The Captain of the Townwatch warned all citizens and sellswords today to be careful of Stillwell Shepardson. More commonly known as the Corpse Guide, Stillwell would sell the location of an undisturbed corpse to multiple persons. Each would think they were the only to know of this corpse with pockets still lined with treasure and wyrdstone until the others showed up. The Captain cited complaints from the Sons of the Forge, the Valkries, the Dogs of War, and the Black Lotus Eaters.
Marta Sheildbreaker, leader of the Valkries, tells of her own encounter the Corpse Guide.
"We we're at the Drunken Pidgeon pub, when up creeps this rail thin humie. Dressed in rags, stank like sawdust, and a broken sounding voice. He looks me in the eye and tells me he has found a corpse, a former merchant, with all his equipment. I sent him away till he said the corpse was of an IRON merchant. Still had ore on him, and Stillwell had no use for it. Would gladly share the location with us for a small fee."
"When we get to the location Stillwell said the corpse was , we find the Sons of the Forge already there. It was then I realized Stillwell had tricked us. We were about to leave, when Ailissa spotted Blade the trollslayer. That son of a bitch left my second cousin at the altar the night before her wedding. That was not going to stand. We Valkries stormed the building the Dogs of War were hold up in. In hindsight it was a foolish plan. We were so focused on Blade that we failed to notice the thunderer in the upstairs window. Shot after shot rang true. I tell you, whoever their engineer is, he is one of the best I've ever seen."
Hannibal the Marianburger, leader of the Dogs of War (known for not only slashing his enemies but his prices) reports also being tricked by Stillwell.
"He approached us claiming to know of the location of Brandon Bresstlewaist undisturbed corpse. For a small fee he would reveal the location, and we would be free to extract all those marvelous gold teeth Bresstlewaist use to flaunt around the camps. I rounded up my fellow associates and we headed out."
"Only we were not the only ones he sold this information to. Greenskins had beaten us to the corpse. Rallying my men with curses and obscenities about Stillwell, we ambushed those orks. We might have lost too, had they not been too busy fighting amongst themselves and forgetting how to use ladders. Though their leader was something else...dancing around and punching at the air. Had a giant blade tied to each hand."
Could this greenskin be the infamous pitfighter Punchenstein, who in a frenzied bloodlust fought and ate an entire troll.
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