- Tiff makes a device that when you cast Detect Magic through it, the device will cause things with magic to glow for everyone and not just for the caster - Disc of glass with metal beaten around the edge and rune inscribed into both the glass and the metal with other metals. It takes all day and a bit into the evening.
- Long rest achieved
- The morning of the emergency council meeting dawns and the group heads over to the Hall of Justice to attend, Osiris attempts to grab Captain Swinson before the meeting starts, but she's holed up in her office talking to someone, so Osiris just writes her a note
- McNabb nods at the group as he walks in and takes his spot in the center
- Lord Blackmore is the last to arrive (He's an average-height man, relatively athletic looking, with a close-cropped beard, brown hair, round face, in fine clothes. He looks like he might not have slept very well the previous night, but he doesn't look undead.)
- Captain Swinson comes in as well a few minutes after that and sits in the back
- Theophania quietly uses her goggles to Detect Magic, and the only thing she sees is the glimmer of a ring on McNabb's hand.
- The council is all men and all human except on elf
- They start having the meeting, and Osiris uses a heated bit of discussion to disguise her casting of Detect Evil and Good and she does not detect any of the things the spell would reveal, but then everyone is looking at her because he eyes flashed with visible light garnering lots of attention, Theophania has to help her smooth things back over after her spell is noticed.
- Blackmore seems very keen to get the docks repaired, and since his income is mostly through trade this makes sense, not indicative of his being the necromancer, though.
- They also learn that most of the damage took place in the western half of the city (where mostly or most of the halflings live)
- Tiff stands up during the additional business portion at the end of the meeting and asks to speak to each of the judges if they have any concerns about their personal safety
- Lord Glen Thomason is very interested in them coming and inspecting his place, so they arrange to meet him at his place the next morning
- They arrange to meet with and inspect several of the judge's homes, and Lord Blackmore tarries to the end
- Captain Swinson is still in the room, McNabb didn't linger at all
- Lord Blackmore had a problem this morning, his wife is missing, she never came back from the market, and he seems very upset about it.
- Mr. Henry Todd is also missing as he accompanied Julieanna, and Osiris suggests they've run off as lovers
- Lord Blackmore invites them to come and investigate and they also tell him about their suspicions about Henry Todd, the bib is shown and the portal to his study is told about to get access to that particular room as well
- They walk with Lord Blackmore to his house, and when they walk in the butler (Mr. Victor Windam) still looks undead, but he doesn't show any sign of recognition to them though and offers to bring refreshments. Also he no longer has claws that seem poisonous.
- Tiff has an idea and asks to borrow his still room so that she can create a test with visible science results for all to see to show who is undead and who is fully alive
- Somehow the Butcher's Bib is a dragon's period panties (Side convo)
- Tiff comes back with a rack of test tubes and puts a drop of her blood in the first vial and it fizzles. Mr Windham's blood doesn't fizzle. Lord Blackmore's blood does fizzle.
- Victor returns with the cook, the maid, the errand boy, and Ethan Blackmore.
- Ethan Blackmore's blood fizzles. He is alive.
- All the servants are undead.
- Raiàn: "When did you last poop?"
- They all have to ponder when they were last pooped.
- Theophania says that a Resurrection spell at the temple should put them back.
- They start their search in Julieanna Blackmore's painting studio, Tiff takes everything out of all the cabinets and drawers, lays everything out, checks for false bottoms, secret drawers and then checks everything she's laid out with Detect Magic through her goggles
- Theophania goes to put something on the table and feels something squishy, but she doesn't see anything squishy, she touched a paint pot, but it feels like a squishy thing
- Tiff hands the squishy, meat-feeling thing to Osiris who declares it to be a kidney of some kind, either human/elf child, a halfling, or some sort of animal
- Tiff squeezes her eyes closed and looks again and she can see through the illusion of the table covered in paints and brushes and she sees what looks like a cutting board with random parts like organs and vials. The table has splotches and stains that are NOT paint. There's another necromantic grimoire disguised as a sketchbook, which she gives to Osiris.
- The grimoire is also in Dwarven as was the first one they found. It's volume 2 based on his quick skimming and what he read of volume 1 when they wanted to figure out what ingredients to check for at Vianola's herbs.
- Further tour of the house reveals that the room Osiris and Tiff found themselves in before when they came through the portal is the butler's office. The wall where the portal would have been looks slightly damaged like the finish isn't quite right, but when they touch it, it's solid.
- They recommend that the servants come with them to the Temple to be Resurrected (killed first and then resurrected because undead things can't be resurrected, but yikes what a process) and that Lord Blackmore take his son to either the Temple or a quiet inn in case Julieanna is the necromancer, but not to leave the city in case she is just another pawn so they can be reunited quickly if that is the case.
- They plan to hit up the market and places Julieanna might have gone for clues and then stay as the only living people in the Blackmore estate
- The map on the canvas has cemeteries marked, one near the arena, one near the prison, and a third one just outside of town west of town, which is probably the one they were under that had the cave in with the bodies spilling into the tunnels connected to the sewers that eventually also leads to the pool of darkness spilling over from the Shadowfell (?)
- 2,000 XP ea. for 47,090 XP total ea.
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