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== The Story So Far ==
Updated my journal.
=== 2016-01-27 - ===
The party continues into the crypt.
After ruining a ritual circle and smashing skeletal bodies which were set aside to be animated, Hikari gets Jaxson to stop playing his lute long enough to hear what sounds like non-undead people talking. They find a room, barred from the inside. It turns out to be full of the workers that were hired to excavate parts of the crypt and do other work for the necromancer who is operating out of this crypt. Jaxson lets them know that the party is totally not skeletons, and they open the door, relieved to be able to return to their homes and lives of abject poverty. One of the workers is a woman with ashen skin and the slight hint of smoke about her. She tells the party about a secret door she discovered while working in the crypt, which leads to the room the necromancer is using as his study.
The party continues on their way into the crypt, coming quickly to the door described by the workers as leading to the necromancer's study. Jaxson uses his partially-keen half-elven senses to locate the secret door, and Hikari slips into the passage. At the end of the passage she finds another door, leading to the study. She listens at the door and hears the necromancer practicing the monologue he intends to give when the party breaks down his door.
Hikari returns to the party and they make a plan to attack the necromancer from both doors, with Hikari, Marby, and Larissa surprising him from the secret door at the back of the study. The plan works absurdly well.
From a journal and other books on his desk, the party learns that he was a member of the Dustmen who was dissatisfied with Mortuary life, and ran away after stealing some books and other items. He planned to set himself up with an army of undead and totally get back at all the people who had wronged him in his life.
Among the other items in the room, a book the color and texture of char, with silver inlaid design and text on the cover. The text on the cover and inside the book is in a script unknown to the party.
Hikari makes a brief side trip to the Mortuary to return some items the necromancer stole, and then they all meet back at the Civic Festhall. They find Joran in the middle of a magical experiment, but when his assistant, Lily, shows him the book, he drops everything to study it and speak to the party.
Everyone but Grodd seems to have learned a lot from this experience, and they feel ready to reflect on what they have learned and absorb new instruction in their skills and abilities.
=== 2016-01-20 - Which Table Do I Use to Find My Save Versus Tables? ===
