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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Isida Kep'Tukari" data-source="post: 3844937" data-attributes="member: 4441">Master Tanner is quite dead, though only within the last hour or so.  There is a great gaping wound in his side, from a maw of prodigous size.  Certainly it's big enough to be from an ethereal maurader, but considering how big they are compared to a man, the details get a little blurred.  There is a faint magical aura of conjuration, but it is fading rapidly.As you work, some of the people in the doorway look on wide-eyed, but most turn from the scene in fear.  You're a stranger, of course, but you're also doing something about all of this.  You come to the same conclusion as Valerian, though you are certain that this was indeed a maurader.  The wound is huge and triangular with a puncture wound at the top, very indicative of a maurader.  Looking carefully for tracks around the body, you find very few tracks due to the neatly swept floor.  However, there are faint clawmarks, probably from the maurader.  Further out from the body are a few faint divots in the floor, as if something large pressed down suddenly and heavily.  Something like a filcher.  Since the front room of the Guildhall usually has samples of their best work as well as finished orders, it's not too hard to imagine what might have graced the now-empty shelves.The tracks start in the middle of the room, well away from any windows or doors.  Well, that's only to be expected from those two species.  It seems that only one of each type was involved.  The Master Tanner must have been doing something in the middle of the room, the maurader appeared, and perhaps he tried to run to the door...  But he was no match for the beast, and thusly lost his life.  However, as the young man who sounded the alarm held keys in his hand, the door was locked initially.  The Master Tanner does have keys on his belt, but his beltpouch is missing.  Looking about carefully, all of the caravan seems to be as surprised as the villagers.  However, as you keenly observe the scene you do notice [spoiler]a faint impression of a gray crown glowing with colorless fire hanging above the Guildhall.  It remains there for a few seconds and then vanishes.[/spoiler]  Going around one side of the Guildhall, he can spot a few people looking in the windows, children mostly, that flee when the goliath comes their way.  He spots no blood or anything odd in the alley, at least at first.  As he crosses closer to the window, something lets out an gods-awful shriek, high-pitched and irritating in the extreme.  It cuts off after moment, and you hear a faint scuffle somewhere above you, but it is gone in an instant.More people pop into the alley to investigate, but when they see you, they quickly pop away again.  At length, an older man in the uniform of a town guard stands at the alley entrance."Young man, the Watch Commander must see you,"</blockquote>

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