A Ghost, or Just Rusty Doors?   

For the past two days the doors in the Ladies of the Lair tavern, in the City of Paxlair, have been swinging open by themselves, candles have been being put out and then put back on without anyone touching them, and music has been being played without the instructions of a human hand. In short, the Lair is haunted.

Yesterday a few orcs and skeletons attacked the lair. Some of them had books on the corpses once slain. Two books, one of them was a contract for a building in a place called the bloody plains. It's being presumed that the bloody plains is the very location the Lair is built as of now. The other book found was a diary of a Lady named Ariena. The dairy contained information which stated Ariena was hiding from orcs. She is hiding from them, because they killed her family. She played chess with her self and went out to look for something one day. That was the last entry. We take it that Ariena is a ghost who is haunting the Lair.

Today I travelled to the lair, and weird things were happening. The doors were opening by themselves again, and now the chess board was trying to tell us something. The white pieces of the board kept arranging themselves in different positions. Eventually the positions were thought to be symbols, which lead us to realize it was ancient Sosarian.

Other things have been happening outside of the Lair. Cinderella of Pxl told us a "messenger" from Ariena came to her in Occllo. She doesn't know how the messenger knew she was there. The messenger told her to be in the Lair today with Pitvipr of Caitiff. Nightstorm, keeper of the Ladies, and head of the Lair, also received a message, which told him to be in the Lair on Wednesday. Maybe we'll eventually find a way to solve this problem, and see what Ariena wants.

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