The Zombie Invasion
The team gave to deal with a threat to the town. A cacavan led by Ziri the Berber, arrived in town and unfortunately brought something with him. Ziri unfortunately hasn't got over the death of his daughterTahnina. He has an item on his possession that has been feeding on this that just happens to get put in the wrong place.
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The team are in Eschbach, and likely with the council or in the Eschbach Shields. They are introduced in some way to Ziri the Berber, a trader from North Africa who is passing through and looking to set up contacts & business in Eschbach before moving on. He explains that he is setting a mix of general items from Africa including from Central Africa. He has a small statuette of Baron Samedi that belonged to his daughter Tahnina with him. He has difficulty parting with it and tells them that he had originally got it after it was passed through numerous hands from central Western Africa.
They get to know him and that Tahnina tradigally passed away during an attack on the caravan by a swarm of Yuan-Yi. They seemd to be after something the caravan had but never found it. He did notice that the Yuan-TI leader spoke something before leaving and that the time there was a slight glow from his daughter's wagon that quickly faded before they could check it out.
After a few hours a patrol returns and they report that they slaughtered a handful of zombies to the south east. It seems these were making some strange gutteral noises, and were heading in the direction of Eschbach. Also, it seemed to be that the zombies almost appeared alive if it could be described as such.
Over the course of the night, a few ohter such minor incidents occur, usually conerning one or two odd such zombies. All of them appear travelling i nthe direct of Eschbach.
The team should start to work out that something seems to be attracting them.
At the same time someone tries to break into the church's vault but fails. If investigated, they will find that the culprit has set off a Ward of Lightning, and suffered a few very minor burns. If looked for the person turns out to be a female in the caravan. This turns out to be a Yuan-Ti Pureblood called Sethlis. She has been planted in the caravan to find the statuette of Baron Sameti as her people are looking for potential magical items to use. Especially items with connections to deities.
She has stolen it and hidden it near the church, and this also starts to cause the dead to rise. Also any person bit in the pastcouple of days starts to turn into a zombie, increasing the numbers and attacking the living.
The first couple of corpses that rise will point the way to the statuette which is buried in one of the recent graves. Now they have to determine how to stop the threat.
Checking arcane & religious sources, they may find that the statuette has been awoke with a sliver of Baron Sameti attached to it when Tahnine was killed. The Yuan-Ti had cast a spell to give her soul to the statuette to open the link between the Baron's realm and this world, allowing a bit of him to take up residence in it.
They need to work in getting this closed as the zombies are starting to build up. If done correctly they can finish off the zombies easy enough.
To do so, involves carrying out a sacrifice and carry out a blessing on the statuette. Ziri offers t obe the sacrifice, mainly to be with his daughter again. He will take his own life, and bleed on the statuette. The others can do the blessing and duspose of the statuette as they see fit. The caravan then moves off to another location after this.
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