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Message: <blockquote data-quote="skotothalamos" data-source="post: 6263531" data-attributes="member: 83398">A Goliath Goes to a Party...The next day, the constables followed up on the lead Cazara and IronPeak had turned up from going through the files at Goodson’s Estuarial Reformatory. Most of the cases of Distant Madness in the city were connected to a neighborhood along the Stanfield Canal. Using their planar tracking ritual, they found a concentration of Apet energy focused on a small warehouse. When no one answered Cazara’s knock, the constables broke in and found evidence of another altercation. Several people had been seriously injured or killed, and then dragged out into the canal. Inside the warehouse was a large crate which had been broken open and had its contents removed. The crate was the right dimensions to have transported the golden seal from the ziggurat.Looking through the office, Cazara was able to discover that the warehouse was owned by Caius Bergeron. She and IronPeak headed to Silver Swan Inn to question Caius Bergeron. Meanwhile, the others searched for signs of Apet energy in nearby subrail tunnels, following a vision of Summer’s. At the Silver Swan, Cazara and Ironpeak went to Bergeron’s penthouse suite and were confronted with yet another door that no one was answering. Cazara clambered out a window and entered from the balcony. Inside, she found Bergeron murdered on his bed. By the smell, she guessed he’d been dead a few days. A cursory examination revealed that his brain had been removed through his soft palate. In his room, IronPeak and Cazara found a map with two locations marked on it: the High Bayou ziggurat and a location about a half mile off the north coast of Ber, complete with navigation coordinates. The constables now had an idea where Xambria had gone on her hired ship. However, Xambria had a head start of a few days. If they meant to catch her before she arrived at another seal location, they were going to need a fast ship. Fortunately, IronPeak and Mort were going to a party that evening with several high-ranking naval personnel.IronPeak took Summer as her date, and was unsurprised to find that they were they only two female guests. Both Nigel Price-Hill and Rear Admiral Morris Dawkins courted IronPeak, trying to get her to commit to a lucrative career in either the RHC or the Royal Navy. IronPeak played her advantage, bringing up the fact that she was in the process of tracking down a dangerous serial killer who just happened to have fled to sea. If the RHC and Navy could cooperate to allow IronPeak’s squad to use the fastest ship available for an exciting arrest on the high seas, think of the press!The Constables departed two days later, on the RNS Impossible, in pursuit of their quarry.</blockquote>

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