[Royal Guard] Incident Report

[Hatshepsut]

Loredas, Midyear 14, 477

This evening, following my patrol, I was on call at the Guardhouse
before going home.  Shortly before the Second Night Bell, a gnoll by
the name of Guthak Wraithbone entered the guardhouse, speaking of a
young woman in the BlkDragon Inn who was acting irrationally and being
hassled by well-meaning patrons.  I went to the scene and greeted the
woman, a human by the name of Mekarie. (A description of Merkarie
follows.)

Tespin Mekarie was indeed irrational and agitated, and wished to
leave.  I allowed her to do so, but followed at an unthreatening
distance.  She spoke of being followed by someone with strange powers,
which led me to perform a ritual in secret to examine her for magical
and psionic influences.  She seemed to be a very receptive psychic,
which I suspected was the cause of her irrationality.

I convinced her to allow me to perform a ritual on her, and then did
so, shielding her from detection and from psychic emanations while
also placing an effect on her to make her easy for me to scry on.
Once shielded from mental influences, she became much more lucid, and
I was able to convince her to stay in protective custody at the
guardhouse for a time, on the condition that she be free to leave.

She seems to be pursued by an individual she calls the Harper, who
seems to be a vampire, necromancer, or demon of some sort.  She
attributes various powers to him, and seems to consider him a threat
to her and those around her.  She is very concerned about him finding
her, and seems to believe that being in constant travel will prevent
this.  Despite her instability, I believe that she is more or less
accurate in her description of the Harper and his abilities.

I have placed her in psionically warded Cell 17, and have given her my
word as a guardswoman that she is free to leave at any time.  I will
try and gather more information about the Harper after she has rested.

Spell-Recruit Peony Heatherdown of the Upper Darian
((-Hatshepsut))