Merin says, "I am pretty comfortable with Centrin...
Sheldon nods and speaks quietly. "
You need to work with me on Amiradthan, then, when we need to discuss things for ourselves."
...Is there anyone in the town... cause her harm... enemies? Rivals? Feuds..?
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No. No. No. Nothing like that... Sally. I mean, my daughter... Well..."
The barkeep interrupts. He speaks in a calm, deep voice, something expected from a barkeep. "
Mary. I'll help you. Let me talk to these men. Mary gets flustered when she is upset and has difficulty speaking."
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The Harvest Festival is a great event. Let me tell you some of it to give perspective. We looked for the girl, by the way. Sally is her name."
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The day stuff does not matter right now. As night falls, most adults come here. The younger children gather in the pumpkin field to tell each other spooky stories. Afterward many of the older children join in on a big game of hide-n-seek. Sally did not return after the game, but she was seen during the stories."
... does the child have any favorite places..."
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We checked all of those. The girl is a bit mischievous, but three days is too long."
Sheldon runs his left hand through his hair pulling it back from his face. "
A little mischievous, eh? Did one of the other kids put her up to a dare?"
Sally's mother Mary, leads the men around the developing community to speak with children and other adults. With a bending of mystical waylines to get a better assurance of truth, the men discover that the girl took a dare to go upstream to Mad Michalo's house and take something from his porch. Mad Michalo is a Bajinin who built a fishing camp a bit upstream. He is old enough to have started to develop some insanity, hence the nickname, but he is not known to be violent. The house is easy to find. At night, alone, the girl could have made the walk in about half an hour.
It takes Merindell and Sheldon less time, even with Mary tagging along. Of course, daylight makes it much easier. The house is terrible. It looks old even though it isn't. There is no door and fishing gear hangs about the porch. All is quiet, too quiet. No one is here, and no one is seen nearby on the river. After Mary is told that she should wait back in town, the men move through the house and begin searching farther upstream.
Maybe 100 strides or so from the house, along the river bank, it looks as if a struggle has occurred. There are jackal tracks and the appearance of something being dragged. The men get a very bad feeling. Following the signs another 20 strides or so away from the river, the body of Mad Michalo is discovered, badly mauled by jackals. Local carrion have already found the corpse and the birds spook with the approach of the men. The beetles have to be kicked away. There is no sign of the girl.
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Maybe we missed something. I can't see the man falling to jackals, even if he is a little Bajinin. I think he was already dead when they found him."
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Your character receives 3 DP and improves in Centrin by 1%.
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