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Message: <blockquote data-quote="RangerWickett" data-source="post: 5847749" data-attributes="member: 63">Hindsight being 20/20, when Creed died he should have looked like a horribly scarred man with a flayed face, seeping black blood. Without illusions he wouldn't have been identifiable as Macbannin's butler.But yes, Creed's spirit would either refuse to answer or lie to mislead them. Depending on how comfortable you are tricking your players, and how cool they are with trying to figure out if a villain is lying, he might boast that he is indeed Macbannin's butler, but that Quital offered him supernatural power if he became a spy. Make up some bulls**t about a plan to collect evil mana from the mountain under the eyes of the mayor, in order to create monsters. Top it off with a mocking laugh and a claim that when he doesn't report in, his accomplices at the Danoran consulate will be on the next boat to Cherage, and there's nothing the party can do to stop them.(If they fall for it, that will get them on a wild goose chase long enough for word to reach Macbannin, so he can formulate a new plan.)I like the idea that Quital recovered the body, performs a raise dead ritual, and sends him back to work.</blockquote>