Ok, everyone rolls a knowledge local
You flounder about a bit throughout the town but eventually you find the boarding house, and are able to call Brinya out. She looks at the lot of you oddly "Yes?"
Kilien wordlessly hands over the note from Rodrik to his brother.
She reads it, and as she goes through the note she begins to sob, leaning against the wall and slowly sliding down it until she sits against the wall. She looks at the note wordlessly as she finishes the note, and whispers through the sobs
Kilien holds up the hopeknife that they found with Rodrik. "Do you recognize this weapon?" she asks the grieving widow.
Jorani bows solemnly to Brinya, ”Our deepest condolences, Rodrick was a good man. It just ... doesn’t make sense, does it?” he says, trying to console her with his words.
She says through her tears "it is a Hopekhife with the same message as mine on it, but it's not the hopeknife I grew up with. He was a good man, and it doesn't make a lick of sense. " She calms down a little bit, but she is still a wreck.
"If there is a way to send a message to those who have passed beyond, we will. I would suggest a prayer if nothing else. His spirit might hear you. But it is my belief that somebody killed him before he had a chance to mend things with you. Most likely, his investigations were the cause. Either the plague house, or those white crosses or swords around town. We will learn the truth and we will avenge him. Did he share anything with you about his investigations? What he had found, or what he suspected?"
Jorani nods, ”Aye, Magnar has the truth of it. It seems more likely than not that he was murdered. It must be a terribly difficult time for you, but please try and remember anything out of the ordinary that may have transpired recently. We seek justice, nothing is inconsequential in that quest.”
"What happened to the one ye had before, if ye did not grow up with this one?" Geim asked as he chewed on his fingernails.
"She gave it to Rodrick as a token of her love, and he lost it. He had a replacement forged by Morninghawk - we found the receipt. I suppose could go talk to the smith. That's why the customer, Rodrik, commissioned a knife dedicated to himself - he was replacing the lost one."
She nods as Magnar talks "He has the gist of it. As for anything out of the ordinary not that I know of, he has been going to the Iomedae temple to write more recently, I assume he found a special mood there. His journal might be there, I'm not sure."
"Thank you Brinya, we will go look for that journal. But in case we can't find it, do you have anything that Rodrik wrote to you? We might wish to compare the handwriting with this note here."
She says "He wrote me many poems, it was what originally made me notice him. I'll go get you one"
She goes to her room and brings out a slip of paper and gives it to you, the poem reads (To be read to this music This
"Shining like the sun
Bringing light into my life
Miss Brinya my love" and you can compare it to the note
Kilien wipes away a tear at the poem, then carefully rearranges her face to try and appear more solemn and businesslike. "We will speak to the Iomedaeans. Thank you for your help," she says gruffly.
"Thank you, Brinya, may you find comfort in his words, and in the memory of his deeds and spirit. We will do what we can for you, and for Rodrick. We are in your debt." Jorani speaks gently to Brinya, and then readies himself to follow the others to their next destination.
Magnar examines the writing carefully.
"A skilled forgery. We are dealing with trained professionals here. We should be on our guard. Brinya, I am convinced this note is a forgery and Rodrik did not kill himself. We will find out who killed him, and bring them to justice."
With that, he prepares to head to the temple of Iomedae.
Jorani nods, ”We’ll get to the bottom of this, rest assured.” and he follows Magnar’s lead.
Killien and Geim you ready to move on?
Roll Knowledge Local
You make your way to the temple of Iomedae as you near it roll initiative, as you see 3 young looking wolves, frothing at the mouth and running your way from between some building
First up are the wolves, they go for the flank on and all 4 attack, on hits roll a Fort save
Next is Geim
Geim raised his large hammer above his head and brought it down, uncomfortably shifting at the last second as Jorani moved to dodge out of the way of one of wolves.
Kilien's bow hand twitches, but the wolves have closed the distance between them too quickly. Instead she punches one of them with her knee and steps around it to break away from the other wolves surrounding her. She tries to flank her wolf with Geim.
Jorani roll to confirm, all the other attacks missed
He would be able to take multiple attacks of opportunity though the first 1 obviously missed.
Magnar moves and uses Touch of Law on Geim.
"Trust in Torag! He will guide your hammer."
Jorani downs the wolf, and the other two attack Geim again ... and time to confirm 2 crits and the above saves, with a -2 penalty if the individual crit confirms
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