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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Jeremy E Grenemyer" data-source="post: 9206099" data-attributes="member: 12388"><p><h3>Marpenoth - Leaffall</h3><h3>Eigth day of the first tenday</h3><h3>1500 DR - Year of the Sea's Secrets Revealed.</h3><p></p><p><span style="font-size: 18px">Bumper barley harvest. Suspects ride rapids. Lord Warder eluded - again. </span></p><p></p><p>ARABEL - Market stalls and warehouses alike are filled to the brim with harvest goods and produce. Arabellans are paying below average prices to fill their larders for the coming winter, thanks to an abundant harvest across Cormyr. Several farms to the east of Arabel recovered from this year’s floods in time to produce a bumper crop of barley and wheat. Ale producers will have the opportunity to bid on the excess beginning on the first day of the second tenday of Marpenoth, at the Thousandheads granary (behind their main warehouse). Merchants with trade bars to spare have placed early orders for select winter-produced ales, and have reserved caravan space for shipments to Marsember (and then by boat to Westgate and Teziir) and north to the Dalelands at the start of next year’s trading season.</p><p></p><p>KALLAMARN - Crown agents chased a pair of travelers off the Way of the Manticore and pursued them as far as Kallamarn. The travelers rode hard through an orchard to the edge of the Starwater River and dismounted. No one was arrested, as the two suspects leapt into the fast-moving river and were soon lost among the rapids. The travelers were suspected of being members of the Three-Headed Helm.</p><p></p><p>SUZAIL - Yestereve, Amaerelle and Athandriss Hawklin departed Suzail, but did not travel far. The ladies were seen exiting their carriage at the Nightgate Inn, in the company of a cloaked and hooded person. The next day, Crown officials briefly questioned the noblewomen while Purple Dragons searched the Inn for their missing counterpart. Thanks to a story shared by a palace messenger of a conversation overheard between the Underclerk of Protocol and the Lady of Graces, both the Royal Palace and Court are now abuzz with gossip over the daring of the two ladies, who may well have escorted the quarry of the Lord Warder out from under his prodigious nose.</p><p></p><p>According to the messenger, the Underclerk of Protocol had entered a passageway just as the the Lord Warder was informing a cadre of war wizards that Alashendal the Necromancer had been seen in Suzail, and was to be summoned to the Royal Court for questioning before she left the city. No sooner had the war wizards departed then Alashendal herself entered the passage via a concealed door adjacent to the Warder’s office entrance, winked at the underclerk (who’d positioned himself in the lee of a recessed doorway—a skill shared by many courtiers who wish to hear without being seen, particularly when there are cantankerous Wizards of War nearby), and politely knocked on the Lord Warder’s door.</p><p></p><p>The conversation that followed devolved into a heated argument full of accusations of law and rule breaking, and recriminations of indiscriminate detentions based more on paranoia than evidence. (On the matter of the Lord Warder’s recent actions, the Lady of Graces appeared to side with Alashendal, while the Underclerk of Protocol thought the Lard Warder’s tactics entirely justified.) Alashendal left the Lord Warder’s office, loudly promising to set things aright herself. “The Lord Warder must not have known about the hidden passage next to his office. The way the Underclerk of Protocol told it, Alashendal slammed the Lord Warder’s door shut, disappeared through the secret door a few steps away, then the Lord Warder threw his door open, stepped into the hallway and bellowed an angry epithet at her unexpected disappearance.”</p></blockquote><p></p>

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