March 7, 2021

Dionaea wakes up Shump Shump and the others to alert them to the 3 hooded figures approaching the inn. We attack them from the windows, Laudius swiftly paralyzes them, we kill 2 and leave one unconscious. They all have a Sihedron tattoo at the base of their necks. Dionaea and Linzi (on a barstool) don the robes and stand guard out front. Laudius and Shump Shump attempt to interrogate the remaining hooded figure but zone of truth backfires. They learn that the bird people showed up a few months ago with "the lady" (presumably Xanesha) and that the hooded people are a separate group. The captive's eyes light up when Shump Shump asks about Father Skinsaw, but doesn't seem to know about the amulet. Laudius offers to release the hooded figure if he tells his higher ups that they won't find us in the same spot again, and learns that their deity is something like Karzu but it's unclear. Laudius releases him and asks him to leave out the window. Linzi goes invisible and trails him. Laudius and Shump Shump alert Sally the innkeeper that cultists were attacking the inn, Shump Inc offers to guard the inn and she prepares a room for us in the cellar. Linzi continues to track the cloaked figure for an hour south of the city into a lumber mill with a huge saw. He enters the mill and goes up to the second floor. Linzi flies up to the second story and sees the target sit down with lumberjacks and start chatting. They fly up to the top of the sawmill, peer in a small window and see cages full of birds and a sleeping 3-headed chimera (goat, lion and dragon heads, possibly from the vision about Vorel) then flies home. Back at the inn, Laudius prepares 'magic mouth' on all the plants around the inn to scream if they see a hooded figure. Billy the guard shows up, we learn his girlfriends are Jilly and Lily, that the lord mayor Gorabus (?) has gone missing, that the murders are happening daily, and that all the victims have sihedron symbols carved into them. Billy leads us to the garrison,and we convince him to let us give him a fake sihedron tattoo and offer to pass a note for Magnus. Magnus's note asks to send a raven but isn't very helpful otherwise. We plan to go back to the abandoned house where we saw Magnus send the bird previously. Linzi bothers to show us a brewing book from Foxglove manor, in which there's a code. Possible interpretation: three volumes combined shall reveal their secret truth. Can be found in the library of (Xin Shalast).