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hehe yep a whole MONTH 
my in-laws live in the Philippines and my wife and I go back once or twice a year, on the off season (cause Christmas and the Summer air-line tickets are really expensive, while off season is really cheap...[/occ]
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XP for Part 1 - 3650XP
Returning to the castle the heroes will be invited to stay over and rest and research. The magical items recovered include the following...
dull black Full-Plate Armor +2 (worth 5,650gp)
Ruby ring of Protection +2 (worth 8,000gp)
Flail (one-handed) +1
flaming (worth 8,308gp)
The ledger looks to be writing in some kind of code, it will take some time to break it.
The journals are written in Draconic, and are also in some bit of code but Verrick and make them out. It takes a couple of weeks to get all the info, but from it he learns the following…
1. The dark priest's name was on
Marlus dar'Moth
2. He talks a lot about "my dark lord that slumbers in the mountains, asleep on a bed of gems". This seems to be his god, but no one has ever heard of said god before. No are there any references with the Dame library.
3. He refers to his master within the order who taught him the ways of the 'drake of the earth' and who sent him out to acquire slaves and subjects for 'sacrifice' (there is no mention of this masters name but he is referred to often).
4. He talks about the
Six as the 'lords that have been reborn to rule'. His master is one of these 'Six' and seems to lead them (at least Marlus thinks so). In another passage, you also find reference to these people as the 'Lords of the throne of Pomarj.
5. The other members are not really talked about much although he seems to hold two in rather low regard. The first of these is a member of those 'cursed red monks' and the other is tainted by Orc-blood.
6. It also talks about the 'raiders of the yellow sail' will be a force for the world for fear. These raiders where to meet them somewhere in the Blight Desert it was to pick up the villagers that they grabbed. It never gives a location but he names the place 'the Hidden Bay' and something about the 'Caves of Shadows'.
Verrick also can do some research into the dark wizard and with talking with Lorien (and what he say when he shot the mage), it takes a while but is has a strong suspicion that the wizard was really an Ogre Magi. There are legends of one operating in and around the Mist Swamps and the western Blight Desert for the last 100 years… could this be the same one? He is referred to as 'terror of children' and the 'dark of winter'. He call sign as it were, is living frozen dead bodies, killing for sport and pleasure.
Arianrhod continues to come out to the Castle of call on the Dame and 'just happens to run into' Lorien a couple of times.
