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Albert Fiskerne's last resistance to Jervil's involvement broke within the year. A number of merchant members of Dernhem's Lords' Assembly were murdered, their bodies horribly mangled as if torn apart by a bear. The authorities began to investigate, but when Lords Gulwurth and Drecklan were victimized in a single night, Master Fiskerne's financial support for the inn evaporated and the innkeeper feared for his future. Thus, while the young new Magistrate and her closest advisors observed the victims' bodies lying in state before the Hall of Judgment, Albert Fiskerne pled with Jervil to protect him and the inn from whatever foul villain was murdering prominent businessmen.

Jervil agreed, beginning with runic enchantments to Fiskerne himself "as a safety precaution," the rat-man assured the innkeeper, followed by a series of runes secretly inscribed throughout the Fair Harvest inn. Then the possessed rat-man set about finding what was responsible for killing off two-thirds of the living human subjects of the Bookbinding. He began with a trip to the catacombs where Lords Gulwurth and Drecklan were buried, and followed that with a series of nightly expeditions into the city by clusters of gremlins, rats, and runemotes.

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A very carefully constructed scene here.

Enjoy!

Note: Bookbinding and Demon's Due are a work of fantasy and fiction. The artist/creator in no way condones real mistreatment of this kind toward any woman or man, by living person, gremlin, plant, assassin, ratman, viscous fluid, programmed device, animated home furnishings, or otherworldly spiritual beings. Furthermore, the artist opposes the marginalizing and restriction of women in general by any institution, political and/or religious, including those which have individual women amongst their membership touting/promoting their own happiness within that institution as evidence that ALL women should feel the same way. This includes the religion I was raised in and which I have utterly discarded from my life over this and other issues.
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Comments: 4

Mistersneaky [2014-04-21 23:12:34 +0000 UTC]

"Oh HELL naw! I'M the villain here! If someone thinks they can roll into town and start doing terrible things without me, they're sadly f*#&!ng mistaken!

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erick288 [2014-04-21 17:02:01 +0000 UTC]

The one thing that seems out of place, or at least interesting, is the book in Theonius' hands.  I get that he's the scribe and all, but does he really carry it everywhere?  The other puzzling thing is that I can count four shadows and yet I'm not quite certain the shadow between Tarkin and Drea exactly matches Tarkin so ... am I seeing something, or am I jumping at literal shadows?

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Mistersneaky In reply to erick288 [2014-04-26 15:38:37 +0000 UTC]

I think he sees a spider on Drea's helmet, and he's gearing up to smash it

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White-Feather [2014-04-21 09:40:31 +0000 UTC]

'beginning with runic enchantments to Fiskerne himself "as a safety precaution,"' .... A safety precaution for *whom*, I wonder? Albert perhaps should have had this deal made out in writing with each clause specifically stated in no uncertain or alternatively interpreted terms....

And something about Tarkin's right hand there suggests he wants to pull the sheets off and get a proper look at how these fellows died...

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