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Message: <blockquote data-quote="airwalkrr" data-source="post: 6206873" data-attributes="member: 12460">The innkeeper looks down and wrinkles her mouth a bit. "I don't know that anyone can say the two events are directly related. But as I said, the timing of it all seemed more than coincidence. After all this is mostly a peaceful trading town. We are no strangers to murder. Every year or so passions flare or someone has too much to drink and does something terrible. But so much death in such a short span of time. It is curious, no?"[ooc]I did indeed. Corrected and thank you![/ooc]"You are wise, Shoanti," the woman says. "Perhaps the people of Sandpoint could do with a little more talking and a little less tossing under the rug. Very well. I can see you really are persistant to know more. The guards don't talk much about it, but Stoot was dismembering the bodies. Each was found in the same terrible state: body bearing deep cuts to the neck and torso, hands and feet severed and stacked nearby, and the eyes and tongue missing entirely, having been plucked crudely from each head. Folks came to calling the murderer Chopper. When the guards broke into Stoot's house, they found an altar dedicated to some vile demon lord of winged creatures and temptation; I dare not say his name."Some of the people whisper that the burning of the old Sandpoint Chapel was no accident. Father Ezakien had adopted his daughter Nualia, and some said after the burning that she was a bad omen, that the girl was cursed in some way. Personally, I always thought she was quite a beautiful child, almost unearthly in fact, and to be honest, I was a little bit jealous. Other children of the town weren't always so nice to her. And the more superstitious folk thought she had been blessed by Desna with kind of reverse deformity. I think the girl was terrorized after a fashion. Rumors spread that her touch or proximity could cure warts and rashes, that locks of her hair brewed into tea could increase fertility, and that her voice could drive out evil spirits. It led to a succession of awkward and humiliating requests over the years. I enjoy attention, but I certainly wouldn't want people fawning over me quite like that. I think she was troubled as a result. But after the fire, some people started to say more than that. They suggested she had caused the fire, that she was actually an abomination to the gods, or perhaps that her short life was a blessing upon this town which was abused and that the gods had taken her away and burned the chapel as punishment. I'm not all that religious, nor do I think the gods act in so obvious a fashion. But there are a fair number of people in this town who do."[ooc]Vhir made such a strong role-playing point that I decided to automatically count his Diplomacy check as a successful aid. Consequently, I've reprinted the second embed Diplomacy DC above into Ameiko's statement.[/ooc]</blockquote>

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