The Burned Warrant

The Warrant Answered
Solved the case of The Burned Warrant.

Patron: Halvik Storn, in Dreskmark Market Square. The sheet asks for Culprit, Tell, Motive. Each answer must rest on a finding; a lead only points you onward.

Usually heard from Halvik Storn (“Ask the reeve what burned in his record-room”), or the Warrant Ash in Dreskmark Market Square. You need not wait for it: a case enters your casebook as soon as you hold one of its facts.

Gather the proof

1. Talk to Halvik Storn in Dreskmark Market Square and choose “Ask what he wants of you”.
   Needed before Halvik Storn: “Ask the reeve what burned in his record-room”.
2. Talk to Halvik Storn in Dreskmark Market Square and choose “Ask the reeve what burned in his record-room”.
   Lead Warrant Burned Rumor: “Reeve Storn's own record-room: a Concord distraint-warrant burned the night before it was to be served, and the square has already settled on the widow it was drawn against.”
3. Talk to Halvik Storn in Dreskmark Market Square and choose “Ask Storn about the burned warrant”.
   Finding Orne Faced Ruin: “The dawn seizure truly would have ruined Sela Orne: the forged warrant fell on her good-water mill-share.”
   Lead Orne Suspected: “The square mutters that the widow Sela Orne, whom the seizure would have ruined, must be the hand behind the burning.”
4. Take the Warrant Ash in Dreskmark Market Square.
   Needed before Halvik Storn: “Show Storn the warrant-ash”.
5. Take the Forged Debt Record in Dreskmark Market Square.
   Finding Warrant Was Forged: “The debt the warrant rested on was never owed — Garrick Hesk forged the record to carry the widow's good-water share to himself.”
6. Take the Serve Roster in Dreskmark Market Square.
   Finding Seizure At Dawn: “The warrant was set to be served at dawn; come first light the widow Sela Orne would have lost her mill-share.”
7. Talk to Halvik Storn in Dreskmark Market Square and choose “Show Storn the warrant-ash”.
   Finding Clerk Burned It: “The under-clerk Petrin Crale burned the distraint-warrant himself, the night before it was to be served.”

Keep the order: a topic only appears once you hold the lead or the item it needs.

The answer

Show the case sheet

Question	Answer	Proved by
Culprit	Petrin Crale	Clerk Burned It; Warrant Was Forged
Tell	Prevented A Fraud	Warrant Was Forged
Motive	Stop The Seizure	Seizure At Dawn

The trap

These are true findings that point at the wrong story. Presenting a sheet built on them costs a segment of the day and the clean pass.

• Crale Bore A Grudge makes a wrong sheet presentable (Tell: Malicious Destruction, Motive: Clerk Spite). “Petrin Crale had soured on the office — passed over for the senior clerkship, openly bitter at the reeve who kept him a copyist.”
• Hesk Burned It makes a wrong sheet presentable (Culprit: Garrick Hesk). “”
• Orne Faced Ruin makes a wrong sheet presentable (Culprit: Sela Orne). “The dawn seizure truly would have ruined Sela Orne: the forged warrant fell on her good-water mill-share.”

Close the case

Stand beside Halvik Storn and present. When the sheet holds, Halvik Storn offers courses; the case closes, and The Warrant Answered unlocks, once you commit to one. Any course counts; they differ in the morale and marks shown beside each. This run chose Expose The Fraud, which also earns The Fraud Laid Bare.