To Professor Portnoy Ir'Monton, Morgrave university.
I’m sorry to tell you that Professor Bonal Geldem is dead. I realize that the news has probably reached you by now, But I was there when He was killed, so I though you should hear the manner of it from me.
I had been looking for Professor Bonal for some days. He was my mentor and had helped with much of my research in the past. I was walking to the university after dinner when a small goblin child runs up, drops a note in my hand, and runs off. The note said:
“Someone’s following me. They trashed my house, and were still there when I got home. I left without them seeing me…I think. Please get someone from the watch and meet me at 8th Bell at the Kelsa Spire plaza. I’ll be glad to make a full report to the Watch then.”
As far as I could tell, it was his handwriting, and I wasted no time getting to the Watch. Captain of the watch Iyanna Ir’Talan knows me, and wasted no time getting to her. Her guards started to stop me when I started pounding on her door, I could hear her talking with some people inside, before finally hearing her say to come in.
Bursting through, I only gave a cursory glance at the six other people in the room, focusing on Captain Iyanna. Speaking quickly, I explained what I was doing and the note I was given., and begged her to send some men. Oddly, she told the various people with her that this would be a good opportunity to start assisting the watch, and to take me to meet with professor Bonal. And that we should leave quickly, as it was getting near the time to meet him.
While it wasn’t far to the meeting place, directly, the frustrating streets of Sharn Made the journey a lot longer than it should have been.
I’m sorry, Professor, I’m very sorry, but we were too late. We saw Professor Bonal’s body from quite a distance, and it wasn’t until we got closer that we found out the awful truth. That he was dead. I broke down upon seeing that, and took some time to regain my composure. One of the people Captain Iyanna sent with me must have had some experience with crimes and such, Sammael he said his name was, made some observations of the body while the others looked around for anything that could tell what has happened.
I learned their names at various times, but it’s probably best if I put them in now. There was the investigator named Sammael, who held a cane even though he didn’t seem the least bit lame. Kimberlite Cleverforge, a dwarf who’s shop you may have heard of. He’s an Artificer of some renown. With him was a large warforged, named Vigil. He didn’t carry any weapons with him, but he was large enough to probably not need them.
There was also Sara, who is a bard and a half-elf, besides. The soft music she made while we were looking around may have had some power behind it, because I felt a little more able to handle the situation, more resolute. Lastly there was Lanatash. He was a black-haired Kalashtar, and he had a semblance of power about him that was familiar. I would learn he was a Soul Knife, and it was his Psionic ability that I was noticing.
Sammael said that it was someone very strong who had Killed professor Bonal, and also found on his person what appeared to be a notepad, except all the pages were blank. It had some strange symbols on it as well. But more disturbingly, Sammael said that whatever killed him, it wasn’t very long ago and it could still be nearby.
That statement would turn out to be prophetic, because we had only the quickest idea that something was there, before it attacked.
It was another warforged, and it shouted something about us being “Meat Sacks”, except for Vigil, who it tried to extol into helping it destroy us. Vigil was more loyal, however, and we started fighting against this unknown warforged. It wasn’t easy, and several of us were hurt before we managed to deactivate the other Warforged. When we did, a small..piece… detached it self from the entity’s chest and flew off into Sharn, too fast for us to follow. After watching it escape over the city towers, we turned back to the grim task of Professor Bonal’s death.
Unfortunately, there wasn’t anything more to do, and we brought the Professor’s body back to the watch. We made our report to Iyanna ir’Talan, Said our goodbyes, making an agreement to meet back the next day to see what else could be learned, and left our separate ways.
I went back to my room on the university campus, turned out the light, and wept until I fell asleep.
I’ll write more later, professor.
Kaisha Starfall.
I’m sorry to tell you that Professor Bonal Geldem is dead. I realize that the news has probably reached you by now, But I was there when He was killed, so I though you should hear the manner of it from me.
I had been looking for Professor Bonal for some days. He was my mentor and had helped with much of my research in the past. I was walking to the university after dinner when a small goblin child runs up, drops a note in my hand, and runs off. The note said:
“Someone’s following me. They trashed my house, and were still there when I got home. I left without them seeing me…I think. Please get someone from the watch and meet me at 8th Bell at the Kelsa Spire plaza. I’ll be glad to make a full report to the Watch then.”
As far as I could tell, it was his handwriting, and I wasted no time getting to the Watch. Captain of the watch Iyanna Ir’Talan knows me, and wasted no time getting to her. Her guards started to stop me when I started pounding on her door, I could hear her talking with some people inside, before finally hearing her say to come in.
Bursting through, I only gave a cursory glance at the six other people in the room, focusing on Captain Iyanna. Speaking quickly, I explained what I was doing and the note I was given., and begged her to send some men. Oddly, she told the various people with her that this would be a good opportunity to start assisting the watch, and to take me to meet with professor Bonal. And that we should leave quickly, as it was getting near the time to meet him.
While it wasn’t far to the meeting place, directly, the frustrating streets of Sharn Made the journey a lot longer than it should have been.
I’m sorry, Professor, I’m very sorry, but we were too late. We saw Professor Bonal’s body from quite a distance, and it wasn’t until we got closer that we found out the awful truth. That he was dead. I broke down upon seeing that, and took some time to regain my composure. One of the people Captain Iyanna sent with me must have had some experience with crimes and such, Sammael he said his name was, made some observations of the body while the others looked around for anything that could tell what has happened.
I learned their names at various times, but it’s probably best if I put them in now. There was the investigator named Sammael, who held a cane even though he didn’t seem the least bit lame. Kimberlite Cleverforge, a dwarf who’s shop you may have heard of. He’s an Artificer of some renown. With him was a large warforged, named Vigil. He didn’t carry any weapons with him, but he was large enough to probably not need them.
There was also Sara, who is a bard and a half-elf, besides. The soft music she made while we were looking around may have had some power behind it, because I felt a little more able to handle the situation, more resolute. Lastly there was Lanatash. He was a black-haired Kalashtar, and he had a semblance of power about him that was familiar. I would learn he was a Soul Knife, and it was his Psionic ability that I was noticing.
Sammael said that it was someone very strong who had Killed professor Bonal, and also found on his person what appeared to be a notepad, except all the pages were blank. It had some strange symbols on it as well. But more disturbingly, Sammael said that whatever killed him, it wasn’t very long ago and it could still be nearby.
That statement would turn out to be prophetic, because we had only the quickest idea that something was there, before it attacked.
It was another warforged, and it shouted something about us being “Meat Sacks”, except for Vigil, who it tried to extol into helping it destroy us. Vigil was more loyal, however, and we started fighting against this unknown warforged. It wasn’t easy, and several of us were hurt before we managed to deactivate the other Warforged. When we did, a small..piece… detached it self from the entity’s chest and flew off into Sharn, too fast for us to follow. After watching it escape over the city towers, we turned back to the grim task of Professor Bonal’s death.
Unfortunately, there wasn’t anything more to do, and we brought the Professor’s body back to the watch. We made our report to Iyanna ir’Talan, Said our goodbyes, making an agreement to meet back the next day to see what else could be learned, and left our separate ways.
I went back to my room on the university campus, turned out the light, and wept until I fell asleep.
I’ll write more later, professor.
Kaisha Starfall.
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