Tabbitha

Your Grace ,Duke Irvyn.

As I have not as yet had the opportunity to speak to you in person,I am sending you a copy of my writings from the Town Meeting that was held recently in Skara Brae.

I have to advise you some of the suggestions as to the cause of Trinsics current situation,may seem harsh,but recent events have brought various thoughts to people,wich they had a right to express.

Report on Town Meeting ,Skara Brae

I oversaw the setting up of the healing station by the jail as you requested.
However several attempts to do the same by the Inn near Paladin Isle proved impossible.
It seemed the more folk tried to quell the invasion, the further into town the infected creatures came.

I reluctantly left Trinsic with Sir Elliot to attend the Town Meeting in Skara Brae.
It wasnt pleasing to do that ,leaving bretheren to cope alone,but it was vital we found a solution and possible answers to this occurence.

Arriving in Skara Brae a little late,I was mildly surprised to see Klion D'GAr's son Tristan boldly sat at a table.
Yes I had stated all leaders' to attend ,I didnt expect to see a Yewman though.

No matter,he might be bringing some thing of value to the table.We would see.
Lord Taggart of the Templars was there and before too long others arrived.

The meeting with opened with several questions,to begin the debate.

Why had this occurred in Trinsic ?

Why was the town deserted of guards and allied help?

Had the Duke and Duchy fled to safety?

How could we restore the city to safety.

I opened the debate and it wasnt too long before a flood of ideas and theories began to be shouted out.
I was taken aback, by some of the remarks that were made about the Duchy but I had to be honest about the town not being guarded adequately
stating I had seen no one other than Pierre earlier that evening.

Cal Soulshadow immediately came to the Duchy's defense [ loudly accomapnied by Gwen the bar supervisior from the Rose]

The Commander pointed out the guard were probably fighting over on the Island and aiding the Paladins,but I had to disagree with her as both Pierre and I had been knocked trying to reach there and apart from Paladins falling in large numbers not a flash of a red uniform was seen.

Several arguments then broke out amongst the leaders,one at least ,that was nothing to do with the topic of this meeting.

I was accused of not giving enough time for the Duchy to attend the meeting,even though the rest of us had managed it.

This was met with the response that the Duke or other high ups in the town , were maybe too busy fighting to attend 'meaningless meetings'.

We all of us knew though,that neither Moiraine or yourself would be allowed to take such a risk that could leave the town with no leadership.

Lord Taggart was being asked about a point he had made. The point that because Trinsic had lowered its moral standing lately,could be the main factor for the infected creatures appearing.

Maybe the city's lack of of its Virtue ,Honour, had generated this evil ?

This idea brought forth more harsh words and resulted in Commander Soulshadow storming from the meeting muttering words to the effect of 'childish people growing up'

In an attempt to steer the meeting back to Trinsic and how we could aide them best.
I pointed out my Order had set up adequate healing stations to ease the load from the towns healers.
Even they were under attack at times as Shadow wryms amazingly were opening doors and attacking them and even the injured in their sick beds.

More manpower was needed ,if we were to control the sutuation.

Lady Cherry and Lord Muldran discussed the crater in the town and how there was an obvious connection.to this catastrophe.

The Shadow Court decided to travel to Minoc and carry out further research We bid them a safe journey.*[see attached report ]*

Others pledged their help as they too set off to return home.

The usual "You know where we are if you need us" or "Send word if you need us " was said.UI wondered where tohnight the obvious 'we need you KNOW' hadnt been cleartly stated?

A small group of us remained behind,and discussed more practical reasons why Trinsic of all the places had spawned this horror.

Was this an attack on the Virtues?

Or was Trinsic just merely reaping what it had sown over past years ?

Would other cities and towns become infected?

Not everything I heard was to my liking ,but at this stage no one could rule out anything.

I hope to discuss the matter with you ,personally,in the next day or two.

Meantime the Hospitallers shall continue aiding the guards and healers updating you regularly on matters as needed

Regards
Lady Tabbitha
Grandmaster
Knights Hospitaller

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