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Set everything right again
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The army of dead is growing in the mountain stronghold and the party has
to stop it.

This adventure involves figuring stuff out, waiting for things to
happen, and searching for things.  It is way less "railroad" than the
others.

Use random encounters mixed in to keep the players engaged or as a way
to eat up time.

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Events
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*   The party returns with the relic and gives it to the cleric

*   The cleric gives the relic to his acolyte and tells him to
    and drop it in the middle of the sea

*   The acolyte sells the relic instead to the thieves' guild with the
    condition that the thieves' guild takes it far away before selling
    it.  Nobody anywhere near here must find it.

*   The cleric and his acolytes sneak away to the necropolis

*   The cleric transforms one of his acolytes into a ghoulish slave, and
    the other one goes mad and runs off

*   The mad acolyte sneaks back into town and smokes lots of opium in
    order to forget the awful stuff he saw in the necropolis

*   The monk arrives to look for the missing cleric

*   The monk seeks out the party

*   The party meets the monk

*   The monk explains how the cleric is missing

*   The party tells the monk how they stole the relic

*   The monk asks the party to help set things right again and describes
    a few choices (see the `possible adventures`_ section)

*   The party sees the mad acolyte on the street and the mad acolyte
    runs off

*   The party tracks down the mad acolyte and talks to him

*   The mad acolyte explains how he sold the relic to the thieves' guild

*   Either the monk reads or the party reads the cleric's notes.
    Whoever reads it learns that the cleric is waiting for when the
    stars line up to a certain pattern and then the cleric will summon
    the wraith.


Possible adventures
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*   The party gets the relic back from the thieves' guild

*   The party goes straight to the necropolis to stop the cleric




While the party was doing other stuff
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After the party hands the relic over to the party, the cleric and his
two acolytes disappear and sneak into the necropolis.

The cleric then uses the power of the necropolis to animate lots of
corpses.

Next he attacks the shrine with the horde of zombies.

The guards try to use the relic but it doesn't work (since it is a fake)
and then they're overwhelmed.  Maybe a few run away.

The cleric starts transforming the pilgrims and guards into more ghouls
and zombies.  The other acolyte runs away in terror once he sees how the
cleric .  See the section below `the escaped acolyte`_ below for what
he's been up to since escaping.

Now the cleric (in a disguise) rules the mountain shrine.

The monk
========

The monk arrives to investigate the disappeared cleric and acolytes.

He knows about the shrine and its true importance.  He knows that it has
recently fallen.

The monk does not suspect that the cleric turned evil.  He suspects
some evil force killed the cleric and his acolytes and maybe that evil
force is also involved in destroying the shrine.

The monk wants the party to help search for the cleric.

The mad acolyte
===============

Mostly he stays bombed out in an opium den (maybe I should use a D&D
euphemism instead) to keep from remembering the awful stuff he saw in
the necropolis.

He has a small room that he rents where he paints the walls with holy
glyphs to keep him safe while he sleeps.  Like I said, he's crazy.

The party can discover him in any of these ways:

*   successful perception checks in a tavern or on the street mean the
    party spots him sneaking around.  But he'll try to run away.

*   local magical item vendors talk about a visitor that wanted to sell
    a glowing gem.

*   There's a soothsayer in town that can locate anyone in town.  As
    long as she has some item of their clothing, or some hair, or
    something that they wrote.

    She can't exactly locate the person really, just see some visions of
    what that person is seeing.

    Maybe the soothsayer knows the witch in the desert too.  And she'll
    say something like "Elphaba says Hi".

After the party finds the acolyte, if they get him to talk, he'll
explain how the cleric told him to take the relic, then sail to the
middle of the sea, and then throw it in there.

But instead, he sold it to the thieves guild.  Now, he mostly just stays
bombed out all day, but other times, he carves glyphs in the walls to
protect him.


The cleric's office
===================

If the party searches the cleric's office, they'll find lots of good
stuff:

*   The notes of how to make the plague remedy written by a cleric
    several centuries ago.

*   The private diary of that same cleric.  He went on the old mission
    to trap the wraith.

*   In a locked cabinet, lots of books on necromancy.

*   The cleric's journals have notes:

    *   The cleric started summoning spirits to look for a cure to the
        plague.

    *   Then he met the wraith.  The wraith convinced him to help free
        him.

    *   Then the cleric started collecting books on necromancy and
        studying them.

    *   the stars will be soon aligned enough to allow the wraith to
        return to this plane.


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