Editing Hunting Slith Spies (section)

==Finding a Plan==
Gale fades out; Diomarche fades in.  Managaratha seems to be asleep.

Scout brings Diomarche up to speed.

We look at Nesh’s map of Melmane, to figure out what the plan is.  We could go to Indaton, and take the road to EastPort, or we could go south to the coast and find a village and try to get a boat to EastPort.  We decide to go to Indaton.  (“Indaton?  These people are terrible at naming things,” says Scout.)

We think about marching to get to the road or Indaton, but Managaratha thinks he can teleport us there, or at least close.  He clairvoys around a bit, to get targeting.  We teleport there, which is apparently tiring.

Stella looks for an inn.  Nesh asks around for the Mage, and finds out where he lives, although people think talking to a Mage is kind of crazy.

We split the party!  Nesh, Diomarche, and Scout look around for the Mage; Managaratha and Vidan and Stella find the inn.  Nesh knocks on the house with the storm cloud hanging around over it; the butler answers.  We convey all the information; the Butler can’t read Saurien, so Nesh thinks he’s probably not the cause of the Terrible Betrayal or anything.  We try to give him the background, he takes the notes, etc.  The butler doesn’t seem to think 10 anti-magic/DI will be a trouble.

Stella finds us a perfectly competent inn with decent food.  We spend the evening quietly, and decide to set watches in case of Slith assassins.

We sleep.  Diomarche, sleeping in the yard, is awoken by a tap on his front haunch.  It’s Thistle!
“I hear the Saurien kid is asking around about a Mage?  What the heck are you people doing here?”

Diomarche tells her about the Slith assassin, and asks when she got here.  A few days ago.  Interesting.  She doesn’t seem to want any help with whatever she’s doing here, whatever that is, which she doesn’t seem very interested in telling anyone, which isn’t really surprising, but even so, one would think she might be interested in our help, given that we’ve been helpful before.

We putter a bit, wondering what to do about Thistle.  But Stella decides to bring the hammer, figuring out what Thistle is here to fix– 15 successes with 10 DI is enough to tell her that Thistle is here to find the Slith spy (spy for the Slith, not necessarily spy who is a Slith) in the city, and probably blow the spy’s cover, rather than deal with it personally.  The assassin is probably on the way to contact the spy; the assassin is probably too big for Thistle to handle.

Managaratha calls Thistle, who is sleeping.  He tells her about the slith spy, she mentions that’s probably what Rustic  is here for.  SHe says let’s talk at lunch.

Scout scouts around for slith (and spirits), but doesn’t see any signs of them.  Vidan spends a DI, and heads out for a walk around 10am.  He sees a guy talking to a couple of shopkeepers, and he’s definitely an interesting guy that Vidan should be Witnessing.  He’s talking to the shopkeepers about the complaints about the rats, and they should keep their places cleaner so there aren’t so many rats.  “Yes Mister Mayor, yes Mister Mayor”, they reply.  Vidan wonders what kind of clothes he’s wearing; it’s mostly a fancier version of what people in town wear.  He does have a badge on one side that’s probably the Mayor’s seal of office; on the other side he has a holy symbol to all Five of the Five, or something like that. 

Vidan goes up and says Hey.  The Mayor is pleased to meet him.  Vidan talks about the Middlesea Free Rangers and trying to help against the slith; the Mayor seems to think that’s good, although he hadn’t heard a lot about Middlesea.  Vidan asks him about the area to the south; the Mayor says don’t go there.  He clearly knows more about the Blue Nexus, but doesn’t seem to give away anything about knowing about a slith encampment, say.  The Mayor invites him to services that evening; he’s a Priest.

At lunch, Thistle says she thinks she’s most likely to be here to figure out what’s going on with all the random crap that Rustic keeps stealing.  He’s one of the Sauriens in the Guild.  Normally when she shows up somewhere (of the 5-6 times that it’s happened so far), either there’s something she’s supposed to steal, or there’s a problem in the Thieves’ Guild.  She hasn’t noticed anything to steal here, but there’s a moderately important thief here that’s been like… hitting grocery stores?  It’s a bit weird.

Was he hired to steal from the groceries? asks Scout.  Not that she knows of; it’s not like anyone else has really noticed.  It’s like every few days he’s been stealing groceries, but why is he doing that rather than doing a big hit and then buying stuff?  The Guild hasn’t really noticed.  It’s been going on at least a couple of weeks.

Nesh thinks Scout and he should tail Mage Farius.  The notes probably covered a week or so, mostly on Gather Information rolls.