Now we're cooking OR Wug the heck is going on around here!?!

[whitesword]

Feel free to pick up where we left off

[Asinjin]

Do we get time off after our battle?

Are we fully healed by constable clerics?

DO they ask that we follow up the investigation since we were involved?

[Asinjin]

Do we get a full report on the last time anyone has seen a group of wugs in Phiam?

[Zunder]

Don't forget, we need to get to the Stormmoon estate quickly in the morning, so we can track the cook.


I sleep the minimum to get my power points back!

[Asinjin]

Once we are not in earshot of anyone but the four to six of us, I say,

"What is our best guess?  That Lord Stormmoon took on a lady Charlene?

He possibly paid her with the gem. 

The cook was either in on the arrangement or simply saw her come or go with the Lord.

Falce became jealous at the arrangement, that his 'girl' was seeing Lord Stormmoon.  He contacted his former or still employers, the Onice.  They killed Stormmoon on his behalf.  Or they gave him the means to kill Stormmoon.

She was killed because she figured out the connection between Falce, Stormmoon, and the Onice.

Falce went into hiding to avoid being used to unravel the plot to kill Stormmoon, either to simply save himself to to prevent the Onice from being implicated."

[Valdis]

"Maybe.  I'm more inclined to think that Stormoon started seeing Charlene and that is what pulls him out of his misery.  Possibly the cook introduced them or had a hand in their meeting, at the very least saw them together. This would have been around the time that Charlene would have been working for the Lady Luxuries.  Either Stormoon, Charlene, or the both of them together stumble upon something there that someone, possibly these Onice's, didn't want them to see and they take out Stormoon to silence Charlene.  They make the death public knowing that people will gossip and the news will reach her ears.  She gets spooked and tells her estranged boyfriend, Falce, everything and that she wants to get out of the city.  He has a history of theft from those he works with, so he likely swipes the gem from the Onice's and gives it to Charlene to pawn for gold.  Bad move because they really want it back and hunt her down and kill her to get it, after questioning her about how she got it.  They make her death look like an accident so there's no further investigation."

[whitesword]

Once we are not in earshot of anyone but the four to six of us, I say,

"What is our best guess?  That Lord Stormmoon took on a lady Charlene?

He possibly paid her with the gem. 

The cook was either in on the arrangement or simply saw her come or go with the Lord.

Falce became jealous at the arrangement, that his 'girl' was seeing Lord Stormmoon.  He contacted his former or still employers, the Onice.  They killed Stormmoon on his behalf.  Or they gave him the means to kill Stormmoon.

She was killed because she figured out the connection between Falce, Stormmoon, and the Onice.

Falce went into hiding to avoid being used to unravel the plot to kill Stormmoon, either to simply save himself to to prevent the Onice from being implicated."

Assuming you have this conversation after you are healed but before you speak with the watch commander, who is summoned from his home, the sergeant looks very nervous as you finish. "All we have right now is a theory that fits the facts. We still don't know where Falce is or if he is even alive. He doesn't  seem the type to be able to pull something like this murder off and we have no evidence that he had the kind of pull with the Onice to have them carry it out.

[whitesword]

The sergeant says "Hopefully it goes without saying we can't allege that one of the Kngdom's most esteemed subjects was consorting with prostitutes and got murdered because of it without hard proof."

[Asinjin]

"I'm just guessing here.  Just coming up with possibilities."

[Valdis]

The sergeant says "Hopefully it goes without saying we can't allege that one of the Kngdom's most esteemed subjects was consorting with prostitutes and got murdered because of it without hard proof."

"I would think, by now, you would know that we..." Ularik looks at Brevis, "...most of us don't have doorknobs for brains.  Besides, just because Stormoon was seeing the girl doesn't mean he was bedding her.  He could have seen her like a daughter, or the daughter of one of the other families in the city.  Hells, she might have been related to him for all we know at this point.  We aren't going to begrime his name on a mere hunch."

[Asinjin]

"There is also no evidence that he was paying her.  He may have been seeing her more traditionally."

[whitesword]

There are lots of smart people with no discretion. While it would be nice if he was not paying her, assuming he knows her at all, that seems unlikely given what we know of her. We need to get to Falce through her and since she's dead that means someone who knows her; customer, friend or employer.

[Hero]

We should probably withhold the speculation and wait until we have enough evidence to tell the story. We need to remain unbiased, do we not?

[Asinjin]

"We are allowed to speculate among ourselves, are we not?"

[Zunder]

I believe the cook just had been one of Charlene's customers.  As solicitation is illegal, he would be nervous.  Falce is still the key.