Gaming session took place September 18th, 2010 at Dan's house. The adventure party was elven wizard Fatale (Hartzler), dwarven rogue Kormyr (Dan), human Varissian warrior Roan (Hybbert), human Varissian paladin Sir Kharuse (Kruse), and human Shoanti druid Virgil (Quinn).
The adventure begins just after the party has cleared out a wererat den in the sewers of Korvosa. They leave a message for wererat Aeries Yelloweyes to meet in the evening. In the battle with the wererats, wizard Galt (formerly Marcus), was infected with what the party believes to be rat lycanthropy. Leaving the sewers the party splits up; Kormyr and Sir Kharuse head to inquire about healing for Galt while Galt, Roan, Virgil, and Fang (Virgil's wolf companion) carry looted gear back to Roan's apartment in East Shore. After learning that the only priest that has the power to cure Galt's lycanthropy is in the Bank of Abadar, both Kormyr and Sir Kharuse return to Galt's house to share information with the rest of the party.
The adventurers then decide to return to the Bank of Abadar to pursue healing for Galt's lycanthropy. On their way to the Bank, Galt inexplicably collapses and when the party inspects they find his breathing shallow, heart rate slow, and his body breaking out in bloody pustules that resemble the Blood Veil. Sir Kharuse throws Galt over his shoulder and they rush him back to Roan's house. They place him on the bed and Virgil bandages him well and applies poulices to his wounds. Sir Kharuse tries to purify the disease from Galt by calling upon the favor of Iomedae, but this seems to agonize Galt and doesn't affect the disease. The party decides again to split up leaving Virgil to watch over Galt while Roan, Kormyr, and Sir Kharuse go to the Bank of Abadar to inquire about healing.
When they arrive at the Bank of Abadar, the party finds a near-rioting crowd being contained by Grey Maidens and the Bank's guards. Most people in the crowd are showing signs of Blood Veil and the crowd is preventing an easy entrance into the Bank. Kormyr and Roan decide to let Sir Kharuse make his way through the people because of his immunity to diseases and he makes his way through the crowd into the Bank.
Inside the Bank, Sir Kharuse asks for Ishani, the priest that he has dealt with before. Ishani is happy to see him and takes him to a conference room to see how he can help. Sir Kharuse lets Ishani know about Galt's condition and Ishani goes and brings back Darb Tuttle, the Archbanker, to see if he can do anything to assist. Archbanker Tuttle brings up the fact that he cannot use his greatest healing magic because it is on reserve by a nobleman named Ausio Carowyn via an Abadarian contract. He says that if a new contract could be signed by Carowyn, he would do his best to help Galt. He draws up a new contract, hands it over, and Sir Kharuse leaves.
Meanwhile, as Roan and Kormyr are waiting outside the Bank, they are approached by a young Verissian woman named Deyanira Mirukova. She seems to have heard of Roan from asking around the Korvosan Guard. She asks for help in finding out what happened to her brother Ruan. Ruan was last known to be heading to Carowyn Manor to play music for a party that the nobles were having there to escape the troubles of the plague. She offers Roan and Kormyr 100 gold pieces if they can help her find her brother, but Roan assures her this is not necessary.
The adventurers then regroup and return to Roan's house. After sharing information they decide that they will go to Carowyn Manor during the night after they are able to rest and recouperate. Sir Kharuse and Virgil settle down to sleep so that they can regain spells while Kormyr and Roan head off to meet Aeries Yelloweyes. From Yelloweyes they gain a Death's Head Coffer containing information that ties Doctor Davaulus to the naval ship Direption. This is the ship that the party believes brought the plague into Korvosa.
After resting, the heroes set out in the middle of the night to inspect Carowyn Manor. They bring Galt to the Temple of Iomedae for safe keeping. At the outskirts of Carowyn Manor, the party waits while Kormyr scouts out the area. To his disgust, he finds a window looking in on a table full of zombies sitting around a tied down elf. He also finds a balcony on the second floor that provides entrance to the manor. The party splits up, Roan and Kormyr going upstairs, Sir Kharuse, Virgil and Fang entering through the front door. They time their attack and burst into the house to find all the nobles dead. A majority of the dead nobles have been animated into zombies and many still carry on tasks as if they were alive. Some dancing, some playing cards, and some even enjoying the artwork.
Virgil, now in the form of a bear, and Sir Kharuse start to make their way through the zombies downstairs while Roan and Kormyr take care of the ones upstairs. Here the party also finds Jolstina Susperio, a "Harlequin-Harlet" elf that is seriously dimented. She appears from nowhere sneak attacking Roan with a crossbow bolt to the center of his chest and then immediately jumps down to the lower level. At this point Jolstina orders the zombies around the table to begin eating their captured feast, which happens to be Fatale, an elven wizard. While Virgil and Fang fight an army of zombies near the entrance, Sir Kharuse strikes a fierce blow to Jolstina but she manages to slip away. At this time Fatale exclaims "What the fuck! That was my ear! You will all BURN for this".
Roan and Kormyr hop down to the lower level and Roan engauges more zombies while Kormyr heads into the dining room to free the elf. Kormyr, now backed up by Sir Kharuse, manages to cut Fatale's bonds and he slips free. Meanwhile, Virgil, still in bear form, hears a window break and runs outside. Using his heightened sense of smell he tracks down Jolstina and chases her back into the manor. Back in the dining room, Fatale manages to get a spell off which leaves many of the zombies stunned and easily dispatched. Once inside, Jolstina scores another sneak attack on Roan, this time with a bolt through the right side of his neck. At the end of his rope physically and mentally, Roan bellows and charges Jolstina shoving his bastard sword straight through her right shoulder and into the wall behind her.
Knowing she is defeated, Jolstina (still dimentedly giggling) gives in and asks for mercy in exchange for information. Twisting his sword within her, Roan angrily tries to pry information out of her. At this time Fatale approaches, mutters some arcane words, and Jolstina appears to become very friendly toward him. She lets spill that Ruan was given to the necromancer Rolth to be taken to the Hospice. She also shows the party the zombie of Olauren Carowyn which she is particularly proud of. When there are no more questions to be asked of her, Fatale, still holding her hand, puts two bolts of magic energy straight into her head to end her.
Searching the rest of the manor, the party finds Ausio Carowyn alive but very psycologically unstable. They take him back to the Bank of Abadar and Ishani gets him to sign the adapted contract. Once this is done, Archbanker Tuttle leads the group to the Temple of Iomedae where the party has left Galt. Galt is now isolated from the rest of the patients and is now covered in hardening blisters. Archbanker Tuttle wastes no time in beginning his healing. He immediately starts to draw upon some of the greatest curative magic granted to him by Abadar. As healing power rolls from him into Galt... we stop until next time.
