LOTFP session report #2

The characters were tasked to find out why a certain logging camp wasn't providing the baron with lumber. When they entered the logging village they saw that one of the lumberjacks was under attack by a formerly living compatriot. Turns out that the other lumberjacks disappeared the day before while out cutting wood. The one survivor was there because he stayed behind in the camp. The one lumberjack told them that the day before a wizard stopped in the camp, but that he already left before dawn.

When our players got to the clearing, they discovered a trail of blood towards an ancient burial mound. Inside of said mound they found out that the sarcophagus was empty and that there were scratches on the inside of the lid. The specialist also found, after a search check, that there were some persons some time before them who dragged something either from or to the tomb.

Once they were outside they were attacked by some zombie-lumberjacks. After quickly defeating them (seriously, the specialist keeps on throwing in the 15+ range) they followed a trail through the woods and came upon a ruined cabin, now home to Leoric. Leoric was the wizard who stayed at the logging camp and who was currently doing some research towards mushrooms. He's not too pleased about that, since he is the lead apprentice of Merlin and this is way, way below his status. He told them, in between complaining and bitching, that the one survivor was grilling him for "how to raise the dead" and things like that.

The party didn't like the sound of that.

They went back to the camp, did some interrogation, determined he was a warlock, kicked him inside his wooden cabin, set fire to it (what? you think they can go an entire session without them putting stuff on fire?) and waited for the fires to burn down. During the interrogation they found at that by putting a certain symbol on a dead body and putting that body inside an ancient Pictish tomb the body would be raised from the dead and would be enslaved to whoever he saw first.