2.2 Magnimar
Please add 2500gp to your totals.
So the group finds themselves in the temple of Pharasma in the city of Magnimar under quarantine. Talis, Catessa Fallowfield and Zer-wedula are treated for a disease, while Glum and Tanrov/Garth are watched for signs of contagion. The temple is willing to help you because you are dealing with a cult of Norgorber. The Goddess of Fate is very opposed to the God of Murder. The High Priest uses Restoration to heal your stat damage.
You are placed under the care of a strange cleric named Gabby. She's perky, cute and overly talkative, going into excruciating detail about the disease. Talis states he is going to return to Sandpoint and let them know that everyone is ok. Gabby want's to help you continue with your mission. It is clear that Aldern was just the tip of the iceberg. The temple has good enough contacts in the city to get you any magic item you can afford.
Clues
- A letter from someone in Magnimar.
Aldern—
You have served us quite well. The delivery you harvested from the caverns far exceeds what I had hoped for. You may consider your debt to the Brothers paid in full. Yet I still have need of you, and when you awaken from your death, you should find your mind clear and able to understand this task more than in the state you lie in as I write this.
You shall remember the workings of the Sihedron ritual, I trust. You seemed quite lucid at the time, but if you find after your rebirth that you have forgotten, return to your townhouse in Magnimar. My agents shall contact you there soon—no need for you to bother the Brothers further. I will provide the list of proper victims for the Sihedron ritual in two days’ time. Commit that list to memory and then destroy it before you begin your work. The ones I have selected must be marked before they die, otherwise they do my master no good and the greed in their souls will go to waste. If others get in your way, though, you may do with them as you please. Eat them, savage them, or turn them into pawns—it matters not to me.
—Your Mistress, Wanton of Nature’s Pagan Forms
- three iron birdcages sit, each containing a dead diseased rat with a small
symbol of a pig with a mouthful of lockpicks peering at a keyhole; under
the pig is a guildsign that says “Pug’s Contraptions—Magnimar
- A portrait of Iesha with the background of Magnimar
- small silver key ring worth 10 gp, with two keys on the ring.
a tarnished iron key set with a round opal worth 100gp
a bronze key with an unusually long tang ending in a set of three notched
blades. The head of this key resembles a roaring lion
- Aldern does own a townhouse in Magnimar
I will add info about Magnimar this week.