Team Alfa Twenty-Third Session

Notes

Return to Town

• As the group approaches Mithril Springs they see a crude sign hangs from the nearest tent: QUARANTINE. Doc Redrock is there and tries to shoo them away saying "Go away, dummies! Shoo! Shoo!"
• Gorra and the Doc talk in detail about the diseases, a dual outbreak of Sight Rot and Cackle Fever.
• Doc has the patients separated into 3 tents. 1 for patients who have only Sight Rot (which includes many gnomes as they are immune to Cackle Fever), 1 for patients who only have Cackle Fever, and 1 for patients with both.
  • The current infection count is cackle fever: 4, sight rot: 6, double-infected: 14.
  • The current death count is 5.
• Doc is being assisted by Catastrophe Janet and Pastor Griff.
• Gorra and Wolf aid the doc while Sid directs Gorra in questioning the patients. Due to their illness the patients provide very little useful information.
• Thola resummons Owlbert as an octopus and sends her down a well to investigate.
  • Mal sees this and sends one of his minions, Johnny, to stay with Thola to "maybe keep folk from mixing it up" with her and/or keep an eye on her.

Day 2

• Gorra comes down with cackle fever shortly after going to the triage tents.
• The rest of the party continues investigating the wells by lowering Owlbert and an unarmored Wolf who casts Detect Poison and Disease.
• The first few wells reveal nothing, but in the 4th one, in the southeast of town/upper left of map, Wolf finds a dead halfling with a slit throat who had been infected with sight rot.
  • The halfling had been dead for at least a week and his body is in a poor state and beyond identification. The only remarkable thing found from searching is poker chips.
• To be thorough, they search the last well and find nothing else.
• While the body is burned Reth organizes a team to fill up barrels with water to be magically purified so no one needs to use the wells until the disease dissipates.
• Thola and Sid go to the casino with the chips to ask about the well corpse.
  • They meet the owner, Sly Tallfellow. Who seems very urbane and well-mannered. When shown a minor illusion image of the corpse he claims not to have seen him before, but Sid and Thola both notice a flicker of recognition. Sly quickly leaves them, instructing one of his minions working the exchange window, Leon, to give them free chips for their service to the town.
  • Thola quickly loses interest in investigation and heads to the tables. The casino does its job well and she loses her free chips as well as an additional 12gp in very little time.
  • Sid shows the illusory halfling corpse to Leon who also reacts in recognition before quickly being called away by Sly.

Experience & Loot

Experience (each)

• Finding the Source (Sight Rot): 300