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Independent TBA Investigation

Historical Event
156-4-16

This is a three-day investigation undertaken by the detective agency run by Saskia Byrne under the guidance of Sherik T'Skin, following a tip-off from Feckward. Saskia and her colleagues Set Amenhasensahib and Astra Yaevis pose as Troll Bridge Association (TBA) - Mor'Koc Branch employees in order to investigate a number of murders and missing persons cases in and around the Mor'koc Branch.

Setting up in The Golden Cat in the city centre, they set about investigating the bodies of the known (found) victims. Astra and Set discover a series of subterranean tunnels filled with Morian giant spiders, which they attempt to explore but find they can't go far into alone. Meanwhile Saskia and Set's homonculus Unknown enter the city morgue to try and find some answers but come up relatively short on satisfying leads, though they do pick up a feral Bronze Dragonling who becomes rather attached to Saskia.

On the morning of the second day, Set makes his opinions to Saskia clear that he didn't want to come here and he was planning to leave the agency. Saskia, for not the first time, talks him out of this.

Inside the Agency, Set reports to Yasmine for duty - and is put on cleaning duty, taking him far away from where he intended to be. While Natum scans his immediate superior's office looking for useful information, Set is come over briefly ill after encountering Rosechild, then interviews the janitor and has a bizarre exchange with one of several chickens Astra undercover in the kitchen accidentally set loose which, in his haste to complete the mission and get home to his family, Set overthinks and follows along totally the wrong train of thought.

Meanwhile, Saskia is acting as a clerk , and is sent to take inventory of a merchant caravan at the East Dockyard. She gets off on an immediately bad footing with the merchant, whose name is Lug, when her new pet Dragonling eats one of his imported ice apples. Lug is during the inventory check found to be transporting Spore and is arrested and executed. On the way back to the inn, she is attacked by a pair of thugs, who the Dragonling also deals with.

The following day, after gathering more information from the TBA, the team work their way down the tunnels and encounter more giant spiders, including one with the Vampire virus, and cocoons containing some of the missing people, one of whom they are able to rescue. Sadly, Set is killed fighting off the Vampire spider.

Initially Saskia comes to the conclusion that the girl they rescued is the murderer, but with further investigation Astra works out that Rosechild is a Vampire and is feeding off his assistants. Upon confronting him, Rosechild effortlessly kills the guards that Saskia and Astra have brought to help them. With no way of defeating the much more powerful Vampire and with Saskia not wanting to leave her daughter motherless, Astra, thinking on her feet, manages to make a deal with him to be paid off for their silence. The official report states that the spiders were the cause of the deaths.

The group return to The Imperial City of Gor’Raj’Ka, and Saskia, unable to continue in good conscience after the death of Set and the way that events in Mor'Koc went, permanently shuts down the Byrne Detective Agency. Astra buys The Blue Bottle Cafe and retires, and Natum returns to Set's family to continue serving them.