Perhaps Death made a mistake.
Death unleashed the undead plague in a fit of anger. As the population is wiped out the other Gods must surely be losing followers and be getting mightily annoyed themselves.
So perhaps an incarnated Death is abroad in the land tasked to destroy his undead army...
The place I laughed was when the US headed South to Mexico and the Mexican Army stopped them. Then the two presidents chatted & sorted it out.
The first thing the Mexican president would have seen was his welcome to the US and congrats your the 52nd state message. I suspect the Texas national...
I once played a mage in a game where a really annoying player had a 7th level Fighter. He was attacked by something called a Volt which kept zapping him every time he attacked it with a sword. Eventually he grabbed it by the tail and while it shocked him continually he yelled at me to fireball...
Of course the Paladin should lose his palidinhood. At the very least he should have checked the alignment of the man he slew. Perhaps the rapist had been entranced or was possessed.
The Paladin should have checked to detect evil, then he should have challenged and if all else failed he should...
I noted from the first post that the calendar is tied to the constellations. This could suggest that the God refered to by a constellation could have some abilities dependant on the time of year. For example a Winter constellation/god would have aspects of cold.
You could make this more...