The party meets with Arch banker Tuttle in the temple of Iomeade. He used buckets of purified water to pull the poison from Galt. After a short time, Galt recovers from his comba and begins turning back to a normal, somewhat less demonic, appearance. Arch banker Tuttle then left, and the party met back at Roan's house to sleep and recover from the events at carowyn manner.
The party decided to stow the deaths head coffer in a fresh grave in the gray district. Roan, Koramyr and Fatale did some recon, magic and sneaking, and decided to stick the coffer in a mossoleum. Sir Kharuse, Virgil, and Galt went to check on the barding for Fang, but it wasn't ready.
The party then joined up and set out for the Hospice of the Blessed Maiden based on information gained from the insane Jolistina that Fatale's friend Ruan was being held within. They believed the necromancer Rolth was behind the events at carowyn manner, the kidnapping of Ruan, and possibly the blood veil.
The party comes apon the hospice and sees a long line of people with the blood veil waiting for treatment. Kharuse, Roan and Galt entered the hospice while the rest of the party waited Galt's magic signal outside. After talking to a disinterested nurse in a small waiting room, they intimidated their way into the hospice saying they were looking for a friend amongst the sick. They see the plague doctors (queen's physicians) tending to the sick, and are approached by a pair of gray maidens ordering them to leave. Sir Kharuse refuses, and the maidens attempt to escort the trio out of the door, but sir Kharuse is far too brave to be expelled by a few women and draws his sword in protest. Galt lets the rest of the party know that things have turned uncivil and Virgil, Fatale, and Korymy storm in while Roan and Galt prepare for battle.
While Sir Kharuse and Roan engaged with the gray maidens, Fatale cast a spider climing spell on Korymr who headed up the rear wall to deal with the maidens in the catwalks who were raining down arrows. Fighting while avoiding the sick was not an easy matter. Eventually the party bested the doctors and maidens, and the remaining doctors attempted to flee. Fatale stopped those attempting to flee with his arcane magics. Killing all but one, the party bound the sole survivor and investigated the stairs leading up.
At the top of the stairs was an experiment room with plague doctors and very sick patients. On entering the room, one of the doctors put his knife to a patient and demanded the party leave or he would slit the patient's throat. The party knowing that these people were dying anyway put a stop to the dealings and killed or subdued the doctors. Then they heard the elevator gate open. Virgil being in the form of a bear, quickly sniffed out the activity and jumped into the elevator, with Roan following right behind. Virgil then mauled the escaper while Roan was pressed into an uncomfortable corner. Korymr and Fatale missing the elevator jumped on top and rode down in the blackness. By the time the elevator stopped, the bloodied corpse was identified as Dr Davaulus, head of the queen's physicians. When the doors opened at the bottom, they were met with a gruesome sight of a pile of dead hellnights. Wading through the blood, they saw doors on each wall of the room with dark magic runes etched apon them. They then returned up the elevator to report on what they had seen.
The party regrouped in the library and interrigated the bound queen's physicians. Fatale charmed the prisoner and found out many strange and dark things were going on. Rumors of a dark priestess Lady Andaisin and Dr Davaulus' research journal were found and considered.
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