We met Jolton's mayor, Elyl Shona, who was apparently a female halfing just like Ryotine. She was with Ekam, the guard who told us to meet the mayor and Sister Serka from the Monastery of Singing Wind. They were discussing about the attack of kobolds. Ekam said that a third party might be involved since the guards who were guarding the gates were stabbed in the back by a dagger and kobolds don't use daggers. The mayor said that they should form an alliance with the barbarians from the north to strengthen their defense and she asked for our help to gather information regarding this "dagger user".
After that, we went out the hall to explore Jolton. Rohan said he wasn't feeling well and went to Pahpeebee's temple while Ryotine wandered around the village alone. Faeron, Quanta and I went to an armory to sell off our loots. We continued to gather information regarding the "dagger user". However, since daggers are a common tool for living. We had no clue how to proceed with the investigation.
While everyone was scattered in Jolton, I walked around in the town square alone. Then, I noticed something wasn't right. My dagger's sheath feels empty... As I move my hand towards the dagger's sheath on my belt, it's gone! I panicked and immediately climb up a house and scan through the villagers in the town square. "No one is holding my dagger! Drok, how did this happen?" Faeron approached me and helped me to locate this dagger thief. I have a bad feeling on what's going to happen. The guards were stabbed by dagger and now my dagger is missing! Someone is definitely trying to put the blame on me!
Meanwhile, Jolton's harvest festival is starting soon. The mayor is giving a speech and everyone was gathered in the town square. I stayed on the roof of a house to see if there is anyone suspicious in the crowd. I have a feeling someone is going to kill the mayor with my dagger. After a while, I saw a hooded person leaving the crowd. That's suspicious! All the villagers are heading towards the town square while he's the only one leaving. I quickly told Faeron and we followed him. He went to the town's well and dropped some chemical into it. "This must be the dagger thief!". Faeron immediately gave chase to the hooded person while I told Quanta who was nearby to identify the water in the well. After awhile, he told me it's poisoned. We quickly dashed to the mayor and told him about this. The mayor looks shocked and told Ekam to follow us to pursue the hooded person.
The last thing I saw before telling the mayor the well was poisoned was Faeron, Ryotine, Kim and Rohan running towards the Sheriff office's direction. So, I told Quanta and Ekam to go there as well. However, no one could be seen in that direction. Then, Ekam walked towards the abandoned house opposite of the Sheriff office and opened the door. To our surprise, we saw a hooded dead body with MY dagger stabbed on her back. Ekam identified the body and said she was the negotiator of the barbarians from the north. The rest of the guards as well as the barbarians came in and was aghast by what they saw. The leader of the barbarians, Sollek started yelling and demanded an explanation but that damned fool - Kim went up to him and said "Calm your tits man". What the drok? As a result, Sollek swings his huge great axe angrily on Kim and almost killed Kim... I whispered to the others, "Are we going to give our selves in or do we run now?". Although I wanted to escape and prove my innocence, the rest of the party wanted to surrender. Darn! Since I can't accomplish much on my own... I followed their actions and stood there for Ekan to arrests us. We were then locked in a prison cell.
The others seemed quite cool about it though. Especially Quanta, he starts to trance and ignore the rest of us. Then Rohan, he casted a mist spell for no reason. Not long after, a lady with blue glowing eyes peeked into the cell. "They don't seem evil" said the lady. Ekam then opened the prison cell and interrogated us. He knew that we're innocent but Sollek demands justice and wants me executed... He said he couldn't help us with just that little information... He then proceeded to lock us back in our cells.
When night arrived, some of us were awakened by a whisper outside the prison cell. The lady who we met just now was outside. She goes by the name of Lady Jinna. She said if we don't leave now, I'll be executed tomorrow. She believed that we're innocent and unlocked the prison cell with a key that she attained from the sleeping guard. I quickly woke the others up. Before we leave, she told us to make this incident looks as if we broke out of it. So, Quanta corroded the lock with his acid spell. We took back our belongings and thanked Lady Jinna and left the prison silently.
At first, I wanted to climb over the wall of Jolton to escape but the walls are too high. Ryotine said we should escape from the front door and Faeron said we need a distraction to confuse the guards. Rohan then went to set a fire on the nearby houses. Drok! He could have killed someone with that fire! But what done is done, we quickly run towards the gate of Jolton. As expected, the door was locked. I told them to open the door but someone said opening the door might awaken the villagers. So, me and Ryotine jumped off the walls beside the gate to escape. Ouch! That hurts... After that, we realize Quanta is too old to jump and Ryotine's dog refused to jump as well. Faeron then opened the door and the rest just walked out of it. Opening the door didn't make much noise... We should have just opened the door in the first place. Before we start running towards south, Rohan shouted "fire! fire!", hoping that the villagers would wake up before anyone got hurt by the fire.
Not long after, Jolton sent some guards on horse to chase after us. We went into a forest and successful lost them. Now, how should I clear my name?...
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