Eorin realizes that the little people are disguised as fae, but they're not fae. Van greets them, and, in once voice, they say "Return the book." They repeat this phrase and point to the house. Then they say "you may also want to read the first page." The first page says "this is not for you" written in dwarven. Kyle explains to them that we need the book to save the world. Eorin studies the book and realizes it's -that- book. There's always the stories of the books that create, and then there's the stories of the books that unmake. There's a reason spell books work. Eorin isn't sure which one this is. We try to pursued them we won't read the book. It doesn't go well. Pontia asks them if they're the dwarf. "What dwarf?" "The skeleton that's in the house." The not-fairies seem to have a small existential crisis and begin to blur out. We begin to be capable of seeing them for what they really are. They're indistinct shapes, not quite human or animal, vaguely nightmarish, things.
COMBAT ENSUES! (and yes, they're evil, Kyle finally checks. And there are 7 of them) Eorin casts a necromancy spell, and all the plants die in the yard and we heard movement in the ground. And then, suddenly, Eorin get killed by phantasmal killer spell. Combat continues. Pontia figures out the creatures are animate dreams. Combat continues, and then, bodies erupt from the ground to pull the dreams into the ground and then go away. The ones that could run, run away. Eorin feels himself being pulled away from the afterlife and back towards his body. He begins to start coughing. He doesn't look any different, but no longer has a heartbeat. Kyle looks Eorin over and determines he is dead, but isn't evil. They decide to not kill him right now, so they don't have to drag his corpse to a town, but plan to kill him and pay to have him raised at a temple at the first earliest convenience.
We go to Numeria. They think they found what we were looking for. But, they need more money because they dug it up. It's big, it's metal, it's spherical, and has three legs. Eorin confirms it's the vessel they need. So we have all the items we need except for the thing that's in space, which we need this vessel for. They also suggest we need Tar Baphon with us - because he's the only one with the knowledge and power for where we're going, also they want him off Galerion. Eorin gives them the money they need.
Eorin allows them to kill him so he can get resurrected. He turns into a pile of ash. He finds himself looking at his own pile of ashes. The thing that dragged him back to his body before is there with him. It's one of Eorin's ancestors. The party pays for a true resurrection out of Eorin's funds, and the cleric freaks the fuck out when Eorin comes back… as undead. The cleric recommends they to a scientist. They find a scientist and he's interested when we tell him how the True Resurrection brings him back as undead. The scientist treats him as a patient and explains to him that unlike every other undead he's encountered, Eorin is still suffering from entropy. His body is still changing, and the scientist hypothesizes that it's Eorin's natural next step ala evolution. Zelara and Kyle test stuff on Eorin and learn that Disrupt Undead does indeed harm Eorin, but positive energy neither heals nor harms him.
They decide to just leave it for now, and go test out how to work the space ship. Eorin goes to his bunk in the caravan to sit quietly and pray. Zelara keeps him company. Everyone else inspects the space ship. It looks like it's power source is people, or perhaps a powerful mage. Pontia inspects the place where you could hook a person in, and feels like were she to hook herself in, she could make it fly, but would probably never be able to leave the ship. Eorin investigates it and figures out that he would be able to pilot it better than Pontia because he's a full caster, and that since he's undead, he's more likely to be able to recover from being unplugged. They discuss getting the litch professor in Korvosa to help them pilot the ship instead of getting Tar Baphon, since Eorin isn't powerful enough to facilitate space travel. Suddenly, they're in Korvoa. Eorin lands the ship, and the rest of the group goes to find the litch professor at the academy.
Joseph agrees to help once he finds out Eorin (his favorite) is the one trapped in the ship, and that Eorin is also undead now. Eorin does not feel the need to obey his every whim, which is good. Joseph extracts Eorin from the ship, which is painful, but not nearly as painful as it would have been for a living person. Joseph gives Eorin a seminar on how to exist as an undead (like how to heal and stuff) and the rest of the party decides to sit in as well. He's heard of three instances of this particular kind of undeath before. Eorin has met them before. He gives Eorin a bowl of candies (inflict minor wounds). We ask Joseph to call a colleague in planar studies to inspect the ship and help us figure out how to pilot it better. He takes us to a house in the city, which becomes a mansion once we're inside. Then he leads us to a study full of heavenly globes. There's a gnome there who we recognize as the judge from Eorin's trial. We explain the situation to him, but he doesn't want to leave to go look at the ship b/c he's very old and this room is time stopped.
He explains that the planet we want to go to isn't a planet. It's alive. In the same way that aberrations are alive. And it will change us while we are there. He gives us a list (high school yearbook) with certain people highlighted that might be willing to help us in lieu of Tar Baphon. There's one that Eorin recognizes - Jedah, the man who caused the Day of the Red Ribbon and one of the head of the Pathfinder's Society.
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