harmless.

Then there's Pidget Tergelson, on the top floor. He is in a stronger cell because that is needed. He is part rat, part man, and after some questioning, it becomes clear that he is actually a wererat. He's been here since before the twins arrived. It seems like the doctor has been trying to theorize a connection between his lycanthropy and his mental disorder. However, whenever a little project comes up, the doctor ignores Pidget again to focus on whatever else. Gurnak recommends not to let Pidget see a slashing weapon, because he gets crazed when he does, and becomes very aggressive. Other than that, he prefers to be silent and creepy.

He goes on to tell Alicia that he never had too much contact with the wizard downstairs. He only knows that he has some sort of arrangement with Doctor Habe. Every once in a while, when a patient dies, the doctor has the twins carry the body downstairs, which is the only time they go there. They don't like it there, they're scared of the wizard. He has no idea about any ghoul business, except that the word comes up occasionally when the doctor and the wizard are discussing things. He doesn't know what a ghoul is.

Finally, after spilling his guts, the tiefling drops to his knees and begs Alicia for forgiveness, as if he were kneeling before Iomedae herself. He says that he'll do anything to make things right, even hunt down his brother and kill him.

@Arrian and @Ano: You two can make it to Sandpoint before one NPC goes to bed. Who is is? You may start the conversation

How far again is it from the Sanetorium to Sandpoint?

4 hours on a normal pace

@Alicia: This would be diplomacy.

@Juri: Look at Arrian's post. This is what I meant in the spoiler...

Maybe buy an invis ring?

Also, if you want to play catch up with Spellcraft, all you need is a reliable way to Detect Magic (such as an item or a permanency spell), and you're good to go to id magic items as well. Investigators get free inspiration with Spellcraft iirc.

You have one of the tieflings. The doctor is now bound and very unhappy. Grayst is not yet undead (he has 2 or 3 days depending on stat damage rolls). You can choose to have the image of Juriya "CDG him a few dozen times", or Ethan calling the light of heaven on his face.

There was another 2d4 of acid damage that Arrian was supposed to take from the wizard's missile, that I thought when I wrote the post "I'm going to forget about this". Then I forgot about it next round. So...

2d4 ⇒ (1, 2) = 3

The group takes a quick check of the wizard's pockets. They find:

Two potions, two wands, a well made dagger and a key ring. Additionally, 11pp, 4gp and 14sp. Do appropriate checks to identify these items, please.

Other than that, it is hard to decide what this room is, a wizard's lab or a catacomb. There are several tables bearing bodies covered by drapes, while tools ranging from shovels to dissection implements sit on shelves against the wall.

There is also a map of the Sandpoint hinterlands here. There are many circle and line drawings on the map, particularly around the southern farmlands and along the Foxglove River.

The other notable item to be found in the lab is a spellbook.

Ethan fails to stop the progress of the disease.

Who does the dirty deed?

Yes... Arrian's latest knowledge confirms it.

@Ethan: I'll need a caster level check for delay disease.

@Alicia: He has a huge amount of ability damage. He'll turn into a ghoul once it zeroes out.

Ano recovers. Eventually so does Donimah.

Alicia finds Grayst on the floor how she left him.

@Alicia: In that case, his spell did not crit. You only take 5 damage.

Arrian miss chance (miss if <=50) 1: 1d100 ⇒ 86
Arrian miss chance (miss if <=50) 2: 1d100 ⇒ 61

Mirror image (true is 1): 1d2 ⇒ 1
Mirror image (true is 1): 1d2 ⇒ 1

Arrian does a swing so clean with his big sword that it immediately slices the wizard's head off. The stinky cloud dissipates immediately as does his protective magic. There is a brief silence as the severed head spins around the air and falls on the ground with a wet thud.

Remind me never to cross Arrian irl

Doctor Habe, seeing this scene, drops immediately to his knees and starts blabbering "Please please spare me, Caizarlu forced me to participate in his experiments, I had nothing to do with this, please please!"