- Two trancing elves and a halfling in a warm bed.
- Osiris drags Theophania out of her warm, soft bed and drags her to the Curlywit Boarding House for a planning session
- They can't decide between talking to the neighbor that Raiàn knows as a client, research at the library, Rusty reading the necromancy book to find out some ingredients they could see if anyone is buying in bulk, or more investigations in the sewers
- Theophania goes upstairs to purify Magnus's experimental waste bucket and asks him what he knows about portals, which is probably less than what she knows.
- Also, he has been really taken with fire magic lately and exploded a few small animals trying to imbue them with fire magic
- Tiff and Osiris head back over to the Temple while Rusty and Lyrielle go to the Hall of Justice
- Osiris speaks with High Priest Birel about whether the Speak with Dead spell is too evil to use
- Birel also tells her that the acolyte Cassandra who has assumed many of Osiris's duties found something disturbing that morning - the corpse she is currently preparing for rites, Warren Timison the halfling, who is missing his tongue and his heart - what's worse is that Cassandra is pretty sure he had those bits when he was delivered to the Rite wing.
- Osiris runs to the library to get Tiff who is still discussing book options with the librarian
- Tiff's examination of the body shows that the cuts where made with a very sharp knife and very precise cuts - to the point where very small incisions were made in the joint joints to allow the mouth to open wider for easier cutting out of the tongue.
- They realize they may need a list of people from the Rites wing and Hospital wing who 1) had access to the wing and this body and 2) the skills to make surgical incisions - They start working with Cassandra to get this information
- The city guard brought Warren's body to the Temple, and the assumed cause of death is a head injury, though whether from a fall or a bashing Cassandra can't say
- Theophania may know a Starrly Timison, and they could go talk to her, but she doubts who he was in life has anything to with his organs in particular
- Osiris and Tiff go to Headpriestess Marta to ask for a list of people in the Hospital wing who have the capabilities to do such surgical precision
- Rusty and Lyrielle go to the Hall of Justice to ask Captain Swinson for some kind of documentation that will prevent beat patrols from trying to arrest them for entering the sewers, and she gives them a badge - It is the first time the party has seen her without barging in rudely, and she gives him a badge of sorts that will allow them into municipal places like the sewers without being immediately arrested if seen
- Raiàn spends some time writing notes to her clients who may live in or around the hill to see what invites to houses she can get in the next day or two
- Rusty and Lyrielle find Osiris and Tiff just outside the library and conference about what they have achieved.
- Rusty recommends some security measures to prevent more body parts from going missing, so they go back to Birel to talk about guards on the doors and not letting in anyone who isn't on shift, etc.
- The keeper of the archives lets them in and shows them the things they ask about
- Tiff asks about some correspondence Great-Aunt Thessalie had with a few people where she may have mentioned details about the undead and necromancers she fought in her adventuring days, Lyrielle helps since Thessalie had so many friends - They don't really learn anything useful
- Rusty and Osiris go into the locked vault where they are hiding the book turned in just the previous day - They gather a list of several herbs, some of which are easy enough to get from a shop, but there are a few that will only grow wild that you would have to have good knowledge of plants to find, some would be available in the apothecary, but not all as not all the herbs have medicinal uses - They will have to check if any are missing from the apothecary
- George in the apothecary says they are low on belladonna, lavender, and lemongrass, which are from the short list they show him
- They check with Norman and he says that they purchase small amounts of the herbs on a monthly basis to rotate the stock, and the amounts George said were on hand are too low based on usage and how much had been purchased.
- They go back to George and ask who has been around and asking for / using belladonna, lavender, or lemongrass, but he's not observant (total stoner) and Sophia isn't here today (George responds to the question, "What number comes after six?" with "I mean, a lot of them.")
- 1,000 XP ea for 17,990 total ea.
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