November 8, 2020

The combatant in bird clothing is still charmed by Linzi and agrees to put their weapons down or in the bag of holding. We convince him that we have dropped the necklace at the bottom of a well in a jail cell and somehow he follows along. Once in the jail, Shump Shump knocks him unconscious and we drag him into the cell. We search his body and keep a vial of poison and his bird costume. We return to the graveyard, grab the other bird outfit, then dig up Ven Vinder's grave with a tent over the grave and darkness cast outside of the tent. We don't detect magic on the grave, so we continue to dig up the body. We see the sihedron symbol scarred over on his chest, and deep scratch wounds and a puncture wound on his back. Laudius casts Speak with Dead, Ven doesn't seem to know what killed him and there wasn't anyone who was out to hurt him. He doesn't recall seeing anything monstrous, and asks us to tell his wife to pay the loans and diversity the wares at the store to help increase revenue. We tell the guards to look out for a clawed figure and head back to our brewery. Linzi wakes up with a hooded figure standing over them and offering them their services, they agree to come back the following dusk. The next morning we inform the mayor about the clawed creature and people in bird suits and set up the orcs to guard all but the north gate so that everyone coming in and out of town goes through the main entrance. Finally, we head down to the basement of the city hall to the banker Farbis and learn he loaned Ven 35 gold pieces, his first loan.