Many Leringard citizens wake one stormy spring morning to the sight and sounds of a large crowd milling around the Leringard Home For Delinquents, Leringard's orphanage, which for many years has taken in and cared for children of all sorts.
Signs of a very heated battle are all over the area. Those asking around find many witnesses who can attest to the fact that at some point during the night, a large group of mercenaries started making their way into the orphanage with the vile intent of bringing it down--and some say also slaughtering all those within. Many give full credit that the place still stands to the Blackwatch, who were quick to respond when a citizen reported screams to one of the late night patrols. A long and heated battle ensued, with the Blackwatch gritting their teeth and buckling down for many hours in what became a small guerrilla war. They fought the mercenaries with their own dirty tactics, creating enough of a distraction to allow the Headmistress, Lyn Tobias, to escape with the children out a cellar stormdoor.
The Blackwatch suffered two casualties and many sport nasty wounds, but they emerged triumphant. Miraculously, none of the orphans seem to have been seriously harmed, though several sport scrapes and bruises from the hasty escape. One orphanage worker was killed in the initial attack from the mercenaries, and Lyn is being treated for injuries. The mercenary bodies were dragged out and laid out in front of the orphanage to be examined, but as yet there is no clue as to who sent them.
The children seem resilient, and some of the excited orphans are now making the best of the situation. (Kids will be kids.) A few started up a game of "Blackwatch and Villains" in the orphanage's yard, with the "Blackwatch" running down the "villains" and saving the day. They also made up a little chant that has become contagious, even amongst some of the adults:
"The Blackwatch are thugs! But they're Leringard's thugs!"
A number of Leringard's citizens, including a few nobles who have complained about the Blackwatch's brutal but thorough tactics in the past, seem to turned over a new leaf or at the very least have had their eyes opened. There is a rumor that one has donated a large sum of True to the Blackwatch, as thanks for all that they do in protecting Leringard.
