Fires of Creation: The Rakish Inquisition
Cain and Zorden return to the warehouse interior which is now being torn apart, in an orderly fashion, by a few of the town guard. One of the guards, a middle-aged Kellid woman with dark eyes and black hair starting to grey, looks to the pair and their offered assistance skeptically, offering on a terse, "Sergeant Barla; bring me anything you find."
Four guards are at work in the larger storage room of the warehouse, prying open crates to take inventory but coming up empty. Literally. It seems all the various crates are merely for show, but still the guards methodically unstack them, pry them open to be sure, then move them aside.
One guard is at work in Garmen's office with a handful of crates and barrels already pried open. Most of these are empty save for a few to store spare leather armor and a rope for ropefist recruits. The guard is currently in the process of methodically pulling out books from a short shelf near the eastern wall, scanning through them, then piling them up atop the shelf. In the center of the room is a table used for dining, surrounded by mismatched chairs and topped by a willow basket, mismatched dishes and cutlery, and stale food from a meal hours ago. Cain recognizes most of the dishes as coming from The Copper Coin and a few others from the other establishments around town.
Beside the northern wall is what seems to be Garmen's office desk. The chair is thrown aside, from when Garmen first caught Cain breaking in, and a number of drawers have been pulled out and sifted through already by the guard--their contents an array of odds and ends such as blank papers, ink and inkpen, spare nails, loose copper and silver coins, small boxes of tindertwigs and toothpicks, an old oil can, and shoe polish and stained rags. But as Cain moves the drawers and their contents about, the sense of some missing space peaks his half-elven scoundrel senses. With some extra attention and blind fumbling, he manages to unlatch and pull out a drawer hidden within a drawer. That smaller drawer contains within it a slender, unlabeled, leather-bound book. Within the pages of the book Garmen seemed to keep an informal collection of ledgers, notes, and simple contracts.
Most entries provide too little information to interpret and others seem particularly unremarkable, but of the entries which may be of use:
5 copper a day to Iven Lesky for care of Thunder Ranger. -Iven Lesky, Garmen Ulreth
Silverdisk Hall, 197, 199, 208, 205, 267, 243, 248, 251, 259, 242, 243, 254, 241, 233
2 copper a day to Kannum Tannog for services. -Kannum, Garmen Ulreth
Wrennie Dalrorn, Tragshi, Daggermark, 100, 100, 100, 100, 100, 100, 100, 100
50 Silverdisk now, 50 later, for services and men. -Meyanda, Garmen Ulreth
3 Silver a day to Kelaria Ironclaw to guard warehouse. -X, Garmen Ulreth