Plots 10 14

With the harvests done, Myrkentown sets to organizing itself before the first inevitable fall of snow. With the eleventh month drawing near, the mornings come earlier and the days shorten; logging caravans filter in on a daily basis, delivering a bounty of fuel with which to fend off the cold.

• A quickly spreading illness is affecting the youth of Myrken Wood. Though the symptoms are strange, they may not be wholly unfamiliar to long time residents. Though tragic, the families of the afflicted can find solace in the fact that the suffering of their loved ones is mercifully ended in only a matter of one or two days, at which time the body seems to succumb to malnourishment.

• Glimpses of men and women dressed in red uniforms have been spotted everywhere from the marketplace to the back alleys of Myrkentown, though they are rarely seen with one another. They seem to have some sort of agenda, but they have not moved against any person or organization in such a way that would call attention to themselves, and they manage to make themselves scarce in the presence of guards and officials.

  Going off of what she was told by Gloria Wynsee, Bern Clydell, a bounty hunter and bodyguard-for-hire, surmised that the disappearance of the street performer known as Vixen, her client and a friend of Wynsee, was tied to the group. Her initially fruitless search took a turn for the better when Egris Verreaux, the Lady Warden, stepped in as a favor to Wynsee and offered her assistance, which Clydell grudgingly accepted. The two continued their investigation and encountered a member of the group lying in wait for them. The woman, calling herself Molleine, boldly admitted that she knew both their identities, suggesting that general intel was available to her organization, as well as the whereabouts of the missing dancer. She wasted no time in attacking them with an unusual weapon.

  Knowing that they were at a disadvantage in the narrow hallway of the Floating Dragon's second story, the two women quickly escaped to the street to even the odds. Molleine was joined by a similarly dressed man, whom she called Bane. He wielded an equally strange weapon, and they pressed the attack together.

• The ex-Governor, Glenn Burnie, and the Lady Warden were seen having what seemed to be a romantic picnic together. There are still rumors about their engagement floating around. Neither party has confirmed nor refuted these rumors.

• Three people--a woman, her young daughter, and a niece--arrived at the Broken Dagger at the beginning of the tenth month, refugees seeking shelter and work after fleeing Thessilane, judging by the crimson adorned when first they arrived. The mother and daughter pair, however, have recently left the third in their party to her own devices, continuing further south without a word or a letter of resignation after having taken positions in the Dagger as maid-staff. The fifteen-year-old left behind bears a striking resemblance to another Myrken Wood native, who'd also worked at the inn--at least until she met the Duke of Thessilane. Said teenager has his coloring, meanwhile.

• Catch has been at the center of a number of tense altercations in the Broken Dagger over the previous weeks, some ending in blood and confusion.