Deliverance At Dawn – Mayor Sends Package and Letter to Dennet

Mayor Cruxophim sends a letter with a package to Grand Magister Dennet. The contents of the package? Codices, perhaps about blood magic, to consider using to heal Lady Reannah. Oh, and about Cyph’s body … seems the Grand Magister forgot the body used to belong to someone else…

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Category: Towns
Topic: Wehnimer’s Landing

Date: 11/20/2017 04:02 AM CST

From: FLAYED-ANGEL

Subj: Deliverance at Dawn.

A package is delivered by special courier to the Outpost, just before dawn on Volnesday the 20th. Contained within are several unusual codices, bound in skin and bone by some strange measure and fluidly inscribed in what appears to be blood. Also attached is a sealed letter addressed to Grand Magister Dennet Kestrel, which reads as follows:

Grand Magister Dennet Kestrel,

First and foremost, my deepest condolences on the loss of your beloved son, Cyph. Alas, I took every measure I could upon that ill-fated hour to sustain his faltering life, but even my most dire ministrations could do little to stave off the inevitable detachment and rejection of his spiritual essence by the host vessel. I can only offer, as the merest token of solace, the fact that I witnessed him surrounded by a throng of those genuinely concerned for his happiness and well-being during his final moments.

Forgive my brusqueness in this time of tragedy, but I have made arrangements in the interim for the body to be preserved and held here, in safety and seclusion, as per the initial agreement with those who donated the cadaver. He has been surrendered into my care, and I vow that I will personally do what I can to determine if there is any viable spiritual essence remaining to salvage. As you have no doubt surmised, however, I fear that such will likely not be a fruitful endeavor through most ordinary means. My analysis thus far, based upon tests conducted and the prior information you provided, would seem to warn that a second procedure — even with a more viable specimen — could potentially visit further irreparable damage upon the already diminished psyche, rendering the end results even further from the ideal.

However… there may be other, equally unorthodox means by which to re-imbue the succor of consciousness within your son. For now, however, I have taken drastic measure to ensure that no further decay will transpire, and that the physical remains and psyche are being preserved beyond the normal means.

But as for those still among the living… I have also enclosed the codices I promised you, which I sincerely believe may help in alleviating some of the symptoms that dear Lady Reannah suffers with growing regularity. I refer, specifically, to the worsening bouts of delirium and fractured consciousness… though with extended application and modification, they may also theoretically be able to aid in abating — or at least, holding back — the more severe physical malignancies that now plague her, especially given the presumed nature of their origin. It should be no great secret to the astute that I have made extensive study of similar such malignancies, by the devil’s necessity, and I do hope that this portion of my research will prove useful in some way.

However, I should also offer a stark warning with this gift: many of the methods contained therein are far outside what the protocols of the collegiate and its provinces might consider “legal”, but I will leave the ethics of such a decision within your hands. I’m sure that you and I both know the importance and wisdom of examining all available resources, and so, I provide these to you without judgment or expectation. My apologies for the slight delay in this offering, but the transcribing and inclusion of the additional notes required to obviate the need for “outside involvement”† proved to be more time-consuming than I anticipated, and I was drawn away on some unexpected business.

Best of luck in whatever you decide… and once again, my sincerest condolences for your loss.

Signed and Sealed,

– Cruxophim, Mayor of Wehnimer’s Landing

†”Outside involvement” implying the assistance of the Black Shaman Quinshon, further implication being that these “means” may be some form of blood magic.

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— Wheels & Skulls Department

You see Blood Mayor Cruxophim the Blood Reaver.
“Blood for the Blood Mayor! Skulls for the Skull Office!”

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