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<blockquote data-quote="HolyMan" data-source="post: 5516894" data-attributes="member: 84167"><p>Kendra returns a few minutes later an small chest in her arms (at leats this collection of books isn't a cart load) she sits the chest down on the table and hands Marshan the key.<span style="color: Pink"> "These were left to all of you,"</span> she states. <span style="color: Pink">"One of you should have the honor."</span></p><p></p><p>The iron bound oak chest opens to reveal a set of five books. Four of the books look old and worn while the fifth book which is atop the others looks to have been recently rebound and covered.</p><p></p><p>The new looking books leather cover has the words<span style="color: Sienna"> <em>"Read this first"</em></span> ominously scratched into it. As the party takes out and examines the five books Kendra speaks up.</p><p></p><p><span style="color: Pink">"I must get ready for dinner, please excuse me for a few moments."</span> she says and leaves to freshen up before dinner.</p><p></p><p>The group alone with their mysterious charge start to page through most of the books as they wait for dinner to be ready...</p><p></p><p>For the next hour the group discovers a lot but are left with more questions than answers. Of the five books the newest is (was) the Professor's journal, and is not one of the books he spoke of in his will the other four however...</p><p></p><p>Three of the books have notes tucked into them saying they should be delivered to one Montagnie Crowl, a professor in antiquities at Lepidstadt University. These books include -</p><p> </p><p><em>On Verified Madness</em>: This jet-black book is a treatise on aberrations and other entities found on Golarion that possess remote ties to the Dark Tapestry, the name given to the dark places between the stars in the night sky.</p><p></p><p><em>Serving Your Hunger</em>: This text is a copy of one of several unholy books sacred to the goddess Urgathoa. Lorrimor's notations liberally sprinkle the margins.</p><p></p><p><em>The Umbral Leaves</em>: This lexicon is a translation into Common of the unholy book of Zon-Kuthon.</p><p></p><p>The fourth book is locked (the keyhole of which appears to be for a key with a strange triangular shaft). Pinned to it's dark purple felt cover is a note saying that it should be delivered to Embreth Daramid, a judge at the Lepidstadt Courthouse. The note asks for this delivery to be handled discreetly and gives the address to the judges home address. On the front of the book is a brass scarab set with a single eye.</p><p></p><p><img src="http://farm6.static.flickr.com/5227/5575815402_a261c79594.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /></p><p></p><p>In the journal it looks like the Professor marked off distinct passages as most of the reading is rather bland day to day activities of the small town of Ravengro. When everyone is ready they each get a chance to read the entries.</p><p></p><p>[sblock=Professor's Journal]<span style="font-family: 'Garamond'"><span style="font-size: 12px"></span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Garamond'"><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="color: White"><u><strong>Ten Years Ago:</strong></u></span></span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Garamond'"><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="color: PaleTurquoise">The Whispering Way is more than just a cabal of necromancers. I see that now. Undeath is their fountain of youth. Uncovering their motivation does not place me at ease as I thought it might. Their desire to be eternal simply makes them more dangerous.</span></span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Garamond'"><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="color: PaleTurquoise"></span><u></u></span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Garamond'"><span style="font-size: 12px"><u><strong>Two Months Ago:</strong></u></span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Garamond'"><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="color: PaleTurquoise">It is as I had feared. The Way is interested in something here in Ravengro. But what could it be? </span></span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Garamond'"><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="color: PaleTurquoise"></span><u></u></span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Garamond'"><span style="font-size: 12px"><u><strong>One Month Ago:</strong></u></span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Garamond'"><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="color: PaleTurquoise">Whatever the Way seeks, I am now convinced their goal is connected to Harrowstone. In retrospect, I suppose it all makes sense the stories they tell about the ruins in town are certainly chilling enough. It may be time to investigate the ruins, but with everyone in town already being so worked up about them, I'd rather not let the others know about my curiosity there's plenty of folks hereabouts who already think I'm a demonologist or a witch or something. Ignorant fools.</span></span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Garamond'"><span style="font-size: 12px"></span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Garamond'"><span style="font-size: 12px"><u><strong>Twenty Days Ago:</strong></u></span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Garamond'"><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="color: PaleTurquoise">It is confirmed. The Way seems quite interested in something no, strike that, someone who was held in Harrowstone. But who, specifically, is the Way after? I need a list of everyone who died the night of the fire. Everyone. The Temple of Pharasma must have such a list.</span></span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Garamond'"><span style="font-size: 12px"></span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Garamond'"><span style="font-size: 12px"><u><strong>Eighteen Days Ago:</strong></u></span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Garamond'"><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="color: PaleTurquoise">I see now just how ill prepared I was when I last set out for the Harrowstone. I am lucky to have returned at all. The ghosts, if indeed they were ghosts (for I did not find it prudent to investigate further) prevented me from transcribing the strange symbols I found etched along the foundation hopefully on my next visit I will be more prepared. Thankfully, the necessary tools to defend against spirits are already here in Ravengro. I know that the church of Pharasma used to store them in a</span></span></span></p><p> <span style="font-family: 'Garamond'"><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="color: PaleTurquoise">false crypt in the Restlands at the intersection between Eversleep and the Black Path. I am not certain if the current clergy</span></span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Garamond'"><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="color: PaleTurquoise">even know of what their predecessors have hidden down below. If my luck holds, I should be able to slip in and out with a</span></span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Garamond'"><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="color: PaleTurquoise">few borrowed items.</span></span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Garamond'"><span style="font-size: 12px"><u></u></span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Garamond'"><span style="font-size: 12px"><u><strong>Seventeen Days Ago:</strong></u><strong> (last entry)</strong></span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Garamond'"><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="color: PaleTurquoise">Tomorrow evening I return to the prison. It is imperative the Way does not finish. My caution has already cost me too much time. I am not sure what will happen if I am too late, but if my theory is right, the entire town could be at risk. I don't have time to update my will, so I'll leave this in the chest where it'll be sure to be found, should the worst come to pass.</span></span></span>[/sblock]<span style="color: PaleTurquoise"><span style="font-size: 10px"><span style="color: White"></span></span></span></p><p><span style="color: PaleTurquoise"><span style="font-size: 10px"><span style="color: White"></span></span></span></p><p><span style="color: PaleTurquoise"><span style="font-size: 10px"><span style="color: White">Soon Kendra reenters the room.<span style="color: Pink"> "Is everyone ready for dinner?" </span>she asks with a smile.</span></span></span></p><p><span style="color: PaleTurquoise"><span style="font-size: 10px"><span style="color: White"></span></span></span></p><p></p><p><span style="color: Pink"></span></p><p><span style="color: Pink"></span></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="HolyMan, post: 5516894, member: 84167"] Kendra returns a few minutes later an small chest in her arms (at leats this collection of books isn't a cart load) she sits the chest down on the table and hands Marshan the key.[COLOR=Pink] "These were left to all of you,"[/COLOR] she states. [COLOR=Pink]"One of you should have the honor."[/COLOR] The iron bound oak chest opens to reveal a set of five books. Four of the books look old and worn while the fifth book which is atop the others looks to have been recently rebound and covered. The new looking books leather cover has the words[COLOR=Sienna] [I]"Read this first"[/I][/COLOR] ominously scratched into it. As the party takes out and examines the five books Kendra speaks up. [COLOR=Pink]"I must get ready for dinner, please excuse me for a few moments."[/COLOR] she says and leaves to freshen up before dinner. The group alone with their mysterious charge start to page through most of the books as they wait for dinner to be ready... For the next hour the group discovers a lot but are left with more questions than answers. Of the five books the newest is (was) the Professor's journal, and is not one of the books he spoke of in his will the other four however... Three of the books have notes tucked into them saying they should be delivered to one Montagnie Crowl, a professor in antiquities at Lepidstadt University. These books include - [I]On Verified Madness[/I]: This jet-black book is a treatise on aberrations and other entities found on Golarion that possess remote ties to the Dark Tapestry, the name given to the dark places between the stars in the night sky. [I]Serving Your Hunger[/I]: This text is a copy of one of several unholy books sacred to the goddess Urgathoa. Lorrimor's notations liberally sprinkle the margins. [I]The Umbral Leaves[/I]: This lexicon is a translation into Common of the unholy book of Zon-Kuthon. The fourth book is locked (the keyhole of which appears to be for a key with a strange triangular shaft). Pinned to it's dark purple felt cover is a note saying that it should be delivered to Embreth Daramid, a judge at the Lepidstadt Courthouse. The note asks for this delivery to be handled discreetly and gives the address to the judges home address. On the front of the book is a brass scarab set with a single eye. [IMG]http://farm6.static.flickr.com/5227/5575815402_a261c79594.jpg[/IMG] In the journal it looks like the Professor marked off distinct passages as most of the reading is rather bland day to day activities of the small town of Ravengro. When everyone is ready they each get a chance to read the entries. [sblock=Professor's Journal][FONT=Garamond][SIZE=3] [COLOR=White][U][B]Ten Years Ago:[/B][/U][/COLOR] [COLOR=PaleTurquoise]The Whispering Way is more than just a cabal of necromancers. I see that now. Undeath is their fountain of youth. Uncovering their motivation does not place me at ease as I thought it might. Their desire to be eternal simply makes them more dangerous. [/COLOR][U] [B]Two Months Ago:[/B][/U] [COLOR=PaleTurquoise]It is as I had feared. The Way is interested in something here in Ravengro. But what could it be? [/COLOR][U] [B]One Month Ago:[/B][/U] [COLOR=PaleTurquoise]Whatever the Way seeks, I am now convinced their goal is connected to Harrowstone. In retrospect, I suppose it all makes sense the stories they tell about the ruins in town are certainly chilling enough. It may be time to investigate the ruins, but with everyone in town already being so worked up about them, I'd rather not let the others know about my curiosity there's plenty of folks hereabouts who already think I'm a demonologist or a witch or something. Ignorant fools.[/COLOR] [U][B]Twenty Days Ago:[/B][/U] [COLOR=PaleTurquoise]It is confirmed. The Way seems quite interested in something no, strike that, someone who was held in Harrowstone. But who, specifically, is the Way after? I need a list of everyone who died the night of the fire. Everyone. The Temple of Pharasma must have such a list.[/COLOR] [U][B]Eighteen Days Ago:[/B][/U] [COLOR=PaleTurquoise]I see now just how ill prepared I was when I last set out for the Harrowstone. I am lucky to have returned at all. The ghosts, if indeed they were ghosts (for I did not find it prudent to investigate further) prevented me from transcribing the strange symbols I found etched along the foundation hopefully on my next visit I will be more prepared. Thankfully, the necessary tools to defend against spirits are already here in Ravengro. I know that the church of Pharasma used to store them in a false crypt in the Restlands at the intersection between Eversleep and the Black Path. I am not certain if the current clergy even know of what their predecessors have hidden down below. If my luck holds, I should be able to slip in and out with a few borrowed items.[/COLOR] [U] [B]Seventeen Days Ago:[/B][/U][B] (last entry)[/B] [COLOR=PaleTurquoise]Tomorrow evening I return to the prison. It is imperative the Way does not finish. My caution has already cost me too much time. I am not sure what will happen if I am too late, but if my theory is right, the entire town could be at risk. I don't have time to update my will, so I'll leave this in the chest where it'll be sure to be found, should the worst come to pass.[/COLOR][/SIZE][/FONT][/sblock][COLOR=PaleTurquoise][SIZE=2][COLOR=White] Soon Kendra reenters the room.[COLOR=Pink] "Is everyone ready for dinner?" [/COLOR]she asks with a smile. [/COLOR][/SIZE][/COLOR] [COLOR=Pink] [/COLOR] [/QUOTE]
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