Board Thread:Roleplaying/@comment-5824038-20141217155427/@comment-5583506-20150121143311

"Here is our stop, ma'am", said the captain as the ship docked by the wharf.

Valkyrie took a step onto the squeaky wooden boards and lumbered her way down to the closest inn.

The Drowned Rat, she thought as she entered. ''Fitting name for such a filthy inn... But if there is any good place to find out about rumours, it would be here.''

"What can I get the lady then?" asked the innkeeper and kept his hands visible on the counter.

"How about a nice piece of rumour?" she asked and leaned over the counter.

"Let's see... rumours... rumours..."

''Don't tell me he suggests that I pay him? I don't have any gold to give, only lead.''

"I have heard there was some nobleman killed last day or so. Lord what's-his-name or something like that, you know how it goes. All those damn nobles end up sharing the same name."

"Intriguing", said Valkyrie and gave him a phony smile. "Nothing else?"

The innkeeper lowered his eyebrows. "Well, earlier tonight there was a loud bang coming from somewhere west of here. There was some commotion there as well, but I have customers to attend to and haven't been able to leave my inn."

"Thank you for the information", she said and tipped her hat as she left the inn just as quickly as she had entered.

''A loud bang? Explosives? No, that doesn't quite fit the pattern of this killer. There couldn't possibly be any relations to him... or could there?''

There was no time to lose. She had to go over there and find out for herself.