12th of Mirtul, 1376, Year of the Bent Blade

 We go to the address we found yesterday. There are cultists here, which we take out quickly, though Vorest gets pretty badly hurt. We search upstairs and find a letter addressed to us. We bring it to Captain Darren's to open it up. Maybe it'll have evidence - it's for sure from Hondal.

Vandederp opens it and it says:

Then the letter explodes.

Captain Darren is annoyed. We are annoyed. Barnaby runs in and announces that his troops are being attacked by zombies, where they are burying Crymson Starr.

Vorest summons war horses so we can keep up to Barnaby. We get to the grave yard and see 14 zombies overtaking the guards that stayed. We beat the zombies and the guards say that some zombies took Crymson's corpse off with them.

We follow the zombies and catch up to them, as well as some cultists. We beat them and then burnt Crymson and the zombies. After this we start tracking the cultist that ran off during the fight. We follow the trail back to the city, where we lose it. 

We go to Captain Darren, where everything has gone crazy. Apparently Lord Thadeus was attacked by zombies at the temple of Ilmater, where he was saved by Hondal.

While talking about how weird the zombies behaved, we walked to the temple. We wonder around and then walk through the market and find Gwyneth. She mentions that she has gotten on with "Master Kensingley," and that he has shown her the "way" and insists on bringing us to meet him.

She brings us to a nice house. She acts like this is her house. She runs off to another room and shuts the door behind her. She comes back and beckons us on. The room is big, and there are balconies and doors.

And we see Gwyneth casting a spell and Hondal shouting down.

Well. Damn.

We manage to beat them, but Hondal has escaped. Again. Vondal is going mad trying to find secret passages. Vorest says that he could have possibly gone in the stone floor with a spell.

We wait, and Hondal eventually comes out of the ground. We beat him up, and Vondal mentions that Vorest should try Moonbeam on him. She does, her last spell, and he bubbles and burns to a crisp. We worriedly told Captain Darren. He searched Hondal's house and found dead people and an altar to Loviatar, and, eventually, thanked us.

11th of Mirtul, 1376, Year of the Bent Blade

 We go ad check out Hondal's soup kitchen (instead of his orphanage). We see that a dozen or so beggars, all varieties of people. There appears to be a halfling in charge. Vandederp speaks up and Miriah, the halfling, suggests going to the back to be put to work. Vandederp also introduces us. I stay out front and help serve - the others go to the back. They tell me after that they are put to work by Guy, and that he says Hondal spends quite a lot of money on food to help them. Miriah and I serve all the people. I ask about Hondal, and she says that he is really good at getting donations. I ask if she knows anything about the orphanage and she mentions it is just "over there." He seems to care about the poor. He has even gotten some of the meaner lords to donate. After everyone leaves, I realize that Miriah looks worried. She mentions there are normally more people and that she was hoping to see Gwyneth, a girl who was having troubles at home. I offer to ask after her - a human with raven hair, white skin, and a birth mark on her temple. She likes to hang out around the market.

We decide to head to the market. We don't find her, but we do find someone wearing a Loviatar symbol. Vondal tracked him to a house. He comes back to us, and tells us about the house. We go back to get armour and such, and then return to the house. Vondal listens at the door and then opens it up. We follow him in. We are attacked by some cultists. One of them has another address on them.

We update Captain Darren on our adventures, and head back to the inn.