05. The Necromancer

Talia said she heard something by the entrance, so she went to deal with it.

Meanwhile, we got a little lost while searching for the necromancer.

When we found him, he was in the middle of the ritual, guarded by some of his minions. They noticed us.
 
The necromancer managed to finish his ritual and revive a corpse.

One of the zombies bit me.

Somehow, Karl managed to put the necromancer to sleep.

Still, it looked like everything would go south pretty fast, but then Talia showed up and shot down one of the zombies.

One by one, we took the undead down (Kraf and Span were hurt, with Kraf barely holding on to life. Why didn't I save the healing for them? They could die because I was selfish.).
 
We tied up the necromancer and checked the next room. It was his bedroom. Don't know how someone could sleep next to the smell of the rotting flesh.

Span found some letters to our necromancer (his name is Varius).

According to the first one, Stillpeaks is going to be attacked in a few days by a horde of undead as a distraction. Varius was supposed to go to Shantel (Person? Place?) to get his payment.

The second was written by someone who gave him dagger that lets him raise the dead. Said person was sure they will get their possession back no matter what. It was signed with a weird sigil.
 
As our captive woke up, it was time for interrogation. I tried to talk some sense into him to avoid the possibility that one of the others would want to torture him.

He tried to bribe us, then he swore he could try calling off the attack.

I don't trust him one bit, but we still need to bring him to justice.

Karl picked up the obsidian dagger.
 
We decided to rest a little before going back to village.