- Heading to Pyra village to investigate. Arrived! Explored a bit. Seems totally normal. Bustling market etc everyone seemed normal!
- Found a dais with folk gathered round it, lots of tension. Someone had died and they were trying to get the Kingsguard. Saw Kingsguard coming from castle, crowd started whispering about magic for some reason, seemed distrustful? The guard went to the dais.
- Saw weird fellow coming out of the black temple nearby, spoke with Kingsguard, saw body on stretcher being taken to said temple. The body was partially melted. Quest the Tiefling discerned that necrotic magic had done it.
- Dwarf discerned temple was built in worship of the Raving Queen. Sounds dark!
- Priests and commoners were talking with each other, no issues there
- Dwarf asked some questions and they said that the Raving Queen takes as she desires, didn't seem to care about death.
- Also worshipped Ioun there who was all about trade etc. Raving Queen seen as evil; but just treats death as fact of life and assists with passage to afterlife. Pellor is about life and agriculture.
- Commoners saying that magic is bad and that King is on death bed after evil plot against him, harmed by magic, magic outlawed by prince. They're very monarchic! Very loyal to prince.
- Headed to the Stoneshrow pub. Wanted information. Dwarves in there said that the death wasn't spoken about in public. They eventually said that people who were in good favour with the King were found dead recently, advisors and Kingsguard etc. Had to buy them drinks! King is on life support as it were. Said the Prince was only 13. His advisors are very well protected and don't see them out in public much. When questioned about anti-magic feeling before the King became ill, said a group called The Fade was always anti-King. They keep themselves hidden. They reckoned that the Raving Queen lot could be involved with them, they were anti-monarchy from some of their preaching. Niane was their head priest.
- We decided to investigate the Raving Queen temple. Cleric nearby said we could find Niane inside. Niane was comforting some of the family seemingly of the guy who just died.
- Naine said an important person that died. I said to him about possibility of necrotic magic, he did agree it was magic. Mortician was working on the body. Dane got the feeling that he wasn't telling us everything. He actually offered to us to see the body. We went to see Elaine the mortician!
- Scatty. Got out of her that there were other bodies like this recently. We helped out. She showed me the scroll. It was a request from prince and advisors seeking audience with Niane, Blane Stonespeaker and Alistair. She suspected the dead body was of a messenger carrying this to him. She let us see the other bodies! Four of them. We found that not all of them were necrotic damage; weapon damage, big bite from animal. Went further in and there's a door downstairs; tried to pick it but bodged it. Lockpick sheared off in door so they'll know we've been down here!
- Rabid rats, including a big deformed one, two bodies on plinths nearby. Fended off the rats and had a look at the bodies. These ones had the same necrotic damage. Found a desk on a lower floor and bookcases. Journal by Elaine was there. She talked about the two bodies in particular that she had. One was a King's advisor, killed with necrotic damage, dead in the bathroom. The other was a Kingsguard, killed while on duty, dead by one of the temples near the tavern. Both bodies aged unnaturally. Muscles wasted away.
- We had a look at one of the bookcases and found a hole behind one of them. Headed into a tunnel. Dwarf discovered we were possibly heading under another building. In a circular room. Mound of dead rats on the floor and another large mutant one. Corridor leading off supported by wooden beams and panels. Went down and algae got worse. Eventually a large mass was in front of us. We burst it with dwarf handaxe, spores released; he was affected and saw hallucination of Beholder and ran off. Eventually recovered!
- Kept going and saw more algae stuff. Saw an alleyway towards the end, and another room. Listening in there was whispering in the room saying they didn't have all day etc. Thumping and metal on metal noises and more thumping. There was music coming from above.
- In the room were rows and rows of barrels. Roondar sneaked ahead and saw them pouring powder into one of the barrels and rolling it back in. Decided to try and incapacitate them. Next time!
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