November 22, 2020

Laudius blasts open the door, casts turn undead on the room full of ghouls, and almost dies in the ensuing battle. Most of the undead appear to be farmers or peasants, but one has nicer clothes and is wearing a necklace with a fox in front of a shield and has an old iron key in his pocket. Linzi reads the farmer's almanac but there is no evidence of debts or anything out of the ordinary. We talk to the dead farmer but he didn't see who broke in and only reports feeling a cold shiver down his back before he died. Although he didn't have unfinished business, he was in the process of buying land from the Grump farm and they weren't happy about it. Shump Shump suspects the amulet may belong to Aldrin Foxglove, who was jealous and/or drugged up or something strange the last time we saw him. We kill the two ghouls in the barn, then head back to Sandpoint. When we get back to town, the guards inform us that the sheriff wants to see us. We learn that Farbus Tinkerfoot, the banker, was found dead with another bloody note for Shump Shump.

The first note for Shump Shump: I fear you, I hate you. You must fear and hate me as well. You may unmask me, so I will unmask you first.

Second note: We have spoken of this before my master. Now it begins. -A