DM Entry: A hasty meeting with Ramander

Ramander hands the party a page of today's paper. He says, "You're welcome. Now I'd suggest you make yourself scarce for a while, until the heat dies down. The last thing anyone wants is to be interrogated by a bunch of emotionally upset paladins with more zeal than brains. Qrooth will be here in a minute to convey you along your way. He's my personal tout, none better in Sigil."

The Planar Cant
Sigil's local underground newsrag.

Breaking News
Pull your hats down low and fold up your collars. The Harmonium are investigating mysterious blood spatter found in a secret basement under the Temple of Hieroneous here in Sigil. "Right now we aren't releasing any details other than that torture equipment was also found in the same location and that Brother Culver, the High Priest of Hieroneous in Sigil has been reported missing. We're still investigating, excuse me," says Captain Ramm. We contacted the high ups within the clergy of Hieroneous, and one Father Loric, Primate of Venya's Cathedral of Hieroneous in Mount Celestia, had this to say, "Heironeous does not condone the use of torture devices, never has. We consider this an internal affair and right now we are sending a troop of the Celestial Order of the Templar-Inquisitors to secure that temple in Sigil. We're already in talks with the Harmonium to aid them in conducting street-side interrogations near the area. We'll find our Brother Culver and we'll uncover the truth about whatever this heinous act was that was perpetrated within the very basement of one of our own temples." Word on the street is that a ragtag group of troublemakers were spotted near the temple around the same time the priest was last seen. We spoke with Scoow, a bixiinae bouncer at a bar nearby, and she had this to say, "I personally saw 6 drow and an illithid entering the temple down the street and carry out some large square object covered by bed linen. They said something like Toril and stepped into a portal, and that's the last I've seen them. What's a Toril anyway?" The Harmonium are offering a large reward for any information about the whereabouts of Brother Culver or any information about the torture device in the basement of the temple.

More as details come in.

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The door bell jingles, but its not Qrooth. Its 3 men in black robes, possible holy men...or necromancers, judging by their personal items and clothing. Ramander excuses himself to escort them into the back room where Rolthalar Culver's body was temporarily placed with respect and covered with a sheet.