Board Thread:Roleplaying/@comment-5824038-20141217155427/@comment-5583506-20150118132649

"So, what do you make of it, Ghost-Wolf?" asked the brother of the recently murdered noble. "Alfred may have been eccentric, but he wasn't a cruel man!"

Valkyrie stood still and observed the crime scene. Alfred Levontius sat by his desk with a gunshot to the heart and just as usual, there were no actual signs of any breaking and entering. A letter in the shape of a "W" in the victim's blood was also to be found.

"I haven't let his daughter, my niece, to see this... monstrosity. She knows... what has happened, but that is all she needs to know right now."

Valkyrie didn't respond, but continued to examine the scene in silence. She couldn't smell any scent of gunpowder and she couldn't even find any footprints or fingerprints other than that of the victim. It was as if she was dealing with a ghost, only that she had been dealing with ghosts before, and usually they left traces of ectoplasm behind them. This time there weren't any.

I am at a loss here...

"We among the noble are willing to pay you whatever amount of gold you demand, in return that you bring this villain to justice... or injustice, whichever you prefer. We want the culprit dead, that's all."

"I see", she said. "Well, I will certainly look into it. This one will be a hard one."

As she returned to the estate, she wondered if there was any connection between the noble families. So far she had only figured out that it was the heads of the family which had been murdered, while the remaining members had been left alive. Other than that small clue, there was nothing. There were no connections among the families, not even blood ties, which hinted that the murderer killed the heads of the noble families at random.

It actually made her a little worried for a second. She was the head of her own noble family, the last member still alive as a matter of fact. What if the culprit would eventually find his or her way to the Ghost-Wolf Estate? Would she be able to outwit and defeat this villain or would she succumb as the rest of the nobles?