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Case Files 02, Lucy's Diary
Sir Oscar had permitted the recruitment of Grand Company allied adventurers. Some were veterans I knew from the Reclamation United organisation, the company that trained seasoned or retired heroes into new combat and crafting industries. Or so they say. I had my suspicions, true, yet investigations yielded no evidence to charges laid and thus was I forced to close. I have since grown to respect and admire the veterans of the company, for their services to the realm and myself both. On this day they proved invaluable once again, and did search the home of Don Carmine vigorously.
Traces of sleeping potions were discovered by Kazarien and Bharyaar, coupled with an injection device found by Eretria Mist. A maid happened in during our search, and upon sight of us did she panick, arousing suspicion to my keen detective senses. Overcome by scrutiny, she fled, and of course, we followed. The chase brought us to the Quiveron Manse, where this suspicious maid, a Hyurran woman, was given refuge by the leaderless Lalafelin gang, once followers of the self proclaimed Baron Von Quiveron III Esquire, now dead.
A pack of goalless jackals who plague on the residents of Lost Hope, it was quite the shock to learn of their involvement with this plot. The suspicious maid, seeking escape through a burrowed tunnel under the Quiveron sheds, fell to her death, the weapon found on her person, a dagger with projectile mechanism for injection needles, identified her as the hired assassin Alice Blade, born Allison Blake. Remains of the self same sleeping potion discovered by Kazarien was found engaged in the weapon, so tested for deadly poisons, by the daring Vash Marlboro. Fortunately, he lived, giving hope to Lady Rose that Don Carmine yet breaths.
Our clues now remained two. Inspecting the dagger to trace the origin of the potions within, and also to locate any known contacts of the deceased assassin, for information on the kidnapping. One such affiliate confessed to hiring a carriageman for a job with the assassin, but he knew little else of the killer's task. The carriageman was found and arrested, upon which he divulged the route and passengers of the journey in question, where did ferry a masked woman and unconscious man from Thanalan to La Noscea, specifically to Castrum Occidens, a Garlean base.
Thereforth a cross-company Alliance taskforce was raised, led by Sir Oscar, lead invstigator, to find and rescue the missing Ul'dhan businessman. Don Carmine was indeed successfully rescued and returned to the waiting arms of his daughter. Yet, presumably shocked and still striken by the ordeal, the Carmine family wish not to aid further to the purpose of the kidnapping. For this reason, we are to question the carriageman further, while a plan to infiltrate Castrum Occidens again is yet hatched.
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