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Message: <blockquote data-quote="El Jefe" data-source="post: 3471624" data-attributes="member: 19990">The half orc shrugged in his seat.  "Mr. Thursby was Miss Oshally's loyal ally.  We believe that disposing of him in the manner we did would cause Miss Oshally to stop and think that perhaps it would be best to patch up her differences with us regarding the Orb.  We tried to make a deal with him before giving him the works.  I could do nothing with him - he was quite determined to be loyal to Miss Oshally.  So Wilbur followed him back to the Inn and did what he did."Brigit seemed quite anxious at Fatwon's words.  He continued:"Captain Jacobin's death was entirely Miss Oshally's fault.  When Brimbor here had a bad run of luck with you, he recognized the mutual advantage of pooling forces and with nice judgement allied himself to me.  You see, Brigit and Thursby deceived us in Earling, and fled to Monemvassia.  When Brimbor read the harbor sighting of the Flying Lion, he surmised that the Captain would be delivering the Orb to Brigit when the ship from Monemvassia arrived.  He had heard in Monemvassia that Brigit and Jacobin had been seen together.  She had given the Orb to Jacobin to bring here for her.""You were, uh, 'given a special' to keep you out of the way so we could surprise the two of them at the dock - to spare ourselves any possible embarrassment.  We found them on the ship.  In many ways, the conference was difficult, but we finally persuaded Miss Oshally to come to terms, or so we thought.  We then left the boat and set out to this Inn where I was to pay Miss Oshally and receive the item...Enroute, she, Captain Jacobin, and the Orb completely slipped through our fingers.  It was neatly done, sir.  Indeed, it was."  He sighed."Jobe here was searching for the Orb on the Flying Lion when it caught fire.  No doubt, he was careless with a torch.""We traced her back to the Crown.  While she was asking me who I was through the door, I heard window shutters open.  Jobe shot Jacobin as he was letting himself out through the window.  Shot him more than once.  Jacobin was too tough to fall or drop the Orb.  He climbed down the rest of the way, knocked Jobe over, then ran off.""Brigit was 'persuaded' to tell us where she had told Jacobin to take the Orb.  She was further 'persuaded' to lure you away with that message about the meeting.  However, you had the Orb before we could reach it."</blockquote>

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