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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Jeremy E Grenemyer" data-source="post: 9358542" data-attributes="member: 12388">Marpenoth - LeaffallFourth day of the second tenday1500 DR - Year of the Sea's Secrets RevealedMysterious mercenary melts under Happy House.SUZAIL - Yestereve, a frightening discovery in the basement below Montalar’s Happy House (on Swordstars Lane, three buildings down from the Society of Stalwart Adventurers) saw the place filled with Purple Dragons and war wizards. According to Bhaerusk Montalar, owner and proprietor of the Happy House, a guest had rented the basement “for private worship services” and never returned upstairs at dusk (closing time for the establishment). When Bhaerusk went downstairs to check, he discovered the guest’s body “half melted and squirming, its arms and face turned to liquid the color of spoiled wine. It started flowing towards me and I ran for all I was worth!” The Happy House was open by next morning, its live-in staff busy avoiding questions “on war wizard orders” while serving happy helms (meat pastries), ale, and sweet berry wine to guests indoors and to the everpresent warehouse workers and porters that loiter near the front window of the eatery outside. Rumors of the identity of the “person who melted” moved up and down Swordstars Lane at the speed of local foot traffic. Dulskur Broadmantle, a warehouseman at Jhassalan’s Storage, claims the guest was “a cult member of one sort or another. One what worships the oozes that are taking over Westgate. I had it from a friend that the oozes are trying to take over Marsember next!” “The victim didn’t go into the basement empty-handed,” according to Ustal Jharko, owner of Jharko’s Coffers and Crates (located next door to the Happy House). “I saw her carrying a catswood coffer, of the sort crafted in Athkatla. You so rarely see them here. I could easily sell one for one hundred golden lions.”“I wonder what the Crown will do with her sword?” This question posed by Umbran Daerith, of Talarkgates, who tends to exit his home each day at about the same time when the Happy House closes next door. “It was my mistake, thinking she was a mercenary for hire. She drew that magnificent blade so swiftly when I made her an offer to accompany me for a tenday! I tell you, her two companions looked just as startled as I was, especially when her sword started glowing. Fortunately, she spared us any bloodletting.”“They’re gone, those two. One looked scared witless, the other was crying. Their master had paid a season’s fee for two rooms and told me she’d pay for another three months after the year turned.” This account comes from Bardra Vardrim, owner of Vardrim’s rooming house (located a few doors down from the Happy House, near Jhassalan’s Storage). “Strange that no Purple Dragons have come to inspect their rooms yet.”</blockquote>

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