Hello, guys! You might have seen my recent post in the Obituaries thread where the Paladin got killed by a Faceless Stalker in the alley; the Faceless Stalker then took his place...
The group did the insane asylum (for the life of me, I can never recall if it's "Sanitarium", "Sanitorium", "Sanatarium", or "Sanatorium"...) the next day and used most of the day travelling:
- Leave Sandpoint ~10AM
- Get to Habe's around 1:30PM
- Finish up with Grayst around 2PM. Party is contacted by Father Zantus via Sending to return to town because the Sherriff has some trouble. "Paladin" stays behind with Druid while the Druid prepares to attempt to use Remove Disease (Grayst dies while the Druid is preparing spells).
- The party gets back to Sandpoint around 4:30PM and the Sherriff shows them the Paladin's body, along with the new Player Character that found it. They immediately borrow fresh horses and head back to Habe's, with Zantus again doing a Sending spell to the Druid.
- Druid receives the message, wild shapes into an eagle, and then leaves the "Paladin" (they had started back to town and were about 30 minutes from Habe's). "Paladin" doesn't know his cover is blown, so returns to Habe's.
- The party gets to Habe's around 7PM to find the place quiet and blood on the windows.
And that's where we had to end the session. The group never thought to even ask how many people were there the first time they showed up, so they only know of Habe, his two Tiefling helpers, Grayst, the "Paladin", and a former PC (a Dwarven Cleric who learned Terran and believed the Earth talked to him... *sigh*).
I want to see if you lot have any recommendations on how to proceed from here. The group is slightly over-levelled due to content in Chapter 1 (and originally there were only 3 players) at level 6 and there's now 5 players, so we can get afford to build big here. :) I thought about adding levels to Caizarlu and perhaps a few more zombies, but I still want to come up with some sort of "Who's Who?" cat-and-mouse game while they try to find the Faceless Stalker.
They only know of the areas A3 and A4 for Habe's place, so there's a lot of room to expand. What do you guys think?