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<BR>Shipment of Skooma Intercepted!<br>


<DIV align="left">"A fort-night ago, guard officials found a large quantity of skooma in trading goods, originating from the Steadhelm Traders Guild"
<br>Reports the Reich Parkeep Guard Spokesman
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<br>By Relamus Veloth
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The Steadhelm Traders Guild, already under an official Imperial investigation, has once again gotten all the evidence pointing at them. A large shipment of Skooma was intercepted, the Skooma was hidden within many of the trade goods that were being transported from Steadhelm to Reich Parkeep. Even the Caravan Handler admitted that he got the order to hide the shipment of addictive fluid in his cargo of furniture.
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The weird thing however, is that the Traders guild already knew that every cargo they sent to Reich Parkeep was being searched. Then why did they sent the highly illegal fluid to Reich Parkeep, with such a great risk of detection? To this point, I have interviewed Nurdas Faren, the leader of the Traders Guild in Reich Parkeep [Assuming there is a Reich Parkeep Traders Guild? - Razorwing?]. "I know the leader of the Steadhelm Traders Guild, and, like all of the Traders Guild officers, he is a cunning man. As I know him, he likes to stay on the safe side of the law and he would not take risks like this when there is so much at stake." says Faren, perhaps the richest Elf in the known world, "I personally believe that Redoran is behind this, that this is Redoran's punishment for the decision of the Traders Guild, to back up Hlaalu in a recent Ebony Contract." The Imperial Investigation team did not want to respond to my hails for their results, though their official statement did leave all options plausible.<br>