A report has reached me from an anonymous member of the Samsara...

    When Lord Aenon and Lady Cedon Apocaps made an open invitation to the great and the good of Atys to celebrate the Lady's birthday the last thing we were expecting was to have to investigate a murder.

    However, that's what happened.

    I suppose we Samsara had put in enough effort at the behest of the intendent and acquitted ourselves well enough on the demands of the Emperor that we too received the invitation but the airs and graces of the 'noble' set - an attitude far more usual in Matis than Pyr, instantly set our teeth on edge.

    From the Tryker butler (surely a demeaning position to a people thatwere once slaves) through the flirtatious Lord, the jealous Lady, the shrill Lady Caun and some Matis hussy who remains in my mind only as cleavage, the party was full of 'characters', not least of all a tight-lipped zorai hunter-to-order.

    Exposed to the arrogance and prejudice of the upper classes, even in Pyr, bastion of the imperial republic, we were not particularly inclined to be worried too much about the death of one of their number, even the Lady Caun of Tryker who was, apparently, murdered with some manner of poison. More than one of our number was heard to mutter 'good riddance' at the news.

    However, there was soon the mention of reward and that got or investigative juices flowing. After intensive questioning of each of the suspects we eventually managed to hedge a confession of sorts out of Lady Cedon who had hired the Zorai hunter to kill Caun to protect her and her husband's reputation.

    Still, the important thing was the reward and that we were the ones to pocket it. Four million dappers and a goodly quantity of kitin larva to share between our group - the most difficult to find crafting material on all of Atys. Not bad for a day's work, don't you think? You people should pay these social soirees more attention; it's surprising what you can pick up.
   
    Well, there you go, there's your story, where's my free drink? Pay for it myself? Fat chance, that reward was earned by the guild, it stays for the guild.

    Firewine please, nothing too posh, high society leaves a bad taste in my mouth...