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Message: <blockquote data-quote="covaithe" data-source="post: 4736061" data-attributes="member: 46559">[sblock=ooc summary and speculation]If I understand correctly (not at all certain), the facts are something like this:  <ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">There's a ring.  Gord had it at one point.  He claims to have hid it, and come back later to find it gone.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"> The gnome says that Lord Arnamil ordered his fey to haunt Gord's house.  The gnome suggests that Gord stole something.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"> The gnome also says that the Lady of Nightmares ordered Gord be killed, and no witnesses left, and that she had what she wanted.</li> </ul>The gnome is probably telling the truth, given how thoroughly he's been intimidated, though what he knows may not be the whole story.  That being the case, the most likely hypothesis is that the Lady of Nightmares stole the ring and ordered her spies in Lord Arnamil's forces to kill Gord to keep her theft quiet.  So far I don't think we have any reason to believe that Lord Arnamil is involved in anything except losing a ring and haunting Gord's place to try to get it back. The only thing that gives me pause is the fact that this seems like a bad plan for the Lady.  If she succeeded in having her spies kill Gord, pretty soon Arnamil is going to want to know who killed him without orders, and why, and that trail is going to lead straight to the Lady.  She'd have been much better off not killing Gord, and just letting him be the scapegoat for the theft.  If that hypothesis is right, we'll probably have to chase down the Lady, get the ring back from her, and return it to Arnamil without him drawing the conclusion that we stole it. [/sblock]</blockquote>

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