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I will search the scene of the crime, then use clairvoyance on the bootleg key half
After the sun rises, you head to the Swollen Blister Tavern, following a rumor that Vye the Bisharp was brutally murdered here last night. Upon searching the back area, you find Vye in such a state that he was barely recognizable.

You find his body, horrendously flayed. The bloody, stripped mess that remains of Vye's both is the grizzly aftermath of a Bisharp's metallic armor getting forcefully peeled and ripped off. And you can tell it didn't come off easily and painlessly either. Entire tendons and tendrils of flesh were forcefully yanked and ripped out throughout the entire skinning process, and you shudder to think what this must have felt like to Vye.

You recognize this gruesome display as the work of Gravemeld, having seen this kind of murder signature after Urvanine the Nidorino was murdered.

Where Vye's armor is now, you can only imagine, but all that lies before you now is a bloody mass of stripped flesh and sinew. It doesn't take you very long to make a note of this and then be overcome with the desire to move along and focus on the next task.

You return back to Emissary base, making your way toward the stock cabinets before retrieving the half of the Bootleg Key that was recently found. This incomplete key seems to be made of a very unusual design, so you can only imagine where the second half of this resides.

You sit upon your bed with the key before you in your paws. While a Stalker's dark presence weaves around it, you exile any influence it tries to have on your thoughts and focus. You close your eyes, focus on the material essence of the key half, and concentrate, allowing the ethereal vision to take you toward where the other half would be.

Ironically, yet again, it takes you back toward where you were before. Your clairvoyance vision guides you back outside, and directs you toward Swollen Blister Tavern. The sights you just saw minutes ago have not changes since you were gone, but where it takes you is another story.

The vision brings the Fountain Mosaic into focus, and there you see the familiar missing patches. You can sense of ping of darkness and evil coming from it, but you can sense somewhere the second half of this key is connected to this fountain. It quickly becomes clear that to get at this other half of the key, you're going to need those six patches.

Once the vision breaks, you take a deep breath and now know what the next step is toward getting this key back to completion.

Lita the Pikachu (S: Electric)
Health: 8/8 | Sanity: 8/8 | Purity: 12/12
Battle Stance: Fight
Perk: Security | Abilities: Clairvoyance
Trait: Nimble