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As the party commenced, Winsting was confident that he would receive a large sum of money as a payoff. He chatted with several guests including [[Hughes Entrone]] and [[Dowser Maline]], even subtly implying that his brother [[Replar Innate|Replar]] could also be bought. There was one attendee, a tall woman with short golden hair, that Winsting did not recognize and believed to be a spy.{{book ref|mb5|1}}
After the auction had gotten underway, gunfire rang out from various parts of the room almost simultaneously. The attendees started shooting at each other in the confusion. Winsting's guards disagreed on who started shooting first, and thought that it was either Dowser or [[Darm (Mistborn)|Darm]]. However, the initial volley of gunfire in fact came from [[Paalm]], a mad [[kandra]] also known as Bleeder. Paalm had used a [[Feruchemical]] [[steel]]mind to move around the room at superhuman speed while shooting key attendees.{{book ref|mb5|1}}
Winsting's guards hustled him into a saferoom downstairs; two guards watched the stairs from outside the door.{{book ref|mb5|1}} The shooting continued upstairs, and all of the attendees of the auction were killed.{{book ref|mb5|4}} Winsting's began fretting about the fallout to his reputation from the shootout. He allowed one of his guards, [[Flog]], into the saferoom, believing that he could trust him. However, Flog was being impersonated by Paalm. Paalm slit Winsting's throat,{{book ref|mb5|1}} then cut out his tongue.{{book ref|mb5|4}} She then killed the rest of the guards to cover her tracks.{{book ref|mb5|5}}
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