One Shots: Fortunes End

Recap
(Takes place after Hardcore Heroes: Episode 15)

Bishop and Gunter are hunting town an escaped murderer named Lort. He was convicted of the murder and cannibalism of more than 10 people in Longcast. The two heroes have been giving chase for a few hundred miles all the way to the outskirts of Fortune, the country seat of Flat County.

It is afternoon as the two heroes enter a small ignominius village 5 miles away from Fortune. The locals look skittish seeing the well armed heroes entering town. A local reports they saw someone matching Lort's description, that of a fat misshapen ugly man with burns across his face, came though town last night. The local also shows the heroes to a a graveyard where a recent murder victim is about to be burred, the method and the canabalism match that of Lort's handywork as well. The rest of the victim's family had died in a plague a year previously.

Gunter heads inside the temple to pray. Bishop helps the village cleric to dig the grave. Bishop leads a funeral service, then the victim is buried.

The heroes then set out for Fortune. As the sun sets 3 wolves off the side of the road eye the heroes and growl. Bishop casts "Light" and the wolves scatter away.

The sun has entirely set by the time the heroes get to the closed city gates of Fortune. The gate guard lets them in, but says the town has no love of outsiders and they are bad luck.

The keep is on a raised plateau like area within the confines of the town walls. All the other buildings are single-story dingy with dilapidated walls or collapsing roofs. The pair walk down the streets of the town to find a temple to rest in. Bishop tries to talk with people on the streets and gets the cold shoulder.

The party arrive at a dilapidated temple, like most of the other buildings around, as well as some year-old fire damage. Outside the temple a funeral is taking place. The subject of the funeral doesn't appear murdered so our heroes don't interrupt. A Cleric of Voraci leads a procession to the town's crypts. Gunter waits at the temple while Bishop joins the procession.

The crypts are up in the plateau, so they walk up switch backs to get there. Bishop is denied entry into the crypts themselves.