ghost in the infirmary

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The Skipping Song

A song the children of Ravengro skip rope and sing...

"Put her body on the bed 

take a knife and lop her head

Watch the blood come out the pipe 

feeds the bugs, so nice and ripe

Drops of red so sparkly bright

splatters her name just right

With a hammer killed his wife

now he wants to claim your life

Tricksy father tells a lie

listen close or you will die."

M.

Experience Points

According to my notes, after 3 game sessions the group has accumulated 1,320 xp. That puts the party 680 points from 2nd level. We should level this coming Sunday, when the party returns from their prison adventure.

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The Will

“I, Petros Lorrimor, being of sound mind, do hereby commit to this parchment my last will and testament. Let it be known that, with the exception of the specific details below, I leave my home and personal belongings entire to my daughter Kendra. Use them or sell them as you see fit, my child. “Yet beyond the bequeathing of my personal effects, this document must serve other needs. I have arranged for the reading of this document to be delayed until all principals can be in attendance, for I have more than mere inheritance to apportion. I have two final favors to ask. “To my old friends, I hate to impose upon you all, but there are few others who are capable of appreciating the true significance of what it is I have to ask. As some of you know, I have devoted many of my studies to all manner of evil, that I might know the enemy and inform those better positioned to stand against it. For knowledge of one’s enemy is the surest path to victory over its plans. “And so, over the course of my lifetime, I have seen fit to acquire a significant collection of valuable but dangerous tomes, any one of which in the wrong circumstances could have led to an awkward legal situation. While the majority of these tomes remain safe under lock and key at the Lepidstadt University, I fear that a few I have borrowed remain in a trunk in my Ravengro home. While invaluable for my work in life, in death, I would prefer not to burden my daughter with the darker side of my profession, or worse still, the danger of possessing these tomes herself. As such, I am entrusting my chest of tomes to you, posthumously. I ask that you please deliver the collection to my colleagues at the University of Lepidstadt, who will put them to good use for the betterment of the cause.
“Yet before you leave for Lepidstadt, there is the matter of another favor—please delay your journey one month and spend that period of time here in Ravengro to ensure that my daughter is safe and sound. She has no one to count on now that I am gone, and if you would aid her in setting things in order for whatever she
desires over the course of this month, you would have my eternal gratitude. From my savings, I have also willed to each of you a sum of one hundred platinum coins. For safekeeping, I have left these funds with Embreth Daramid, one of my most trusted friends in Lepidstadt—she has been instructed to issue this payment upon the safe delivery of the borrowed tomes no sooner than one month after the date of the reading of this will. “I, Petros Lorrimor, hereby sign this will in Ravengro on this first day of Calistril, in the year _____.”

Detective Viorec's Dossier

Jorfa Nevoroh - Blacksmith of Ravengro and one of the towns dark secrets. Jorfa was brought to Ravengro in 4628 when her mother was moved from the high security prison in Ardis to Harrowstone. She refuses to say much on the matter save that her father was a bad man and her mother was innocent. On the subject of Harrowstone she recalls the events leading up to the tragedy in 4661.
According to her, the town was not informed of the fire until it was too late to save the prisoners and guards.Town officials gathered as many as they could and started a water brigade up to the prison. It would be too late for any of the prisoners underground and the few guards fighting the fire would later die from smoke inhalation. In total all 25 guards, the warden and his wife( Jorfa still does not know how or why the wardens wife died in Harrowstone), and around 65 prisoners died in the fire.The reason for the fire never came to light until several months later, it's believed that a guard was somehow controlled to drop a barrel of lamp oil down the prisons elevator shaft. It is believed that the guard was controlled by the killer known as the Splatter Man  On the subject of 2 of the more notorious prisoners being held there. The Splatter Man, a serial killer, and someone called Father Charlatan. Both where scheduled for execution later that week. Several officials and dignitaries who had come to see the 2 executed had to be lodged at the Outward Inn and the Laughing Demon.
Jorfa went on to ask for a favor of sorts, if her mothers silver hair pins could be retrieved form the prisons safe she would work with the group to supply them with the tools they need to continue exploring the ruined prison.

The Splatter Man- A serial killer held in Harrowstone at the time of the fire. Several rumors surround this person, some say he can read minds and can gain control over a person through magic. He was known for his horrific killings using complex traps or a series of rigged events meant to look like an accident.

Father Charlatan- While technically not a murderer, his crimes were so blasphemous that several high priests from most of the "good" religions demanded his death once he and his Sczarni band had been captured.

A few months ago...

Florian Lamorath was truly surprised by his master’s summons, not that his master would call for him, but that he would tell him to come to the Cathedral. The Cathedral meant that the Inquisitor Desmond Kote was involved. Florian so disliked the logic free demands of the church. Wondering what task his master would have for him, Florian entered the Cathedral chamber. While the smaller side rooms had only 10-foot-high ceilings, the central cathedral chamber’s ceiling was easily 20 feet high. The small shrine stood in the middle of this large chamber, centered on Duke Zaebos’ statue. Beyond the shrine, sitting at two long tables in elaborately carved darkwood chairs were the Inquisitor and Florian’s master. “Welcome Florian!” his master’s deep voice echoed in the chamber, “Come and hear what Desmond‘s scrying has revealed to us. We of noble blood do not wait on time but prepare for it!”


The inquisitor stood from his seat at the table and approached Florian. The bard’s skin crawled as he awaited the inquisitor’s spell infused touch. While the Inquisitor was a loyal noble who served his master well, he was quite slovenly and could spend weeks lost in his faith, unaware of his filth. As soon as Desmond Kote touched Florian his mind was filled with an array of visions, revealing several young faces and one old. As each face entered his mind’s eye Desmond would state the person’s name obviously aware of everything the bard was seeing. When the spell was over Florian found himself sitting at the table, his Master next to him, “I want you to find out everything you can about these men, prepare dossiers on all of them.” Florian nodded his mind still in a fog, “As yet we don’t know if they are enemies revealed or simply cogs in the wheel but Desmond is sure that our fates will meet.” Staring back at his master, Florian asked, “Who would like me to start with?” It was Desmond Kote that answered from over Florian’s shoulder, “The cursed one; start with Talbot.”

The Saffron House and The Starving Spectre

This information is found among the Professor's Belongings

Visions of Harrowstone

A few pics of the ruined prison.

couldn't sleep at first. i mean, who could? some guy i've never met in the flesh wants me to take care of his daughter for a month and then take some books to another guy in a different town and i'll get 100 PLATINUM?? i'm waiting for the other shoe to drop. something is wrong here. now i find out the girl is a mage. well in a month i can get my platinum and go west. lots of opportunity for a young man out west and that money should help for a long time.