Immersion Online: The Zealot : Book 2 (Immersion Online: Lit RPG) by Evan Klein

Author:Evan Klein [Klein, Evan]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2021-09-18T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter 18: Tinsie’s Tale

The next month passed by in a whirlwind. During the day, Tinsie and I kept up our investigation into the murder of Miss Durston, the stolen blasting cap, and the bleeding eye symbol. We came to a dead end on all three. The twins had even cut a deal with a necromancer to commune with those in the lands of the Grey Man. However, after a lot of chanting and hand gesturing and creating pentagrams, the necromancer said Miss Durston’s soul was beyond his reach. The twins, of course, voided his contract and refused to pay him for an incomplete job.

The guards had asked subtly about the bleeding eye symbol, but whomever they asked had either not seen it or were reluctant to speak about it. Duster and Longshore also informed me that they had looked into it themselves and had come up blank. Havervill flooded the AI network for information about it as well, but none of the Edwins, Angelicas, Tamberlines, Robertos or the few remaining Havervills knew anything about it – which upset all of the AIs who considered themselves omniscient. Tinsie even asked Lobo on one of his sober days. He also stated he didn’t know anything about the symbol.

Tinsie and I also investigated several other crimes. Manam, a Realmborn cobbler, was discovered dead by his wife in the alleyway behind his shop early one morning. He had been stabbed in his back multiple times, by what at the time appeared to be a thin, long knife. After investigating for several days, the murder weapon, a sewing awl used to put stitching on shoes, was found buried in some soil outside of the shop. After confronting the wife, she admitted to killing Manam, jealous of the affair he was having with a card dealer from one of the local gambling establishments. She cried the entire time as the prison cart pulled away from Grandview, bringing her to The Slags.

A few days later, we investigated the disappearance of a young elf woman who did not return that evening from her job at the bakery. Tinsie was able to track her to the Grey Zone where she was shacked up with her centaur lover. She fled because she knew her mother would not approve of their interspecies relationship.

Numerous thefts and disappearances occurred throughout the city. However, those were often not handled by the guard but were given as quests to adventurers.

We investigated the theft of Tessie’s Talking Portrait. Miss Riley, who some of her neighbors said was the oldest woman in the city, ran out into the street one morning and began to scream, “My Tessie is gone! My Tessie is gone!” It only took Tinsie and me a few hours to solve this case. Miss Riley had sold the portrait nearly thirty years before to the local museum. Senility had hit the woman, and she had simply forgotten. After that, we arranged for a local healer to check in on the reclusive, homebound woman on a daily basis.

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