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<blockquote data-quote="Cerebral Paladin" data-source="post: 3811910" data-attributes="member: 3448"><p>[Session 27]</p><p></p><p>The following morning Kit received a new briefing:</p><p></p><p>"Unto The Mouth </p><p>From The Heart</p><p></p><p>Honoured Mouth – There is news being reported by our agents that we think you should have, the results seem to me to be ... mixed:</p><p></p><p>1. In rough areas of cities throughout the empire over the last two nights men have been being found dead. There are not many of these "victims" but a few in each major city – most were slain by very precise slicing and stabbing attack with blades estimated by various royal examiners as being incredibly sharp and very fine. No ripping was observed, the cuts were clean and the stabs were as well. A very few had been slain instead by poison, which appears to have been delivered on small darts – the darts were subsequently taken. One was slain by being ripped into pieces, but only one – and that may have been for some other purpose or by another agency. </p><p></p><p>Several of the men found dead were wanted by the authorities for serious crimes. Others were not wanted but had past histories and had served in the work houses or been imprisoned at various times. Small bricks of Kryff were found with or near almost all the corpses. Several of these bricks showed evidence of having been crushed with the flat of boot heels, apparently after the men were dead. The marks found in the Kryff indicate that even the boots worn by those doing the crushing were also of the finest workmanship, for there was no unevenness as one might expect, and the edges were very clean cut. </p><p></p><p>In the eight cities where the largest number of men were found dead, lists, written in very fine ink with gold dust suspended in it, on pure white parchment, were found near the dead men (we take this to indicate that whatever group committed these murders, it was very wealthy). In each case the lists contained over a hundred names – all people known from the city registries and church records – but in no cases criminals. Local authorities do NOT have a unified response to these lists. In Furrows the bishop of Furrows has ordered an investigation by clergy – with a clergy-person to speak to each person on the list – we do not yet know what the results of that intervention will be. In most other jurisdictions neither Ecclesiastical or secular authorities have ordered systemic investigation. </p><p></p><p>2. With the exception of these murders, crime overall is down significantly.</p><p></p><p>3. We have, almost accidentally uncovered a barebones network within the empire. It does not seem likely, given the composition, that it is an intelligence network representing any particular nation. Instead, we believe that it may be an intelligence gathering apparatus specifically for factors from the Eastern Trade Federation. The focus is entirely on domestic production, importation of and pricing of, in no particular order: </p><p></p><p> < Beef</p><p>< Dairy products</p><p>< Grain</p><p>< Vegetables</p><p>< Salt – of both types</p><p>< Herbs, particularly preservative herbs</p><p>< Spices, particularly preservative spices</p><p>< Sugar, honey, and molasses </p><p> </p><p> We have been thorough in the investigation and have found no evidence that the network is linked back to the government of the ETF, and no evidence that it has any interest, even passing, in anything except business intelligence. </p><p> </p><p> We have not undertaken any additional intervention in this case, pending your direction.</p><p> </p><p> Respectfully submitted."</p><p></p><p>Kit looked over the message, sounding out some of the more difficult words, and then decided that she needed to take it to her scribe. It would be faster than reading it herself, and he would be able to answer some of her questions.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Cerebral Paladin, post: 3811910, member: 3448"] [Session 27] The following morning Kit received a new briefing: "Unto The Mouth From The Heart Honoured Mouth – There is news being reported by our agents that we think you should have, the results seem to me to be ... mixed: 1. In rough areas of cities throughout the empire over the last two nights men have been being found dead. There are not many of these "victims" but a few in each major city – most were slain by very precise slicing and stabbing attack with blades estimated by various royal examiners as being incredibly sharp and very fine. No ripping was observed, the cuts were clean and the stabs were as well. A very few had been slain instead by poison, which appears to have been delivered on small darts – the darts were subsequently taken. One was slain by being ripped into pieces, but only one – and that may have been for some other purpose or by another agency. Several of the men found dead were wanted by the authorities for serious crimes. Others were not wanted but had past histories and had served in the work houses or been imprisoned at various times. Small bricks of Kryff were found with or near almost all the corpses. Several of these bricks showed evidence of having been crushed with the flat of boot heels, apparently after the men were dead. The marks found in the Kryff indicate that even the boots worn by those doing the crushing were also of the finest workmanship, for there was no unevenness as one might expect, and the edges were very clean cut. In the eight cities where the largest number of men were found dead, lists, written in very fine ink with gold dust suspended in it, on pure white parchment, were found near the dead men (we take this to indicate that whatever group committed these murders, it was very wealthy). In each case the lists contained over a hundred names – all people known from the city registries and church records – but in no cases criminals. Local authorities do NOT have a unified response to these lists. In Furrows the bishop of Furrows has ordered an investigation by clergy – with a clergy-person to speak to each person on the list – we do not yet know what the results of that intervention will be. In most other jurisdictions neither Ecclesiastical or secular authorities have ordered systemic investigation. 2. With the exception of these murders, crime overall is down significantly. 3. We have, almost accidentally uncovered a barebones network within the empire. It does not seem likely, given the composition, that it is an intelligence network representing any particular nation. Instead, we believe that it may be an intelligence gathering apparatus specifically for factors from the Eastern Trade Federation. The focus is entirely on domestic production, importation of and pricing of, in no particular order: < Beef < Dairy products < Grain < Vegetables < Salt – of both types < Herbs, particularly preservative herbs < Spices, particularly preservative spices < Sugar, honey, and molasses We have been thorough in the investigation and have found no evidence that the network is linked back to the government of the ETF, and no evidence that it has any interest, even passing, in anything except business intelligence. We have not undertaken any additional intervention in this case, pending your direction. Respectfully submitted." Kit looked over the message, sounding out some of the more difficult words, and then decided that she needed to take it to her scribe. It would be faster than reading it herself, and he would be able to answer some of her questions. [/QUOTE]
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