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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Quickleaf" data-source="post: 9615148" data-attributes="member: 20323">GM POSTClyde exhales and for the first time the rattling in the innkeeper's chest is no more. Sharindlar's grace has taken away the ailment plaguing him. Blinking away tears, he exchanges a look with his daughter Marta. She immediately notices the change in her father's countenance – the color returning to his cheeks and his lips no longer quivering weakly – and she practically throws herself at her father in embrace."Master dwarf, you've given me a miracle! I'd been afraid I wouldn't live to... see...my..." Clyde struggles for a moment, clinging to his daughter's hand, then  pushes himself up a little higher in the bed. "If only we had your faith, perhaps our gods would not have abandoned us to this Eternal Rime. I can't thank ye enough."The innkeeper coughs, expelling the last of the sickness into his kerchief, but he listens keenly. "Hamvang? Good fellow. Hmm. Well if you and Hamvang think it's sabotage, I trust your judgment... There are those cultists of Auril... they've taken over our gem mines, and come to town prostelgzing that only a lottery of sacrifice will end the Eternal Rime." Clyde takes a heavy sigh that becomes an indignant snort. "They never paid me much mind before though.""Dwarf? Oh, you mean Torrga Icevein," Clyde frowns, shaking his head. "Her husband Torg was a decent enough fellow, for a dwarf, er, for a merchant I mean." He stammers over himself, old prejudices weighed in the new light of Sharindlar's grace and Oskar's kindness. "But when Torg died – suspicious circumstances I've heard – his widow Torrga inherited the sled caravan. Now she roams between Ten Towns with a crew of ruffians, dealing in contraband from dead bodies to poisons, and marking up her prices to exploit common folk. No bad blood between us though – I just won't deal with her."The name Torrga will be immediately recognizable to Oskar, as your companion <a href="https://www.enworld.org/threads/ic-quickleafs-rime-of-the-frostmaiden.697783/page-96#post-9606014" target="_blank">Logrim mentioned the merchant recently</a>!Marta pours tea for her father, and hesitantly chimes in, "Yes, some of Torrga's guards stayed at the inn last night. The half-orc just before you was the last of them to leave though..."The half-orc... If the half-orc marked your party and overheard you talking about Torrga's caravan and her employee Sephek, it's possible he went to warn Torrga when he left the inn!</blockquote>

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