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| Lance the Septum |
They got down to brass tacks and asked Lance about the Clairvoyance spell. Yes, he could certainly cast that spell. Yes, it would show the inside of the house; one could "move the scrying camera" in a limited way. The range was unlimited, but line-of-sight. So, Lance would need to see the house wall or a window. But he warned that, if there was magical detection, then it would spot the "scrying camera" and, while it wouldn't reveal who cast it, it would certainly reveal that the place was being scried.
They didn't want to take any risks, so they bid Lance good bye and skulked off into the night.
So much for that idea, then
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Later that night, about 5 be'light [2 am], Tylin [Ian], Sorrow and Lammy [Kevin] went to visit Daisy's house again. Sorrow silently shepherded Lammy to the back of Daisy's grounds, and got him to cast Detect Magic from the safety of the hide. Bits of the house's back wall had traces of magic, some magic inside, and the back door was also magic.
"Best not enter that way," whispered Lammy.
This was different to the front door, where Moonlight [Chris] had cast Detect Magic upon on a previous evening. So, Sorrow snuck Lammy back out to the road, and he then cast another Detect Magic from there. The front door was still not ensorcelled.
So, Lammy and Sorrow approached the front door. All was quiet and still. somewhere, off in the distance, a dog barked. Sorrow checked for traps on the door. There were none. But Sorrow couldn't get the lock picked. So, ham-fisted Lammy tried it with his own tools - a piece of wire and a bent teaspoon. Click! "Ha!"
Sorrow pulled Lammy back to the road. If something went wrong, they didn't want a clumsy mage tripping over his own velour robes.
Sorrow snuck back to the door alone, and opened the now-unlocked door, on silent freshly-oiled hinges. Crash! Broken bottles and falling tin cans and cutlery inside. It was trapped after all!
Lights came on inside.
Sorrow scarpered. And he, Tylin and Lammy fled down the road.
So much for that idea, then.
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From a previous foray, they knew where one of Daisy's gardeners lived. So, they took Lammy there, and he cast a Charm on him. The gardener was more than happy to spill his guts:
- Daisy does not come to her house much these days. He had heard through the grapevine that she had a bounty on her head.
- She was there about a week ago, but she didn't over-night.
- The gardener never went inside the house, but he did gossip with the maids and scullery girls.
- There wasn't much to do in the garden, so they gave him a lot of busy-work.
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| 1G Conch |
Liaison Sly Dunbar summoned him, and demanded that the group take back the 1G conch.
"I need it to be contacting your Budgie Smugglers when I want," he said.
Since the party had now re-hidden their lair, Lammy did not want to risk the WG locating the lair via the conch (the spell Local Object could easily do this), so Lammy took it to the Budgie Smugglers' notice board in the Luscious Pixie tavern, and hung it next to the party's notice board.
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It was well-known that Daisy Crown liked expensive jewellery; her vice was Luxury. So, the next plan was to create a rumour that Theresa Jeven (she was the one the group had faux-kidnapped a few scores' ago) had lost a necklace with diamonds the size of plover eggs, and the group knew who had found it.
The seed of this rumour grew surprisingly well [a critical was rolled] and, the next day, Sonny Bowens of the Bronze Studs contacted the group with a job.
Sonny had been contacted by Booker Dobbs, of the Insular Rogues. Dobbs allegedly had a buyer for the necklace. He was to meet the sellers at the Scarlet Monkey.
So, Huilam [Jamie], Sorrow, Ronny [Deacon] and El Cid disguised-up, and went to meet Booker.
Booker confirmed that they had a buyer for the necklace but, of course, wouldn't say who it was.
But then the party wouldn't show him anything.
The party left the tavern to head back to their lair, but Sorrow noticed that they had a tail. It was a half-elf girl.
So, Ronny intercepted her, and "guided" her into another inn the Salacious Succubus.
Huilam, Sorrow and El Cid joined them at the table, and questioned her. She succumbed pretty quickly, with minimal resistance (thanks to Ronny's charms), and confirmed she was an Insular Rogue.
Ronny plied his charms, and kept her occupied for the night while the rest of us slipped away and returned to base.
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| Daisy Crown |
Daisy welcomed the three to join them at her table, and they chatted away.
She said that she avoided staying at her house, these days, for obvious reasons, and thus spent most of her time safe in the Guild.
Talk moved on to the up-and-coming Scabport City Council meeting
where the triumvirate (Daisy, Simone and Dalila) was supposed to be present. This was seven days away now. And there was still no agenda.
Daisy's racism also came to the fore.
"How do you manage to live with yourself?" said Daisy, commenting on Sorrow and Huilam's half-elf-ness. "Must be hard not being pure. Half-cast."
That said, Tylin, a pure elf himself, agreed with her wholeheartedly.
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The next day, Tylin went again to meet Booker Dobbs offering to fence the virtual jewellery.
Booker offered 15 COIN. But he wanted to actually see the necklace.
Of course, Tylin couldn't produce anything.
"No reveal," Booker said. "No deal. Now, piss off, elf."
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