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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Carlo-One" data-source="post: 7821464" data-attributes="member: 7015827">An hour or so later, the four journeyed to Castle Thalavar and joined Aerikoth, who had arrived shortly before, outside the main door. The guard, informed that they were there for Baron Pahar’s item bounty, let the group inside. Once in the entry hall, they had to patiently wait their turn while two mercenaries ahead of them attempted to convince Iono they had a dead evil magical rabbit in their possession. Iono eventually dismissed them and turned to Rahnee, who introduced herself as "Hannah Harde" (A name no doubt taken from a Waterdhavian romance novel. --R) and mentioned that she had brought a rare scroll. Iono bid them follow him into the eastern library, a more discreet area where Garis was already waiting.Brok-Tul opened the conversation by saying that he had bad news: the Watch had temporarily taken over their guest house, apparently tipped off by someone. Iono said that his sources in the Watch had informed him that the searchers had found nothing incriminating. Iono excused himself briefly, saying that he had expected the group to come later in the day and still had some business to take care of. While engaging Garis in conversation, Rahnee discovered that he had located two “professionals” of Sembian origin that had been responsible for Captain Yar's death; Garis indicated, however, that he wanted to wait for Iono to discuss the details. Brok-Tul mentioned in turn that the Watch had found two Sembians murdered recently. Garis said he knew one of them had in fact participated in Yar's murder, but was unsure who the second one was. Garis did mention that there was one Sembian professional alive - the one he had managed to reach in time. Iono at this point returned and asked Garis to begin explaining what he had discovered.Garis stated that he began investigating the murder of Captain Yar the day after it occurred, on the 13th day of Marpenoth, making it a little over a month ago. His first break in the case came after he approached the Ssemm guards at the dock where Yar's body was dumped. That night, they had been distracted by a woman's scream and caught a fleeting glimpse of her. The men allegedly molesting her, whose voices they also heard, had Sembian accents. Garis spent the next tenday attempting to follow up on this lead, trying to discover the men's whereabouts or the identity of the woman. Finally, he determined they were rooming above a particular tavern. Garis went there, only to find that the men had disappeared shortly before his arrival. However, the woman was still there and Garis befriended her. After several days she broke down and confided in him, confessing that she was the one who had distracted the guards at the dock, along with her male companions. (I am impressed by the capacity of this Garis, and I gather he must be the House Thalavar spymaster. There is much to learn from him. --C)With her information, Garis was able to track down one of the men - the one now in Thalavar custody - but was unable to find his companion. One still remained unaccounted for, the one who had placed the body by the docks. Garis told Iono that the party had informed him more than one Sembian body had recently shown up with their throats slit, so the accounting might now be final. The man in Thalavar custody reported that he had been hired by a Sembian to kill Captain Yar. The name of this Sembian was allegedly not known by the killer, but Garis concluded from the information available to him that it must have been Senthur Signe, the now-dead official from the Sembian Representative's Office.</blockquote>

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