Originally Posted by Icelyn
Voted for Insight Park. I want to check out that crime scene plus have the druid get a prophecy from the Drawing Tree.

I voted for Insight Park, too, for the same reasons.

As for the dagger we've found: I wonder why a murderer would leave the weapon behind. Maybe they had been disturbed.
Or (a very wild theory): Maybe someone (the man with the top hat?) is using spells to make people commit the murders? It wouldn't matter if the murder weapon is found, because the real murderer, the person using the enchantment spell, could not be associated with it.

What Selwyn told us made me suspicious:
"Then a strange man with a top hat approached me and he began whisperin' awful words in my ear, promisin' to fulfill my heart's most hidden desires. I never would have wished that death on my own worst enemy.”
To me, this sounds as if the man with the top hat had cast a spell on Selwyn, and maybe Selwyn had involuntarily killed the butcher.

I think our top hat man (Fel?) could be a warlock of the great old one, if I remember correctly, they get Dominate Person at 5th level.

I also think it was the magically disguised top hat man who gave us the letter, not the real Magpie.

I really enjoy this game! I'd love it if Tav could try to solve more cases - IF we can solve this one, and survive, that is.