Spell:
"Speak with Dead" Results
Spell:
"Speak with Dead" Results
| Level: 3rd | Casting Time: 1 Action | Range/Area: 10 ft. | Components: V, S, M (burning incense) | Duration: 10 Minutes | School: Necromancy | Attack/Save: None | Damage/Effect: Communication |
You grant the semblance of life to a corpse of your choice within range, allowing it to answer questions you pose. The corpse must have a mouth, and this spell fails if the deceased creature was Undead when it died. The spell also fails if the corpse was the target of this spell within the past 10 days.
Until the spell ends, you can ask the corpse up to five questions. The corpse knows only what it knew in life, including the languages it knew. Answers are usually brief, cryptic, or repetitive, and the corpse is under no compulsion to offer a truthful answer if you are antagonistic toward it or it recognizes you as an enemy.
This spell doesn’t return the creature’s soul to its body, only its animating spirit. Thus, the corpse can’t learn new information, doesn’t comprehend anything that has happened since it died, and can’t speculate about future events.
Bard
Cleric
Cleric - Knowledge Domain (Legacy)
Warlock - The Undying
Warlock - The Undead
Paladin - Oath of Castigation (2014)
Jean polymorphs as Martek and Alwyn casts the 'Cone of Truth' spell to get Petan's dead head to answer our questions honestly. Shala casts the 'Speak with Dead' spell.
Why were you seeking the chromatic stones?
"Godhood."
What was the wish used from the ring that you possess?
"Cataclysm."
What did you use the black quill and scroll for?
"The Wish."
How are you operating Outside of L'Appilia?
"You already know" (directed to Martek)
Is the Blight your cataclysm?
"No."
Jean polymorphs as Young Petan and Alwyn casts the 'Cone of Truth' spell to get Petan's dead head to answer our questions honestly. Shala casts the 'Speak with Dead' spell. The group invited King Eristan, Princess Aurona, Lord Commander Kiventh, and Kamus to the Magnificent Mansion as witnesses to help exonerate the group's crimes against L'Appilia.
Would the blight have happened when it did, if not for your actions?
"No."
What is the primary reason you want to be a God?"
"I didn't want to be a god."
How were you able to use Martek to acomplish your goals?
"I didn't."
What was your relationship with Martek?
"Complicated."
King Eristan L'Appilia asks: Did you intentionally take lives?
"Yes"
The group then uses the orb to use the 'Time Walk' spell to learn more about the magical objects that were in Petan's possession.
Urt uses the spell to learn more about the origins of the Black Scroll and Black Quill.
He travels to a mountain top (recognizes area as Kratel prior to the Blight). A hooded figure, face covered, uses a spell. A black ooze spreads throughout the lands as wind particles spread it out.
King Eristan uses the spell to learn about how the scroll was made, not used.
He saw Jeanette make the Black Scroll and then someone wiped her memories like a blank slate.
King Eristan still needs more evidence to clear our names but is satisfied for the time being to not arrest us yet.
Shala polymorphs as Neighn and casts the 'Cone of Truth' spell to get Petan's dead head to answer our questions honestly. Shala then casts the 'Speak with Dead' spell. As Shala took time out of her busy day to visit us, we gave her the last question to ask.
Did you break your oath as the High Cleric of L'Appilia?
"Yes."
Were you the hooded figure in Kratel that cast the spell to summon the Blight?
"Yes."
Were you involved with wiping Jeanette's memory?
"Yes."
Were you complicit with the Blight encompassing Mirse?
"Yes."
Shala asks: Did you kill Prince Vayle?
"Yes."
In a rage, Shala screams at the top of her lung while Yono tells the group what she knows about Prince Vayle. He was a powerful first-born young prince of L'Appilia that died about a hundred years ago after he fell from the cliffs at Dorphian's Bay. Petan told the royal family at the time that he was not able to revive Vayle. Shala forces us to go with her back to L'Appilia to show King Eristan the interrogation we just had with Petan to exonerate the group's crime and determine how to proceed with the news of Vayle. The group meets up with Shala in the royal crypt the next day and Shala revives Prince Vayle.
The group gets high and drunk on a Total MūnMūūn celebration and decides to ask Martek questions using Speak with Dead. They bring out his skull in an Inn in Barton's Keep and each gets to ask a questions:
Drax: Where exactly did you obtain the yellow stone?
Yono: What is your darkest secret?
"If I had been born female, I would have been the Queen of Joma."
Ren: What date did you obtain the yellow stone?
"1st of Vertalum, 202 A.B."
Jean: How did you lose your virginity?
"I hired a prostitute when I was 20 years old."
Urt: How well do you know the mind of Rhygjaa (yellow dragon of mind & wind)?
"As well as my own."
The group gets high and drunk on a Total MūnMūūn celebration and decides to ask the bones from the Petrence Spooky Mansion questions using Speak with Dead. They bring out a bone in an Inn in Barton's Keep and learn the following:
What is your biography?
"Unwritten"
What is the name of the demon the Petrence Family made a pact with?
"Zarraxan."
What's your full name?
"Lionel Monteverge Oleggnith Bill Petrence."
What were the terms of the agreement the family made with Zarraxan?
"The family didn't make the deal, only 1 person did. Family was only told expectations afterwards. Bring 1 person of no consequence, with money, to never leave the mansion."
What did Granny do to deserve taxidermy?
"It's what she could do. Her body was enchanted to be a body guard for the mansion to warn others."