The Plays of the West

You will not believe the day I just had master Shí Hóu. The morning began with a surprise visit, and lavish breakfast, with the Merchant King of Fourways, Mario Durante. Halla dolled up just a bit quickly before joinig us at the table (nobles, right?) and Eldove caused the Royal Guards to already grab their swords thanks to speaking without thinking, but luckily Durante was smart enough to understand that she just speaking hypothetically.
The breakfast was soon interrupted by a messenger bringing news about about Vincent, the crown prince. Apparently he had been attacked but had managed to make it back to the palace, bleeding badly. But I must say, that's what you get for moving around without bodyguards when you're someone as important as a crown prince.
 
Later we split into three groups. First was Eldove and Kaerwyn who were a part of the play so they left a bit earlier. The rest of us arrived to the opera house a little later and split into pairs. Halla and Amariel searched the inside for any traps or sabotage or whatnot. Me and Darvin searched the outside. On a sidenote, I donät understand why the folk here in the west have such bad reservations about Darvin, or any priests of Sinnara for that matter. Isn't death a part of life? Anyhow, where was I? Oh yes, the search. Well we found nothing outside, but oh boy did Halla and Amariel find something alright. Apparently the giant chandelier in the opera hall was rigged with over half a dozen fireball spells with a verbal trigger. Luckily we had a royal document allowing us to do anything we deemed necessary to protect the king from harm. So Halla had the chandelier thrown in the canals. That poor manager, he was losing his mind over it but I dare say he would've lost a lot more if that trap had gone off.
 
During the first act of the play (which wasn't all that remarkable to be honest, but I don't blame the actors, the director was a weird man apparently) Aegir, Halla's fluffy dog familiar, showed up and wanted us to follow him. Apparently there was some kind of commotion in one of the booths upstairs but it was just a tipsy touchy-feely noble and his reluctant wife having a shouting match. As me and Darvin were about to leave downstairs we heard fighting coming from the hallway where the door to the kings booth was, so we rushed there. Halla and Amariel were fighting these clown looking things and I managed to get good spearhit in too. Only for us to find out later that these.... things were some kind of golems made out some green goop. Yuck. Nasty. Who would do such thing? I mean, there are golems made from stone, iron, steel, anything better than some weird goop!
 
During the second act Kaerwyn noticed that one of his beartraps he had placed before the show had went off. I know, beartraps in an opera house, go figure. Anyway, he went to investigate and got himself stabbed, but not before alarming me and Darvin about the trap going off with his some sort of telepathic ability. Gotta ask him later about that, seems useful. Eldove had noticed it somehow too and ended the second act early, much to the confusion of everyone else present. We fought this female assassin above the stage and when she felt cornered she jumped to the scaffolding above the stage and audience hall. But not beofre I managed to follow her to the scaffolding with a jumping kick, dropping her. She did manage to hold on to the edge and jump to and grab the curtains. The others tried to drop her from there by throwing weapons while I jumped down, landing safely thanks to the Phoenix-Feather Cap. But then she did something unexpected. She jumped down and merged with the shadows, fleeing the scene. Eldove was furious for some reson when she heard the assassin had fled.
 
The third act went on as normal, but near the end Eldove smelled a rat when it came to one of the new actors. An elven male who seemed more nervous than usual. She confronted him and they began to fight. Kaerwyn joined in on the fun by stabbing the guy just below his ribs with shortsword. It should've been over then and there but no, this was no normal man, he was a freaking vampire! He lunged at Eldove, biting her in the neck and almost killing her. While the rest of us continued to fight this beast Amariel helped Eldove with a healing spell. After she gathered herself, Eldove grabbed her rapier, limped behind the vampire and thrust her rapier through his neck. Then she grabbed his head and turned her blade so that she basically decapitated him. Then his corpse turned to ash.
 
We were then taken to the palace for a feast with the king, where the mood turned a bit sour after a man named Ergon Wintertree ,if I recall correctly, current head of van Hallow estate, showed up. He and Eldove seem to have history and she seemed to have trouble keeping her butt on the chair and not lunge at the man with a tableknife. Afterwards Eldove and Darvin returned to our headquarters and the rest of us went to see our roguish friend, prince Vincent. He seemed to be doing quite alright. We even bumped to his wife at the door. Halla became quite flustered at the sight of her, even more so than she was with the king that morning. Kaerwyn seemed like he got a little excited from seeing all the valuables in the room so Amariel and I both told him to keep his cool, in our own ways.
 
But its a good thing Halla is in the group. She was prettu much the only one who remembered that we haven't gotten our full payment yet, so she talked about it with Vincent.
 
Oh, almost forgot. It would seem that the assassination attempts might have been ordered by someone from Stonesinger. Or it could be just a ruse to start a war between the two. Some even suspect that Wei is somehow involved, seeing as how the current dynasty wants to expand the empire and a war in Craterium would be a great opportunity for them to grow their influence here in the west. Could you kindly look into those rumors, Master Shí Hóu?
 
P.S. I've been thinking of sending future letters in bulk, since quite likely this one will reach you the same day the first will. No sense in writing and sending each one separetely.