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Message: <blockquote data-quote="helium3" data-source="post: 4436929" data-attributes="member: 31301">Ranver SwilchLate in the evening of June 21stWait.Did you just hear something?No, probably just a gust of wind. The room you're in is full of stacks of unbound parchment. Probably just something shifting.*tap* *tap* *tap*Wait. There it is again. Sounds like bone on wood. Where'd it come from?*tap* *tap* *tap*Sounds like it's coming from the window. The shutters are closed, so whatever's causing it can't get in. Too dark to see what it is, though.*tap* *tap* *tap*Whatever it is, it's tapping on the shutter. That's what's making that noise.*tap* *tap* *tap*And it sounds like it's hovering? Is it a bird?*CAW!!!*That's a Raven! You flick the latch open and throw the shutters wide. The sodden bird carooms into the room, its rain heavy wings barely able to beat fast enough to keep it aloft. The whole time it's circling, dripping on your "neatly" arranged stacks of notes, it keeps it jet black eyes on you. Finally, gaining some control over its course, it lands on your shoulder with a heavy plop.It shakes itself, throwing off more water and dousing the side of your head and shoulder in the process. Then it stoops down as if to peck you in the ear, but at the last moment it stops and opens its beak wide.Instead of a deafening "Caw!", out comes a voice. A voice you recognize as that of Pieter Anzalli, High Priest of the Hall of Laws."Keeper of the Shrine of Ioun. I beg your assistance. Meet me at Sailor's Hope and make haste. Bring your compatriots. Violence befouls the air."With that, the crow shakes again, though this time in a manner having more in common with a minor seizure. It gathers itself and then launches into the air, swooping out of the window and into the rain. Seconds later, it returns, again drunkenly wheeling about the room on its water-soaked wings. Eventually, it lands on a high shelf in the far corner and shakes off more water. It begins to preen, watching you warily the whole time.</blockquote>

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