Editing A Lilac Kind Of Purple (section)

==Lunch with Inspector Vok==
He has not reviewed the Tarn Evidence packet, so he does so.  The Inspectors are cops and auditors; they work with the Ministry of Interior, but they pride themselves on their independence.  There’s some debate about whether they’re technically a Ministry (though Vidan is unclear what it would mean to not be a Ministry…)

Vok appreciates the information, but was interested in talking about the incursion. 

How can we help?  He’s used post-cog to watch the ninja kill the Sub-minister, but he couldn’t follow him in or out.  Human, or maybe a half-elf.  Could have been an elf.  Not a centaur or a Saurien.  Not a goblin; he probably could have told the difference between 

Vok takes us to the scene of the Crime!  It’s been about two weeks; it’s a nice house, if dusty.
Vidan detectives– blood on the bed, no signs of a struggle.  No signs of any thwackback, which… second level minister might have had some.  Hard to know.  The room has been pretty thoroughly searched, any other obvious clues have been removed.  Whoever broke in and out was better than 6 successes– couldn’t have told that the door was picked or the window had been forced.

It’s hard to tell if there was an attempt to search the space by the ninja.  Nothing is obviously missing.  Vok knows the weapon was a dagger, seemingly unpoisoned.

Vidan asks Navere for True Sight of what needs to be seen, 6 DI 5 successes.

The ninja dodges a bunch of Vidan's miracle, but not all of it.  

This causes Vok to cast the post-cog again and share it with Vidan.  He sees the ninja attack, and is fairly confident that it’s a half-orc.

Stella also looks around, to see what needs fixing.
* There are two problems here, neither of which can be fixed here.
* The half-orc spy network in the Bureaucracy
* Finding the key to opening the time-stop.
* There is potentially information in the room that could be helpful for the second, but it’s being concealed by Twins-y things.

It’s probably better to avoid fixing the half-orc spy network too fast– the problems are both keeping a third problem in check.  Solving either of those two problems will bring a third problem closer.

Scout takes a look around to see what the magic/miracular landscape looks like.
The house has some protections, both magical and miracular.  It doesn’t look like those have been triggered yet.  They’re not physical, they’re informational, and they don’t seem to be protecting the ninja, rather than the Minister.  Which is probably what the Goddess meant by saying “I’m not going to tell you the information right now”.

Scout mentions that the house is protecting the Minister’s secrets– “More paperwork”, sighs the Inspector.  He mostly leaves us be in the House.  The party pokes around a bit more.
Stella asks if the half-orc was male or female– probably male.

Vidan files some paperwork to find out where the Lilac Ministers came from. 

The Ministry of Repercussions might be able to tell us if we should expect a half orc ninja visit tonight.   Also what might happen if Gale keeps investigating the Ministry of Lilacs.   IT HAS A RAINBOW ENDING AT IT. 

The door opens as we approach– “come in, you’re late”.  Huh.  Vidan thinks they often say that.  They lead us to a room that is clearly set up for us.

“I am Sub-minister Tran– you would be the Middlesea… emissaries, let’s say.”
“What’s left of them, anyway.  Or what’s free of them.”  – Diomarch
“What’s free of them, yes.  I don’t suppose you have any information from the Minister?”
“Not yet, no.”
“It is highly likely you will, though you all are hard to predict, due to the Miracles on you– Miracles making predictions harder.

So.  What do you need.”

Diomarch asks about the orc attack(s).

“There are odds above 80% of a ninja attack on you all this evening.  I cannot see the details, but it seems to be an assault rather than a theft.”

Well that’s disheartening for everyone except Diomarch, who thinks he’s done his job here.

Gale asks about ramifications of investigating the Ministry of Lilacs.

“No ramifications in the next several days, but there is an encounter with a young lady on most of the paths but the details are lost in the noise.”

How about going to Green v. Red next? 

The immediate consequences were already triggered in Green yesterday evening.  We could learn about that by going to Her Majesty's court, but there is no immediate necessity. 

Thistle's actions in Darstan are not completely resolved - if we travel there quickly we could have an impact on that, and we could have an effect on the possible conflicts between Darstan and the other red nations.  If we wait until the Saurian returns he might want to go to Blue. 

Vidan notes: their advice is not always right, but if you go and get their advice and then ignore it, you will absolutely be fired if they were right.