The silver-haired man keeps his wounded hand still while the younger man stands surrendered beside the inner door. The sealed list remains trapped beneath Dagg’s arrow.
Orren Vale
My name is Orren Vale. The list contains the merchants, clerks, and patrons who funded the resistance to your school. Matthias moved the payments, but I authorized them.
Matthias Quill
Matthias Quill. I kept the account books and carried instructions to the quay. The names are all there, including the man who promised protection if the school failed.
Dagg binds both men and secures the list, tokens, ledger, and lockbox beneath his coat. Orren’s hand is bandaged tightly enough to preserve the evidence without letting the wound worsen.
He returns to Devia with the captives under guard and places the records before the mayor and the innkeeper. The names reveal a network of merchants buying silence, while the payment dates match the school’s public contracts.
Elbee
Then we publish every account and keep the school work visible. Let the families see who tried to purchase their fear, and let the council decide the lawful penalties.
By evening, Devia’s clerks copy the evidence under seal while guarded construction resumes. Back at Nabbitt Farms, Bran waits near Mara’s oak, and the quiet household carries on beneath the cost of what Dagg has uncovered.
+ New Item Acquired
Sealed funding list
+ New Item Acquired
Payment ledger
“Well seeing as how I am the witness and Alderman. I caught them making plans and they have both agreed to their crimes. I herby sentence them to give up all of their welath thay have stolen to Devia. Place that gold into our reserves to help our citizens, then throw these two in the dungeon where they will spend most of the rest of their days.”
SUCCESS (Legendary Willpower, rolled +0)
Dagg Nabbitt
As witness and Alderman, I sentence Orren Vale and Matthias Quill to surrender all stolen wealth to Devia’s reserves, then serve the rest of their days in the dungeon.
Dagg places the copied ledger, payment dates, tokens, and sealed list before the mayor. Secures Documents preserves the evidence while his Magistrate appointment and Alderman authority make the judgment formal before Devia’s officials.
The Mayor
The sentence is entered under your civic authority. Their property will be inventoried, recovered funds will enter Devia’s reserves, and the dungeon term is for life.
Delegates Responsibly takes hold as Dagg assigns the mayor’s clerks to inventory the wealth and the guards to deliver the prisoners. His relaxed nature would leave the tedious accounting behind, but the completed order gives him permission to do exactly that.
Orren Vale
You cannot take everything I own.
Matthias Quill
The accounts are yours. I will not contest the sentence.
Clerks remove the stolen wealth from their accounts and record it for Devia’s relief reserves. Guards lead Orren and Matthias away to the dungeon, while the innkeeper watches the sealed records pass safely into the city’s custody.
Elbee
The accounts will be public, and the stolen coin will serve Devia before it serves anyone else.
The mayor entered Dagg’s judgment into the civic record. Clerks sealed the recovered funds for relief, while guards led Vale and Quill below.
The Mayor
By civic authority, their wealth is surrendered and their terms are for life.
At last, Dagg returned to Nabbitt Farms. Bran waited beneath Mara Vell’s oak, and the long road behind him fell quiet.
Dagg Nabbitt
Done fair. Done proper. Home now.
Devia’s records stood open to the people, its construction guarded, and its recovered wealth bound for relief. Orren Vale and Matthias Quill had lost their fortunes and their freedom, while the city began the harder work of keeping itself honest. Beneath Mara Vell’s oak, Dagg found the quiet of home and let the chapter close.