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The Garrison stationed upriver on the lonely mesa, was in a bad state of morale. Just over two years had passed since Kerrigan was assigned here, and soon he would be commander, as the current commander Rollo Thent was returning to Korvosa, and a well earned retirement. Time had not yet washed the bad taste of ineptitude, debauchery, and massacre from the minds of the men-at-arms and things were getting worse.
Since they had started construction on the freshly completed fortress, things had a way of disappearing. It was bad enough supply lines rarely stretched so far as to provide any comfort to the men, but things just downright disappeared, here one minute gone the next. At first this was attributed to a kind of Shoanti insurgency but soon it was obvious that the only Shoanti within the walls had left the nomadic ways of the tribe behind in favor of civilization. Now suspicions turned inward, with the blood Chelaxian's secretly accusing Varisians among them of selling off the supplies in some Sczarni related schemes. The Garrison stationed upriver on the lonely mesa was in a bad state of morale.
Only one man is in a position to solve the mystery of the disappearing goods and possibly redeem himself in the eyes of the men, and that is YOU. The cellar
Rollo Thent had ordered all supplies moved to 2 store rooms in the cellar of the Keep (#'s 2 and 3 on the map) and a guard stationed outside each door additionally he has had a guard post with 3 men set up in the first cellar room (#1) there is a table, a cot, and 2 chairs along with a fireplace. That was yesterday, this morning it was dicovered even more foodstuffs have disappeared from room #3. The guard on duty was Varisian man named Dravis Puln, who swears he saw and heard nothing all night. It so happens that his brother Ecra Puln was one of the 3 men pulling duty in the guard room (#1) so it would seem blame rests squarely upon the Varisian brothers, who are now sleeping in preparation for another all nighter tonight. Rollo Thent has asked you to determine their guilt in no uncertain terms.
You happen to know just a little more than you let on to Thent. It is well known that there is also a crypt a little farther below of ancient origin and an old well chamber that has a dried up cistern. But an old drinking buddy had previously described these ruins to you (when they were still ruins) and you know that down in the capped off well, lies the entrance to other ancient worm eaten passages that lead you know not where.