The Halfling bides his time and lets Clash handle the situation.
He still pays attention, ready to jump in the conversation if it gets out of hand.

Fargrim absent-mindedly clutches his holy symbol while carefully not looking directly at the Reeve. Somethin's not right, lads - I ken feel it. he mumbles under his breath.

"Doria and her boy moved out, going to sharn I believe, I don't expect them back again. "

Her boy?  Has it been that long already? Clash thinks to himself as his mind raced.

"When did she leave?  Where is her family here in Blackroot?" Clash asks the Reeve quickly, seeing that he's anxious to leave.

Hamrick looks intensely at the Reeve's demeanor, trying to figure out if he is telling the truth about Doria and her boy (!).

Insight roll = 17

You definitely get the idea that the reeve is uncomfortable with all these armed hooligans in the village, and that he may be being ... evasive ...

"Doria left weeks ago, just up and packed everything and left. Her house is over there," says the reeve, pointing to a ramshackle hut looking thing near the end of this street. "She had no family here and ain't left anything You can go see for yourself, and stop wasting my time now. If that is all Good Day"

"Yes, thank you for your help," Clash says to the orc in a dismissive tone.

Clash quietly watches the orc walk away before turning to address his companions.

With a puzzled tone, Clash says to them, "no family here?  Something is not right here.  I say we go and check out her hut first."

"I agree. It's a tad too early to bully people around. Let's go search her lodgings. If that doesn't shed any light on what's going on, we can always revert to a tougher approach later on..."

As you move to investigate Doria's former cottage and the town itself, you find yourself in a very unwelcoming village. None of the villagers moves out of their way to speak or interact with you.

Doing a cursury scan of the single room cottage, everything looks fine but abandoned, to first inspection.

Please Describe what how or where you searching/investigating in the town/hut.

Being a dwarf, I'll be looking for any kind of hidden trap doors or things of that nature - hopefully if there are any I might be more inclined ot notice them.

Some perception checks from everyone please.

Perception check total = 11

15+5= 20 Perception check

Clash searches Doria's former cottage thoroughly.  He looks for signs of a struggle, weapon marks in the walls or floor, drops of blood, or signs of blood splatter.  If nothing obvious stands out, he'll start searching through containers, under and behind furniture, looking for documents or papers that might give some clue to Doria's whereabouts or what happened to her.

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OOC:  Clash's Perception check = 19.

Fargrim and the rest of you start searching the hut.

Fargrim finds a tiny obsidian shard, smooth and pointy on one end and broken off roughly on the far end.  Your pretty sure it was either a dagger or an arrow tip.

Clash and Hamrick search the rest of the place and find other signs of a struggle. Some of the furniture has been broken and just placed back together as apposed to repaired, There are some signs of a bloody patch being brushed over (not huge but noticible) as well as a pendant that appears to have been ripped off in a struggle. The leather cord is snapped. It is made from strands of vulcanic glass wrapped arround what looks like a mummified eye

There are also several items that are useful , that it seems unlikely anyone would leave behind if they were moving, including a backpack, 2 bedrolls, a handful of silver (17 silver) a Machete (stats as short sword) and something that brings back a memories.

A House Sivis Regimental Picture. You can see yourself's from 5 or 6 years ago and young Doria along with the rest of your regiment. Over a hundred people are in the picture, but today aside from yourself's and doria you can count the other survivors on one hand (even the warforged)

Hamrick is pretty sure the reeve is lying about Doria leaving of her own accord.  You notice a small crowd is begining to form outside of Doria's house. They are not sure how to take your presence, and your rifling through Doria's possessions.