Seems Someone Else is the Crossbow Beast!(Bolts of Chaos TP)

--On the road south of the abbey--

Zork has taken it upon himself to find the rat and bring it back, he wipes away some sweat and frowns as he scans the road for any signs of trouble or signs of the rat.

Jarvis tags along and holds some scrap of cloth, "It’s from de..ummm de..yeah your or the abbey's ration bags, see" He holds it up to the badger and takes a sip of water from a canteen.

Zork nods "It is de same color lad, we must keep looking. Yo..you’re good at tracking..darn the seasons it’s Hot!"

Jarvis nods skipping some to catch up to the badger, "Yeah..course it’s not cold ye silly striped one, its summer and summer is hot so very very hot ye could ummm...coook something on de road"

Flur decided to take a walk as was nothing else to do today and the weather seemed sunny and nice, more like sunny and burning hot.

Zork coughs as they have been out a good while walking back and forth and threw the woods, he slows when he sees a body and rushes forwards.

The body is Jax, and Jax is dead with a cross bolt threw his chest, he has been dead only a few hours but is clearly dead and was dead almost instantly when hit, dried blood and a shocked look on his face.

Jarvis frowns “He is Dead…DEAD!!..So very very dead, and..” He closes the rats eyes “I say..not thinking he the crossbow owner, nope”

Flur eyes go wide” If he isn’t, who is?”

Zork examines the rat and shakes his head, “No clue.” He searches the pockets..daggers and also finds a pouch with remains of a powder.

Jarvis looks at the powder and eeps loudly and throws the bag down and stomps on it, “Evil EVILLLLLLLL in the bag!!!..same as de bowl, it just smells stronger but not wise..smelling it, you could die!”

Flur frowns “Is the shrew..insane?”

Zork nods “Yeah think so but he seems to track well and knows poisons, how do you know poisons?”

Jarvis answers, “I had a friend who was a ferret, he made poisons and I would watch, but he died in the gull cause one didn’t like him, called…word of advice never call a peeved off fox ugly and..something else” He doesn’t repeat it, “Or ya may die like the ferret did..I ran and ran and..umm lived!”

Zork blinks and frowns “Well..Jax is dead and that means he wasn’t the crossbow beast, means…means someone else is..need to find them…feel dizzy” He drops to his knees.

Flur frowns and looks at Zork “I think the heat is getting to him, least we are close to the abbey.”

Jarvis acts fact and offers the badger water and even dumps some on the badgers head and his own for good measure.

Zork pants and drinks the water, “Will be ok..yeah abbey is good so there”

Flur also offers Zork some of her water and gets some on his face and arms, “Here this will help” She says as she starts to head to the abbey and lets him lean on her if needed.

Zork nods and lets the two help him.

Flur goes to help the badger to the abbey

Jarvis goes to help also “Make haste ta de abbey my furry friends!”

--On to the abbey infirm so this is a half an hour later—

Flur is helping the badger, along with the shrew helping also; to the infirm she starts to look for a healer.

Leon looks over from his chair at the desk and stands, “What happen?"

Zork sits on the cot and is sweating a lot, he frowns, "I..am fine..ok maybe not too..hot today"

Jarvis enters and blinks, "Seee...de badger decided to get hot and hot in summer is bad bad bad, so gave him water and some water on his head but still hot he was, but he did find what he was looking for..sort of"

Flur sighs and sits "He could of been worse but we were close to the abbey so"

Leon shakes his head and gets the badgers clothing loosened and anything needed to be taken to gatehouse taken away, he then gets some cold wet rags and lays them on his arms and legs, and one on his forehead and gets a cold drink of water,” Sip slowly..and take it easy"

Zork takes the water and sips slowly and coughs a little and sighs, "Found the one rat, and he wasn’t the one who has been firing de crossbow"

Jarvis nods "Yes unless...unless ya can shoot yourself with a crossbow but that be dumm..and painful if could, nope he worked for someone and that someone shot the rat known as Jax or who use to be known as Jax or.." He blinks "Guess one not lose name when dead you’re just..dead"

Leon listens as Jarvis speaks, "I will have to let the abbot know"

Flur frowns "Did the hare that died have any other family besides the other hare that called him uncle?"

Zork frowns, he finishes some water and shrugs "I don’t know..." He coughs a little and has cooled off a good bit now.

Jarvis paces back and forth, "The dead Jax had a small pouch with him, traces of the evil powdery stuff that was in de bowl of evil soup and an couple pears, supply sack was gone but his daggers were there....and the crossbow in the chest was there, yeah that probably hurt so his boss is the evil evil beast but where is the boss of the dead Jax?"

Leon gets another cool rag for Zork and lays it on his forehead making sure this part of the room remains cool. “Go ahead and rest Zork, your be fine just stay inside the rest of the day"

Zork nods "Yes sounds very..good..nap is great idea" And so he naps.