Game Story, Part the Second

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Our heroes arrive in the small town of Teranth and park the wagon behind the local inn. They wander about seeking news and information, and find that there is to be a grand processional sometime in the next several days, during which priests of the sun god, Pelor, will parade a holy relic of the god through town and into the temple at Teranth's center. The relic is alleged to be a finger-bone from the god's mortal body. It is explained to our heroes that many of the gods were mortals once, and had been elevated to divine status in some way.

Goombah heads to the temple to learn more of this, and is disgusted to discover that the priesthood of Pelor maintains an oral tradition, and there are no books in the temple for him to read. Meanwhile, Phae and Jessie have set up shop in the wagon producing more "relics" to sell to the crowds that have gathered to watch the procession.
Sparky wanders down among Teranth's shops, eventually encountering the Winery, a small, metal-plated building set apart from most of the surrounding buildings. He discovers that the Winery is run by a pair of gnomes, who brew a potent wine from a blue fruit called kemmiz, which is extremely volatile in all states, but explosive when dried. He is, understandably, intrigued, and manages to acquire several bottles of the wine and a dozen relatively fresh fruits, but only upon giving guarantee that he will show them to no one in town. He returns with his purchases to the wagon and explains them to his companions, eliciting excitement from Goombah, irritation from Jessie, and prophecy from Phae, who declares to all "He's going to burn the damned wagon down".
Soon the procession arrives. The priests in their gold and white regalia march proudly down Teranth's streets, singing hymns of praise, burning aromatic resins, and displaying the reliquary containing Pelor's finger to the townsfolk. They carry the Finger into the church, and make ready for a special ceremony to be held from sunset to sunrise.
Unfortunately, Pelor's Finger will not see the sun rise in Teranth. During the night, the town and our heroes are awakened by the sound of the temple doors being splintered and broken from the inside. Hordes of undead stream down the streets, causing mass panic and disorder. Two zombie giants seem to be leading the herd, and our heroes enter a mighty battle with them. They destroy the giants, Sparky has an incident with a kemmiz fruit which does in fact catch the wagon on fire, and Phae becomes fed up enough with temples and zombies that she has to spend excessive amounts of time in the bath with Goombah. In the chaos, the Finger of Pelor disappears.
The party agrees to track the remaining zombies to see if they can recover the stolen finger. They follow the trail out of town and into the woods, where they discover a strange thing. The trail ends at a large tree, next to which lies a zombie arm severed cleanly at the shoulder.
They take the arm back into Teranth and meet with the high priest at the temple. He tells them that there is no physical sign of where the zombie horde entered the temple or the town, and their search for magical signs had also failed. He questions the travelers as to where they are going next, and when it is discovered that they are moving up the north road to Murrow, the adventurers' Mecca, he contracts them to deliver a message to a woman called Nessa, who lives in the Sorenholt, a small hold between Teranth and Murrow.

To be continued.