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 It is at this point Kepher finally has a moment of lucidity. Tumani and Keva leap to him and explain he is under a curse, and Kepher demands to be bound. Until they can get him magically cured, he is a danger to himself and them. The group binds their friend and prepares to return to the living portion of Wati.
+====== 05 and Lo the Dead Shall Rise======
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+|Campaign Date|Abadus 13-16|
+|Game Date|08/25/24|
+==== Return and Recuperate ====
+The Lost Fragments load up their cart, including their bound friend, Kepher, who goes in and out of lucidity. Keva hefts the load, hauling the cart to his home. Once there, they spend then night after Keva takes Kepher to the Temple of Anubis where they offer to heal him. Idori takes her leave of the party, seekin gnew fortunes.
+The next day, Ina is kicked out by Tumani lest she have sticky fingers, while he organizes and categorizes their treasures. She heads to Tooth &. Hookah tavern to relax after their adventures, and maybe get to chase after her romantic interest, Sigrun Firehair. She runs into one Carver “Arclight” Bey, an wizard elf interested in archeology and offers to let him examine what found. Tumani is happy to have his help, and is delighted to have someone to talk with who is also learned in history, the arcane, and religion.
+Burdened as the group is with these magical trinkets, art objects, and valuable information on Wati's past they are interested in exchanging their hard-won treasures for gold. However Ina informs Tumani this has become a difficult prospect when so many local vendors have been flooded with priceless relics recovered from the necropolis. In fact, the price of historical artifacts and art objects has dropped so sharply from their sudden availability that merchants in Wati are currently paying only 25% of the value of most items (instead of the normal 50%), and 75% of the value for trade goods and other valuable items (rather than the usual full value).
+This is solved by an unexpected source. An invitation arrives from a priest named Ptemenib at the Grand Mausoleum inviting them to the auctions at the Canny Jackal in 3 days. They know if they want to get full value for their loot, they'd be well advised to attend the auction-and they might even find some items to purchase as well as sell.
+It seems the ** Grand Mausoleum**  is also suffering an embarrassment of riches, having spent the past several days accepting percentages of adventurers' proceeds as payments for healing and magical services-and occasionally confiscating items from adventurers who didn't show the proper respect to Wati's honored dead. The solutions has been for the Grand Mausoleum of Pharasmahas entered into an arrangement with the **Canny Jackal**, a prestigious auction house and art gallery located at the western edge of the Sunburst Market, to hold an auction where private collectors and other interested parties can bid on items recently brought out of the necropolis.
+To serve the community, the Pharasmins have extended invitations to those explorers who participated in the necropolis exploration as well, in hopes of both keeping many of Wati’s treasures within the city by seeing them sold to local collectors and helping coin remain in the local economy.
+The next day, Kepher returns, much improved and the party makes plans to attend the auction. Carver asks to attend and they agree, though they note their money is their money.
+==== An Evening at the Canny Jackal ===
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+The Canny Jackal hosts many of Wati's richest collectors and historians, from local nobles to representatives from An, Tephu, and even Sothis. Auctions traditionally begin an hour after sunset, with a complimentary reception beforehand for the attendees to mingle with one another and enjoy refreshments. This evening, the Jackal is offering cheese-stuffed figs, hard-boiled peacock eggs, onion bread, onion-stuffed squid, fresh and dried fruit, spiced wine, and a sampling of 2,000-year-old honey recovered from one of the tombs. By the time the Lost Fragments and their guest arrive arrive, several noteworthy members of Wati society have already gathered, and more filter in as the night wears on.
+Two dozen attendees other eventually arrive besides the Fragments, Including some of the other groups they met previously. Only a handful of the attendees are there to make serious bids. Notable guests include the following:
+**Baketra** (female human): One ofWati's richest and most notorious gourmands, she's keen to sample forgotten treats or liquors, or purchase ancient artwork to decorate her large dining room.
+**Basiflosep** (male half-elf): A wealthy coffee merchant and avid document collector hoping to uncover records about his human heritage.
+**The Four Lanterns: ** A cocksure band of human Andoren explorers who participated in the necropolis exploration, and now seek to sell their loot and buy masterwork equipment and practical magic items.
+**Khammayid Okhenti** (male human): A young scion of the noble Okhenti family, newly returned from his studies in Oppara and eager to find expensive weapons to impress his family.
+**Manaat Heshwah** (female human ): The humorless representative of a Sothis trading house, keen on acquiring furniture, housewares, and pottery.
+**Maru Meshhoten** (female human) and **Namaru Meshhoten** (female human): An aging dowager and her granddaughter, looking for jewelry, clothing, and scandalous books and scrolls.
+**Menya the Whip** (male human): Rail-thin and with an iron handshake, this ambitious young armorsmith is attending the auction to network though he's also looking for a curious centerpiece for his new armor shop.
+**Ptemenib** (male human Cleric of Pharasma): Polite but distracted, Ptemenib is attending the auction as the Grand Mausoleum's representative. The priest has a tendency to talk to himself when no one is looking
+The Lost Fragments mingle and talk with several of the guests. Tumani makes a point of complaining about their ambush to the two Priests of Neythes who are in attendance. They seem concerned about a site being raided but profess no knowledge at all about what happened. They do express interest in several of the items the group recovered. Ina talks with Baketra and learns of her history with past fake relics.:
+// "Rather nice to see the Pharasmins on board with this auction. At least we'l l know these relics are real. You can't trust the veracity of just anything up for sale, no matter how old it looks. A group calling themselves the Silver Chain took me for a fortune on a 'Second Age' chest last year. It looked a ncient enough, but it turned out the damned thing had only survived a house fire in An."//
+Ina also talks some with the Meshhoten dowager and granddaughter, finding out what they are looking for. It is during this time she and Tumani notice Ptemenib leaving early, less than half an hour in. The auction proceeds after the mingling, and the Lost Fragments make out well, with over 1,000 gold apiece from their findings.
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+As the auction winds down and the attendees mill about, paying for their purchases and gloating over their acquisitions, Tumani and Carver both feel a massive wash of soul energy surge over them. It is //ka// energy, part of the soul that It takes them some moments to understand it. The two find each other in the room and huddle together to discuss. Ina notices them moving and catches Tumani’s eye with a questioning look. Tumani nods, and says, //”It’s time to go”//. Ina’s hands move towards her weapons. It is at this point a frantic pounding comes from The Canny Jackal's front door. The servants move to open the doors, and they suddenly collapse, reduced to splinters, and a horde of zombies shamble forward, hungry for the blood of the living. The two servants, Ahteb and Hamapetra immediately fall, unconscious and dying.
+The heroes spring into action, even as panic runs through the crowd. Even the other adventuring parties fall back, simply not up to the task. Ina warns Baketra to run back and fires her crossbow immediately. Kevan and Kepher both step up, immediately swinging their blades. Kepher shouts //”The doors of Wati are forever closed to you!”// as his blade cuts deeply. It is during this moment that Carver casts //burning hands// scorching the clustered zombies ahead of them. Ina yells to Tumani, //”Can we keep him now!”// with a huge grin on her face. Tumani runs forward as the Zombies shamble into the room, and envelopes the servants with healing light crying, //”Osirus preserve you!”//. Ahteb and Hamapetra are fully restored and leap up to run away, the zombies unable to move quickly enough to respond.Seeing her bolt did not work well, Ina slashes with her rapier, while Carver uses his //burning hands// yet again. Kepher and Keva close on the standing zombies and finish them off.
+After the attack, it is clear the zombies came from the overturned wagon in the streets. But there is little time to rest. Despite the exhortations of the Lost Fragments, the auction attendees flee the zombies, the movement destabilizes scaffolding at the front of the building, and the structure collapses. Two of the auction guests, Maru and Namaru Meshhoten are trapped beneath the wreckage. Tumani immediately casts //enlarge// on Keva, and the now 12’ tall man easily free the trapped woman who rush back insight.
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+Carver sends out his //dancing lights// to get a feel for what is going on in the city. He can hear screaming in the distance. Whatever is going on is affecting the whole city. This is something greater than just an attack. Indeed, just the zombies are not attacking them. Several crawling hands are moving toward the Canny Jackel.
+The punishment for thieves caught in the Sunburst Market is swift and brutal: the thief's hand is severed, dried in salt, and then hung from the market's Pillar of Second Thoughts as a warning to others. The pillar is considered good luck, and shops and stalls compete for proximity to the grisly memorial. But tonight the only luck it brings is bad, as the mummified hands of thieves are animated by the //ka// wave and burst free of their bonds! They all attack, moving to strangle anyone they can grab. One in particular seems interested in Menya, and as he runs, it attacks him. The group goes after the hands, but they are hard to hit. Carver uses acidic spells to damage them, while Tumani uses up all his holy bursts of energy. They finally bring the foul undead to their final rest, saving Menya and themselves.
+Breathing heavily, the group discussed going into the city to protect the citizens. It was then they heard a cry of terror from back inside the Canny Jackel!

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