A stiff parchment is pinned in landscape to the public notice board, covering a few names of wanted criminals.

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After reports of a crowd of hafwa killing many within the Crossing Forging Society, an Elothean with fair skin and red hair was spotted sneaking out of the scene. He boasted about how he was able to create a small army before escaping with minor wounds as adventurers searched the area.

(A light sketch of the Elothean's visage is present to the right, monochrome except for a stain of ruddy orange that sweeps his hair.)

A Wandering Scribe
Mistanna Redivas
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You see Cartographer Raelok of Elanthia, an Elothean.
Raelok has an oval face, almond-shaped silver eyes and a straight nose. His red hair is shoulder length and fine. He has fair skin and a slender build.
He is tall for an Elothean.
He appears to be an adult.
He has a long narrow mustache that droops to either side of the mouth on his upper lip and a long thin beard.

He has minor swelling and bruising around the right leg compounded by cuts and bruises about the right leg.

He is wearing a pair of ordinary shoes, a padded heavy titanese hood with fitted seams, a padded heavy titanese mask with fitted seams, a nightsilk duffel bag secured with slender leather straps, a shimmering faeweave baldric with cambrinth buckles, a woven shoulder tote, a black velvet robe stitched with diagonal bands of grey nightweaver silk, a diamond-hide shield edged with a tyrium band, an etched steel parry stick with black leather straps, some shalswar claw handwraps, some coarse shalswar-hide gloves, a pair of copper zills and a deep green crystal ring cut to resemble cracking moss-covered stone.

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The refractive field surrounding you fades away.
You say, "Wonder what they were doing in here..."

You act puzzled.

Kelneth says, "This was weird."

You notice Raelok trying to remain hidden while speaking.
You hear the voice of Raelok say, "That's because this is beyond your understanding."

Kelneth says, "No idea. Like I said, some elothean saying he summoned some snaer hafwa."

Kelneth says, "Oh him."

You tilt your head with a curious expression.

(We search the forge to no avail.)

Kelneth says, "Anyway, he said he summoned them. Ghust said they were trying to forge something and he had some kind of jar."

You notice Raelok trying to remain hidden while speaking.

You hear the voice of Raelok exclaim, "Gathered a small army!"

Kelneth points at Raelok, ruining his hiding place.
Cartographer Raelok goes north.

Had another attack at the forge tonight, but it seemed almost halfhearted. 3 waves of maybe 5 snaer hafwa each time, accompanied by Raelok's invisible taunts.

No apparent motive this time.

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