Carilius Damachles Personal Memoirs/Research Notes

Record: 116.336
Date: Year 116 on Heilagtag the 8th day of Kalt
Current Location: Pine Grove, Northern Faerin
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Major Events:
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☼ - Tycone and I were Snowed into the Valley of Pine Grove
☼ - While staying at the Dead Raven Tavern, we discovered bodies were being stolen from the nearby cemetery
☼ - A half-elf by the name of Sypha decided to join us in checking out these strange occurrences, after overhearing parts of our conversation.
☼ - Another half-elf from the tavern had apparently followed us also overhearing parts of our conversation, and ended up helping us in the midst of finding a swarm of rather large rats in the cemetery.
☼ - There was a Skaven in the cemetery as well that our group started to search for, and as they were searching a mausoleum, some towns guard approached
☼ - I calmed the towns guard down, and explained what our purpose was at the cemetery at that time of night.
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Details:
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Tycone and I whilst traveling southward found ourselves in the town of Pine Grove, and due to worsening weather conditions decided it would be best if we found ourselves a room at the local tavern for the night, and hoped we could continue our travels the next morning. However, this was not to be as when we awoke the next day we learned that the valley we were in has been completely snowed in at the pass, and is un-traversable, and the townsfolk were unsure of how long it would be until the roads cleared up again.
 
Once we learned this Tycone and I went back to the tavern , the Dead Raven, which with such a peculiar name I had to ask how it became so. Well come to find out the reason they gave it this name is because when the tavern was first under construction a raven flew right into ( and through ) one of the windows causing it to shatter, when the owner came over to see what caused the ruckus, he found nothing but broken glass on the floor and a dead raven in the middle of it.
 
Hmm... Seems I got a bit side tracked there, but that snippet did give me quite a chuckle, so anyway, not long after we arrived back at the tavern we got some food and drink, well at least I did, and started to enjoy our evening. The food of the evening, a delightful beef stew, had me fairly distracted, as Tycone had noticed something that I had not. He pointed out that he overheard one of the other patrons say something about bodies disappearing from the local cemetery. Looking over to where Tycone pointed I saw a man with large grey top hat, with a somewhat unruly handlebar mustache. Intrigued, I walked over to the man, and asked him more about the disappearing bodies.
 
This man turned out to be the local grave digger whose name is William Digger. He claimed that recently someone or something has been digging up graves and taking bodies from them in the middle of the night. As Tycone and I were conversing with William, a half-elf came over and started trying to speak to William as well. I try to introduce myself to her and after trying a few common phrases in different tongues, find that the half-elf surprisingly spoke the language of my people, infernal. We exchanged pleasantries and I learned that her name was Sypha, and that she was a follower of Morr. Sypha was curious as well about the disappearing bodies, and claimed to have a deep interest in ensuring that no more bodies be dug up. I informed her of what we had learned from William. With that we all decided that we should go and investigate the cemetery tonight, as the grave robbers may still be somewhere close by, and with that we all left the tavern.
 
As we walked to the graveyard, we were buffeted by freezing winds, the howl so loud we could barely hear much else as we made our way outside of town. As we walked into the graveyard we were barely able to catch a scraping sound over the winds howl. We noticed something moving near one of the gravestones, and we snuck around only to find that the movement was caused by a rat, which Tycone quickly dispatched.
 
Suddenly we say more movement behind another gravestone, this turned out to be caused by a Skaven, this is pointed out by someone else who I had not noticed following us, but was one of the other half-elf's that were at the tavern, he had a wolf striding along beside him. A few shots were exchanged, and the half-elf took an arrow to the knee, while the Skaven fled around behind a large mausoleum. We tried flanking around the sides of the mausoleum only to be attacked by a group of much larger rats. Once they were defeated, we made it around back of the mausoleum only to find that there was a hole in the ground where the Skaven may have escaped into. This hole appeared to lead underneath the mausoleum, so we shoveled dirt in to fill the hole, and went to see if we could find the Skaven inside the mausoleum.
 
As Tycone worked on cracking open the door, two of the towns guard started to call out and shout towards us. I decided it would be beneficial if I walked over to ensure them that we were here to help, despite it looking strange that we were all in the graveyard at night. As I was working to convince the guards that all was fine here, Tycone let out a breath of fire inside of the mausoleum behind me, which admittedly did not help my negotiations... but I digress. I was able to convince them that we were not here to cause trouble, and the guards relaxed. However, they did insist that we come back to town with them so that they could confirm that all was well.
 
We made it back to town, and the guards had us go back to the tavern and told us that we should meet with the captain of the towns guard in the morning. And with that we went to bed, for what I would say was a very well deserved rest after our travel, and the investigation that night.
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New People Met:
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Sypha - Joined us on our investigation to the cemetery
☼ - Race: Half-Elf
☼ - Class: Warlock
☼ - Deity: Morr
 
William Digger - Grave Digger
☼ - Race: Human
☼ - Class: Uknown