Book 1: Souragne Session 6

Chapter 6: Jessie Tarascon's Sorrow

General Summary

Rushing to Carlos's aid, the group finds themselves fighting a hooded man with dark veins of energy pulsing under the skin of his face and hands. Victor notices this same sickness spreading rapidly across Carlos's body. After a difficult battle with the warlock, the group kills the would be murderer and quickly drag Carlos to the Church of Ezra in hopes that Priest Armond may be able to save him. Armond casts a spell as he prays to Ezra and the darkness that was spreading across Carlos's body begins to recede. Learning that the man they killed was Jessie Tarascon, the local nobility and that their family owns a townhouse in Marais d'Tarascon and a large estate two days from the village, the group decides to check to townhouse first. There they find evidence that Jessie has been staying there, but making it appear as if he is not (e.g., furniture is covered in white sheets but tracks of mud lead to a bedroom). They find a journal likely written by Jessie but no one can read it and whatever power lent itself to Amoiety, previously, offered no assistance this time.
The group brings the journal for Carlos who reads it and tells them that Jessie was behind the murders, sacrificing his servants and eventually his sister, Flora, to the Loa to protect his family's land from the Blight. All of his servants came back as zombies, but his sister came back as something else. The journal states Jessie continues to kill, but no longer to prevent the blight, but to keep his sister happy who now resides in the crypts of the old cemetery.
The group travels to the old cemetery and into the crypts below. There they are attacked by strange rose bushes with a taste for human blood and the remains of skeletons that lurked within a large puddle in the crypts. Continuing on, they were assaulted by a massive swarm of spiders.
Lastly, they came to a circular room with a statue in the middle of it covered in moss. Once the moss was removed, it revealed the serene face of a woman gazing towards the west, one hand upon the hilt of a longsword and the other holding up a kite shield in a protective gesture. Upon the kite shield is an etching of a longsword crossed with a sprig of belladonna. The plaque at the statue's feet reads “Ezra, Our Lady of the Mists. May she protect you from the unknown dangers that lie beyond.” Within the base of the statue they found a secret compartment that contained the Lantern of Ezra and a very nice cloak. Both of which radiated magic.

Report Date

06 Nov 2021