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Message: <blockquote data-quote="peteyfrogboy" data-source="post: 1087255" data-attributes="member: 5677">Death In Freeport: Part 2Nevroth stood at the rail of the cutter as it entered Freeport Harbor. Laid out before him was the legendary pirate city. He spat into the water. Pirates. To put it mildly, Nevroth hated pirates. When he was ten years old he watched as pirates murdered his father and abducted his mother. Returning to Ahandria an orphan, he learned to survive on his own, driven by his desire for revenge. He studied pirates, learning what he could from sailors' stories. Two years ago he joined the Manhunters' Guild to gain further training.When he was asked to choose an assignment for his first solo hunt, it was an easy decision. A small Ulleran temple needed someone to hunt down a man named Lucius who had stolen two of their books. He had claimed to be a librarian from the temple in Freeport...***Edwin led Rachel and Parika to Lucius's house, a small building in Drac's End. When they arrived they found a man standing in front of the door. "Can I help you?" asked Edwin.The man turned, surprised. "My name is Nevroth. I'm looking for a man named Lucius. The temple said he lived here.""So are we," said Parika. She glanced at Edwin, but the priest looked as nonplussed as she. "Who sent you?""A temple on the mainland. He stole some books from their library."Edwin frowned. "I can't imagine Lucius doing such a thing. But as I told you earlier, he claims that he has no memory of the last five years. He was acting very strangely before he left the temple and went abroad; perhaps it was indeed him." He shrugged. "At any rate, we all seem to be looking for the same man. Perhaps we should work together?"***The group gathered in the main room of Lucius's house to go over what they had found during their search. "Okay," said Parika, "what have we got?"Nevroth placed a sheet of parchment and a battered journal on the desk. "Just these."Rachel brushed a cobweb from her shoulder. "Nothing down in the basement, except some empty bookshelves. They seemed newer than the other furniture, if that's important."Edwin shook his head. "The back room held only supplies. Nothing out of the ordinary."Nevroth held up the parchment. "This is a list of things he was planning to do. Sleep, talk to someone named Captain Scarbelly, something about turnips..." he glanced at Edwin, who only shrugged, "...update his diary, and examine some travel logs." He tapped the journal with a finger. "We have the diary, but what travel logs is he referring to?""I don't know," said Edwin. "He never mentioned anything like that to me."Parika frowned. "Okay, so what's in the diary?""Most of the beginning is very boring librarian stuff. Then there's a five year gap. That must be when Edwin said he was acting strange and traveling. Then a year ago he starts making new entries again. More recently he complains of bizarre dreams. By the end he sounds very paranoid. The last entry is a week ago."Parika flipped through the diary, then set it down again. "So, where do we start?""We still don't know how he got readmitted to the temple," said Rachel. "Maybe we should start there."DM Notes:* Most of the conversations have been paraphrased. Often they were conducted with a lot of hand-waving and dice-rolling. My main goal is to stay true to the original intent and sequence of events.</blockquote>

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