A plan in motion...

The day after your swearing of the Hellfire Compact, Cimri wakes early to help carry out a plan designed by Wyran with the help of Kol. Openly working as someone conducting an investigation on behalf of the Archbaron, she begins to make stops at various houses of citizens to inquire if they know the whereabouts of her Aunt Rhona. 

A shrewd observer would notice that rather than visiting anyone close to Rhona Staleish that might actually have information, Cimiri is visitng known gossipmongers, women who have a penchant for passing on rumor and here-say with much embeliishment and very little verification.

An even more shrewd observer might notice that shortly after starting the rumors, Chimri disappears into an alley way, looking over her shoulder and making sure she is not being followed. A few minutes later, she emerges and heads to the Jackdaw Stables. After speaking with Rianne Fortmile and placing a few coins in her hands, Cimri scribbles a note on a slip of paper, which is then attached to a messenger crow, and launched into the air. 


By late morning, the town is well aware of why Wyran Thrune chose to display the corpses of the 2 former junior deputies in the pillories. The four deputies were involved in a plot to heist unpaid taxes from Jabral Luslik's tannery. After learning that they, along with their suspected ringleader, former Sheriff Rhona Staelish, were being temporarily dismissed from their post, pending a full investigation by Wyran Thrune and his assistants, they decided to ambush and attempt to murder them. 

To corroborate the story, Junior Deputy Curtwyn (the one who was so eager to load his crossbow in the Sheriff's Office and shoot Wyran) has confessed to being a part of the heist. He wanted a cut of the unpaid taxes so he could "leave this backwater cesspool of a town and travel to be a guard in glorious Westcrown". Curtwyn implicates all other parties, including the surviving Junior Deputy Whitbrook (Female Warrior 2), his two dead allies, and Rhona Staelish. Sadly, Curtwyn being the youngest, least experienced of the deputies, has no idea where the gold is, and believes it may have been taken by Staelish. 

By noon, a new post goes up on the post board by the church, abd in the Last Stand Tavern - a bounty of 1,000 gold pieces for the capture of Rhona Staelish, ALIVE.

The town is a buzz with talk about the scandal. While anger towards the Archbaron's new investigators is lessened, the citizens are no admirers of the Archbaron. The gruesome display of the slain deputies, although now taken down, still shocked and outraged many of the citizens, and is not something that they will soon forget.