Pestilence

Pestilence
Date	10/7/23
Storyteller	User
Tier	Trainee - Difficult
Player Characters	Amani Hashmi, Disorro Saur, Kasumi, Red, Wrax
Rewards	250xp, 37.5gp, various items
Result	Success
Author	Zac
Downtime	4

Log

We were sent to meet with the mayor of Hemlock, a small town of about 100 people two days outside the city. A sad man with an eyepatch, he tells us that a disease has stricken much of the town. Patients are befuddled within a day and then after a few days either die through misfortune or by suicide.

Multiple citizens have reported seeing a boar in the town square. Since then people have been getting very sick. Some people who live outside of town have gotten better, but the doctor and the baker in the town square both died.

Narumi recalled that pigs are associated with bringing sickness. They can also heal. We search the doctor and the baker’s places and find no clues. We speak to people outside of town – they all have a clean water source.

We inspect the well in the town and find hoofprints nearby and a yellowish substance inside the well. It’s a goo that runs down walls. We warn the mayor not to use the well and track the hoofprints to a nearby cave.

We encounter (and dispatch) several large rats and a few “Venus fly rats.” Further in the cave we see two giant lizards, a boar, and a few decomposing snakes. The boar gores Wrax, but Kasumi gets him back in the fight and he exacts his revenge.

We kill all the monsters – there’s something odd about them. The boar was leaking the same yellow goo – the cause of the problem was identified and dealt with.

Wrax is sickened by the encounter, but after two days back in town, he recovers completely.