USH'S LORD OF THE RINGS GAME PART 3- The Tournament and the Traitor

"See, bodies do not just appear out of nowhere..." Ellothiel adds.

"Well, someone else must have put him there! Why woulf I have a dead body in my cart?"

OK, two more things to research at present.

1. Halatir - look back a few generations. Anything untoward?

2. Annuneryn - go back a few more generations on the paternal side, is there anything similar? Also, try his maternal side. Perhaps Annuneryn's father had a dodgy inlaw.

Perhaps he married an exceptionally pretty Orc.

Would Gorlim know anything of Annuneryn's father's fall?

"Have you left your cart unattended at all since you loaded it, sir?" Gwilwileth asks, examining the body from a distance.

Gorlim might, but he's only periodically available.

Only thing you get from that, Menelacar, is that the Halatir family has had a fair shre of its Lords dead in battle in the last eight centuries.

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"Err... well... maybe? I can't remember. I don't load it all at once."

(Guys maybe you should try to identify the body?)
To take less time I will help look up Annuneryn's linage.

On whose 'side' where Halatir's ancestors killed? Fighting for Arnor or Orcs? :-)

We know the body is of nobility, it's a Dunadan... but I don't think we would recognize him.

"How do you load it?" Gwil asks.

Did any of the nobles estate's increase a lot over the last decade?

Originally posted by Vera21
We know the body is of nobility, it's a Dunadan... but I don't think we would recognize him.

"How do you load it?" Gwil asks.

Guy with the cart might though.

"Do you recognize this man at all?"

Heh, if only that simple eh, Menelacar? No, the thing is that Halatir's lands are all up north bordering the most dangerous parts of Rhudaur and in the direct line if forces came out of Angmar.

You're in the wrong place for that, Palidan...

Fair question, Argentis. Doesn't look like it though.

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"Err... a spade?" says the man. "And no!"

City guard seems to be turning up at last.

Interesting info about Halatir's lands....

Very interesting. That has got to be the worst bit of land to be Lord of, put between Angmar and Rhudaur...

I could see motive for making deals with Angmar, there, if Halatir is to be suspect.

So, where does that leave you guys thinking? Going to start increasing the pace before too long as this plotline, neat as it is, has just been on ice too long.

Also- test of Strength time, I think! I've lost any notes I might have had on that but I'll try and pull something together.

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All Elves present with the dead guy- you don;t know why, but you all sense something intrinsically... wrong about the death. A feeling few have felt for a long time- even by Elvish reckoning.

No way for someone of noble blood to die, of course.

I know for a fact that Talin had signed up for the Test of Strength! It is his best feature, after all, being sturdy and strong...

Gwilwileth shudders.

"This is wrong," she says. "It was no natural death, nor one of ordinary murder. I can feel that there has to be more to this than one would think. Why is he so cold? He cannot have been dead long..."

Would Gwilwileth be able to suss how long this nobleman has been deceased for?

Walker grunts, "Not the way I'd want to go."

Hard to tell, Gwiwileth! Even if you were of a diagnostic background- which I don;t think you are, though feel free to prove me wrong- that cold could easily have messed up any thinking in that department.

The city guard- bunch of four of them with short lances- see a bunch of Elves in front of them, think twice, and go for the shorty instead.

"Ok, what's been going on here?" they ask Walker.

Before responding he flashed a teasing wink at the elves. He points at the cart driver "This idiot was tearing through here as though pursued and caused the collision. I came over to see if there were any serious injuries, but instead I discovered that dead fellow in the, uh, lading over there. I was just asking the driver about it when you arrived. Seems there's been a murder."