{{:shackled_city:session3_asault.jpg?473|The Last Laugh beats up Rufus }}

====== 2009-02-08: First visit to Cauldron ======

After an overnight stop at the [[shared:lucky_monkey]]. I identify some of the [[shared:treasures_found#session_2|magic items]] that we found before we travel forth to [[shared:cauldron]].

We say hi to //Zeb//, the old gate guard, as we enter through the [[shared:west_gate]]. On the way to my house we here screams for help and as we rush towards the screaming we encounter three people beating up some one. The assailant's have there faces painted in black and white, the sign of [[shared:the_last_laugh]] and they flee as we approach, interrupting them it seems. 

The battered man turn out to be //Rufus of Tyr// and is a friend to the golden man and the elf. He was investigating the abduction of four children. The assaulter's wanted him to stop looking, and not just mugging him as it first looked like. 

We escort //Rufus// back to the [[shared:church_of_tyr]] where we met //Jenya//, the highest ranking priest present, and //Alek// the chief paladin. The high priest is out on a mission somewhere. //Jenya// asks for our help finding the kidnapped children. After I hear about the reward I gladly accept the [[shared:missing_children|commission]], as do my other traveling companions although I believe the reasoning for doing so is different, at least for some of them. 

{{:shackled_city:session3_riddle.jpg|Riddle presented by Jenya}}
//Jenya// presents all the facts she have gathered so far. Four children have been kidnapped from the [[shared:church_of_tyr|Church of Tyr's]] children's home, [[shared:lantern_street_orphanage]]. There where no signs of a brake in. Several other kidnappings have taken place recently as well. She have promised that the church would find these children. And under the pressing circumstances she had used a divination device of some kind that normally only the high priest were allowed to use. And as expected the outcome was cryptic giving no obvious starting point. Hopefully the riddle she presented will shed more light as we uncover more information.

I have started compiling a new document with all useful information on this case. I will continue to add all further findings there as well. I have titled the document ---  //[[shared:missing_children]]//.

//Ilf Zaug --- Anno 090208//