Avalyn Adventure # 86 Blood…

Avalyn Adventure # 86 Blood…
Marius-Paladin
Kimi-Rogue
Arashi Iki-Druid
Kaden-Fighter

The party arrives in Mountain Vale without incident. Van Rhee heads to the Manthootian encampment and the rest of the group goes see Kenna Alexander Sailon, the military leader of the village.

Kenna Alexander welcomes Marius to Mountain Vale and says that he is glad to see him and to a lesser extend the others. He relates to them the story of what happened to his son several years ago (for more details see Adventure Log 40.) Although his son was supposedly raised from the dead, he never seemed the same and eventually had to be exercised by the church. He died soon after the ritual.

The people who died at the time of his son’s original death all looked the same way, in a tight fetal position. Kenna Alexander has heard of something up in the hills killing people. The bodies have had a similar look to them and he would like Marius and his party to take a look into the matter.

The Kenna makes an offhand remark that in the near future the capitol in Sylvia’s Rest will be relocated across the inland sea and a governor will be appointed over the larger city….and it will probably be him. He tells the characters that if they do this for him he will look with favor on them when his is promoted.

Tired and a bit stunned the characters make their way to Kimi’s house. After unlocking the house and settling, in Kimi retreats to her bedroom and the others get the spare rooms. Kaden decides that the couch looked more comfortable than the floor so he bunks in the living room.

Kaden is awoken in the middle of the night by the sound of a naked Arashi trying to get out of the front door. It appears that he was sleepwalking and was unable to lift the bar.

When Arashi wakes up he tells Kaden that he was having a dream that he could smell something so fascinating that it beckoned him to it. Kaden decides to pull the couch closer to the door and everyone goes back to sleep.

Later on Arashi has another dream, in this one he is flying then he lands in a cave. In the cave is a Sadakadishian woman. The dream flashes forward and he finds himself strangling her. The dream comes to an end as he is slicing her up with a knife.

With a racket Arashi wakes up everyone in the living room. It seems that he has assumed bird form (he’s a druid) and flew out of the chimney, although it could have been a dream, no one is sure.

Half of the group decides to go looking for the woman now in case she is injured and needs help. They search to the south of the village and Arashi finds a strip of clothing with blood on it. He can tell that the blood belongs to her. Despite being physically grossed out by it he finds himself eating the cloth. Arashi cannot believe what his has done, but it did taste good.