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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Cerebral Paladin" data-source="post: 3017008" data-attributes="member: 3448">While Kit took care of those arrangements, a guard entered the chambers, saluted smartly, and presented Dame Brionna with a sealed message.  Dame Brionna broke the plain seal, while Alistair and Kit looked on with curiosity.  She read the message inside quickly and grimaced.“There was an attack two nights ago in Pottersflat-- one of the neighborhoods within Canberry City.  I received a report yesterday, but with everything else going on, I hadn’t had time to deal with it yet.  A large number of people were killed; it looked to be the work of a beast with claws or a very large man with a cestus, apparently striking randomly.”  Dame Brionna paused, upset by the fact that she hadn’t investigated sooner.  “But one of the victims makes it look like it was not in fact random.  His Eminent Grace, the Very Reverend Clarence Williams, Bishop without portfolio, was brutally murdered.”Alistair swore quietly.  Seeing the puzzled look on Kit’s face, he explained, “His Eminent Grace was my Grandmother’s personal chaplain.”“It looks like it was a set-up,” continued Dame Brionna.  “We thought it was a fracas in a tavern, but the tavern owner, Darren Sutter, was a childhood friend of Bishop Williams.  Master Sutter’s son was having a coming-of-age ceremony.  The Bishop, Master Sutter, and Sutter’s son were all among the dead.  They mutilated the Bishop’s body, and he was just wearing simple clerical robes, so the first investigators did not realize who he was.”“Why would they want to kill one of the Archduchess’s personal circle?” asked Kit.  “Wouldn’t he have been planning on following her shortly anyway?”“Probably not,” replied Dame Brionna.  “The Church has always condemned that tradition.  It’s unlikely that he would have committed suicide.  In all likelihood, he would have retired from public service but remained a quiet leader within the Church.”  “Were there any witnesses?  Survivors?” asked Alistair.“Not that we know of, your grace.  Master Sutter’s wife, Virginia, and his daughter, Sparkle, are both missing.”“Sparkle?  That’s an unusual name,” said Kit.  “I wonder if Master Sutter’s wife had elven or fey blood… that might explain why they were taken.”“Were there any other disappearances?  Were any other women present killed?” asked Alistair.“The report doesn’t say.  We’ll have to ask Lieutenant Sister Constance Simmons of the Order of the Silvery Veil.  She was the officer from the Evidentiary Division who investigated.  She counted twenty-five dead total, many of them eviscerated.  Their innards were scattered about the room.  She was the one who concluded that it had to be a beast with six to eight inch claws, or an ogre-sized man with a cestus.”“Or a demon…” said Kit.“Indeed.  I suggest we send for her to get her full report directly.”“By all means.”[As a bonus, I've attached the Order of Battle mentioned at the beginning of the session.]</blockquote>

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