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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Motorskills" data-source="post: 6808525" data-attributes="member: 15921">Bloodbath in Gracklstugh!The party had already lost Topsy and Turvy, thrown overboard when they wigged out on the Darklake.They reached the gaijin-only tavern in Gracklstugh without much bother.Things were settling down, the party returned from the bazaar to find Eldeth murdered, her body hacked to pieces by a large melee weapon, and her heart ritualistically removed. Ront, the obvious suspect, was missing, along with Buppido. Buppido had used his wiles to convince Ront to kill Eldeth in a frenzied rampage. Buppido then cut her heart out, before convincing Ront that he knew somewhere he could lay low.After some shenanigans, the party found Buppido's shrine. Eldeth's heart is on the shrine, bits of Ront are scattered all over.I had statted all the NPCs as proper character classes (Eldeth was a dwarf ranger of equivalent rank, etc). For fun, I oomphed up Buppido to an 8th level Sorceror, and slapped the party around some before they finally put him down. I made him a disciple of the Demon Lord of Lies, seemed to fit better.I was already freaking them out with Sarith's accelerating descent into madness. They then (eventually) encountered the corrupted myconids in Whorlstone...and Sarith left them per the description, and that freaked them out pretty good too.They've picked up Rumpadump, though hardly any compensation for losing three key warriors.</blockquote>