<span style="font-weight: bold">&lt;&lt;Alyssa, Angel, Kaelen &amp; Padma&gt;&gt;</span><br/><br/>Captain Lanzo’s office hasn’t changed much since Alyssa last visited. The large chamber looks as much like a war museum as it does a workplace; every wall covered in ancient coats of arms, shields, hanging weapons, and cabinets full of ancient military regalia. A massive walnut partners’ desk occupies the middle of the room, crenellated with precisely stacked trays of papers and leatherbound volumes that give the surface the impression of a small bureaucratic fortress. The smell of fresh ink pervades the air, mingling with those of wood lacquer and metal polish to create a scent best described as ‘sharp.’<br/><br/>Behind the wall of paperwork, a steel-clad figure sits hunched over a semi-organized array of papers, muttering something that sounds like semaphore code as he pores over his work. Light form a hanging lamp above gleams on the polished dome of his helmet - which, on closer inspection, doesn’t appear to be a helmet at all.<br/><br/><div style="padding: 3px; background-color: #FFFFFF; border: 1px solid #d8d8d8; font-size: 1em;"><div style="text-transform: uppercase; border-bottom: 1px solid #CCCCCC; margin-bottom: 3px; font-size: 0.8em; font-weight: bold; display: block;"><span onclick="if (this.parentNode.parentNode.getElementsByTagName('div')[1].getElementsByTagName('div')[0].style.display != '') {  this.parentNode.parentNode.getElementsByTagName('div')[1].getElementsByTagName('div')[0].style.display = ''; this.innerHTML = '&lt;b&gt;Spoiler: &lt;/b&gt;&lt;a href=\'#\' onClick=\'return false;\'&gt;hide&lt;/a&gt;'; } else { this.parentNode.parentNode.getElementsByTagName('div')[1].getElementsByTagName('div')[0].style.display = 'none'; this.innerHTML = '&lt;b&gt;Spoiler: &lt;/b&gt;&lt;a href=\'#\' onClick=\'return false;\'&gt;show&lt;/a&gt;'; }"><b>Spoiler: </b><a href="#" onclick="return false;">show</a></span></div><div class="quotecontent"><div style="display: none;"><div class="inline-attachment">
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<dd><em>Captain Lanzo, an armored forgeborn.</em></dd>
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</div><br/>Knowledge (arcana or local) DC 10 reveals the same information on forgeborn included in the last post. The same check recognizes his muttering as Autonic, a language common among the forgeborn.</div></div></div><br/>“Hrm,” Lanzo grumbles, waving in the party’s general direction in a way that suggests either a curt greeting or an attempt at dismissal - which is hard to say. He continues to examine the papers before him for a minute before finally looking up at the visitors gathered at his door, regarding them with something between suspicion and annoyance until he spies Alyssa among their number.<br/><br/>“Ah, Adjutant Niberos. Good to see you - come in, please!” Lanzo motions the group forward, rising to meet his guests with what one assumes is a ‘friendly’ slant to his plated brow. “Sgt. Ananda has told me about tonight’s incident,” he says. “I daresay I wouldn’t have believed it otherwise - to think! Demons, stalking the streets again after five hundred years!... Ah, but I digress. The Sgt. has informed me that you have a key witness for our investigation... or, perhaps several?" he adds as he eyes the assembly. "So, tell me: what brings the rest of you here?"<br/><br/><br/><span style="font-weight: bold">Part 2 of 2</span>