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 After a bit of looking, we all leave and head to the tavern. It and the Mercantile are both in fairly good shape. The Tavern is a large building with multiple entrances. One entrance to the restaurant, one to the tavern, and one to the restroom. We enter and Snoggly goes straight for the tavern side. Most of the others find places to sit and they order some food and drink. There is a main barkeep and three servers moving around taking orders. There is another man sitting off to the side eyeing us. Snoggly can't seem to get a good drink. They keep offering him wine. They don't have Whisky or Brandy. He finally settles for ale. Haldar is staying outside.
-The gentleman sitting alone comes over and introduces himself. Ismark Kyonovich. Rinn recognizes the name as the son of the Burgomaster. Alexa spoke of him and told us we could trust him. He asks us where we come from. He doesn't seem to know anything about Calimport or Waterdeep. He asks if we are for hire. He proceeds to tell us he needs someone to escort his sister away from this place. He keeps his voice down and eyes another table where three women are sitting. A couple of times, Snoggly speaks up but Ismark speaks in hush tones trying indicate that what we are talking about, he wants to keep quiet about. He indicates his sister is in danger and when pressed, said she's in danger from the devil. He tells us that locals fear to travel so there is so no one here he could hire. He also said that his father, the Burgomaster, had died of a heart attack. Now he is the Burgomaster and as such, he can't leave to take her. When pressed as to where to take her, he suggested Kresk or the walled city of Malachi, about two days journey. Kresk is not known for it's hospitality but perhaps she can hide there. Snoggly ask more information about the girl and he tells us that she is 21 and her name is Irena. When pressed about the devil's interest in her, he only said that he is. Snoggly asked if he was talking about the man from the castle. Ismark quickly hushed him and said yes. He tells us that the bastard in the castle could kill us with a glance. When asked about pay, he said 50gps. Snoggly asked about whisky and he said there was whisky at the house.
+The gentleman sitting alone comes over and introduces himself. Ismark Kolyanovich asks us where we come from. He doesn't seem to know anything about Calimport or Waterdeep. He asks if we are for hire. He proceeds to tell us he needs someone to escort his sister away from this place. He keeps his voice down and eyes another table where three women are sitting. A couple of times, Snoggly speaks up but Ismark speaks in hush tones trying indicate that what we are talking about, he wants to keep quiet about. He indicates his daughter is in danger and when pressed, said she's in danger from the devil. He tells us that locals fear to travel so there is so no one here he could hire. He also said that his father, the Burgomaster, had died of a heart attack. Now he is the Burgomaster and as such, he can't leave to take her. When pressed as to where to take her, he suggested Kresk or the walled city of Malachi, about two days journey. Kresk is not known for it's hospitality but perhaps she can hide there. Snoggly ask more information about the girl and he tells us that she is 21 and her name is Ireena Kolyana. When pressed about the devil's interest in her, he only said that he is. Snoggly asked if he was talking about the man from the castle. Ismark quickly hushed him and said yes. He tells us that the bastard in the castle could kill us with a glance. When asked about pay, he said 50gps. Snoggly asked about whisky and he said there was whisky at the house.
 He asks if we would join him at his home, after we dine, and pays for our food. He can get us whisky, rest and a bath. Irena is there. He keeps glancing back at the ladies at the other table. We look at them a little more intently and see that they are colorfully dressed and seemed to be their own little click. We all indicate that we are interested in the job. The wench that brought our food ask about here we were from. Kyana told her, from Calimport. Asked from which direction we came, east, west, north, or south. We Kyana answered east. More questioning led to Ismark seemed to know what she was after and cut in, letting her know that he will ask us what we saw on the way in, then mentions that Tasha's had disappeared a couple of weeks ago. There are even more villagers that have disappeared. They probably lose someone every week or so. We told him about Alexa's group that we had run into, searching for Gurtruda. Kyana asks, why are people disappearing around here. He suggests that we can talk about that later, again keeping his voice down.
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 Ismark brings her to the archway and introduces her to us. She explains her plight and asks if we knew anything. Rinn says we had seen the search party on the way in but we had only just come into the area. She mentions that she had her dog with her and in her discussing this, mentions the dogs name is Lancelot. Rinn says, "Uh Oh!" she gets more frantic wondering what we knew and Rinn explained that we had found Lancelot at the Durst Manor, outside of town, and he was alive but had since been killed in a battle with the monster infesting that home. We explain that Gurtruda must not have been there as we had searched the house and didn't find anyone else there. Ismark attempts to console her explaining that search parties are out and they will do everything they can to find her. In frustration, she finally runs out of the door.
-Irena pointed out that they call her Mad Marry for a reason. She had locked Gurtruda away for a time but Ismark reminded Irena that she was doing what she could to protect her daughter. Snoggly interupts with a question that temporarily silences the room, "Has anyone gone up on the hill and knocked on the bastards door?'. After a moment of shocked looks, Ismark replies that, "One does not simply go up to the castle and knock on the door, there is evil, inconceivable, always watching, it is folly.". Rinn suggest that if the person up there is the evil and is a vampire, that we
+Irena pointed out that they call her Mad Marry for a reason. She had locked Gurtruda away for a time but Ismark reminded Irena that she was doing what she could to protect her daughter. Snoggly interupts with a question that temporarily silences the room, "Has anyone gone up on the hill and knocked on the bastards door?'. After a moment of shocked looks, Ismark replies that, "One does not simply go up to the castle and knock on the door, there is evil, inconceivable, always watching, it is folly.". Rinn suggests that if the man in the high castle is the evil and is a vampire, that we are not strong enough to battle something like that.". We set up a watch and turn in for the evening, we pair off to guest rooms that they have for us. Very nice accommodations! Much better than the tavern. Haldar takes first watch while Rinn is set to take over after about 4 hours of sleep. Rinn casts find familiar and calls forth an owl, but what he gets is not quite what he expected. It's eyes are red and it's thought's are cloudy. It's will opposes his but it does except his command. Rinn puts it out into the room and a sentinal watching over us. Then Rinn begins is meditations.
+Haldar, keeps thinking about the corps in the next room. He stays put and hears the creaks and mons of an old building. Misty goes downstairs quietly to sleep by the fire after she adds a few logs. So she curls up by the fire and purrs a little, performs a little grooming.
+Everyone starts waking up and and goes down to eat, everyone except Snoggly. Rinn attempts to wake him with a message spell but it fails to wake him. Misty goes upstairs to wake him. They set out a continental breakfast. After we eat and resupply, including the two bottles of whiskey for Snoggly, we head to the church and cemetery with the body on a cart. It's basically on the other side of town. Misty noted a number of houses boarded up where we could hear sobbing coming from inside. We also pass the cart that serves food near the tavern. There are already people in line. As we move up the hill to the church , we notice like the other buildings in town, that it is in need of repairs. It has a broad set of stairs leading up into it and we take the body into the church.
+We enter into a hallway with doors on either side and pass through it to the main sanctuary. There was debris throughout main sanctuary. There is a pulpit near the front of the church and from there we hear the soft voice or a prayer. Kyana makes her way to the pulpit and kneels in prayer as well. The man praying stops and looks at her. She introduces herself as a fellow priest of Lathander. We notice the alter is claw scarred and there is a long rope leading up to the bell tower. He looks around and sees Ismark and the rest of us. Snoggly points out that the contributions seem to be down a little.
+The father seeing the body of the former Burgomaster, directs everyone out the the cemetery. Father Donovich and everyone go out to the burial area, Father Donovich offers prayers to the morning lord, they place his body in the ground. Dain also says blessings to Clanggeden on behalf of the former Burgomaster. Snoggly looks around the cemetery and Haldar looks around. They see graves both old and more recent. Kyana asks about using some of the money we got from our early. Everyone agreed to give 40gps to Father Donovich and he is stunned by the donation. He takes it and is thankful.
+We hear someone yell, Father!!! He tells us not to worry, there is someone sick in the house. Kyana offers to go with him to help and Dain as well. He Father Donovich suggests that two is about all that should come. They set out back to the church. he goes to one of the front doors and we follow him. He tells us about a young man that is ill and we start down some stairs. They ask if he is restrained and he says that he is not. We go down through the trap door and then we hear the trap door close and lock behind us.
+It's a candlelit damp room with a shape across the room, a figure huddled up. he is weeping and saying "father..father". Kyana calls out to him, "how are you?". He stands and turns and says "I am so hungry...SO HUNGRY!!"! Kyana recognizes he is undead and she tries to turn it. She is unsuccessful. She puts up a spiritual weapon. It strikes and the creature rushes up to attack her. As he moves away from the spiritual weapon, it swipes again, hitting him for more damage. As the battle continues, he swipes at Kyana causing a lot of damage. Dain casts searing smite on his weapon and jumps down and hits the creature and whacks him good. He also sets him on fire. Kyana moves her spiritual weapon to hit is and it does. Kyana then casts a guiding bolt on it but misses. The creature attacks but misses. Dain attempts to turn the creature and fails. The fire goes out but Dain does manage to hit him again.
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+Kyana uses her mace to strike him and the spiritual weapon as well. The battle continues like this until Dain is struck from behind. Unsure what hit him, he moves around the monster on his next attack so he can see behind where he was to see what hit him. The door is open which means Donovich is probably the culprit. Back in the cemetery, Rinn notices that a few of the graves appear fresh and poses the question, I thought there were no recently graves, who are these. Everyone else notices the graves and are confused. They start to realize that Father Donovich may be a part of what it going on here. In that time Dain realizes that with the door open, the others may be able to hear him and begins to yell for help.
+The others hear the yelling and begin moving that way.
+That’s as far as I got!
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