Ray and Ross on their way to the DMI mine, half a mile north of town, decide to step by the Town Hall. Miner’s Folly’s town hall looks like a converted schoolhouse, which is exactly what it is. It contains the mayor’s office, city and county records, the courtroom, the town’s council chamber and The Valley Voice Newspaper. The insides are decorated with garish murals depicting sweating men ripping chunks of unrecognizable minerals out of the ground and loading them onto trains.
Just inside the door is an enormous portrait of a dour looking middle-aged man in a suit. A plate at the bottom of the frame reads, “Jasper Delaney, founder of Delaney Mining and Patriarch of our glorious city.” The painting is dated 1908.
Further they learn at the town hall that Maximilian, except for being the current owner of DMI is also the effective owner and ruler of Miner’s Folly.
Continuing their investigation the two go to the second floor of the building to find The Valley Voice newspaper located there. It’s published every two weeks and is distributed for free throughout Miner’s Folly and the other nearby towns of Snowflake Valley. It’s mostly a tourist newspaper they learn after reading through an edition of the paper, full of skiing reports and coupons for free beer at local taverns, but also the current gossip pages. While reading through the latest edition from last week they are greeted by a young man introducing himself as Justin Miller, editor of the newspaper. He’s looking for something to boost his reputation by and when Ray tells him that they are looking into the recent murders and other strange happenings Justin offers you his help to search his newspaper archives in search for something useful.
