The Church of the Tender is putting out an urgent call for adventurers to investigate an attack upon one of the stags considered blessed by the faith. Any man or beast that would attack one of these sacred animals is likely to be a danger to others, and the Council has approved a small bounty for their capture.

• Alfie - Michael - RIP
• ??? - Stone Wanderer - Dan
• ??? - Valyddi Alchemist - JamesG
• Gramps - Cameron
• Rodrigo - Alex
• Peter - Andrew

Having defeated the cultists the party split up, some pitching camp for the night whilst the rest busy themselves carrying the bodies down the hill and ditching them in the swamp as promised. Their oath fulfilled the swamp waters fall away from them and a croaky voice whispers that when the time comes to leave a path will be made for them.

Peter receieves the Stone Wanderer's assistance in preparing for sleep - a couple of metal 'staples' hammered into the altar stone to keep his skeleton from wandering off at night. When they awaken the next morning they find the White Stag resting one hoof on Peter's chest and the wayfinder discovers that his body is free of the aches and pains that normally assail him after sleeping.

They make to return to Acryn, a bridge of bodies forming up before them as they reach the edge of the bog. They stop off in Erinsdell to inform the villagers that they have been avenged but that a single cultist fled into the nearby wilderness. The surviving woodcutters grimly heft their axes and set out to search for the missing murderer.

When they hit the main road, near the Founder's Rest the White Stag bows its head low and then dashes off into the far undergrowth, presumably returning to guard its herd.

Back in Acryn they report in to the Tender church who are aghast to hear that the attack was perpetrated by a dragon cult. They congratulate the party on successfully saving the stag and defeating the cultists, granting a full payment and a promise of the Tender's blessings when needed. Peter avails himself of this immediately to seek help for his skeletal arm- the Church offers to attempt to cure his curse of undeath altogether, but faced with the possibility that the 'natural state' he might be restored to could be death, he sticks with a simple ceremony to heal his arm.

The Tender church take Alfie's collar and return it to his young mistress. Much wailing ensues.

RIP

• 27R
• Your arm is now alive once more, an ever-present contrast to your undead body. Should some other power seek to revive you then this will make the process considerably easier.

• 27R
• The assistance of the Tender church in resolving some future malady, whether medical or mystical.