A watermark in the paper identifies it as coming from the office of the Scrivener, and items in parenthesis were apparently added in an attempt to make the note make sense. As the note goes on, the hand seems to become more anxious and stressed.
Fawkes,
(I) Went on a walk today, and seeing as you wanted reports, thought I'd send you a report about what I saw.
The Dark Stream - Bigassed Beetles, and Trogs (Troglodytes). I counted maybe 20 Trogs, in two tribes.
The Dark Canal - Seelie, Redcaps, Merrow, Hookers (Hook Horrors?), two tribes of Dogfaces (Gnolls?) (about 5 per tribe), bigassed rockies (elementals?), and more Seelie. All said, I counted maybe 35 Seelie, Merrow, and Redcaps. Place's (was) crawling.
The Lower Ruins - Place's (was) rife with Chosen, near as I could reckon, maybe 29 of them in the whole mess. They's busy fighting the clunkers (animatrons?) though, dont seem like they too anxious to get out. Clunkers are losing though.
Sewers - Rats, Chosen, and pointears (elves). The helmed kind. I cut my tour short when one almost spotted me.
Dunwarren Ruins - Rats an' bats. A few gobbies and reppies (kobolds?) in the cave near the stairs, but I cleared 'em out.
Windy Canyon - Bigassed Stomper Bandits (Ogres), some snakeladies (?) and dogfaces. Didnt stick around long, the Stompers got keen eyes. Oh, they (are) also building a bridge out there to the far side of the canyon. Reckon Chazbash is that way.
Sanctuary Gate Road - Fuzzfaces (Quaggoth?), beetles, gobbies, rockies. You name it. Dont know where they keep coming from, but they's appearing as fast as I'm killing them.
Lower Gate - Nothing to speak of, but A few Trollies attacked down there today, I helped to send them to they (their) quiet place, some Spellie was there all dressed in black and red. Didnt get his name. Gates is still busted. No watchies.
Badlands - Usual scenery. Orogs is quiet.
High Road - Trollies is quiet too.
Darkie (Drow!?!?) Gate - Darkies got nothing going on, spiders is patrolling like usual.
Eyeball (Chazbash!?!?!?) Way - Didnt get too close cause of the Hulkies, but they's all staying where they's staying.
Squiddie (Ysinode!?!?!?!?!) Stair - They's got some bigassed Hulkies down there, let me tell you no lie. I ran (as) fast as my feets could runs. Theys all inside though.
Oh, you owe me ten gold for the note.
Jericho.
(Reproduced in the abode of the scrivener, all contents of this missive are guaranteed "ver batem" as of the time of dictation.)