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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Carlo-One" data-source="post: 8103755" data-attributes="member: 7015827">Just as Aerikoth was saying that he would like to see the part of the Shore district where the skull had been found, Shanni gave him a strange look and asked if there was blood on the collar of his robe, gesturing at a small dark red stain by his neck. As Rahnee leaned forward to look at the collar herself, the wizard reached up and grabbed his collar, pulling it out so he could get a better look at it. Rahnee, grinning, cracked a joke about his raven familiar Zeluth dribbling his breakfast on Aerikoth. The wizard, seemingly taking it seriously, arched an eyebrow and said that he did not recall.Frowning, Shanni looked at Aerikoth and pointedly said that the others had been all over the place looking for him the previous night, when the wizard evidently was not at home. She then bluntly asked him what he had been up to. Taking a deep breath, Aerikoth replied that he had been informed of their looking for him; he had been summoned away for a time, perhaps the stain was from then.Shanni followed up, still suspicious, telling him that they had found someone who had been robbed and said he saw a wizard with the group who did it. A cryptic reply from Aerikoth about individuals in the area who wished a word from him was all she got in response. He apologized about not going into details; the wizard termed it not a prudent endeavor at that time, asserting it was for the benefit for all of them. This hardly satisfied the rogue’s curiosity, but Rahnee reacted with a smile, teasing her longtime companion about his always enigmatic ways and saying that she would always have his back. Darrow seemed to care little, just asking that Aerikoth let them know if his business was going to bite them in the arse.The wizard did go on to share one detail: he had been informed the previous night that House Cormaeril was no longer welcomed in Westgate, and he was promised that if the company undertook their complete removal from the city, they would be very well rewarded. Rahnee said she assumed this was from someone other than their current contract with Urdo, Aerikoth giving a small nod in response. Following some debate about the morality of such an endeavor, Shanni and Darrow then mentioned the fact that they thought they had found a back way into Cormaeril Castle. (So yet another - however brief - effort of the company to ascertain their wizard's outside activities passes by. This one even featured a bloodstain on his robe. On the other hand, certain other members were rather tardy with their own revelation that a meeting had been arranged with the adventuring company they were supposed to be removing from the city for House Urdo. Having boozed it up at the spring festival the previous day seemed to play a role in Shanni and Darrow's obfuscations, due to their somewhat hazy memories; I doubt this was the case with Aerikoth, given his abstemious nature. --R)It turned out that during the previous evening’s sewer expedition, Dermot, Darrow and Shanni had stumbled onto a secret door in the sewers that went right into the Cormaeril's basement. Darrow and Shanni said they believed they could find it again. Darrow related that Dermot had slipped in and saw a bunch of red armored guards. Later, the group stumbled by the castle’s main gate and Dermot said he was pretty sure it was the same type of armor worn by the gate guards.</blockquote>

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