1/10/2024 0 Comments Carrion crown![]() ![]() If the tools are shown to local manufacturers of medical implements, they can identify them as part of a bulk order sold to Vorkstag and Grine Chymical Works. The villagers still boast of how they drove the 'Beast' out of their boneyard, but a careful search of the site will reveal a secret stash containing medical tools and the poacher's preserved and flayed-off face. Their first victim was a local poacher whose face Grine wore in order to infiltrate the community, and the actual murders were carried out by Vorkstag wearing the face of a horribly deformed man, ensuring that any witnesses would be led astray. They emptied its graveyard one grave at a time, and when demand outstripped supply they started murdering locals. The village was targeted by Vorkstag and Grine because of the preservative qualities of its soil. ![]() Clever PCs can protect themselves by using fake names while in the dungeons, as he has no supernatural means of learning what their names are, and only a real name will trigger his traps.) (No shortcuts on this one: the PCs are just going to have to run the gauntlet of his splatter traps to get the badge. His ghost haunts the torture chamber where the warden was murdered during the original prison riot, and where his rusted badge of office is still to be found. If he finishes writing her name then her power will be broken, and he and the other ghosts will be free. The strongest of the ghosts, he's sometimes able to slip past Vesorianna's guard and possess random villagers as they sleep, forcing them to write letters in blood on the walls of buildings in the town. He keeps a herd of rats around for this very purpose, telekinetically draining them of blood. Now he's a ghost, and causality runs the other way around: if he writes someone's name on something in blood, then that object will catastrophically break / fail / collapse when they come close, harming or killing them in the process. The Splatter Man: In life, a crazed serial killer with a gimmick - he would taunt his intended victims by writing their names in blood on walls and objects, then arrange for their deaths in apparently random (but extremely messy) accidents. ![]() The people will beg (and, if necessary, bribe) the PCs to help lay the ghosts in the prison to rest. (This is the work of the Splatter Man: see below.) If the haunting isn't stopped before he spells out the whole name VESORIANNA, then the ghosts of the prison will burst their cage and the whole town will be abandoned amidst mass spirit possession and indiscriminate poltergeist activity. The letter V starts turning up on buildings, daubed in blood: then, a few days later, the letters VE, and so on. As Vesorianna's hold over the ghosts weakens, the manifestations of the haunting grow more extreme: torches flame up and cause house fires, zombies shamble from the cemetery, screaming flaming skulls hurtle through the sky by night. Everyone blames the ghosts at the old prison, but any locals who go near the place get chased off by skeletons. Everyone's got stories to tell about nightmares, hallucinations, episodes of missing time, and poltergeist activity. Ravengro: Everyone in this town knows that something terrible is happening. ![]()
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