Not A Snark

I woke in a cell after a nightmare of being stuck in a mist filled corridor, killed by some thing wrapped in tattered cloth. I could not remember who I was or why I was here. I definitely didn’t recognise the people that were with me in the cell.

There was screaming from outside, where a woman was torturing a man chained to a table. There was shouting, and then the sound of fighting, as a memory of my sister came to my mind, and that memory took form as her spirit manifested outside the cell.

By the time she has formed, the fighting was over and the woman had been killed, though one of the other inmates tried to attack my sister. As we tried to figure out where we were, we began to remember our names, but not where we were or why we were here. I was Costian, and my spirit sister was Catiana.

With us were Erasmus, Gregor, Sheena (the young woman who attacked Catiana) and Ray. The man on the table was Campre Linwigh, and says that we are in Briarstone Asylum in the town of Thrushmore. The woman was a shapechanger, a doppleganger, who had taken the form of Doctor Ilesi Scaen. A number of dopplegangers had taken over the asylum, but he didn’t know where they had come from, or indeed where we had come from.

We searched the area and managed to find the clothes and some of the gear we presumably had when we turned up here, as well as plenty of dead bodies. Making our way upstairs, we encountered a group of asylum guards who had barricaded themselves within a shrine of Pharasma, and were highly suspicious of us since we could be dopplegangers.

We eventually found and killed some dopplegangers, proving to the guards that we were on their side. They allowed us to take refuge in the shrine, which was being protected by the priestess Winter Klaczka, who herself had recently arrived here to find out what was going on.

We are taken in by Winter Klaczka, a priestess of Pharasma. Winter herself is part of the cathedral at Caliphas, and only recently sent here to investigate what has happened. Eliege Losadro was apparently the head of Briarstone Asylum, and we should try to find her office, though nobody has seen her since the revolt that led to the problems here.

Apparently there was a revolt started by one of the patients, Ulver Zandalus, and his 'apostles'. Ulver has been here for twenty years, and apparently was being worshipped by several of the patients. The revolt followed a night where everyone had bad dreams, and also the arrival of the 'Royal Accusers' who turned up to speak to Losadro.

Ray breaks into the patient records, and finds no sign of any mention of us.

Winter is unable to spare time to help us, since her priority is the injured in the chapel. However, she might be able to help more if we could find a way to switch the water on.

She can’t spare time to help us, since she has to look after the injured here. She could do with us switching the water on. This is something we eventually succeed at doing, though we encountered another doppleganger who seemed to have taken on the form of Dr Oathsday, and had been torturing some of the inmates. One of these seemed to be suffering from ghoul sickness, and had strange yellow symbols on him which none of us recognised. Sheena proved unreliable again during the fight, and shouted out when we were trying to keep quiet.