The Mayor hops back with an "Eeep!"  He looks around in shock.  Dar brings out his brother, with Eliath and Isa in tow.  Urselles; your healing touch mends the final wounds on Han.  He stands straighter, no longer wincing in pain.  "Thank you Urselles."  Han says.  "For everything you and your friends have done."

“Sure thing, I’m just glad I had enough of my gods blessings to heal you” She smiles at Han and the others

"So what now?" Kizori looks to the mayor.

"Now you and your friends clean up your..." The Mayor is cut off by Normand as he loudly calls out; "Congratulations heroes!!  You have again protected the town!" He gives Oswald a sideways glance; making sure the loudmouth has shut up.  Lura rushes over to Urselles; hugging her tight; glad her friend is safe.

Urselles hugs Lura back

Nathan walks to Dar: "Master Dar, here are your magic items, I took them to help us fight the skeletons, but they are of course yours."

Dar waves you off; "Keep them until this matter is over.  You'll likely need them again."

The Mayor is too occupied by removing the gunk from his foot; but it doesn't seem to be rubbing off.

Shalech stands in the tower, exhausted, "Please point me to a bed.  Those books drained me and I feel defenseless depending on a crossbow to fight undead."

As Shalech begins to wonder off; a yelp of concern comes from the mayor.  He is looking intently at his hands, which now have the sticky goo like black tar on them.  A look of pain on his face.  "It...it won't come off.  I... I think it's spreading.  My fingers hu...hurt so baaaaaa....!!! His words turn into a scream as the tainted blood makes its way up his arm.

"Oh. I don't know what that is." Kizori shouts, rushing over to the mayor. "Hey, this guy needs help. Someone hurry!" Kizori tries to help the mayor stay calm and comfortable.

Urselles quickly releases Lura from the hug and moves towards the Mayor casting lesser restoration on him

Normand rushes over towards the mayor, avoiding the tainted ground; which is difficult to do as the trail transverses a decent amount of the town, after following Shalech.  He lays his hands on Oswald and healing light pours over the mayor, pealing back the tainted blood; revealing withered and blackened flesh beneath.

Urselles, you witness his flesh begin to reshape and reform, but when it reaches his withered and now misshapened hands and right foot; the limbs simply snap off at the wrist and ankle, falling twitching to the ground.

Urselles’s face suddenly becomes more green as she quickly moves to a nearby bush to vomit 

Normand aids Oswald to the ground, the Mayor seems too much in shock to understand what had just happened; his wounds continuing to heal; with fresh flesh capping off the ends of his limbs, where his appendages once sat.  Normand yells out to; "Stay off the path!!"  Oswald is just blinking a lot and breathing irregularly.

Nathan immediately turns pale, and tries to recollect if he has ever heard of magic like this, and a possible way to counter it.

Arcana: 17

Nathan, the only thing close to this you've heard of is 'desecration', though these effects of growing taint and unregenerable damage are definitely new effects for you.  As you observe, you notice one of Oswald's hands slowly crawling back along the path; somehow animated by the tainted goop.

You feel only divine magic would likely pose a threat.  You instinctively turn to look towards Urselles; only to realize that the dark blood is on both her and Croak's footwear, and a bit on her robe.

Kizori looks to Nathan, "What should I do?"

"You must avoid touching that tainted blood at all costs! Look what it did to the poor mayor. This goes to the rest of us as well - I don't exactly know what this magic is, it seems similar to the spell "desecration," but much worse. It seems that it even reanimated the mayor's lost hand. Urselles, Croak, you both have some blood on you, I think you should get rid of your your footwear, and any other clothes that were touched by this foul magic.

Urselles, do you have any spells left? Do you know where we could find the other clerics? I'm afraid we are going to need divine magic to deal with this. We must to fix this before we go to rest, otherwise even more people are going to get hurt!"

Urselles quickly pulls her head out of the bush she hurled into the bush noticing what Nathan said looking at her own foot ware before quickly removing both her shoes and robe revealing the set of leather armor underneath it 

“I don’t really know any clerics nearby other then Nathan and Eliath, I’ve, got a bit of magic left although I’m not sure if lesser restoration will help here