Act 1:

The initial Party of Avacyn, Garram, Davian, and Adoror, bound together by their newfound local celebrity after being there to stop a Goblin Raid during the Swallowtail Festival.

This Party, assisted by a Dwarf named Takko of the Shieldcleft clan and the Elf Hunter Shalelu Andosana, defeated the cult trying to destroy Sandpoint, led by the demonic daughter of the Dead Priest of Sandpoint and her deranged lover, Ameiko’s Half-Elvish brother Tsuto.

Avacyn and Davian depart together, and Takko leaves back for Janderhoff.
Garram began his Thieves guild in secret.

Act 2:

An Inquisitor from Adoror’s church named Messer is sent to help investigate mysterious murders, seemingly involving Garram, a companion of Adorors. Unbeknownst to Adoror, The Inquisitor was tasked with discovering any corruption to Adoror and possible involvement. After following the grisly clues, the Sandpoint Heroes and Messer discover a previous ally of the heroes, the Nobleman Aldern Foxglove, turned into an undead and ghastly abomination being behind the murders, but the trail was found to lead past even him, a trail that led to Adoror’s and Messer’s home city, Magnimar.

Adoror buys the haunted isle of Chopper and purifies it, building the foundation for a Paladin Order he hopes will protect Sandpoint from future disaster, and in recognition for his deeds, the Church of Iomedae in Magnimar approves and helps fund it.

The Sandpoint heroes travel to Magnimar, encountering two Dwarves along the way in fierce melee with a Wyvern. The younger of the dwarfs, a Cousin to Takko Shieldcleft, takes offense to Adoror that the elder, Bolo Logrin is only too happy to stoke. The bearded duo stalk the Heroes on their travels to Magnimar, hurling insults and other offenses. Eventually they warmed up to the group over their shared admiration for the Strength of the God Trudd.

The Sandpoint Heroes destroy the Skinsaw Cult, a secret cult of Murder operating in Magnimar who’s strings were being pulled by the mysterious Lamia Xanesha.

Adoror begins a relationship with Shalelu Andosana. The first recruits of Fort Righteous begin to take home in the new Fortress.
Garram receives an unwelcome message from the Sczarni, his main competition in Sandpoint.
Messer is called back to Magnimar to deal with more pressing Church concerns.

Act 3:
The Mayor of Magnimar sends for the party to investigate the silence of the Black Arrows in Fort Rannick. The party, consisting of Garram, Adoror, Dakkam, and Bolo, along with Shalelu travel to Turtleback Ferry, encountering unending, and terrible rains upon arrival, and even more disturbing, a familiar seven-pointed symbol tattooed on many of the citizens.

The Town seemed steeped in grief after the recent tragedy of the Gambling Ship Paradise sinking, taking everyone, including the proprieter Lucretia down with it.
It seems that Lucretia had been the one tattooing the villagers as a ‘VIP Pass.’

With more pressing concerns, the Heroes pressed on towards Fort Rannick, where they encountered a Firepelt being attacked by a grotesque product of Ogre cruelty and inbreeding, an Ogrekin. Investigating further into it, the Heroes come across the Grawl House, a sick museum of grotesque and violent taxidermy and sadistic games and traps. The Ogrekin that lived inside held the last few survivors of the Black Arrows. Freeing them and killing the corpulent and bloated Ogre Necromancer, Mammy Grawl.

One of the Black Arrows, Jakardos, turned out to be Shalelu’s step father, explaining the elf’s reasons for her accompaniment. After an awkward reunion, the two make their peace with each other, and the goal is now at hand, to retake Fort Rannick.

After their initial plan snags with the killing of Garram at the hands of an Ogre fighter, the heroes retreat long enough to call in a favour from the Church of Iomedae, requesting a high priest to revive the fallen rogue. Shalelu calls a childhood friend and fellow hunter, the famed Slayer Maglynn, and Jakardos, an old ally of the Black Arrows, the Shoanti hero, Bardoc Rageborn of the Axe Clan.

With this new bolstered strength, the heroes successfully retake Fort Rannick from the Kreeg Ogres, killing the Chieftain Jaggrath in the process.

With victory at hand, Garram, Adoror, and Bardoc decide to make their way to Magnimar to debrief and receive their reward. Though when they returned to Turtleback Ferry, disaster struck. Flood Water washed away half of the village, and a great beast of legend was awoken, The Black Magga. The terrible beast began tearing at a church full of frightened refugees, desperate to get at the tasty morsels within. The Heroes fought valiantly, nearly being slain by the primeval terror before it retreated into the waters below. There to assist them, was their past ally Avacyn, who had departed from Davian’s company for as of yet unknown reasons

With the only hope of Turtleback Ferrys’ survival being opening the Flood Gates of Skull’s Crossing. Their way was plagued by Ogre, Troll, and a very very stupid Ettin. But they made it to the heart of the Dam, where they discovered the battery that operated the ancient wonder. The Floodgates were powered by the souls of those trapped within it’s circles. The fates of those who ran out of souls would be reduced with nothing but ash. The sole inhabitant, the pit fiend Arixiel made a deal with the group. For his life and freedom, he would give them each one request. To appease the reluctant Paladin, he even promised an exile of five hundred years from the Material Plane and the promise to never directly harm a descendant of Adorors, unless they breech the peacebond first. Adoror agreed, feeling destroying the Devil this way was too cruel, even if it would be for the greater good.

Upon freeing Arixiel, the fiend teleported away, leaving them alone to open the floodgates. Bardoc and Garram both chose to be the ones, with Garram taking most of the toll.

Now Stranded in Hook Mountain until the Ferry is rebuilt, The Heroes turn their attention to Shimmerglen.

After bringing damning evidence of Justice Ironbriar’s murder cult, and the Cult leader himself to the proper authorities, the Deputies quickly make their way over to the Shadow Clock, a decrepit clockwork tower that despite the property being banned to public access for it’s danger, holds rumours of something haunting the tower as of late.

Garram and Hun Qui decide they want to climb the tower, hoping to corner whomever is inside, Adoror and the Dwarves take the inside, where they’re attacked by a massive flesh golem dressed as a sick Scarecrow, the severed heads of it’s previous victims hanging on it’s belt. The Golem grabbed Adoror, and began to try to open him in much the same way you would a bottle when frustrated. That is to say the tower shook and teetered as Adoror was slammed against wall and ceiling and Dwarf. The Dwarves were unleashing as many spells as they could at the beast as Adoror struggled to release the beasts hold of him, smashing the behemoths’ arm and releasing the grip.

The commotion brought the rest of the denizens to the attention of the Deputies arrival, and worked to stop it, unfastening one of the massive brass bells from it’s holding, dropping it upon Hun Qui, who failed to get out of the way, getting crushed under the massive brass bell.

Against all common sense and laws of how reality should work, Hun Qui survives this, and after climbing out of the rubble, decides to climb the tower, logically determining that they probably couldn’t drop another bell on him.

The Paladin and the Dwarves manage to slay the Scarecrow, and as their climbing the stairs, The denizens above drop another bell, this time into the stair well. The massive bell tumbled down the stairs, knocking pieces of the stair case tumbling down into the tower floor below.
Adoror quickly smashed the side of the wall where he was standing, and leapt out of the tower, activating his ring of Feather Fall, mere moments before being crushed. Dakkam was grazed, but nearly fell to his death when the stairs crumbled beneath him, but Bolo was there to grab him.

Garram and Hun Qui make their way onto the Bell Floor, where three more Faceless Stalkers awaited the Deputies ascent. With the rest of the Deputies eventually making it up the stairs, The Stalkers were slain, and only one floor remained.

Steeling themselves, they reached the attic, where the Angel Statue could be seen outside the tower through the holes in the ceiling. Nearest to the Statue, was a makeshift bed of pillows and silks, and lying in wait were four snakelike beings with wicked thorn-like tridents. One stabbed Dakkam draining him of his very willpower as his lifeblood dripped with it.

With a simple word, Dakkam became an unwitting puppet of the Snake creatures, and began to sling spells at his own teammates. The Deputies struck mighty blows at the Snake creatures, only to find they vanish as they are revealed to be glamours. The real one, revealed to be a powerful spellcaster, as her invisbility ended with another vicious strike with her trident.

Adoror and Garram struck back with a vengeance, holding the Lamia at bay while Hun Qui grappled Dakkam and restrained him from doing anymore harm to his compatriots. Finally, they proved too much for her, and she successfully fled into the night, with Dakkam finally breaking her hold on him. After searching her lair (and finding considerable loot.) they find a taunting letter addressed to the Lamia, named ‘Xanesha’, the sender implied to be the beasts’ sister.

In the letter, Xanesha’s sister taunted her about her plot with the skinsaw men being crude, and how her own plan in Turtleback Ferry was much more elegant. There was mention about greedy souls being used in some plot by their mysterious Lord, and a hint of an attack on Fort Rannick.

But what does this all mean? And How far does this rabbit hole go?

The Deputies decided to investigate the Seven’s Sawmill on Kyver’s Isle. The Mill seems innocuous enough at first glance, but Garram spots a door just above the water line, hidden under the boardwalk connected by a hidden staircase. When they enter, they find themselves under questioning by the mill workers inside. Something doesn’t feel right to the Deputies as the Sawmill workers try to coax them to leave, informing them that it is very, very dangerous for unauthorized personnel to be on the Mill property. The Deputies stand their ground, only for these sawmill workers to pull grotesque patchwork ‘Skinsaw’ masks out of their back pockets, and pull War razors hidden inside the piles of lumber scattered about the mill. The Deputies, surprised by the Skinsaw Men, are forced to quickly defend themselves against an onslaught from the murderous cultists of Norgorber.

Making their way upwards through the Mill, they find that the Skinsaw Men amassed around their leader, wearing his own sick and grotesque ‘Reapers Mask’. Before The Reaper could do anything, Hun Qui dove through his ranks, taking a number of quiet violent wounds along the way, and tackled the man, pinning him in a full body lock. The rest of the Deputies started to fight their way through the Skinsaw men as Hun Qui took savage blow after savage blow from nearby Cultists, desperate to hold onto life long enough to keep the battle in favour of his companions. Hun Qui is almost dealt is mortal blow, when Garram kills the final Cultist, and the unveiling of the Reaper is shocking.

The Leader of the Skinsaw Cult is Justiciar Ironbriar, a well-known and respected Magnimar Justice of the Peace. Hun Qui comes to the conclusion that Ironbriar is under a charm, and while guilty of the sick crimes of his being a Reaper, means he is not the mastermind behind the Skinsaw Man that Foxglove had become. Restraining the man, they investigate the top floor, revealing a small rookery with a few messenger ravens kept in their cage.

Freeing one, they write a small note reading. “We’re coming for you.”, and attached it to the raven, watching as it flew to the Underbridge, landing on the old abandoned clock tower known s the ‘Shadow Tower.’ could that be the final thread to this tapestry of murder?

With Messer back at Sandpoint recovering from the wounds he suffered in The Misgivings, Hun Qui, Garram and Ser Adoror took to Magnimar on their horse and wagon to investigate Foxgloves’ townhouse for any clues. On the way, they came across two Dwarves from Janderhoff in the midst of a skirmish with a Forest Drake. The Sandpoint Deputies intervened, seeking to help the Dwarves. Unfortunately our heroes, this only incensed the dwarves, who saw the assistance as a slight against their battle prowess, and so they followed their wagon for the rest of the day, slinging insults and allegations of dishonour and racism towards Dwarves until the Deputies grew tired and made camp. The Dwarves, finally introducing themselves as Bolo Logrin, High Priest of Trudd, God of Strength, and Dakkam Shieldcleft, a distant cousin of The Heroes of Sandpoint’s onetime ally Takko, a devout follower of Trudd. The two had travelled across Varisia from Janderhoff, in search of the biggest baddest monsters and beasties in the land to prove their god’s strength. Feeling like the deputies had insulted their prowess, and by extension, their god’s strength, they refused to part from the Deputies’ company until they proved to the skinny little men what a couple of short and tanky dwarves can do.

The next day, they arrived at Magnimar, and quickly ended up splitting up before picking a place to regroup. The Dwarves got into many bar fights during the day, when Adoror found them, Bolo had punched the owner of the local Elf Tavern, causing them to be chased by Guards.

Meanwhile Hun Qui and Garram were selling the ill-gotten gains they had accumulated by hiding what they found from the rest of the Deputies, they managed to get the address to Foxgloves’ townhouse while doing their shopping.

When the Deputies regrouped, (With Dwarves in tow), they decided to find an inn to stay in and drop off their supplies, and then visit the Townhouse.

The Townhouse itself was boarded up, locals said one night a few carpenters had come by to quietly board it up some weeks ago. Adoror reopened the townhouse door with a good swing of his hammer, and when the Deputies entered, they were shocked to find Aldern Foxglove and his wife Iesha alive and waiting for them with a nice home cooked meal. The Dwarves quickly began to help themselves, while the speechless deputies tried to gather their wits at the shock of this discovery. The absurd situation quickly unveiled itself for a glamour, as the Foxgloves, secretly Faceless Stalkers, made their attack and tried to fatally wound Adoror. Adoror managed to grab hold of the longsword ‘Aldern’ thrusted into his breastplate, causing a deep but ultimately non-lethal wound. Adoror took the opportunity to sock the Stalker to the ground, before pulling the blade out and drawing Renewal. Meanwhile ‘Iesha’ kept Garram and Hun Qui on their toes with ’her deadly swings. Eventually the dwarves finished the meal laying in wait on the kitchen and decided to join in the brawl, Dakkam unleashed a torrent of flame upon the combatants, singing both friend and foe alike, while Bolo went into a battle rage and swung wildly at the closest ugly he could see – narrowly missing Garram on the way.

The ‘Foxgloves’, no match for the combined effort of expertise and insanity, were quickly killed again. Of course, leaving neither assassin alive meant that the Deputies had to hope they could find a lead in the townhouse, but with luck, Garram finds a secret cubby in the fireplace, with a note about ‘The Seven’s Sawmill’. With a little information gathering, they determine the Sawmill owned by The Brotherhood of The Seven, a mysterious ‘Gentlemans Club’ that has been in Magnimar for some time now.

The Sandpoint Deputies decide to head directly for Foxglove Manor. To say they were surprised by the sight, would be an understatement. Foxglove Manor sat at the edge of a cliff, vegetation surrounding it seemed stunted and diseased. As they approached, moving past the burnt remains of the servants quarters, they saw a flock of odd crows fly away. The Manor itself was menacing and grotesquely rotted, covered with mold. Garram began throwing weaponry at the gargoyles hanging off the eaves. He insisted he’s had troubles with statues being more thant they let on before.

Using the key from the Ghast, they opened the front door of the manor, and were greeted by old decaying trophies of Foxgloves of old. Boar heads, and Stag heads, and the crowning prestige, a 12-foot long stuffed manticore. Chopska caught a whiff of burning flesh and hair, but was unable to determine the source, and Messer thought he had heard a woman’s sobs.

Moving north, they came across what seemed to have been a piano room. Garram decided to play a couple notes on the piano, commenting that despite it’s decayed state, it seemed in perfect tune. All of a sudden, the piano burst into a song of it’s own making, and Garram seemed caught up in a dance. As he danced he seemed to grow weaker, as though his life force was being drained, as quickly as it began, it ended and he collapsed.

The Deputies continued on, until they came across a bathroom with a mysterious sound in the tub. Chopska inexplicably decided to lock himself in the bathroom. The source of the sound, a diseased rat, scampered up and bit Chopska, infecting him with a mysterious disease.

Chopska decided to then use his burning hands spell in this enclosed space, burning himself as well. He emerged covered in soot, much to the confusion of the rest of the party.
Travelling back around, they came back to the main entrance again, where the manticore sprung to ferocious life, stinging Chopska.

The party discovered two stairs, one up and another down. Hon Qui, Messer, and Garram decided to go downstairs, where they came across a kitchen. Giving the Kitchen the ol’ looting, they failed to hear the swarms of rats that infested the pantry until they emerged. The swarms covered Hun Qui and Messer, biting them constantly and infecting them with disease. Garram decided to use a scroll he kept for such an occasion, a burning hands scroll. He managed to burn off some of the rats off Messer, while Hun Qui Punched the rest to death.

Meanwhile, Chopska and Adoror discover a gallery, with each portrait covered by cobwebs. The two uncovered each portrait, revealing the Foxglove family history, from Aldern, to Traver, to Vorel, the founder of the manor itself. When all the portraits were uncovered, each became a grotesque caricature of how the subject died, with Vorel’s exploding into a mass of fungus. Chopska’s disease refestered, and Chopska became convinced that his arm had exploded into red pus-covered boils, though Adoror couldn’t see any of this.

The three in the basement had come to an iron door, after some time, Garram managed to pick the lock. Walking in, Messer was overcome by an urge to read some of the tomes in this old and decayed laboratory. Upon reading he was overcome with terrible visions of a failed ritual to lichdom taking place in the manor, as Vorel was interrupted by his wife, suffering a terrible backlash. Messer was possessed and compelled to flee upstairs to find ‘his child’, and when Garram tried to stop him, he began to attack the tiefling. Garram managed to knock Messer unconscious, and when he came to, he was himself, albeit confused and flustered. Finding only a pit with an old staircase, Garram experienced a vision of a half-crazed Aldern digging the very pit they look upon, upon breaking it open, a half dozen ghoul’s reached out and pulled Aldern in, tearing him asunder. Garram shook his head, and the pit was once again empty. Shaken, he convinces Hun Qui and Messer to regroup upstairs with Adoror and Chopska.

Adoror and Chopska decided to look into an observatory, looking upon the beautiful stained glass windows, one of which was partially burnt and broken. Chopska smelled a whiff of burning flesh, and became convinced that he was on fire, and that only by plunging into the sea below could he save himself. Adoror tried desperately to grab him as he leapt at the window, but alas, Chopska shattered through the window, landing upon the rooftop in a blood unconscious heap, he slid towards a weather vane, it luckily breaking his fall.

Unfortunately, Chopska’s organs too much injury, and he bled to death upon the precipice.
Though Adoror bravely rescued his body, they had no way to bring him back. Attaching him to Messer’s back, they continued downwards to where the pit was discovered, determined to avenge their fallen comrade.

Travelling down the spiral stairs, they came across an underground cavern. Within was a Skaveling, a Ghoul Bat, that attacked and maimed Hun Qui. The Deputies managed to kill it, and found a macabre collection of corpses. One being an infamous bandit that had been famous for robbing caravans over the last decade and proof of his death would bring quite the reward.

Continuing onwards, they fought more ghouls, before coming across the worst encounter yet, some goblins had strayed too close to The Skinsaw Man, and had been turned into Ghasts. These unholy Goblin Ghasts proved absolutely obnoxious, but Adoror smote all four.

There remained only one more door.

When Garram opened it, he was disturbed by what he saw. Personal objects of his that had gone missing strewn across tables with rotting flesh, caricatures drawn of him all over, and a grotesque painting made of blood and guts lay in the corner. Sitting behind a blood-soaked chair, in the same clothes he wore when Garram and Adoror had seen him last, was Aldern Foxglove.

At least, that’s who he was, The Skinsaw Man stood from the chair, and when he saw Garram he smiled. “You have come to join the pack, your friends will die, and you will be mine.”
He placed a mask made of skins on his face, and in an instant, he took upon Garram’s visage, charging at him wildly. The Deputies fought fiercely, defending Garram from the onslaught from this insane ghast. The Horror fought fiercely, but Adoror struck with the might of Iomedae, literally exploding the undead horror in a macabre shower of gore.

With Hun Qui and Garram severely wounded and unconscious, Messer and Adoror consecrated the Manor, purifying it of the taint of Vorel’s failed lichdom, and pulled their companions out of the manor into a wagon with Chopska’s corpse.

When they arrived at Sandpoint, they interred their departed friend, split up his possessions due to a lack of a will, and Garram used his growing illegal wealth to purchase his former business partner’s shop.

For a few days, there was relative peace in Sandpoint. Adoror began to think that perhaps the lingering malevolence of Chopper had been the cause. This theory however, was quickly shattered, when Maester Grump stumbled into town, terrified and drunk, rambling of walking scarecrows feeding on the livestock and farmers at night.

The Deputies decide to investigate, bringing Ameiko’s cousin, Hun Qui, who had came to town after hearing the death of her family members, to help her cope. On their way, they find an overturned carriage, and were attacked by the ghoulified woman that lay within. The carriage driver they found crawling under the bridge later, but was quickly dealt with by a single mighty punch from Hun Qui.

By evening they reached the Hambley Farm where Maester Grump had encountered the horrors he described. Determining the Corn Fields as too large to traverse as one group, they separated into two groups, where they discovered with horror that the scarecrows were in fact ghouls, victims who had been infected and left to ‘ripen’. The scent of living flesh grew too much to bear for these scarecrows, and they lunged from their stands to attack. Eventually they came to the Hambley Farmhouse. Chopska, Messer, and Adoror took the barn, where they found a group of Ghouls, which Adoror quickly wiped out with a burst of his divine power.

Hun Qui and Garram took the farmhouse, where they encountered a one eared ghast. After a savage battle, and the timely arrival of the others, Hun Qui and Garram slew the Ghast, and found a key around the creature’s neck.

A Key that Adoror, Garram, and Chopska recognized, for it beared the sigil of Foxglove.
Could Aldern Foxglove be the Skinsaw Man?

The Deputies arrive to a large 3 story asylum at the edge of Cougar Creek, not too far from the first set of murders. Coming to the front door, they were refused entry by Erin Habe, the Sanatorium Head. Claiming to be in the middle of important work, despite their letter of introduction from Sheriff Belor.

While half the party kept Habe distracted Garram, Edge and Sven, and Edward broke into the back door. Edward hid in the Storage and Sven under the table. When Habe finally departed from the front door to return to his studies, Edge was quick to stealthily follow him upstairs while Garram opened the front door. Edge found himself watching Eben take notes on a large sickened looking man in a straight jacket in the attic.

Chopska decided to call attention to himself by shouting and banging on the walls, and at once the dark Sanatorium sprung to life. Two burly Tiefling Orderlies burst through their room door, and in Habe’s panic, he let loose all the patients upstairs and attempted to flee, taking the time to bang on the basement before running down the hall. Unfortunately for Habe, Messer was waiting by the exit and quickly put him down.

Chopska, Edward, and Adoror dealt with the orderlies downstairs, Sven ran up the stairs to help Edge, who was being torn apart by a wererat and the large diseased man.
All seemed under control, until the basement door slammed open and a horde of zombies poured forth.

Edward was torn apart by the horde, managing only to get away with luck, he ran up the stairs, finding Sven having entranced the large man with his song, and the wererat bleeding on the floor. Unfortunately, the Pirate intimidated the man, and broke Sven’s hold over him. The Man charged into Edward, crushing him against the wall and putting him down for the count.

Downstairs, the remaining heroes were fending off the horde of zombies, with Adoror sustaining heavy wounds. Tearing through the hordes they found the source of them, a Necromancer named Carzalu. Fearing himself to be discovered, Carzalu was determined to keep his laboratory a secret. Adoror gave it his all, pushing through the zombie wall and striking down the Necromancer. Adoror then decided to head upstairs to see how it was going when he was taken down the stairs by the diseased man. He seemed to snap out of his insanity for a moment when he laid his eyes on Garram, who had walked in from looting the surrounding rooms during the battle, and he repeats a message given to him by ‘The Skinsaw Man’ before attacking Garram himself in an unholy rage. They killed the man and tied up the Doctor and Necromancer. Examining the man, they concluded he was indeed Grayst Sevilla, the man they came to see, and he was quickly succumbing to ghoul fever.

Edge went to explore the basement laboratory, coming across the Necromancer’s spellbook and charts and maps detailing ‘reported ghoul attacks’ in the Sandpoint region. Carzalu was obviously keeping track of these, and his notes concluded a strong Ghoul presence could be the cause of the upswing in attacks in the south.

The Deputies traveled back to Sandpoint, leaving Carzalu and Eben in the hands of Belor until their transfer to the Magnimar courts. The heroes decided to take a small rest to check their affairs and follow up on other leads. Adoror, Sven and Chopska decide to look into the old murders of Chopper.

The Sandpoint Deputies decided to head south to Habe’s Sanatorium.
The journey was uneventful, passed only by the sweet sounds of Sven. Until the sun began to set that is, when darkness fell, the deputies felt almost suffocated by an unnatural silence, pierced by a chilling and terrifying bay that shook the very boots of the deputies. Edge, Sven and Edward took off in a panic. From the skies, a quadrupedal horse-like being with wings came down upon them, engulfing the remaining deputies and their Wagon in infernal flames.

The Heroes regrouped, with the exception of Edward, who found his wits again half a mile down the road. Messer decided to stay low and hide throughout the whole battle, drawing the ire of his new companions. With Edge assailing the beast with arrows, Chopska slinging spells, and the Blades and Hammer of Garram and Adoror, they managed to drive the beast back into a dimension door of it’s making. With the others who fled regrouping, they determined it couldn’t have fled too far.

Finding the lair, the Deputies made their final charge, determined to rid Sandpoint of this hated beast that has instilled fear in the citizens in the shadows of rumour and heresy for so many years now. The beast fought back fiercely, nearly killing our heroes, before Adoror unleashed an arrow blessed by Iomedae, and the beast erupted in a burst of hot ash. The heroes, finding the remains of many a adventurer and traveler, found a small collection of wealth in magic items and weapons.

With this little detour completed, the heroes continued on to Habe’s Sanatorium

In 4702 AR, amid the terrible time that would come to be known as “the late unpleasantness”, the town’s local serial killer, called Chopper took the life of the sheriff, Casp Avertin, in a dark alley. When the town guard found the sheriff dead with another victim several minutes later, they were able to follow the bloody trail left by the killer.
A trail that led straight to the stairs of The famous Sculptor, Jervis Stoot.

At first, the town guard refused to believe the implications, and feared that Chopper had come to claim poor Jervis Stoot as his 26th victim. Yet what the guards found in the modest home atop the isle, and in the larger complex of rooms that had been carved into the bedrock below, left no room for doubt. Jervis Stoot and Chopper were the same, and the eyes and tongues of all 25 victims were found in a horrific altar to a birdlike demon whose name none dared speak aloud. Stoot himself was found dead at the base of the altar, having plucked his own eyes and tongue loose for a final offering. The guards collapsed the entrance to the chambers, burned Stoot’s house, tore down the stairs, and did their best to forget. Stoot himself was burned on the beach in a pyre, his ashes then blessed and then scattered in an attempt to stave off an unholy return of his evil spirit from beyond the grave. And in the months to follow, Sandpoint did its best to forget the terror, although even today, children who remember the dark times only six years ago sometimes wake with nightmare visions of Chopper hiding under their beds

The Heroes of Sandpoint were enjoying their time in relaxation. Adoror was reading a letter when their heard a distant explosion coming from the beaches. Grabbing their weapons, they went and investigated and found a familiar sight washed upon shore. Edward Teach has returned to them, quite the first way he was found before. The man had stolen another ship before the assault on Thistletop, and once again had drunkenly blown his own ship up.

Bringing the drenched and flustered pirate to shore, they brought him to their favourite tavern, the Red Dragon Inn. There waiting for them, was Shalelu Andosana with her half-elf nephew Edge Wilder. Shalelu thought Adoror’s prowess and morals would be good guidance on Edge’s own and asked the Paladin to take him on.

Soon after, a very grim-faced Sheriff came through the doors, pulling Adoror aside to tell him about a couple of sets of gruesome murders. A few years before, during the ‘Late Unpleasantness’ a series of gruesome murders was perpetrated by a killer who was called the Chopper. Belor’s predecessor was his final victim, managing to fatally wound the killer. Belor fears that murders like these would plunge the populace into panic.

Belor then handed Adoror a tattered and bloody parchment with Garram’s name on the top, the message read

“We have spoken of this before, my master. Now it begins. Join the pack and it will end.

Your Lordship."

The Sheriff was quick to assure Adoror that he didn’t suspect his companion, suspecting someone is trying to frame Garram. The townspeople however, might not be understanding. With that in mind, Belor has decided to ask for the heroes assistance in apprehending the killer and has deputized them.

While Adoror briefed his companions, Garram noticed the bard playing in the tavern was paying a little too much attention and grabbed him for some interrogating. The bard, a Chelaxian named Sven Culti, was looking to creat a ballad he coined as a ‘rock opera’ and after hearing about the heroes previous exploits through Ameiko during his stay, thought them suitable candidates for his stars. The party decides to allow him to come with them, so long as he did not get in their way.

As the party was about to leave The Rusty Dragon, when the door was flown open by a tall and dark cloaked stranger. The ever friendly Chopska approached the man, but was struck by him. Tensions arose, before he handed Adoror a letter. The man was named Messer, a dirty secret of the Magnimar Church of Iomedae. Alarmed by the description of the runewell Adoror reported to them, they had sent Messer to go do what the Paladin himself, bound by his code could not. Feeling obligated to take him, Adoror and the party headed to the most recent murder scene, at the Lumber Mill.

A large crowd had gathered outside of the lumber mill, kept at bay by Belor’s men. Once let past, the party was stunned to what they saw. Katrine Vinder, the beautiful daughter of the General Store owner Ven, pushed through a log splitter. Her mangled remains laying crumpled on the earth.

Her lover, the mill owner, Harker, was in a worse state. Torn flesh hung by hooks, and a sihedron star carved into his chest, and his lower jaw missing and strange claw marks covered his body along the knife wounds.

The same symbol they found in Malfeshnekor’s chamber, and the same symbol etched on Garram’s ring, which he quickly hid from view.

Edge managed to find tracks leading from the water to the outside wall, finding the entrance the killer used to be from the 2nd floor window. A hatchet was found which Adoror determined was used against something undead in the last day or so.

Garram, taking a look from the 2nd floor window, noticed a clearing across the marsh, when the party investigated, they discovered signs that the killer had staked out the area before it’s attack.

Finding all they could, they decided to head to the Sandpoint Garrison to talk to the people of interest Belor had, and to examine the bodies from the murder a few days before. First they talked to Ibor Thorn, Harker’s Partner and the discoverer of the gruesome scene. The man obviously still in shock, had sadly little information to give to the party, and Belor’s suspect, Ven Vinder, was even less of a help, adamant about the party’s own guilt. Before long Ven’s alibi was proven and he was released.

Accompanying the bodies was again, another note. Instead of being addressed to Garram however, it seemed to have been addressed to the victims, a few known swindlers who were told to leave town by Belor a few days before.

Belor was not surprised to find them murdered, and originally did not think of anything out of the ordinary before today’s gruesome discovery. He noted there was a surviving witness, a thug named Grayst Sevilla, but his mind was so gone he had no choice but to drop the poor soul to the Sanitorium West of Sandpoint. Adoror once again discovered claw marks on these bodies along with the Sihedron carvings on their chest done by knife wounds.

The Party decide to embark West to see if they’d have more luck than Belor in gaining information from the Grayst. Belor gave them a letter of recommendation to give to the Sanitorium owner, Erin Habe.