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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Iron Chef BBQ" data-source="post: 400575" data-attributes="member: 1844">*The group returns Gobry to his dad who is overjoyed.  They take the body of Deke to the Temple of Denev.  He is brought back to life, but not as an elf.  He is brought back as the creature that most closely resembles his true nature: He is a filcher (a lemur-type creature).  He can talk and has all of Deke's memories.  Marja immediately sees the potential for a fake ventriloquist act if only she can get Deke to wear a red fez.  *The group relaxes at dinner with Marja's parents who marvel at their adventures.  Her father, a bard, vows to legendize them in song.  The festival of the burning man is just a few days away so the party decides to rest and have fun.  Borin makes a trip to the Temple of Ankili.  Ankili is the god of trickery, and Borin has been feeling like someone has been playing jokes on him.  (Running in to doors and bouncing off or running in to doors and tearing the entire wall down - very Ankili-like tricks.)  Borin decides if Ankili has picked him out for some reason, he'll go along with it and makes an offering at the temple.*Of course, trouble ensues.  They uncover a plot to create chaos at the festival and start a riot.  They foil it, of course, but not before Borin is bitten by a werewolf, and Marja is almost killed.  *Enter our new GM, Kid C.  Morgaine has a message from her grandmother.  It seems that since Deke has been dead, he now has conversations with the old woman.  She wants Morgaine to find her spell book!  So back to Otenazu.  On the way they pass through a small town.  They meet up with a very interesting character, a dwarf with his long red beard neatly braided.  He introduces himself as Lucre, Borin's cousin.  He has a message for Borin placed in his head by magic.  He doesn't know what it is, but will hang around with Borin until it comes out.  In the Inn that night, a man is killed.  His wife says they have recently lost there young son and the man was calling to the boy in his sleep.  It appears the town is being haunted by the ghost of a young boy who is looking for his father, and inadvertently sucking the life out of people in the mean time.  The party tracks down the mystery.  They find the hut of an outcast woman who was living alone at the edge of the river.  It appears she lived with her young son, and that she had a lover who bought her pretty dresses.  Both she and the boy have been missing for several weeks.  The party suspects the cleric at the temple who doesn't seem to know much about saying prayers.  Marja puts on one of the woman's dresses and appears to the cleric at dusk.  He is noticeably shaken.  Through "persuasion" he confesses to being the woman's lover and the father of the boy, and finally to killing them both.  The ghost of the boy appears, and the party lets him give his father a hug.  They both disappear.  The party believes with proper burial of the bodies, the town will no longer be troubled by the ghost.</blockquote>

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