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| Author: | inkie |
| Summary: | Adm. Fallon reports to his colleagues, Lords Ference and Tennerow, on his preliminary investigation into the Stormwind Guard re: the Remembrance Day assassination. |
| Rating: | T for Teen |
Gentlemen -
I’ve spoken with my sources in the Guard. They report it is beyond both precedent and protocol to have no guards stationed behind the Cathedral and at the cemeteries for Remembrance Day; likewise the back of the Dwarven District with lines of sight. Tempers and recriminations between the various Guard divisions are running hot and none is inclined to share information with any of the others. Officer Pennings, the commander of District 1 (Trade District and Old Town) has demanded of Officer Delgran, commander of District 3 (Cathedral and Dwarven Districts) his deployment rota from that day but is being stonewalled.
I’m given to understand that the commanding officers of each district have some discretion as to how they assign duties, and my sources cannot be certain whether or not District 3’s rota was furnished to that district’s guardsmen in advance of the day, so that they or any persons with access might have been aware of what gaps to expect or where to draw guardsmen away from their posts. District 1’s commander, by contrast, prepares posts and patrol routes in advance but does not distribute assignments of any to her guards until the day of, so cultists with access at the district level would not be able to anticipate whom they might be dealing with and make according preparation or intervention. All three district commanders, however, do submit their rotas to someone higher in the chain of command for approval beforehand, so security failures at the upper echelons may still account for leaks.
I am both assured and have reason to believe that Officer Pennings is herself above reproach. I am not acquainted with Officer Delgran. I intend to intervene myself and make a formal request for the deployment rotas from all three guard divisions from that day; I’d like to find out where they are submitted for advance approval and obtain copies at that level of whatever was pre-submitted, as well as copies of whatever was actually posted in each district for the day of. I will look for discrepancies between the two, as well as notable post or patrol gaps in any of the rotas; if Officer Delgran in District 3 had people assigned to Cathedral and cemetery posts for Remembrance Day, those people will have to be interviewed individually as to how they came to be away from their posts.
It was further pointed out that useful information could be obtained from the recovered bodies of the assassins. As we are racing against the chance of evidence being destroyed or mislaid, my first order of business before intervention with the guard is to approach the city morgue for reports on the remains, their identities, and any evidence collected, if not for access to the bodies themselves.
I will report back to you on all findings once collected. If I interview personally any of the district commanders or their guardsmen, would either of you like to be present?
Meanwhile, a Major Samuelson, former Captain of the Guard, has been stationed in Stormwind Keep to investigate potential Twilight infiltration himself. I’m not acquainted with him but am told he has King Varian’s personal trust. A Royal Guard with whom I spoke says the man’s arrogant but seems competent, and that His Majesty personally made the assignment and has full faith.
That is the sum of my present findings. I will keep you both apprised.
Regardless of what fruit further investigation into the Guard may or may not produce, I would like to propose that we raise with Guard command in our regulatory capacity that they should limit district commanders’ discretion in assignment of duties, so that the procedure for preparation and posting of rotas is consistent from district to district for security purposes. I also suggest we implement a mandatory disclosure procedure for information-sharing between the districts in the event of security failures such as we have just witnessed; the territorial squabbling between districts is counterproductive, not to say unacceptable.
Respectfully, I remain
Yr obdt svt,
Adm. Siamus Fallon
TO: Patrol Officers J.C. Pennings, D1; Sarun Amal, D2; Quert Delgran, D3
FROM: Lord Siamus Fallon
RE: Deployment rotas of 7 January
DATE: 12 January 29
Please furnish to my office before 15 January 29 copies of the deployment rotas posted in each of your districts for the date 7 January 29, Remembrance Day. My assistant, Miss Annai Curran, will be in contact to follow up as necessary, and you may be invited to submit to personal interviews with myself and certain other sitting members of the House of Nobles.