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[CLOSED] HARE COURSING
WHO: Athessa, Byerly, Edgard, Erik, Mado, Noon, Sawbones, Sidony, Vanadi
WHAT: The Gang Solves A Murder
WHEN: Early Drakonis
WHERE: The Gallows, Kirkwall
NOTES: Content warnings will be employed in subject lines, blanket warning for violence/murder, mention of sexual assault, corruption in the City Guard, etc.
WHAT: The Gang Solves A Murder
WHEN: Early Drakonis
WHERE: The Gallows, Kirkwall
NOTES: Content warnings will be employed in subject lines, blanket warning for violence/murder, mention of sexual assault, corruption in the City Guard, etc.
Erik, Noon, and Vanadi hear a struggle near the Alienage and when they go to investigate, they happen upon a shadowy cloaked figure trying to make off with Saoirse, a fifteen year old elf girl from the Alienage. The cloaked figure flees. Erik decides to stay with the girl while Noon and Vanadi take off after the cloaked figure. The perpetrator takes a dagger to the shoulder and Vanadi gets a signet ring off him in the ensuing chase, but ultimately the villain gets away. Erik finds out from the residents of the Alienage that there's another girl missing, and that the City Guard have done nothing to help find her.
Elsewhere in Kirkwall, Edgard and Mado find a dead body buried in the snow. The cold has preserved the body in such a state that they are able to determine the most likely cause of death to be strangulation, judging by the bruising on the young woman's neck. It looks like whoever did the strangling was wearing a ring. There will also be a copper button, presumably from some article of clothing, clasped in the dead girl's hand. She clearly put up a fight against her attacker. Mado is able to smell faint whiffs of expensive laundry soap, cologne, pipe tobacco, and whatever other normal not-clue things on the button. Seems the owner of the vest this button came from is rather well-off.
Sidony and Sawbones will be tasked with acting as Byerly's attachés while following up on a number of petty grievances cited by the citizens of Kirkwall, during which they will overhear gossip (unrelated to the grievances):
- Talk of disappearances from the Alienage that the City Guards are doing nothing about
- Two City Guards talking to each other about the body that was found, and how strange it is that not even the Guard on duty saw anything
- Mention of a cloaked figure seen outside The Crimson Cat at night
- Rumors that Madame Lette, the bawd from The Crimson Cat, has found a new financier
- A general consensus that something isn't right about The Crimson Cat; it used to be more like the other brothels in the city, but after Devigny was killed in a robbery gone wrong, things have been different.
After some sleuthing it's found that the ring that Erik, Noon, and Vanadi got from the would-be kidnapper most likely belongs to a man named Ambrose Warrick, a nobleman with a modest estate in Hightown. He confirms that the ring was his, but that he gifted it to Giordano Allard, a friend of his. The servants at the Warrick estate will be reticent to speak to anyone, but some light eavesdropping will reveal that some weeks ago, Ambrose returned home late, disheveled, in one of his moods, and demanded that the buttons on his vest be replaced with gold instead of copper. He also sent the signet ring to the jeweler's to be polished the next day.
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It does not hit the man's head, but it does bounce off the hilt of Vanadi's dagger. The strangled scream and the loud crash of the pot are violently loud in the near silence of the streets. ]
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He catches his hold, but -- briefly. In the next second the man has spun and thrown a distressingly well-aimed punch, and then Vanadi is the one stumbling, falling back, seeing a burst of stars. He's lost his grip, too, though there's some small thing in his clenched fist that he seems to have ripped free. ]
Noon -- if you would -- ah, hell --
[ Give him a moment. It seems his nose might be broken again. ]
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Check back in with Erik and the kid maybe? If I can't catch 'im, we can at least see where this fucker is going.
[ And on the off chance Noon does catch him, it'll be less awkward. It's never a particularly good night to stomp a man's head in in front of new drinking friends, even if the man deserves it. ]
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Yo, checkin' up on y'all. Got the girl home. Her family doesn't want to talk to the Watch and I don't blame 'em. Where y'all at?
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A mutter: ] Having very little luck with the culprit. Noon might yet pull it off, though. Did she say if it was personal, is he likely to go for her again?
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So I think the Watch is in on it.
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Wonderful, of course they are. [ Well, nothing to do but start up a jog after Noon, trying not to jar his stupid nose with every step. ] Was there anything to suggest this is the work of several? Or just him?
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