<div class="quoteheader"><div class="topslice_quote"><a href="https://elliquiy.com/forums/index.php?topic=297697.msg14733206#msg14733206">Quote from: PhantomPistoleer on 04-03-2019, 17:39:43</a></div></div><blockquote class="bbc_standard_quote">We'd like to rule you out as a suspect, Kurst.  I know that he was your twin, but we must always be careful.  So, could you tell us where were you last night?<br/></blockquote><div class="quotefooter"><div class="botslice_quote"></div></div>Kurst stares at you for a minute, stunned, then breaks out into a grim, hollow, deep laugh.<br/><br/>"Ha! What was it that that Rodrik used to say? No stone unturned?"<br/><br/>The sardonic, bitter grin on Kurst's face looks neither natural or pleasant, but it is the first anyone has seen the man relax all day and some light comes back into his eyes. That he may be a suspect never seemed to have crossed his mind, but he seems pleased it crossed yours.<br/><br/>"I went home with my father, Jagrin, after the festivities and attempted once again to heal the rift between him and Kurst. As usual, my attempts where futile and now it is too late."<br/><br/><div class="quoteheader"><div class="topslice_quote"><a href="https://elliquiy.com/forums/index.php?topic=297697.msg14733206#msg14733206">Quote from: PhantomPistoleer on 04-03-2019, 17:39:43</a></div></div><blockquote class="bbc_standard_quote">You said that Rodrik was Trunau's best investigator.  What was he currently investigating?</blockquote><div class="quotefooter"><div class="botslice_quote"></div></div><br/>"No idea. Rodrik would play things close to the chest until he was certain that he had all the facts. He may very well have picked up a case, but if he had, he wasn't ready to tell me about it yet."<br/><br/><div class="quoteheader"><div class="topslice_quote"><a href="https://elliquiy.com/forums/index.php?topic=297697.msg14733206#msg14733206">Quote from: PhantomPistoleer on 04-03-2019, 17:39:43</a></div></div><blockquote class="bbc_standard_quote">3.  You said that you only recently discovered Rodrik's relationship with the half-orc weaver.  Her name is... Brinya.  Why is that?  Did he keep it from you?</blockquote><div class="quotefooter"><div class="botslice_quote"></div></div><br/>“She and Rodrik were engaged to be married, but only a few people, myself included, knew about their relationship. Brinya’s a half-orc. Her heritage doesn’t matter to me, but it does to my father, which is why Rodrik kept it secret from us for so long. That’s why Rodrik was staying at the Ramblehouse. My father somehow found about the two of them, and he and Rodrik had a falling out over it. It was Rodrik's fear that once he started telling people about he and Brinya, it would tear our family apart. And he was right."<br/><br/>"Since my father has forbidden me to visit her, you can also ask her whether anything seemed strange about Rodrik the last couple of nights. But also please check up on her and make sure she’s okay.”<br/><br/><div class="quoteheader"><div class="topslice_quote"><a href="https://elliquiy.com/forums/index.php?topic=297697.msg14733206#msg14733206">Quote from: PhantomPistoleer on 04-03-2019, 17:39:43</a></div></div><blockquote class="bbc_standard_quote">4.  You said that Omast was Rodrik's partner.  Does that mean that he's also an investigator?  Also, how long have they been partners?</blockquote><div class="quotefooter"><div class="botslice_quote"></div></div><br/>"No, Omast is a long-time friend of my family, and he’s always been like an uncle to Rodrik and me. He has a long history in Trunau, and most people think of him fondly as a local eccentric and a well-meaning lush. As a patrol sergeant, he accompanied Rodrik on many patrols, but that was about defending the city, not investigating crime. Although... maybe the two of them discovered something on one of those patrols?”<br/><br/><div class="quoteheader"><div class="topslice_quote"><a href="https://elliquiy.com/forums/index.php?topic=297697.msg14733206#msg14733206">Quote from: PhantomPistoleer on 04-03-2019, 17:39:43</a></div></div><blockquote class="bbc_standard_quote">5.  Can you think of any reason why Rodrik might have taken his own life?<br/></blockquote><div class="quotefooter"><div class="botslice_quote"></div></div><br/>"No. I know my brother, and I know he wouldn’t kill himself. By his own account, he was in love with Brinya and was planning to marry her, even if our father disapproved. There’s something fishy about all of this, and I won’t dishonor Rodrik’s memory by accepting his ‘suicide’ without ruling out that something else happened.”