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Message: <blockquote data-quote="stonegod" data-source="post: 3614951" data-attributes="member: 36973">Jarrith reopens the journal. He verifies he did not miss anything of import in the first part---records of births, deaths, and such. Many of the latter, enough of the former to keep life going. He decides to focus on the second half, the part that gave him his headache before.The priest's handwriting is cramped and disorganized here, and at the beginning Jarrith can see the dried remains of tears. "My son! My son! The thrice cursed land took my son! Doru, why? Why do those that Overwatch do nothing!"The poor text immediately sets Jarrith's head to be pained, but he pushes through it this time. The next few pages are filled with Danovich's raging debate with himself---sometimes weeping, sometimes raging. His distrust is clear. "Panni Wadowa asked for a cure for her wretched boy again today, claiming fever. I know it is a lie! She lives too near the forest to truly be safe. She must be bargaining with those foul Visanti or some other darker power. I will not fall into her trap! I will not die as my son!" Jarrith can almost sympathize. The people were very distrustful here, and there was something going on he was not being told of.At some point, Danovich became obsessed with the Castle. "That Devil Strahd was said to know the power of life and that beyond. His obsession poisoned him, but it will save my son! It must be true!" Plans are laid, incomprehensible things. The priest was thorough, if mad. The entry after his return is stark. "The Castle welcomed me and opened its bosom to my need."Apparently, Danovich found some magical text that he felt would help his son. "A forbidden thing, for we do not trust that which costs us so much." The text gets even harder to read, and stains of substances best not thought about fill the page. It is filled with signs showing the depths of the priest's madness and paranoia. "Wadowa's boy's corpse, apparently dead of some fever, is the right size according to the fragment. His left arm will do well to fix my boy." It becomes clear to Jarrith that arcane fragment found with Danovich was responsible for the creation of the monstrosity---and that it was the center of the plague.After reading it all, Jarrith's head swims. To see the path of madness laid out before him so starkly. One thing was clear... anyone could fall. Easily. That the path to such madness was one that many were already on. He'd have to keep his eyes open. Even Marot has shown such weakness, and perhaps Khensu's shifter taint would claim him in the end. He'd have to be vigilant. Such was his duty.[sblock=OOC for DEFCON]Jarrith has just received 1 point of Taint (depravity) [Will save failed]. This makes him slightly paranoid or crazed, causing him to have a 50/50 chance of either panicking or charging your foe if surprised. You can see the Taint rules in Heroes of Horror for more.There are ways to heal such taint, but unfortunately, Jarrith skipped those classes (no Kn: Religion). Essentially, if someone does not figure out what is going on with Jarrith and heal him, it will be permanent. Let me know how you would like to proceed on that front.[/sblock]</blockquote>

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