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=====Day Thirty-Three - Looking for Merriath, finding a serial killer instead.=====

After a quiet night and a light breakfast with Paumine, Morthos accompanied the two councilwomen back to Kadra's house, where the two started cleaning up after the fire, using a lot of prestidigitation to try to rid the place of the soot marks.

Meanwhile, Mogadon woke early, made his prayers to his god, and then started to help the busy innkeeper Malaga Taerwain, using mending to help her with some of the maintenance issues around the inn. Upstairs, in their more luxurious room, Cormir and Drex awakened and wandered downstairs, where Mogadon asked them if they had a plan for how to pursue this rogue sorceress. While discussing their options, the three of them stepped out of the inn and headed across to the Bakery, where a tired-looking Phelm Barrister greeted them enthusiastically, confirmed that they were still planning to stay the night in the bakery and showed them the temporary cot beds off to one side he had set out for them in anticipation of their stay.

After fetching Morthos, the four decided that the best course of action was to visit Bazil the Bizarre, as Merriath would no doubt need fresh supplies if she wanted to perform her ritual again.   As they arrived at the round house that doubled as Bazil's Potion shop, they entered through the open door, claiming to be on council business in response to Bazil's demands that the banned Drex leave.  At the suggestion that an evil sorceress might be need to restock components so she could perform her ritual, Bazil checked his stock and exclaimed that potions had definitely been stolen.  He then also acted somewhat suspiciously, checking that some pieces of jewellery were hidden under his pillow.   

Morthos decided to try to use her Mage Hand spell to steal the items hidden under the pillow, but was not careful enough with her spell casting, and Bazil flew into a rage.   Cormir attempted to step between them, and when he realised Bazil was definitely going to cast a spell, tried to punch the mage to disrupt his spell casting, but Bazil seemed to anticipate the blow and just leaned out of the way, before screaming more obscenities at them and firing a set of magic missiles at each of them.   Morthos managed to flick a shield spell into existence to avoid the missile sent at her, but as Drex was hit by the one aimed at him, he instinctively reacted with a Hellish Rebuke, and the ''incensed'' shop keeper became a momentarily ''incendiary'' shop keeper!

Trying to de-escalte things, Mogadon cast a spell of hold person, locking the now completely apocalyptic Bazil into a living rigamortis.   Drex, still feeling ripped off from the ineffective identify scroll the day before and now doubly hurt by the crazy potion maker's attack, fired an Eldritch Blast at the held shopkeeper, who was thrown backwards to crash unconscious onto his bed at the back of the shop, the bed moving slightly and exposing the trapdoor beneath.

Mogadon looked daggers at Drex for his over-the-top response and steps forward with Cormir to hold down Bazil as he administered a small healing spell.  As Bazil came too, he started raving about how everyone was now doomed as the plague would come back!  Faced with an obviously unhinged man who was not listening to anything the dwarf was saying, Mogadon head butted him to knock him out again, intending that they leave whilst the man was unconscious.   Turning to leave, both Cormir and Morthos suddenly realised that they could smell the unpleasant smell of death - coming from the trap door beneath the bed.   Opening it revealed a small cellar - with three mutilated bodies!

Morthos ran off to fetch Paumine and Kadra who were surprised to hear that Bazil the Bizarre had dead bodies in his basement.   While they were gone, Drex got his new familiar to sneak out from ytwo council members recognised the dead as people from around the village - some of whom had gone recently gone missing.  The other council members plus the village priestess were summoned and whilst waiting for them to arrive, Paumine descended into the basement, noting that off to one side (behind the steps and out of sight from above, was a small altar, covered with strange symbols and writing.   Drex hurries down and checked out the altar whilst Paumine examined the bodies.  Drex noted that amongst the rubbish, it looked like there were Abyssal symbols, and he picked out what looks like the name of a demon - "'''Xancrown'''".


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