Hey Bart, hope business is good. I just got myself a real nice job in Great Cleave. A hundred gold a week to guard a big empty house. What am I gonna guard it from? A snowman?\n\nThe guy who hired me, Iki, he’s a weird get. But then he gives me my advance—a bag of gold as big as my head! Remember when we only made two coins a month, and that to fight for our lives every day? \n\n-Corey

Found abandoned in Ebonscale Reach

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I finally got so bored, I started making conversation with Iki. “Whattya need twelve rooms in this house for?” \n\n“Thirteen, not twelve.” He puts down his book like I’m bothering him, and he stamps on the floor. It sounds hollow, and that’s when I see the trap door. I go to open it. But the guy is fast, and he’s in front of me somehow. He moves his armchair over the trap door, so I can’t get to it anymore. \n\nI think his gold’s down there. I’m getting in if it kills me.

Recovered from a large empty house in the wastes of Great Cleave

The Thirteenth Room

I ain’t sleeping right. I mean, I sleep on the job, if you can call a job sitting on a red fluffy chair thing with no arms. But at night, I hear things. Like rats, only this sounds a lot bigger than a rat. Something’s walking around on the ceiling, in the room down below.\n\nI’m gonna stay awake and see if I hear it again.

Hearing Things

I heard that sound again. Got outta bed and knocked on the floor three times. Here I am, grown man, knocking on the floor.\n\nBut then I heard it. Three knocks, right under my feet. It wasn’t Iki, I checked, and he was asleep in his chair. I ain’t religious, but I prayed to anything that’d listen. I didn’t want to go back into my room. So I’m sleeping out here tonight in the big room.

Under the House

I got in. Just like I thought, Iki goes out to the privy at night. \n\nIt was wide and dark down there, a cellar that covered the whole house. But it wasn’t empty. One corner was all tidy and decorated like a little girl’s room. I felt like something was watching me, so I got up the ladder and shut the trap door behind me. I’ll bring a lamp tomorrow night. I don’t think I’ll sleep.

I Got In

This time, candles were lit in the cellar. I heard a noise behind me–a little girl. Only her eyes and mouth, they’re sideways of what they should be. She starts screaming something fierce about Iki, her father.\n\nThe bastard himself drops down from the trap door, yelling “Stay away from her!” \n\nI saw her smile, right before she bit into my neck. I clawed up the ladder and ran to my room for my sword, thinking I’d cut their throats and be done with it. But in the steel, I saw it. My eyes, my mouth– they’re sideways now, just like hers.

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