In Attendance:
Ilyana Arcanist Corporal
Kas Valentine Senior Arcanist
Nicholi Ravnthorn Regular Guardsman
Sergio Jarrett Regular Scout
Aleri Briggs Junior Guardsman
Thomas Aylmer Junior Arcanist
Cal'ain Cui'gnir Watchman
Nethaellas Guarsman Recruit
While in line that the Commander called we were told of a patrol gone bad and that he wouldn't be leading us as he had things to do, So Corporal Ilyana took the line and after hearing there was an arcanist among them was determined to save them, this brought up the question of if there were an arcanist why didn't they just magic themselves out. The arcanists response was they probably ran out of herbs. After the mild debate settled down we were off to covetous.
We traversed through the mountain caves fairly fast with very little incident until we got to the catacombs. We started by checking the abandon rooms at the entrance of the ancient church, we were confronted by vast amounts of liches which never seemed to die there dust reforming back into there boney structure of everlasting undeath.
It wasn't long before we entered the old shrine to find A regular arcanist chained in the room unconscious. Upon waking her up she began to spout screams about things that weren't there and started thrashing about wildly, when she calmed down Kas and Nicholi stayed there while the rest of us looked for the others.
We made our way through the old cathedral hall to the stairs leading down into another cave along the way seeing evidence of death and empty encampments.
We came back to see that Aylmer had joined Kas and Nicholi and they had somehow managed to light the whole room and themselves on fire, I'd guess an arcanist malfunction. We then decided to get the arcanist out of there before anything worse happened.
Upon getting back We quickly carried her into the barracks and put her in a bed to examine her, only then did she start speaking semi clearly she admitted that she was the one who killed the others and broke down sobbing, She had cuts on her torso she didn't let anyone treat and an arcane circle drawn in what looked to be blood on her forehead. She insisted we put her in the cells even though she was going to die without medical attention. As we couldn't get close enough to her wounds to do anything we took her down to the cells.
It was then that Corporal Ilyana decided that since she would die anyway that she'd kill her fast. Ilyana then pulled out a knife and attempted to slit the arcanist throat to kill her, unfortunately loss of blood from the neck isn't as fast as many people think so I took the knife and finished it before the woman was in anymore pain. After the Woman was death Ilyana burned the body on the spot for reasons I don't understand as we could have done it outside and not messed up the cell.
During this whole ordeal the Arcanist said a few things that were never answered that I feel I should look into, I'll report my findings as I come about them and hopefully figure out what this is all about, and what is Valefar.
*Signed*
Sergio Jarrett
Regular Scout
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