The letter is addressed to "Sir Adrielin of the Shining City of Hieroneous".
Those with any sort of Knowledge skill at all know that Sir Adrielin is 
the leader of the Council of Order, and the most powerful Paladin in the 
city.

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Chillbreeze 3, 489

I write to you with good news, my friend: the city of Blueport still
stands!  The Horrors approached our city earlier today, but proved
amenable to negotiation, and left without a battle.

After the Horrors left, we were able to analyze their aura in some detail.  
We estimate that each of the Horrors has an aura of approximately twice
the strength of the zombie Kraken that caused us so much trouble on
Darkestnight of the year 464.  That a zombie (or other weaker undead) of
such power could exist in so small a body is, of course, preposterous.  
Instead, we suspect that they are outsiders who entered this plane from
the Negative Energy Plane on Darkestnight.  It is also possible (though,
in our judgment, less likely) that the Horrors are in fact clerics, the
personal servants of some evil god.  If this is so, then each of them is
of approximately the twenty-third level.  I pray before Obad-Hai that this
is not the case.

The Horrors' actions are characterized by politeness and apparent
goodwill, punctuated by periodic acts of shocking violence.  (Three of our
best clerics at Seaspray were nearly killed and have been left permanently
weakened by the first such incident.  We have been careful to avoid the
possibility of a repeat.)  The Horrors claim that they are not undead at
all, but humans who are under a "curse" of some sort.  Events at Blueport
have tentatively confirmed that the Horrors are, in fact, partially alive:
they saw through no less than twenty layers of Invisibility To Undead
spells with no difficulty.  

It is possible that the Horrors are related to the Devourers, containing
within themselves the trapped life-essence of some living creature.  The
connection appears deeper than that, though:  the Horrors appear to retain
the memories, and even some of the combat skills, of their adopted hosts.  
Also, being reminded that we recognize their undead nature appears to
agitate them; if your goal is to negotiate, you are advised to treat them
as human when possible.

We still cannot fathom the purpose of the Horrors on this island.  If
murder and destruction were their goal, they would never have traveled for
three days to reach Blueport, only to turn and leave with it still
standing.  If their goal is to convince us of their good intentions, they 
are singularly lacking in self-awareness: their aura betrays them for what 
they are wherever they go.  Perhaps they wished to retrieve some artifact 
which had lurked near our city without our knowledge.  Perhaps they merely 
wished to hone their skills, accustoming themselves to their new bodies 
and environs.  More likely, though, there is some deeper game here, one we 
cannot yet fathom.

I am including with this message a transcript of the Horrors' report of
their creation.  It is given from the perspective of their hosts, but may
retain accuracy nonetheless.  Note the mention of clerics of The
Necromancer; if such a cleric can be found, capturing and interrogating
him might produce vital information.

In Obad-Hai,

Tayric of Blueport

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(A word-for-word transcription of Ivellios's report is included with the 
message, on a separate scroll.)