Bloodshed! Two corpses are removed come late afternoon, tossed down the mountainside, pale from bleeding; the mess of their bare throats opened to the elements by bandit blades.
A group of Hazlani traders has brought trouble with them, only mere hours passing before danger followed them into the cozy establishment. Striking from shadowy magic, it is said, brigands held the regular faces hostage, while riffling through the pockets of the foreign merchants.
Though driven from the village, the traders offer a princely sum, a total in high in the thousands of gold coins, for the retrieval of the item -the lone item- taken from them.