TPS Report 1

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By: Tyack Verumpeto
The Pathfinder’s Society
Tyack Verumpeto


Report 1.0:

Valdaire, Uzbak and I traveled to Magnimar with our prisoners where we have been initiated into the Pathfinder Society. Our companion Nando has opted not to at this time, but time may change his mind. At the trial Tsuto was found guilty of various crimes and sentenced to life in prison. Lyrie the wizard received 10 years in prison for her crimes. The judge was an incredibly stern elf by the name of Judge Ironbriar. We have adopted the name of the Seekers for our group and continue to seek out new information for the Society as well as concentrate on our friends in Sandpoint.
The news from Sandpoint is varied; there is good news such as the engagement of Amiko to Belven Valdemar. This will unite two of the strongest families in the area and seems to have upset the Scarnetti family. In addition Father Zantus’s congregation at the cathedral seems to be getting larger. Accompanying this good news is some bad which has me suspecting that some sort of Wrathwell is still around. Firstly, there have been a number of rabid dog attacks one of which attacked Jubrayl Vihski, a local rogue, secondly the local junk collector Gorvy a half-orc junk collector has been getting into frequent bar fights and finally, a sudden wind blew open the shutters at the cathedral and blew out all of the candles. This was all happening while we were gone.
Since we have been back, Vin Vinder’s youngest daughter Shayliss seems to have a bit of hero worship and tried to lure me into a tryst which I resisted, not wishing to compromise her honor. Apparently Nando was also sought out and was unable to resist, and was caught by her father before anything serious could be started. In addition I finally went on the boar hunt with Aldern Foxglove and find him to be a little bit flighty and had too casual a disregard for his employees’ safety when one was gored. In addition my room has been burgled of a vial of ink.
However, after we had been back for more than a week, true disaster struck. The sheriff called us in to help assist him with a couple of grisly murders. (Leading me to suspect more and more another Wrathwell.) The murders were committed at the Scarnetti sawmill and were of one of the employees Bannie Harker and his girlfriend Katrine Vinder (Vin’s eldest daughter). It seems that Bannie was using the sawmill for trysts with Katrine to avoid Vin finding them. Harker’s body was horribly mutilated. His body had been hung on a hook, his face had been carved off and his chest was defaced with a 7-pointed star rune which had been meticulously carved into it. Katrine’s body seemed to have been disposed of more haphazardly as she had been thrown on the wood splitter and carved in two. A discarded axe led us to the conclusion that she had attempted to fight back to no avail. Harker’s body also had a note left for me saying that my life might be in danger, but I cannot think of anyone who would want me dead except perhaps Tsuto, but he is safely locked up.
The person who found him was the employee who opened up named Ibor Thorn. We quickly dismissed him as a suspect but he did provide us with information that Harker had been embezzling from the Scarnettis. This might make me suspect them, because they have a talent for ruthlessness, but I don’t think mere money would make them perform this kind of ritualistic slaying.
We also learned from the sheriff that these were not the only murders. Apparently some reprobates who had been run out of town had also been killed, one with a note similar to the one waiting for me. A man, who seemed quite mad when found by the guards had either witnessed the event or stumble across the bodies. He was being kept in Habe’s sanitarium and Habe refused to surrender him to the guards we sent. An interesting thing about the bodies which had been found had been their lack of jawbones which we deduced were to keep any communication with the dead spells from being performed.
Eventually we went to the sanitarium to see the madman whose name was Grayst Sevilla. After being rudely greeted by Habe the owner of the facility, we were eventually able to talk our way in. I spoke briefly with Grayst who only spoke about “razors and teeth” and “the skinsaw man is coming”. Further questioning only revealed the phrases “he that unmade me, he has a place for you” and “come to the Misgivings to meet the pack”. After babbling a little bit more, he burst out of his strait jacket and attacked me. Valdaire scorched him with a spell and on his body we found a chain with a key with a flower wreath of thorns insignia. Further investigation showed the insignia to belong to the Foxglove family and that Foxglove manor is nicknamed the Misgivings. Since I had met and boar hunted with Aldern Foxglove recently, I felt we should question him.
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