Once we left the ship, we headed back and collected the horses. It was there that Emelio informed us that he was going to head off with his sister, while we went back to Freiburg to heal. He didn't want to stay in Eisen very long, and definately did not want to head back to Freiburg, where his sister's "Intended" owned and ruledhalf of the city, and would be out looking for her,oncehe found out she was missing. We, on the other hand, had to go back, aswe were woundedpretty bad, and we had to get the girls back at the inn. So, making plans to meet inInnismoreat Tara, in about a month, Emelio takes one horse and heads off with his sister. Rebecca stood and watched him start to ride off, when he suddenly turns the horse around, and comes back. Sliding off the horse, being careful not to re-injure his ankle, he grabs her up inhis arms andgives her a hot passionate kiss, before releasing her, remounting, and heads off to the south to skirt around the city.It takes our group over a day to get back to the city, going slow for those unused to riding, and wounded. Once we get back to the inn, Clause, the innkeeper sees what state we are inand hurries us to our rooms, while having a surgeon brought to the inn for our use. It is three days before he allows us to get up and come down for a breakfast of sausage and hard beer.It is during this breakfast, that Issak Giessler, the antique and pottery dealer, comes running into the inn, fear in his eyes and calling for help. Once they calm him down, they question him and find out exactly what his problems are this time.A friend of his had told him that a day or two ago, several men had come into his shop, asked if he knew Issakthe pottery dealer who owed them money, and tried to get info on him, using more of a strong arm form of questioning, by breaking a few things in the shop, but his friend did not give the men any information, and after wrecking the shop a bit, the men left. According to his friend, the men were all wearing panzerhands and carried shields with a emblem on it of a two headed eagle. This morning as Issak was sitting in his shop, across the street he saw such men heading into his neighbors shop, and he paniced and ran out of his shop, and to the inn to find us, since we had helped him before.Once we got the story out of him, and the fact that he didn't know who they were, and he didn't owe anyone moneywe left him in the care of the innkeeper, while we went to check about the situation. He had left the shop unlocked, and no one was there, and nothing seemed to have been roughed up or broken. The place was a bit of a mess, but the kind of mess where it just wasn't cared for, and things just left where they were. Lots of dustshowed footprints of only a single man, Issak, who would comeinto the store and then sit at the desk and do nothing until it was time to close up shop. Deciding that maybe it was something at the shop, Rebecca starts trying to clean up some of the areas, looking around to see if there was something the men might have been looking for, and the others help, but all they find are crates of pottery in the back room, a few antique pieces of furniture, with broken legs or missing pieces, and the back door into the alley. Seig locks booth doors while we do a more thorough search, and we find a root cellar, but it looked like nothing had been in it for quite a while. As soon as we head out of the building, across the street we hear a woman screaming "Help! Murder! Ironguards!"So we head over to find a art shop that has been disseminated and a woman pointing behind the counter and crying "He's been killed!" Looking over the counter, they find the body of a man, that when Seig checks him out, finds lots of bruises and sword cuts, but it looks like he was killed by a grip to the throat. Beside the man was a small dagger, that looked like he had tried to protect himself with, but it had been useless. As Seig finishes checking the body, the Ironguard arrives, and after they look at the evidence, and see that we did not have any broad swords or panzerhands, that had caused the bruising,so that we were not suspects,they tell us to leave, so we head back to the inn to talk to Issak, to find out what he knew about the man.Issak is upset to find out his neighbor was killed, but we found out that the man had been a friend of his wive's, them both being artist, and when his wife had died, his neighbor had also been upset, but that Issak hadn't spoken to him in a while because doing so remined him of his wife. A lot of things reminded him of his wife it seemed, and he was just not dealing with her death in childbirth, and loosing both his wife and child. Trying to see if maybe it was something his wife might have had, that the men were looking for, we ask him if we can check his house, and he allows us, but we have him stay at the inn while we do.Going to the house, we find it in the same condition as the shop, dusty and cluttered, and uncared for.Once again we search through things, but still find nothing that seems out of the normal for a potter and an antique dealer.We also check thestream by the house, where she collect clay for her pottery, but it is just regular clay,so we go back to the inn. At this point Rebecca decides to scan Issak's fate strands, trying to see if she can pick up any information through them. She doesn't find much except that he hasn't been coping well with himself since his wife's death, having a conflicting cup strand to himself from his heart to his head, thick and with a king card on it, so it couldn't be messed with.Deciding once again to head back to the shop, to see if they missed anything, we search it again, but still nothing. Stumped and frustrated, we head out of the building, when we spot a man standing in the street, brushing off his jacket. Looking up as we walk out, he calls out to Seig. "You sir are a cad and a lout, and I am here to challenge you to a duel for the honor of a lady that you dishonored!"Seig is taken back for a moment, but states that he has no idea of what the man is talking about. "Who is this lady that would send a manto fight me sothat I can apologize to her after I hand yourmanhood over to her on a plate?" he asks, while straightening his jacket to show off his golden swordsman's guild pin."She prefers not to have her name reveiled, but it is I that will be handing her your manhood on a plate." the man replies as he also straightens up to show he also wears a golden swordsman's guild pin.It is here that we left off tonight.
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Fate, a four letter word, with a lot of strings attached.
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"We Pay to Plunder!!"
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The price of anything is the amount of life you exchange for it.
Henry David Thoreau
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Do not mettle in the affairs of Dragons...for you are crunchy and tastey with ketchup.
