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The Case Of The Harvest Festival The Milyagon Harvest Festival was the biggest anyone could remember. Not only was it a good year for crops with just enough rain and not too much rain there was also almost the whole population of the neighboring town, Restagin, joining the celebration. When many at Restagin were sick Mathius helped the witch and Milathia gather herbs. Milathia went along to Restagin to help their wise woman with the ill. Everyone got better and Milathia came back to Milyagon but then it seemed like Mathius was showing up every weekend visiting. This caused more than a little bit of talk in the village. So when Milathia invited Mathius to the Harvest Festival Mathius ended up bringing Shamron and most of the people at Restagin along. They all wanted to meet the hardy adventurers who had braved the goblins and hobgoblins on their quest into the mountains for panacea. And it was happy times for all until things started ending up missing. hairylarry posted on 2019-08-22 at 18:32 Central Time. - link to this story -

Mathius was the first to notice that something was awry when he discovered that his saddle bags had been rifled. He was very particular about the way he stowed his possessions and when he found them in disarray he immediately began scanning the area for someone who looked shifty or nervous. It only took him a few minutes to decide whoever had pawed through his stuff was not in the area. The saddle bags were hanging over the stall wall at the smithy's and anyone might have walked in and gone through them. Turning back to the shop he looked around for anything else that had been disturbed. Yon Rogar was not one to be trifled with and he would not tolerate anyone snooping around in his forge. Seeing no other obvious signs of intrusion Mathius sat down with his pack and began sorting his possessions. It was soon evident that who ever had been in the bags had taken one item only and that was his tube of hand drawn maps. vivian 2019-08-23 at 10:31 Central Time.

Less then an hour later a cry rang out from Llewellyn's Jewelry Tent. "My ring, my ring.", shouted Llewellyn. Sheriff Slykver was there in a jiff. "It was right here on display," she told the Sheriff, "and now it's gone." "It was silver, I mean, it had a silver look to it, not actually silver." "I pride myself on quality jewelry at reasonable prices." she said loudly, noticing the crowd gathering around trying to see what was going on. Sheriff Slykver tried to get more details but Llewellyn was distracted by the customers crowding around. The Sheriff couldn't tell if she was describing the stolen ring or the jewelry a customer was looking at. Llewellyn wasn't about to miss a chance at a sale. The Sheriff stepped back and surveyed the fair grounds. He saw mostly people he knew and some from Restagin, but he had no reason to suspect them. After things calmed down he got a description of the ring. He thought maybe it had been misplaced or fell in the grass. Then Mathius walked up. hairylarry 2019-08-24 at 22:43 Central Time.

"Sheriff a moment of your time if you will," Mathius said. "I need your help." Slykver raised his eyebrows, "How can I help you?" "I've discovered that someone has taken a tube of maps I have drawn over the years." "I can't say they are valuable to anyone else but me, but someone must have thought they were or why take them?" "How strange." Slykver frowned as he rubbed his chin. "Llewellyn just announced that she had a ring disappear." "Something is definitely wrong in Milyagon" Mathius said shaking his head. Before he could continue a shout came out for the sheriff from a giant of a man striding across the commons. His face told the sheriff he was angry and it was confirmed by a demand to know what the sheriff was going to do about the theft of his favorite knife. "It was right here in my sheath and now it's gone," he snarled. "It just ain't right to steal a man's knife." "Did you see who took it," Slykver asked? "Didn't see nothin, feel nothin, it's just gone!" vivian 2019-08-29 at 16:19 Central Time.

Milathia was visiting her sister, Marantha, at the Apothecary Shop. While they chatted the witch was looking over Marantha's small collection of magic items. Mavis Goodbody barged in mumbling to herself. "Stuff missing here, stuff missing there, a ring, a knife, someone even took my cats milk dish. Makes no sense." "What's that," said Marantha, "Someone took your cat's milk dish?" "And that's not all." said Mavis. But before she could finish Sheriff Slykver and Mathius came in arguing about the maps. "They were just hand drawn maps in a tube." said Mathius, "Nothing special about them." "There she is," he said and walked over to Milathia. "Tell the Sheriff about my maps." Before she could speak the witch piped in. "Do you mean these maps? I was wondering what they were doing in the magic items. Ain't nothing magical about them." "My maps!", said Mathius. "Now how did they get there?" "Maps, a ring, a knife, and a milk dish." said the witch laying her finger beside her nose. hairylarry 2019-10-05 at 13:52 Central Time.

The sheriff shook his head and the confused look on his face told the others he was as perplexed as they were. "This is the craziest thing I've ever investigated," Slykver said. The witch raised her eyebrows and glancing around the group admitted rather reluctantly that she too was confounded. "I can't say that I see anything particularly telling in this hodgepodge, but I feel that there must be something that connects the items or maybe there is more than one thief and each chose something that was conveniently available." "But who would think a cat's milk dish was worth taking," Mavis interjected. "What's even less understandable they took my corsets. When the shouts of laughter died Mavis glowered and informed the group that it wasn't a laughing matter. vivian 2019-10-06 at 17:33 Central Time.

Mathius said, "And how did my maps get here? I know Marantha didn't take them." Just then the adventurers walked through the door looking a little bit tired of being regaled. Everyone looked up and a hush fell over the room. Once again the witch put her finger beside her nose. "Maybe our heroes can help us solve this mystery." hairylarry 2019-10-06 at 17:41 Central Time.

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