Murder Mystery, Part 3

We head to the bakery where the murder is to happen tonight.

Bareta and break into the bakery to wait for the murderer there.  Olivera, Calminion, and I wait outside the baker.  We loudly debate the great unknown while we wait for anti-peak.

The watch from the tower calls out "Anti-peak and all is well."  The gate opens a group of armored humans come out and split up.  One is heading across - from the prison to a tavern across the street.  As the armored man, a mercy killer, crosses the square, 50 feet from us springs out

We met the killer who was killing the mercy killer outside the prison.  The Mercy Killer's name is Colts.  During the fight, Colts was killed and as usual the killer took some blood and disappeared.  Borg was scared during the fight and forced to run away.

After the fight, more Mercy Killers came and questioned the party - except for Borg.  Borg shows up shortly later and corroborates the story.

We travel with the Mercy Killers to the Harmonium's headquarters, the city barracks.  We meet with the chief investigator, a female named Narkovy.  After an hour, the female dwarf Harmonium Officer Narkovy comes out.  She is carrying a little notebook and introduces herself as the chief investigator of the murder spree.

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day 4:

We walk down the street with Kylie on the way to Fiends Emporium(!?!) and some minotaur is following us.  The psionic turns around and we try to cast "charm" on the minotaur.  The minotaur asks some question in broken english like "where about the murders are you?"  It frowns and says: "That did … you why?" 

"Reach …blahblabheaobea"

> Psionic psycrystal asks the minotaur by mind-talk: "Why are you following us, friend?"

Minotaur responds: "You've been investigating these murders.  I'm curious as to what you've learned."

> "Yes, we're actually investigating those murders.  What's your interest?"

"No, but people want to blame us.  We want to find out what's going on."

> "Who is blaming you?"

"Harmonium doesn't like us."

> "So you or your people think they're bias?

"Well, they just don't like us!  We want freedom.  Freedom and randomness and they don't like that".

> "Fair enough.  But do you have any information about those murders?"

"What do you know about the murderer?  And why is he murdering people?"

> "He's doing some sort of ritual."

"Why?"

> "We're not sure.  If you know someone who would know about this sort of thing, maybe you can help us."

"Well, we could go talk to a big boss."

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"Freeforall is my name"

> "Can you help us identify the murderer's ritual?"

"turn it around.  Do the ritual against him.  Change it.  Change the ritual."

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On our walk to the Friendly Fiend, we saw some Dabbas with nets and clubs.  They seem to be chasing after small animals and capturing them in nets and clubbing them.  There are no small animals visible.  According to Freeforall, this behavior is the wonder of chaos!

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On our walk to the thing, we hear halflings talking:

"These murders are due to a new faction called the Overbloods.  They are actually a collection of factions.  There's going to be a faction war and this is just a prelude."

Finally!  We arrive at Pendram's Parchments and Papers.  It's a warehouse with a sign on the front."

We look through the list of customers.  On the day of the murder with the talc powder, they had Jaymes come by to collect a shipment of parchment.  She's human with grey hair, plump face.  

I take a sample of the talc powder for verification.  Beretta takes a sheet from the customer list.

Outside the building we notice a board out of place.  If we pull the board aside, there's a 10x10 foot region inside the warehouse with some bones and dirt on the floor.  There's a big mass of shredded paper in the corner.

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We next go to Grossif's paints.