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Minister of Trade Office:

Several others joining investigation effort included in debriefing. Captain gave a very detailed and thorough description of the events found at sea. Need to check with harbor master for when the Willowwood left harbor or was due back. Mages confirm presence of persistant magcial aura on the prisoner, but have not yet determined the nature of the magic. They suspect that it has to due with protection from mind reading attempts.

There has been one previous derilict vessel boarded with similar circumstances. No bodies, no survivors, no logs.

King has expressed concern that the pirates are privateers from Danek.

Captain points out that the pirates were all identically equiped and all wore brown pants, white shirts.

They will give the interrogators a day to question the prisoner. We are to return in two days time.

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Return to the Ministers Office

Prisoner died during interrogation, somewhat "unusually". He was highly resistant to questioning. Another attempt was made to magically pull information from his mind, whereupon the prisoner entered into convulsions and died.

Captain Boohard of the Elahair has offered the services of his ship. Six of his crew members have agreed to go along. The ship will be a decoy vessel full of mercenaries. I'm hoping there are more mercenaries than are currently in the room.

Report from the kings wizard…the nature of the spell was itself clouded. It had some shielding and some injurous component such that when certain conditions occurred, the spell killed the prisoner. An attempt was made to disspell it but was unsuccessful.

Kua joined me for a good dinner.

The next morning our vessel loaded up. I was very grateful to see two armed men join us. An old man seemed to take an unusual interest in our vessel. Gnomes went off to investigate. I created an illusion of additional crates to be loaded on our ship, but I think it was too late…our watcher had already lost interest.


We had an uneventful week long trip to Dier, and an uneventful trip back.