Odd, but Effective, Customs and Driven Companions

Day...I don't really recall...since I left the Revelry:

Finally reached the town of Lisontos noted in the letter I had received. I noticed a strange custom I hadn't seen for celebrations. Their had been an attack just outside of town and it seems I had happened upon the guards halfway through the task of hanging the mangled bodies along their walls while they also pondered why half the bodies were completely nude. Hanging the bodies seems like it would be an effective deterant, so I offered to help. They turned me down after I wasn't able to really shed light on the oddities of the bodies state. One things for sure, after the festival, that will be a prestinely clean wall. Whoevers assigned to the task, I'm sure they'll want to THUROUGHLY clean it in hopes to wipe any reminder of the image from their memory as well.
 
I head to the inn along with a ragtag group of people whom were also arriving and noting the guards diligent work. Come to find these individuals had recieved the same letter I had. Even noted a familiar face I hadn't seen in quite a few years, a talented teifling bard. I could always recognize him by his flare! He was also one to never turn down a drink, and to my delight he had forgotten the name of one of the oldest tricks in the book and drank some of that Elven knockout juice without hesitation. Probably not the best moment for him to pass out either, our mysterious writer was filling us in on the details of our job and having us sign contracts. Silver lining, maybe more for us since he missed the signing part. Also couldn't miss the opportunity to doodle on him, respect the classics. Lord knows the preists did since they didn't prestidigitation it away while waking him.
 
The job was simple, investigate an old man in the woods who hadn't been seen for a ten-day and was scheduled to have been providing cheese shipments in preperation for the festival. The job Even payed a decent 100 electrum a day!
 
Some of our new companions seemed oddly focused on the scuffle that had happened outside of town though. They seemed intelligent, so maybe they just loved solving a good mystery that stumped them. Coming with us to wake up our teifling they inquired about some bodies they had heard were being stored here and got to study them under the guise that we had been hired to do so. It appears they were some kind of undead with elongated Canine teeth that had been impaled with some wood.
 
Thinking the wood was relavent (though I can't imagine why. A branch through my chest would end me just as easily) the companions head to the guards offices to try and grab the remaining wood...again under the guise that we were hired to look into it. I'm starting to suspect their passion for the mystery may have deafened their ears to our actual job, it is good to see the passion for thier misunderstood task though. The officer said only the captain has access to the part of the offices with the objects they seek, but he is also unable to give up evidence of the incident. Finding this unacceptable they go at him for quite a few more rounds insisting he wake the captain because the wood is key to our survival in the woods beyond. I'm all for everyone pursuing their own path. But I also know that my new companions seem to have a sense of duty that they wouldn't want to see tarnished. I apologize to the guard and try to mention how our job is actually about the missing cheese vendor. It didn't seem to sink in though so I left them to their pursuit and let them know I'd meet them at the gate. They never showed though, these other races are always oddly cautious about night travel. I head back to the tavern for the night, try a new experience; it's what makes life the joy that it is! Hopefully we won't get docked pay for our day of trivial pursuits. I wouldn't blame him, 1,000 electrum would be a large boon for such a small town. Even if we do though, we will still have earned the knowledge of those pursuits.
 
We all eat and head out and come upon a halfling inn at which point we inqure more about the undead and old man. They don't know much about the undead, but we did find that a full moon was a ten-day ago. The same day the old man was last seen. We all sit down for a bite and I decide to write this. Since I'm getting paid by the day I should learn the joys of keeping track of them!