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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Ferrix" data-source="post: 1857280" data-attributes="member: 6115">A restless hush falls amongst the crowd, bowing to the presence of an authority figure, like they have their entire lives.  That is, except for one woman who has seen many years muscles her way through the crowd to the front, "who do ye all think you are?"  Her tone accusing everyone present, "bringing this down upon us, you all know right well what will happen once the Mythar find out about this."  She is cut short by a buxom girl who comes up behind her, placing an arm on her shoulder.  "Cherai, it's okay, we don't need to be causing any more trouble than there already is.  Come now, we shouldn't be standing around when these men are going to be dealing with it."The girl begins to walk the woman away from the crowd when a ripple of murmers surge through the crowd, "has anyone seen Cantus?"  "Haven't seen him."  "Think he did this?"  "Couldn't be."  The murmers continue but the old woman turns back to the crowd, "it very surely could have been that boy, he was tainted I say!"  Her voice shaking as her volume raises, however she is drowned out by the growing well of noise from the crowd, and she is pulled into one of the shacks by the girl.  A lad runs off, apparently to check the house where Cantus lives, in a minute he's back, out of breath and noticeably paler, "he ain't there... and Madgie..."  Seemingly traumatized he stops, shaking his head.A miner by the name of Livius steps forward from the crowd, "if'n he killed the Huom he's done us a service.  But what is it you say of his mother?"  The boy turns towards Livius, "she's dead... her...stomach, it's all ripped apart."Tau:[spoiler] Despite your lack of experience dealing with charred embers of houses, you do notice an odd filmy residue on some of the less destroyed beams.  Examining it closer, it's not oil or anything along those lines but you have no idea what it could be.  Otherwise though you do not make out any footprints, the floorboards having been reduced to ash, and no one was seemingly moving around within the remains.[/spoiler]Log-a-Log:[spoiler] Scouting around town you basically come to the conclusion that most of the townsfolk are gathered near the burnt house.  You don't really encounter anything out of the ordinary.[/spoiler]Nassitch:[spoiler] As you begin circumnavigating the crowd of people, you can make out that most of the people are restless and ill-at-ease with the authoritarian presence of Osric, Uiim and the rest of the troupe.  On the ground though it seems like any sort of tracks were obscured by the mass movement of the crowd.[/spoiler]</blockquote>

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