Swordgleam releases hostage, surrenders to militia on Steelroot

The scene, yesterday

An adventurer armed with a kitchen knife and a hammer took a business owner hostage for several hours inside a Steelroot high-rise building on Friday and posted messages on Angelwood before surrendering to militia, scribes said. Klein Holdwood Holecliff, 22, released his hostage unharmed after holding him for about six hours, said Steelroot militia Firenight Pondgrove Waterbone. Militia had been negotiating with Holecliff by Amulet of Far Voice after he went into the 16th-floor office of 3 Dreamcoal Dustslyme shortly after 8 a.m., grabbed his hostage and told everyone else in the office to leave, Waterbone said. ...