Finding the Cure to the Blood Veil

Calistril 4th 4709 – When Andrian and Rizzle return they introduce Agrippa to us. I told Andrian I’m hearing strange sounds like they are breaking up things in the basement. We were tried and decided to rest a few hours before going back down into the basement. Andrian climb back down the rope and found the rope he cut at the bottom. He tied his grapping hook to the rope and threw it back up to us which I tied it off again. Then I climb down the rope next. As soon as I open the elevator door and stepped out several of the Queen’s physicians and the priests of Urgathoa attack us. They had been turned into the plague zombies. Andrian and I held the entrance to the elevator shaft so the other could climb down safely. Rizzle was the next to come down then the barbarian Agrippa and finally Carufinwe. It was a long fight with 24 plagued zombies. Andrian, Agrippa and I all got bitten by these monsters. I was able to shake off this plague with the help of Torag. Andrian became worse by the bit because he already had contacted the disease from the fight earlier. The barbarian Agrippa also caught the plague from their bit. Andrian told me later that he almost fell asleep during the battle but he was able to shake off it affects. I try to tell Rizzle he has to be careful with his placement of his spells. We do not need to be harmed by our own members. I know he is trying to help but some day it will do more harm than help. He still does not get it and I’m sure he will do it again. I was able to keep Andrian and Agrippa a live by healing them during the battle. Being in the front line finally cost me a little as I had to heal myself a few times to stay strong in the battle, too. My great dwarven armor and Torag kept me safe most of the battle.

After the battle we search out the rest of the basement. We found a room where it looked like they created a green slime. This green slime was use by Rolth to turn the Queen Physicians and the Priests of Urgathoa who were left below into the plague zombies. We tested this out on a rat we found later in another room. It had no effect on a dead rat. But, put the slime on a live rat it turned it into a plague zombie rat. We found Ruan the brother of Deyanira Mirukova strapped down on a table in another room. He was in bad shape and was close to death from the Blood Veil plague. Carufinwe found the secret door on the wall Ruan told us the vampire Ramoska Arkminos would come in and out of that door. In that room is were Ramoska journal on adapting Vorel’s Legacy for an injury infection to a communicable disease that could be spread from human to human. The journal looks like it contains enough information to attempt a cure for the Blood Veil. We now believe how they got the Vorel’s Legacy into the city was they infected rats with the disease. The rats were on the ship and they knew the ship would be destroyed if it did not stop or turn around. We also found components for the cure disease for several cures. I used them to cure Ruan, then Andrian and finally Agrippa from the blood veil. We did not find Rolth or the Vampire Ramoska Arkminos it looks like they escaped into a passage that lead into the sewers. We went back to report to Field Marshal Cressida Kroft taking Ruan with us for him to tell her his side of the story. We took a live rat with us along with the green slime to prove to the Field Marshal what they were doing. We also told her we believe we can make a cure for the blood veil plague. We told her we are going to go some place to see if we can or can not. The Field Marshal is going to report all of this to the queen. I also ask the Field Marshal to put heavy guards around the hospice and the green slime ordering no one to touch the slime. The guards in the slime room needs to wear the physicians mask to keep them safe from air in the basement. We need to get the priest to either purify the slime or we can also come up with a neutralizing antidote. We took Ruan to his sister and she was very happy to see he is okay and she thank us for all our help. The rest of the day we pack up the vampire Ramoska Arkminos lab. Andrian went to Vencarlo’s to ask him if we could move the lab to his place to work out a cure, Vencarlo agreed that we could.

Calistril 5th 4709 – We moved the lab to Vencarlo fencing studio to begin to come up with a cure for the blood veil. We all sent the rest of the day going over the journal for ideas what we need to do. I checked on the kids to see how they are doing. I found out a couple of them died from the blood veil and this news saddened my heart. I told them if we find a cure we will give them the formula, too.

Calistril 6th-8th 4709 – We worked together using our own skills combine with the information in the journal was able to come up with a cure for the blood veil. We were able to infect the rats and gave them the cure we came up with and it finally worked. We next tried it on a friend of Vencarlo who said he would try our cure because it had to be better than having the blood veil. It worked it removed the blood veil from him he is cured. Vencarlo donated a lot to help us come up with this cure.

Calistril 9th 4709 – We took the cure to the temple and gave them a copy of the cure formula. We also gave them some and show them it worked on a couple of their patients. They were happy to have it and were going to make more and start distributing the cure at once. We then took the formula to Field Marshal Cressida Kroft and show her it worked. She was then taking it to the Queen and thanked us for all our work. We have proved our self and she will drop the charges against us.

Calistril 10th 4709 - I went to see the boys again giving the formula for the cure to the priest. They were happy to have the cure, too. I then worked with some other priest to neutralize the slime that would make plague zombies so it would no longer be used for that purpose. I also, have been working on my cleric training.

Calistril 11th 4709 – We were summons by Queen Ileosa who has declared a jubilee for our part in the cure of the blood veil. We were given many praises which we do not deserve and gifts from the royal treasury. The Queen also asked us to free Endrin Island from the plague of zombies. Since, I felt we were some what responsible for what happen to Endrin Island I agreed first with the others quickly following. At the end of the jubilee the Queen surprised us by bring out Dr. Devaulus alive! At first I thought this a trick or something but then she made Dr Devaulus confess his treachery to all present. After the confession he was then beheaded. We then left to get ready to enter Endrin Island.