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[Ardas]

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[Shootandrun]

Interrogate the peasants to figure out where the Hero was headed. Afterwards, bring them to the tower, surrounded by as many zombies and skeletons as can be found.

[adwarf]

Here's my sheet, I hope its acceptable (I put a lot of work into this!).

Spoiler: Ulgmar the Light Devourer (click to show/hide)

Name: Ulgmar the Light Devourer
Description: A stooped creature, no taller then four feet in height, Ulgmar has light green skin and short black hair covering his head in a messy disarray only kept in hand by Ulgmar's disposition to wear his hood up. His eyes are a murky light blue, and he bares three scars over his right eye from his trials to become a shaman of the Vile Thorns clan. He has a very lean build, especially for a goblin, from his tough years of travel since the fall of the Vile Thorns clan to the foul Crimson Order.
Sex: Male
Your Backstory: Ulgmar grew up as a shaman's apprentice in the Vile Thorns clan, from his birth he was seen to have a particular spark that all shamans of the Vile Thorns had. From the moment he could move and talk Ulgmar was put into a rigorous training, every day he watched his elders set about the dark rituals the Vile Thorns had practiced for centuries, and every day he was lectured and tasked with attempting those same rituals. He underwent dozens of these rituals, animating the skeletal, and dead corpses of goblins from other tribes, humans, and the like to serve the tribe in war and in work.

He learned quickly, and after nearly eighteen winters the elders thought it was time to begin his initiation, they sent him into the wilds to slay a great Ral Bear* armed with nothing but his powers and a long bladed bronze dagger designed for rituals. Ulgmar tracked one to its den, and hid nearby till it fell asleep before starting his task. While the beast slept Ulgmar animated the skeletal remains of a wolf the beast had slain long ago, and together with it he turned on the vicious beast. Two nights after his fight with the Ral Bear Ulgmar arrived back at his clan's camp upon the remains of the beast, he was heavily wounded with claw marks tearing deep rifts in his face and chest.

It took several weeks, but when Ulgmar finally recovered the elders brought him forth and granted him the title of shaman of the Vile Thorns tribe and the name of the Light Devourer. It was not three weeks after his appointment to shaman that the Crimson Order discovered where the Vile Thorns had set up camp for the winter, they fell upon the Vile Thorns at night. In minutes much of Ulgmar's clan was slaughtered, as the remainders of the clan gathered the elders ordered those who still lived to flee, Ulgmar's master for all these years handed him one of the staffs used by all of the Vile Thorn shamans and turned away. Expecting their orders to be followed they turned towards the advancing members of the Crimson Order and the battle began anew, and with that the surviving handful of the Vile Thorns fled.

Ulgmar has been running ever since, searching for a place where he might be able to achieve revenge ...

[Unholy_Pariah]

grab the heroes mace then search the town hall/library for maps of the area, highlight points of interest such as neighbouring towns and nearby mines.

[Fniff]

"Two at a time, people, healer's orders..."
Be crowd control, making sure no-one else apart from Jim and the two patients go into the room.

[CyberGenesis]

"Screw it!" Sholan grumbled, "It isn't worth the effort without the time to do real research"

He ordered the walkers present to lug bodies back to the tower, enlarge the stockpile. Once Roland returned from their little vacation to Vis Valdi Sholan would try to encourage the man to assist in the workload. After all, they had a ridiculous number of bodies in storage in addition to the grave itself. Time was not kind to unliving flesh not already animated, and before they completely decayed into skeletal remains they needed to be raised.

Raise more corpses - aim for ghouls or ghoul-like festering alternatives. Once raised, have them carry bodies back as well (after feeding if the ghoul raise is successful)

[Terenos]

Chapter 3: The Blood Tide.

Part Eleven: Triumphant Return.

Players:

Spoiler: Jerik 'Corvus' Alquiar(OREOSOME) (click to show/hide)

Magic Level: Adept (20% to Initiate)

Known Spheres: Death
Known Elements: Bone, 45% to Blood

Wounds/Effects:
Missing Eye (Less perceptive overall)

Skills/Bonuses:
Bonespeaker: +1 to Bone Magic rolls.
Scavenger : +1 to Graverobbing/looting catacombs.
Self Directed Learner(Elements): +1 to learning elements alone

Possessions:
Old Black Steel Blade.

Spoiler: Roland Balkar(Shootandrun) (click to show/hide)

Magic Level: Apprentice (60% to Adept)
Known Spheres: Death
Known Elements: Blood

Wounds/Effects

Skills/Bonuses:
Trained Fighter: (+2 to all rolls in combat if it gets physical)
Brawler (You fight well when outnumbered.)
Dungeoneer (You should head into that dungeon, you do better in dungeons.)

Possessions:
Hefty Axe
Well Made Spiked Round Shield.

Spoiler:  Helfd(Ghazkull) (click to show/hide)

Magic Level: Adept (10% to Initiate)
Known Spheres: Death
Known Elements: Bone

Wounds/Effects:

Skills/Bonuses:
Jack of All Trades (You can slip into most mundane roles with no trouble.)
Studious: +1 Study rolls.
Battle Command (Forces under your command are more effective)
Possessions:
Mail Shirt.

Spoiler: Patrizio Bacchiani(Ardas) (click to show/hide)

Magic Level: Adept (20% to Initiate)
Known Spheres: Death
Known Elements: Earth

Wounds/Effects:

Skills/Bonuses:
Bookworm (+1 Research rolls)
Earthshaper (+1 Earth Magic Rolls)
Possessions:
2 Loot Tokens
Enchanted Staff(+1 on spell rolls)
Shaper's Gloves (+1 Earth Magic spells)
Absorbing Armor (-1 To enemy spellcasting, if targeting you)
Book of Rituals (Earth Magic, Initiate or Higher)

Spoiler: Detani (Fniff) (click to show/hide)

Magic Level: Apprentice (40% to Adept)
Known Spheres: Death
Known Elements: Void

Skills/Bonuses:
Violent Magic (Your magic always bends towards more violent means, Critical rolls are more dangerous.)
Sneaky (+1 Stealth rolls)
Combat Mage (+1 to magic rolls in a pitched fight)

Possessions:
Plain Short Sword
Carved Gemstone
1 Loot Token

Spoiler: Sholan A'Valti(CyberGenesis) (click to show/hide)

Magic Level: Adept (25% to Initiate)
Known Spheres: Death
Known Elements: Blood

Skills/Bonuses:
Bloodcaller (+1 to Blood Magic rolls.)
Cryptologist (+1 to All Deciphering rolls)

Wounds/Effects:
Missing Eye (Less perceptive overall)

Possessions:
Enchanted Staff(+1 on spell rolls)
Unknown Blade (Effects unknown)

Spoiler: Flint (Unholy_Pariah) (click to show/hide)

Magic Level: Apprentice (25% to Adept)
Known Spheres: Death
Known Elements: Earth

Skills/Bonuses:
Earthshaper (+1 Earth Magic Rolls)

Wounds/Effects:
Broken Ribs.

Items:
2x Loot Tokens
Sturdy Wooden Shield
Battered Mace

Spoiler: Jim (Gman8181) (click to show/hide)

Magic Level: Apprentice (60% to Adept)
Known Spheres: Death
Known Elements: Blood

Skills/Bonuses
Spirit Conduit. (You may commune with spirits at any point, to gain answers or assistance)
Dominion of Blood (You are less likely to lose control of minions summoned by Blood magic.)

Items:
None.

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Known Locations:
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Suomi has been abandoned. Its people fled in the dead of winter to any nearby town.

Norvak A town with an unknown population. It seems to be primarily focused on cattle.  It is defended by a small fort garrisoned by veterans of the King's Army. It is affiliated with Welnshire.
Confirmed as having the Plague.

Vis Valdi is a looted husk of a town.

The Tower, is ramshackle and old. It possesses few amenities currently. Your best guess is its still an unknown location.
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Note, all resources/items are placed in the Tower Stocks unless declared otherwise.

Spoiler: Tower Information (click to show/hide)

Defenses: Wooden Palisade, Gate.
Rooms: Catacombs, Living Quarters, Advanced Storage Vaults, Basic Forge, Crude Altar.
Detani's 'Office'.
Crude Stone Map

Spoiler: Tower Stocks (click to show/hide)

1 Barrels of Blood
1 Tainted barrel of blood.
46 corpses (human)(Rotting)
2 Corpses (Giant salamander)
1 Loot Token
20 Supplies

Spoiler: Tower Forces (click to show/hide)

Undead:
1 Bone Golem (small) (Helfd)
1 Gravehaunt (Helfd)

14 Skeletal Minions (Human)(Unarmed) (Jerik)

13 Ghouls (Roland)
4 Zombies (Roland)

26 Ghouls (Sholan)
20 Festering Zombies (Sholan)

53 Zombies (Tower)

2 Stone Golems (Small) (Flint)

1 Iron Golem (Small, Semi-pure) (Patrizio)

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Living:
3 Dark Minions (Magical; Spark)(Tower)
24 Enslaved Humans

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Events:

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Roland, Helfd, Patrizio, Jerik,
[?] The slaves arent saying anything. They are remarkably closemouthed. Not a word about what the Hero was up to. Nothing about their past professions.

Experimenting with the concept of alarm wards tied to runes, Patrizio encircles the village in a number of runes meant to let him know if they are disturbed. Should be enough to know if anyones poking around.
Jerik easily sets up the sign and spends the trip back to the tower devising plans for some Slave Pens. (Slave Pens can be constructed as an exterior building, and will take 10 Supplies for Crude level (Crude being the lowest level of building). Crude level will contain 40 slaves.)

The lot of you leave and head back towards the Tower, abandoning the corpses of the fallen townsfolk where they lay.

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Flint
[3-3] You poke around every building, looking for a town hall, or a library or something. This is however a tiny backwoods village. Theres no official building and certainly no library. And as far as you can tell no one wrote anything down or made any maps that might guide you to any nearby points of interest.
Or maybe its the fact that the town was looted first and any such things were destroyed by the careless prying hands of the undead. Nawh, proly not that.

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Sholan
[6+2, 3] A sudden surge of power is accompanied by your masterful control. Several of the corpses within the mass grave are summoned back as Ghouls by your power. Hrm. Interestingly it seems that if you raise them as Ghouls, they no longer seem to be rotting or festering. Curious.
+8 Ghouls.
The forces you possess bring 20 more rotting corpses back to the tower.
The Mass Grave in Suomi now has 'Some' Corpses

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Detani, Jim
[4,6] The crowd, while enthusiastic about being picked to be 'cured' first, is easily managed. Two are chosen at random and escorted upstairs.
Jim, you call up your magic and set to work grappling with the magical energies influencing these peasants. There is definitely a magical component to the plague. You try to get ahold of it and move it from peasant to peasant, pushing it clear of one of them.
[?] Well. You've killed one of them, the one you tried to make sicker. The other seems to be more or less recovering. Though the shock has definitely incapacitated him for now.

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Events in Near Proximity:
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Spring flourishes throughout the land.
Further Catacomb exploration is Dangerous

[Unholy_Pariah]

Summon a stone warhorse and hitch it to a farmers wagon, fill the wagon with any metal that is still lying around and head back to the tower.

Back at the tower attempt to form a pair of stone warhammers for my golems then unhitch the wagon and head off in search of the old wizard.

[OREOSOME]

((I think building the slave pens is a good Idea, but if you guys have any arguments against that, or another use for the supplies, I'd like to hear them.))

[Fniff]

Detani walks into the room with Jim after the crowd's handled. She looks at him and whispers "Okay, how's it going?"

[gman8181]

Well... so far it seems to be going as expected. I seem to have successfully exchanged the disease in one subject for the vitality of the other. The disease recipient died which is unsurprising. The other seems to have passed out from the procedure.
Jim walks back and forth between the two bodies observing them.
I really hope the surviving subject will wake up soon so I can see what effects my treatment has had. It may very well be that I have found a cure of sorts for the disease.
Stopping his pacing, Jim turns his full attention to Detani.
There are a couple experiments I have in mind and seeing as how we're seemingly partners now, I'd like to fill you in on the details. First I wish to retry experiment one a second time to see if the results are similar. Experiment two will be attempting to transfer the plague from a living body to a dead one to see if it works like transferring it into another living body. Experiment three will be similar to experiment two except I will use an undead body instead of an ordinary dead body. Experiment four, letting an undead feed on a plague victim. Five, making a plague victim feed on an undead. Six, making a plague victim feed on another plague victim. Seven, making a plague victim feed on someone cured. Eight, make someone cured feed on a plague victim.

Jim trails off and is silent for a moment. He walks slowly back over to the dead body and stares at it while thinking.
Quite a long list actually. You know, it's probably a better idea if we take over the town before I go about performing all these experiments. That way we have to worry less about being discreet, not to mention it will make keeping all these tests organized much easier. If we take over the town, I'll have more space to perform the experiments and then we can perform more than one at a time so this won't all take so long.

Alright how about this. I'm going to go convince those peasants to round up dead bodies for us and then I'm going to reanimate them and we'll take over this town. We'll show them the cured patient and say the other patient didn't react well. Tell them that if they gather a bunch of dead bodies off the street, I can perform some more tests and observations on the bodies so that future patients will have a higher survival rate. They bring in all the bodies, I go into a private room to "perform observations" and bam! We've got an army to take over the town. Showing them that one patient lived and another died will fill them with both hope and fear. They'll know I can save them but they'll know the risk of dying is there. That way they'll be even more determined to increase the chances of their own survival and thus more willing to do what we want.

[CyberGenesis]

Sholan arrived back at the tower and directed the mules where to dump the corpses. After noticing a pair of corpses in the corner, he got sentimental for a moment...

"Hmmm, let's try this again..." And a small thought struck him in the process, "but better this time!"

Raise another Salamander corpse, try to put more effort into it this time to reinforce the beast if possible. Afterward - check in on our pre-apprentices, see if there's anything they need to continue their studies

Send roughly half the zombies in the tower into the forest for a supply run

[OREOSOME]

Construct the Slave pens, and then continue studying blood magic.

[Ardas]

"Roland, Helfd, I will be moving laves to the mine, but some of the goblins we faced there earlier might still hid underneath. I will require your assistance.
Flint, I have a request for you. Somewhere in the vicinity there'san old wizard, who no doubt has some magical supplies, probably books and maybe artifacts even. If you could look at the map and scout the area to get to him it would be perfect."

Take 12 slaves and 10 zombies from tower forces and head for the mine to activate it. Ask Roland and Helfd to accompany me. Ask/leave a note for Flint, requesting him to investigate the old wizard.

[Shootandrun]

Roland smiled at Patrizio, showing a grin that was all teeth and no gentleness.

"I'm always interested in killing. You can count me in."

Accompany Patrizio to the mine