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Four days later, Alzar awakens to a new day and heads to the local tavern to have breakfast. As he does, he sees a purple ribbon hanging from every house in the streets. He arrives at the inn and there is a somber atmosphere. The representative from this district has been killed! She was a local noble and was slain just last night. Appointed by the mayor to serve on an advisory council, she was murdered most foul.
One of the normal patrons of this establishment are a pair of local barhops, who go from bar to bar at night in various places. They are telling the story of last night. At a pub just across the corner from where the woman was killed!
She was found with three suspicious items. One was a small red ruby near her body. The second was a red leather button in her hand. The last was a golden tanbur string under her bed. What really interests the crowd though is what these barhops claimed to have seen. Last night in the Pub, the saw an old man with long white hair, wearing a blue robe stop in at the pub. His robe has the holy symbol of his deity, with a variety of small rubies in the eyes of a local creature. Then a short time later, a local tavern owner stopped by to make some purchases. He was wearing a distinctive red vest with ornate red buttons. Finally, a travelling troubadour stopped by for a short performance on his beautiful tanbur. A tanbu with unusual golden strings.
This information shakes the crowd. Who killed the noblewoman?
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