Session 2: What is going on in Blord Report

General Summary

The party, having reached Blord, found that there were a few Zombies roaming around the town, but they were nothing the group could not handle easily. They destroyed the undead walkers and proceeded to explore the town, which had been abandoned for some time.
  During their exploration they found another recently deceased corpse. A black robed figure looked like it was performing some type of ritual on one of the skeleton of the townsfolk. Apparently it was trying to summon up the corpse's spirit using a magic candle so it could ask it question, but was killed by a Zombie before it had the chance. He has another candle on his corpse and Aurelia was able to figure out how to work it, and asked the latest body some questions.
  It turned out the robe figure was a member of the Children of the Black Rose most likely and they came to the village following a story that during the pirate attack, than caused the city to become abandoned, there was a villager using a sword that had the griffon family crest.
The recently deceased has orders from a the head of the children which it referred to as Lilliana, to find any trace of the griffon family and its descendants.
  Why the Children are after the Griffons is unknown but considering the nature of the group, it must not be for good reasons. While the party was conducting their unholy interrogation, they were alerted to an issue outside. More zombies had come to town, many more and the party had to flee for their lives.
  They made their way back to Freeport and met with Aaron, and gave him the evidence they found. They were declared full society members, and celebrated the night with thier peers. The also gather some more information about some of their discoveries. The amulet they found and the city they saw are apparently part of the legend of The City of Ylore. They met with Neeus, a scholar who has been studying Ylore. He was shocked at the amulet they found and said that there is a story of a young man who left the city and carried an amulet to help him find his way back home. The story goes that he never made it back, falling to some unknown fate but stories of what happened to his amulet are as numerous as stories about the city itself. Neeus thinks this may be the real amulet. He promised to send the party whatever information he could about the city.
The also were asked by Aaron if they wanted to continue looking into the legend of The Knight and the Black Rose. From what they gathered in Blord, there were a couple of leads. The first, being the scroll they found and the alchemical substance on it. It was very rare, and he suggested they visit the Alchemist Yul Havan to see if they could out more about it. Also the story of the villager with the sword must have come from somewhere. The Pirate that attacked the city was Renshaw "cutthroat" Tynarm. Maybe someone from his crew survived and passed that tale on.
  In addition the party also started looking into their own projects. The society is gathering some information on most of them, but they did mention there was a clockwork engineer in town named Maximillion Gearlock and that might be a good place to find out more about Newt.
  The party visited Yul the alchemist and gave him the note from the Child of the Black Rose. He said the substance would be very rare and he would do some research to find out more about it, and for them to come back in a couple of days.
  Then then made their way to Maximillions Clock Shop only to find that Max is missing. His nephew Kyle Knobslobber, has been worried about him, and asked the players for help finding him. The did a quick search and found a message from Max, saying "Kyle I need you help". They then went down to his secret lab, to see if they could find any more info, but apparently the lab was protected and two large clockwork hounds emerged to greet them in a non-friendly way.