We left town to talk with the only known person to survive the attacks in Sandpoint. He has goul fever and the doctor was allowing him to die and turn into a goul just to witness the process. When Avia entered the room he went crazy talking about how he had a message for her from his lordship. He lunged at Avia but she handled him without any difficulty. He wasn’t fully turned yet so Trask rode him back to town on the horse to get cured. If it were me I would be paying the doctor a visit to express my appreciation for allowing the goul fever to take its course.

We followed a frantic farmer to a goul infested farm, didn’t catch his name. The people here were being transformed into gouls. To feed the legends they were tying these people to scarecrow poles, once they transformed they had the strength to break free. In the farm house we found what appeared to be the head goul for this farm. This goul had the key to the floxglove house. Also in the farm house was a body with another love note and the star carved in the chest. We spent most of the day killing these gouls, well truthfully I spent most of the day one step behind Avia and Nolan so most of the gouls were killed before I could get close enough to hit them.  Looking down at these foul creatures I am reminded of stories told in my youth about the blood of these foul creatures not being suitable for barbarian war paint. Goul fever, apparently if you get bitten by a goul you get goul fever and then turn into a goul.

Avia clearly has an admirer and this admirer seems to be leading us around like dogs. Her admirer keeps leaving love notes for Avia that seem to be leading us towards some sort of trap. It is not really clear if he has the hots for Avia or just trying to make her mad enough to charge into a trap. It really seems like this is foxglove or in some way related to foxglove but I guess we won’t know until we spring the trap.  I just can’t imagine how Foxglove can think that Avia would be swayed by these actions. Even as a goul I am pretty sure Avia would have an overwhelming urge to kill him. Maybe he thinks that she will accept him as her new deity and become his love slave.  I tend to think that foxglove’s and Avia’s deities do not like each other, or at least the followers hate each other. I can’t imagine a situation besides mind control where Avia will openly share her bed with Foxglove.

I really wonder why Foxglove seems to be leaving us clues to follow and specifically targeting Avia. In the back of my mind I keep wondering if we are being lead around because Foxglove needs us or Avia to unleash some great monster on the world. Maybe I am over thinking everything but as we used the key to open the doors at the Foxglove estate I can’t help but feel that foxglove or someone controlling foxglove is leading us around to suite their own desires. Are we seeing the rune lords of old coming back into the world or do we have those that want to take over from the rune lords. Are we dealing with those that learned about the Rune lords and are trying to bring back the empire or maybe followers of the Rune Lords have been passing the knowledge down through their families waiting for their Lords to return to power.

Walking into the house the feeling of magic comes from every nook and cranny of the house. This feels like old magic that at onetime covered this house or the magic used by one who caused the death of the Lord and Lady was so strong that remnants of this magic still linger. Avia looks to be disturbed by the house but we move forward. The stained glass window is eerie reminder that this family is in some way connected to the Rune Lords, although it almost looks as if the stained glass window was showing that this family may have been working to keep the power of the Rune Lords trapped. I am really not sure if we are being lead into a trap or just lead into something that someone wants use to get cleaned up. Either way we are here at the estate so we might as well investigate the secrets of the home of the Foxgloves.