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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Patlin" data-source="post: 2085781" data-attributes="member: 17264">A few nights passYou finish out the night with your refined plans and improved bait, eventually turning your captured hoodlum over to the watch.  You continue your efforts over the next few days, with minimal results -- a few more lowlifes and street thrugs are foolish enough to harass Ishmael, to their immediate and sever regret.  None of these later criminals are even armed, and pose no serious threat, but you feel you are contributing in a small way to the law and order of Orussus's streets.The more immediate problem of the murders looms, however, and through communication with the guard you establish the following:1.  The pattern of one murder each night has continued.2.  There still doesn't appear to be any particular pattern to the murders, anyone out alone at night seems to be a valid target.3.  Last night, the target was a swordsman working as security for a merchant cartell's warehouse.  He was armed, and apparently had been awake and alert when he was set upon.  He was killed quickly, and another guard arrived just as he died.  The murderer reportedly gave him an evil grin and disapeared in a flash of light.The population of Orussus is large enough that waiting to be attacked could easilly take weeks or months to even make contact with the target, and if his ability to escape is not somehow overcome such a trap might be of no avail even should it catch its target.[ooc: If you wish to continue with you current tactics, you may, and I will roll in order to determine if your bait is attacked.  The chances, however, are very low.]</blockquote>

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