Session #7: Trials and Tribulations

Heroes:

Valdaire: 4th level Elven Wizard
Tyack: 4th level Varisian Sorcerer/Monk
Grokk: 4th level Dwarven Fighter
Nando: 4th level Shoanti Rogue

Synopsis:

The heroes, having ended the immediate threat that Nualia and her minions posed, escorted the two prisoners (Tsuto and Lyrie) down to Magnimar to stand trial before Justice Ironbriar. There, the two were found guilty of their various crimes and received sentences of at least ten years in the Hells, the Magnimar prison.

While they were in town, Valdaire, Grokk, and Tyack spent some time with Eando Kline in the Pathfinder Lodge. They each submitted their Pathfinder Society Thesis, which impressed Eando enough to initiate them as new members. After spending a bit of time visiting with the Magnimar venture-captain, the three rounded up Nando and returned to Sandpoint with a Pathfinder cleric named Ione to do more research into Malfeshnekor up at Thistletop.

Two weeks went by of various activities, with the heroes getting to know some of the locals a bit better, and in some cases getting into awkward situations. After a couple of weeks, however, the characters were all back together in town. Following the engagement announcement of Ameiko Kaijitsu and Belven Valdemar, it seemed that Sandpoint would finally turn the corner.

However, the characters were awakened one morning by deputies who escorted them to Sheriff Hemlock's office at the Garrison. It seemed that a horrible murder had taken place late in the previous evening. The heroes followed Hemlock to the grisly scene at the Scarnetti Lumber Mill. There, they discovered that one of the mill workers (Banny Harker) and his lover (Katrine Vender) were brutally slain. Even more disturbing was the implication that Banny was killed in some sort of ritualistic fashion, with a threatening note pinned to his chest implicating Tyack.

The four characters spent much of the morning investigating the crime scene, including Banny's townhouse. Later, they investigated the scene of an earlier murder involving three men that the sheriff didn't tell them about at first. Once it became obvious that this was a serial murderer at large, the party headed down to Habe's Sanatorium to question the lone survivor of the earlier attack, Grayst Sevilla. After trying to obtain answers from him, it became clear that he had turned into a ghoul and he attacked the party but was put down quickly.

With evidence suggesting that Aldern Foxglove may be in trouble or involved, the party decided to head down to his manor the following day.