<div class="floatleft">(https://www.naturallyamazing.com/americasparks/10489.jpg)</div><strong>Name:</strong>GM Post<br/><strong>Date/Time:</strong>January 1st, 2018<br/><strong>Status:</strong>--<br/><strong>Notes/Triggers:</strong>A discussion with Count Harald.<br/><strong>Tagging: </strong>Everyone.<br/><hr/><hr/><div class="quoteheader"><div class="topslice_quote">Quote from: LIlisa's queries</div></div><blockquote class="bbc_standard_quote">"Did she have any enemies that would conspire to do something like this... How long has the lake had weird Juju feeling to it, Do you know what she did while you took her on these walks, and what do you mean "As if she'd walked herself close to the water."?</blockquote><div class="quotefooter"><div class="botslice_quote"></div></div><br/>Harald considered the questions and said, "Enemies? Many. Calla makes...made...chimerical weaponry. She even made the Duchess's axe. And that axe has many enemies, many fell Thallain or Garou that wish it were no more and wish that no more of them would be made." For the lake, he shrugged and said, "I honestly could not say for sure, but I was getting uncomfortable here around November, towards the end of it, but no one who works here could really say<em>why.</em>And walking herself--I mean that she wasn't dragged. The area shows she must have walked straight to the water, her arm was taken off without so much as a struggle, and she<em>died.</em>The surrounding environs don't indicate anything like a struggle."<br/><br/><div class="quoteheader"><div class="topslice_quote">Quote from: Arwen's queries</div></div><blockquote class="bbc_standard_quote"> "Can we track her?  She was only just..."she paused in her excitement for a second realizing that these wounds were indeed fresh.  "...just found.  We have monsterfloof over there, or maybe Lilisa or Corryn can find her scent and figure out where she came to the park from?  Do we know if she was..." Arwen paused again, she didn't want to use the word "killed" with the Count looking like that, "attacked at the water's edge?  Was there a lot of blood there?  If so we might be able to get the scent of whomever or whatever did this to her." Her face became more animated at that. "Then we might find out where they came from! Maybe even get on idea of what they are!</blockquote><div class="quotefooter"><div class="botslice_quote"></div></div><br/>Harald looked uncomfortable and said, "You could, but typical police are also investigating, so you might run into them. They were in the area recently, obviously. There was not a lot of blood that I saw when I arrived and found her, but there was...<em>enough</em>. It does seem fairly apparent she was attacked<em>and</em>....ended. Here. Just shy of the dam. But I'm not a scientist. I saw enough blood to make me feel sick, but I don't know if that's significant knowledge."<br/><br/><br/><div class="spoiler_container"><div class="spoiler_header" onclick="hideSecond (this);" role="button">Quinn &amp; Balthazar</div><div class="spoiler_body"><strong>Quinn:</strong> Perception + Kenning at difficulty 10.<br/><br/><strong>Balthazar:</strong> Wits + Alertness, difficulty 8.<br/><br/>Both of you remember: you can spend a point of WP to guarantee a success on your roll, to reduce your chance of a botch. Roll on E's Dicebot and send the roll to 42233.</div></div><br/><br/><div class="quoteheader"><div class="topslice_quote">Quote from: Rick's queries. Or, erm, ideas!</div></div><blockquote class="bbc_standard_quote">"Since you don't want to poking your nose into the Police station and the morgue, I'll do that for you. But I will need a letter of authorisation from you giving me, and those with me, legal permission to act on your behalf. Authorities get really shitty with people who don't have the proper permissions, and also tend to get even shittier when they get smacked about the head when trying to stop helpful folks being helpful. 'Sides, I can't tell those poor, boring arseholes that I am on a quest to avenge the lady, 'cause they'll try and lock me up, and no one wants to see that happen. Tell ya what, I can draw up the documents and all you need to do is sign them in the proper spot, and we can get Miss Public Indecency over there to sign as a witness and all will be good. I can have that done in... oh, a couple of hours.</blockquote><div class="quotefooter"><div class="botslice_quote"></div></div><br/>"That's fine; if you get them drawn up, I'll sign, on one condition--my lawyer reads it first. Happily, my lawyer is Mr. Zilby, and he's a boggan, so I'm sure he'll be available and can show up at an agreed-upon location as soon as possible. He better, given what I pay him. You must understand that while I want my sister avenged, I also am not going to open myself to being in a position where, if you fail or commit a heinous error, that I'm legally liable. I am not interested in grieving Calla's death in jail of all places." So Harald was on board, so long as Rick and company behaved, essentially.<br/><br/>When Rick pulled Josh aside, Josh had a distracted look. It actually took Rick a couple of times to get his attention. Eventually Josh said, as if in a haze, "Singing. Yeah. It's...really pretty. A lot nicer than any garbage you hear on the radio. Been listening to it since we got here; I thought someone was just playing music in the park somewhere far off..."<br/><br/><div class="quoteheader"><div class="topslice_quote">Quote from: Corrin's queries</div></div><blockquote class="bbc_standard_quote">“Had anything changed recently in her life? New friends, a new lover, a sickness, a project? Who was in her intimate circle besides yourself? That she came here regularly suggests her attacker had watched her from afar and knew her habits, knew when she would be alone and vulnerable.” </blockquote><div class="quotefooter"><div class="botslice_quote"></div></div><br/>Harald honed in on this line of questioning and said, "Yes, a new project. She claimed someone had commissioned her for a new axe, something similar to what the Duchess uses. She was commissioned..." He frowned. "That's strange. I don't recall. I thought I did. But I know she was working on it at least two months; I do have memory of that." He looked extremely perturbed that he didn't recall the exact date, murmuring, "Why don't I remember the exact time? Calla and I were close and she told me everything always." He shook his head and finished answering questions, "She had no regular social circle. Call was all-business; if she wasn't crafting, she was being wholly unsocial. When she went out, she typically went directly to the Freehold to sell her wares or accept commissions. You might have luck investigating at the Freehold directly to see if anyone talked to her recently?"