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| − | == Burglar’s End ==
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| − | <i>by [[Moxiane]]</i>
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| − | :<i>”Oh yes, I saw the whole thing – terrible it was, poor Hutet defending his home against people like that, with only his walking stick. That’s where he landed, over there…”</i>
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| − | :- Mistress Clove, local snob
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| − | :<i>”That fat Guilder, fighting against a young man, and winning? That doesn’t seem fishy to you?”</i>
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| − | :- Yawrik, proprietor, [[/TheLoafAndJug|The Loaf and Jug]]
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| − | The streets of Nexus get their names in innumerable ways; some are officially named by the Council of Entities, some have pre-Nexus signposts that still stand, but many are named for some memorable event that took place there – Burglar’s End is one such street. Twenty-two years ago the cul-de-sac now known as Burglar’s End was called Glass River Place, after the large section of imperishable adamant that fills the centre of the plaza and which provides a view of an underground river, but following a dramatic rooftop battle between Dolmer Hutet, a local Guildsman of note, and a houseclimber that resulted in the latter falling four stories to his death, the new name took hold.
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| − | The name of the burglar was never discovered, the damage done to his body by the fall rendered it little more than a broken sack of flesh and bones, but Hutet became a local hero as a result of his nocturnal melee. His stature was raised still higher by the sympathy the disappearance of his daughter a month later engendered – and despite repeated reward notices in every place Hutet can reach (from society papers to [[/NexusScuttlebutt|The Nexus Scuttlebutt]]) she hasn’t been seen or heard from since.
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| − | === Rumours ===
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| − | *Once a year, on the anniversary of his death, the ghost of the burglar can be seen falling from the roof of Dolmer Hutet’s house, silently screaming as he falls.
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| − | *The burglar was a patsy, set up by Hutet to help him with his business, which was struggling at the time. He was in fact a street youth, drugged and tossed from the youth after a staged battle.
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| − | === Secret ===
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| − | *The eponymous and anonymous burglar was no such thing, instead he was the young lover of Hutet’s daughter, who had already been promised in marriage to a [[/YeskaneroMerchantingFamily|Yeskanero scion]]. Her disappearance did a great deal of harm to her father’s financial aspirations, but the resulting sympathy business did much to offset that.
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