The Professor Returns! OR "It's just some zombies."

Mel's silver tongue leapt into action! He gently persuaded the lovely Kendra that the apparition of her father, now clawing at the gate along with three zombified townsfolk, was nothing more than a personal delusion of loam and brain. Mel sprung into action to coax our buxom hostess into returning to her bedchamber with the idea that the manifestation of her beloved father was a supple longing for his return in the form of a vivid dream.

And with that, our resident hexmaster, Mstislav, enchanted the girl with the sands of sleep.

With the attack upon the manor put down we vested ourselves in the task of reburying the four corpses. This required splitting the party, a dangerous notion that suddenly came to me out of the bottom of a whiskey jar. It was, nonetheless, successful. Gregor, Urgilash, and I dodged the town watchmen, ducking down dim, dreary streets only to happen upon a mad minded Griggs who displayed symptoms of possession. In my inebriated state, I fancied the unorthodox solution of funneling a potion of Haunt-Be-Gone down the man's gullet. Only time will tell the effect, or whether he is the fabled Splatter Man.

In the peep of day, Mstislav, Urgalash, Mel, and Taral paid a visit to that old codger, Brother Grimbarrow. Thanks to the tenuous agreement with the Paladins of Lastwall, Taral called upon the head Friar to administer healing to the party, and we all chipped in to purchase a rather nice healing wand. Thus, better prepared to take on the denizens of Harowstone Prison.

And thus it was that upon our return to the haunted penitentiary, and after a battle with animated manacles, that brother Gregor in his wisdom declared we shouldn't waste resources attacking the "bull-sheet" but rather focus on the root malady that underpins the profligacy of evil that threatens the people of Ravengro. On this point–we are all agreed.

As a pinnacle to our morning, we encountered none other than Vesorianna Hawkran, the wife of the former warden. Her spirit explained to us that if we defeat the ghosts of the five most dangerous criminals of Harrowstone, she can help contain them and thus aid in the banishing of all the haunts within. Only this will also free her... and put an end to all the haunting of Harrowstone.