Incident: Loss of Farley's Rest
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Someone reported a corpse on the road west of Slingdyke, so I investigated.
Roughly west of the town was another village, Farley's Rest. The undead had overcome the town. With a fighter named Nix, I cleared the town of its roaming undead, and we discovered a half-finished ritual.
On inspection, the ritual was necromantic, though I also detected some extraplanar influence. Although I attempted to dispel it, the ritual was half-finished and linked, it seemed, to a specific dead man who was holding a cup.
The undead creature and the ritual seemed to want us to 'fill the cup.' I speculate that it might mean the town had been sacrificed to do so, though I could not determine that from the spellwork, just the context.
There are no more undead in the town, but there are also no more people. The militia should be informed to process the place before it becomes prey to some other necromancer with an itch.
The ritualist did seem to be a priest, or at least he could cast spells unique to the divine rather than the arcane, and he managed to escape us somehow despite our best efforts. He spent the entire time encased in a stoneskin I couldn't dispel, so I am unsure as to his description other than 'undead priest with a cup,' but he is still roaming out there somewhere.
//Jasda al Tyr//
