A shipment of rare, augmented Scintillant Ingots has been stolen while en route from Ishgard to Revenant's Toll. Word from Ishgard tells of the wagon leaving through the Gates of Judgment on schedule with a heavily-armed escort of six seasoned mercenaries. The Chroniclers divide themselves across Coerthas, making inquiries at both the Observatorium and Whitebrim.
Zhan'a Rakhin, Syranelle Ironleaf, and R'Tahira Ohan went to the Observatorium to make inquiries and Irridias Velnyx went to Whitebrim. However, the dragoon stopped off with a local band of gygas that he was friendly with, where he soon discovered tragedy. The Gygas were in an uproar, very distraught. Many were bruised and battered, some having signs of taking magitek gunfire! They went on about "tiny, puny men" and loading a wagon of crates into a "giant metal dragon."
Upon investigating farther north into the Daniffen Pass, Ree found the bodies of two of the guards one of the small pools in the cavern. The bodies of the other four he later found in the pond just on the North end of the tunnel. All dead. It looked like they, too, had taken heavy magitek fire. According to the dragoon, they were up against twenty to forty Garleans and two magitek Reapers.
Whatever those Augmented ingots were, the Empire wanted them badly.
In the aftermath, Tahira was dispatched back to Limsa Lominsa and Maelstrom Command to make her reports on her involvement, as well as to inquire with Naldiq & Vymelli's forges on the nature of the strange metal. Ree took himself to Ishgard to inquire after the origins of the shipment and, perhaps, what the augmented alloy might be used for. Syra returned to Revenant's Toll to make inquiries with the Garlond Ironworks and the original merchant that sent them out to look. Zhan'a was sent to Ul'dah to the Miner's Guild to also make inquiries into this Scintillant metal and its augmentation.