<div class="floatright">(https://preview.redd.it/art-corin-eymor-the-wolf-knight-v0-7dveyhrvtov91.jpg?auto=webp&amp;s=dc52176a33ae102fe4edd9ed6deb5ecd0a83e76e)</div><div class="floatleft">(https://i.imgur.com/6VPIEHp.png)</div><strong>PLAYER NAME:</strong>Eduardo<br/><strong>MAJOR:</strong>Engineering<br/><strong>FROM:</strong>Battle Creek, Michigan<br/><strong>CHARACTER NAME:</strong>GM, Enoch<br/><br/>"That's a fair point," the lone ranger spoke.   "A hundred gold pieces is a princely sum.  As a guardsman, you'd be lucky to earn that in a year."<br/><br/>Hlin looked to the ranger, and then to the Barbarian.<br/><br/>"Truth be told," and you sensed that she was speaking truly on this matter,  "I have more gold than I know what to do with.  In a past life, I was a bounty hunter.  It was a lucrative business, but it's... difficult to leave that sort of business behind once you retire.  So I came here.<br/><br/>"...  I wish I could tell you that I was doing this because I was bored and I might as well do some good," she continued.   "But that is not so.  I... when I first arrived here, I knew no one.  What's more, I didn't want to know anyone either.  I left the Sword Coast for some peace and quiet.  But there was this lovely man.  His name was Bristol, aye, with a beard that went to his navel.  He was kind, and competent, and as good a dwarf as ever lived, and it soon came to be that I fell in love with him.  We lived five<em>good</em>years together.  But one night, he was murdered.<br/><br/>"For you see, I had heard tell that Bristol was going to be sacrificed by the Children of Auril.  He had been<em>chosen</em>.  I bribed someone here, I threatened someone there, and... I thought I had saved him, because heaven forbid that Bristol should want to flee this place.  This had been his home for centuries, marched with Bruenor himself, he had.  And it was enough.  Someone else took his place.  But then, Bristol didn't show up for dinner.  Strange, thoughts I.  So I went to his shop down the street from here, and found my Bristol murdered, stabbed in the heart with a dagger made of ice.  I ran to the street to see if I could get a clue, and I saw him.  This stranger.  He was looking my way, smiling.  This... This man I learned was Sephek.<br/><br/>"So I followed him.  I learned about him.  I learned that he was in Targos when the shipbuilder was murdered, and I've received conflicting reports about his whereabouts, though some have said he was in Easthaven when the halfling was murdered there.<br/><br/>"... I informed Sheriff Southwell of my findings, but he's more concerned with goblins in the snow than with a single murder in his town."<br/><br/>"Sam," Eduardo said slowly.   "Anastasia does not think that Hlin is lying.  She is definitely well funded, she has a personal stake in this, and she distrusts the local constabulary."