THE SHARN INQUISITIVE - Still only 3gp/year! - Now printed twice weekly! - Wir, Olarune 11, 1000 YK
SHARN SLICER SLEUTHS SUCCEED!
Stinks of Sawfish Siblings!
SHARN, Outskirts - Early Zol morning, the public funeral procession of the notorious Sharn Slicer was interrupted by a gang of body snatchers, who managed to sneak the Slicer's corpse away in the week's rainstorm. Thanks to intrepid local heroes - the same ones that brought down the Slicer, no less - the remains were recovered post haste.
According to our heroes, Vander Anderhoff, owner of Sawfish Brothers Meats, was harboring a necromancer interested in transforming the Slicer's remains into a horrid new form of undead. The necromancer, identified as Eladra Lilybrook of Karrnath, allegedly hired a gang of toughs to attack the procession and race away with a mannequin to mislead the City Watch, while she absconded with the Slicer's body via magical means. Anderhoff and his brothers, Kinto, Parne, and Torkan, allowed Lilybrook to use their place of business as a hideout for an undisclosed reward. Torkan remains at large and is wanted for questioning.
"Whatever they were promised, it must have been substantial," says Bosley, a hobgoblin mercenary among the heroes responsible for bringing down the Sharn Slicer. "Between all the guard dogs and zombies we found, quite a bit of gold must have been put into the Brothers' hands." The Sharn City Watch have closed off the Sawfish Brothers' slaughterhouse pending further investigation and health inspection.
LIGHT SHOW DELIGHTS; PUZZLES
House Lyrandar investigates
SHARN - House Lyrandar agents questioned several residents of the Mithral Tower district on Mol after mysterious lights approached airships departing from Lyrandar Tower. A cluster of the translucent, glowing lights approached the Virtue's Price from Mithral Tower and floated around the hull before streaking back to the towers of Sharn. Mol's encounter marks the third time this year that an airship crew has reported seeing the strange lights. Most eyewitnesses say the lights are spherical or ovoid, but some say they take a bipedal form when they cluster together.
"I didn't really see features, but it looked a bit like a glowing woman with arms outstretched," said Tinar Blugostra, a passenger that disembarked from the Virtue's Price just before it departed Sharn.
Blugostra said she watched the glowing lights flit across the deck and hull of the rising Virtue's Price. It floated near the observation dome on the lowest deck of the airship, she said -- "almost like it was peering through the windows at the passengers."
House Lyrandar spokesman Korvik d'Lyrandar emphasized that passengers and cargo were unharmed by the light display. Most found it amusing, he said. "What we're seeing is probably a natural magical phenomenon or the activity of a few arcane pranksters," he said. "Airship travel remains the safest, most luxurious way to travel across Khorvaire. All that happened is that our passengers got a free light show as they departed Sharn."
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