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<blockquote data-quote="Jeremy E Grenemyer" data-source="post: 9077921" data-attributes="member: 12388">(What follows is a guest post of sorts, written by Ed Greenwood in reply to a request from me for examples of what sorts of clack one might hear in the winter months in Cormyr. Forthwith, the Master of the Realms replies...)Ches. Eighth day of the first tenday. Folk in Waymoot and Dhedluk are reporting wolf pack attacks in the King’s Forest that are growing in boldness and frequency. Six people have gone missing thus far, and over a dozen have been mauled but lived to make it home and warn others. One account, by the herbalist Anthae Rymel of Dhedluk, claims the wolves were led by “a giant wolf that stood up like a man and snarled orders like a wolf, but pointed while doing so, as a man does.” Royal foresters have led Purple Dragon “wolfslaying” patrols, but found nothing. So far.-Someone in Marsember is counterfeiting coins, stamping almost exact replicas of Cormyrean mintings that can be distinguished from genuine coins as they’re lighter and have a different sheen by candelight, thanks to being made of an alloy gnomes and dwarves resident in Suzail haven’t yet been able to identify (they can readily tell the metals in it, but say this particular mix may be unique to the counterfeiter). The coins are spreading, of course, but Wizards of War have been assigned to hunt down the source—and priests of Waukeen are conducting their own investigation that has already resulted in one of them being drowned in the harbour by unknown hands (who chopped a hole in the thick ice to do so).</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Jeremy E Grenemyer, post: 9077921, member: 12388"] (What follows is a guest post of sorts, written by Ed Greenwood in reply to a request from me for examples of what sorts of clack one might hear in the winter months in Cormyr. Forthwith, the Master of the Realms replies...) [B]Ches. Eighth day of the first tenday. [/B] Folk in Waymoot and Dhedluk are reporting wolf pack attacks in the King’s Forest that are growing in boldness and frequency. Six people have gone missing thus far, and over a dozen have been mauled but lived to make it home and warn others. One account, by the herbalist Anthae Rymel of Dhedluk, claims the wolves were led by “a giant wolf that stood up like a man and snarled orders like a wolf, but pointed while doing so, as a man does.” Royal foresters have led Purple Dragon “wolfslaying” patrols, but found nothing. So far. - Someone in Marsember is counterfeiting coins, stamping almost exact replicas of Cormyrean mintings that can be distinguished from genuine coins as they’re lighter and have a different sheen by candelight, thanks to being made of an alloy gnomes and dwarves resident in Suzail haven’t yet been able to identify (they can readily tell the metals in it, but say this particular mix may be unique to the counterfeiter). The coins are spreading, of course, but Wizards of War have been assigned to hunt down the source—and priests of Waukeen are conducting their own investigation that has already resulted in one of them being drowned in the harbour by unknown hands (who chopped a hole in the thick ice to do so). [/QUOTE]

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