# [[Lazda Venkervale]] Lazda Venkervale was originally from [[Otari]], but according to his mother [[Brelda Venkervale]], people saw him leaving Otari last year with a hooded stranger. We eventually found him in [[The Gauntlight]] after he was tortured repeatedly. He is the owner of [[The Rowdy Rockfish]]. He is a red-headed male dwarf. Lazda has still not recovered from his mental trauma from his torture and was scaring the customers with his repeated visions of eyes following and hurting him. [[Vayle]] has offered to help by counseling him, and Brelda agreed. ## Recent Events ### Session 124 - Breakthrough, and a Paper Spider - **Seven-eyed nightmare**: Had a nightmare about a **creature with seven eyes** — echoing the "sometimes one pair, sometimes seven" yellow eyes of his earlier visions - **Therapy breakthrough**: [[Vayle]] calmed him down, and Lazda said he now feels able to **face what has happened to him**, using all the techniques Vayle has taught him - **Influence before his illness**: His mother [[Brelda Venkervale|Brelda]] noted that before he got sick, Lazda was the person everyone in town talked to — he would have been the one to convince to Vayle's side - **Watched**: A **paper spider** — the tome-paper tied to [[Chafkem]]'s mummy ritual — was spotted in the room during his therapy session with Vayle ### Session 117 - Town Gravedigger Revealed, Therapy Regresses - **Pre-attack profession**: Before his abduction, Lazda was Otari's **gravedigger** — he used to work near the [[Dawnflower Library]] - **Self-questioning**: Asked [[Vayle]] what he was being *used for* - **Senses something larger**: Felt the *shape of something larger* on him beyond what's been uncovered so far - **Therapy regression**: When Vayle asked him to remember his life before, he did — but regressed in the process. No progress made ### Session 113 - Continued Therapy - **Therapy Session**: [[Vayle]] continued daily therapy before the party's long rest ### Session 088 - Mental Deterioration and Counseling - **Mental State**: Physically fine but mentally deteriorating, screaming at people for no reason - **Hallucinations**: Sees or imagines things that aren't there, scaring the patrons - **PTSD Symptoms**: Reliving all those weeks of being tortured before the party rescued him - **Yellow Eyes Vision**: Sees mostly darkness and then several yellow eyes in the dark, floating around him, always following him and hurting him - **Variable Count**: Sometimes sees one pair of eyes, sometimes seven - **No Runes**: Brelda confirms he doesn't have runes on his body - **Restraint**: Has been restrained and is shouting at something - **Counseling Treatment**: [[Vayle]] determined his condition is not magical - just PTSD - **Daily Counseling**: Vayle will try to counsel Lazda daily during the party's downtime