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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Verbatim" data-source="post: 1724553" data-attributes="member: 15549">As Priestess Urikas handed him the paper, Zeric looked down at her writing and paused to study the careful and precise way she had written each letter. While Zeric considered himself an intelligent man, his writing often looked as if a chicken had managed to knock over an ink vial and then ran on the paper in the hopes of running all the ink off of its feet.~Just another example of why she leads and you follow...you do not have the patience to master the simple skill of writing, much less have the patience to lead men...~As the half-elf scribe began writing in his own notebook, Zeric was impressed with how fast he offered a practical solution to the first line of the riddle."How many locksmiths does this town have Priestess Urikas? Or to be more precise, how many would have been hired to work on the orphanage?"Thinking about his meeting with the older halfling who ran the orphanage, Zeric turned to face Raven."You said you were a ward of the orphanage, in the time you were there, was there ever work that needed to be done to the locks? Do you remember hearing or seeing a locksmith brought in?"Looking to the second line in the riddle, Zeric studied it for a moment and offered another obvious reading of the second line."A curtain is something that can be used to block things out, section off, or conceal. A cauldron is a large kettle which can hold water, and it is also the name of the city upon which we are now in. While I do know that cauldrons are still used in sacrifices, I think that it means the city as we have to go below it. Perhaps the thieves guild is still the key. They have more than sufficient skills with locks, and if the rats seek safety, perhaps they have tunnels below the city, hidden from our eyes by curtains of everyday makings."</blockquote>

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