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Arriving late, as any good nobleman should, he produces a large bone with a few scraps on it for his good friend Sir Barksalot to nom on.
"It would sound like perhaps someone should investigate your cousins place. Perhaps with a letter from you we can infiltrate as servants or guards or what have you and see if anything untowards is happening."
He began. He bit his lip for a moment and frowned it was clear he was thinking about something but not yet found a way to voice it.
I say, what kind of animal do you take me for?! Barksalot says indignantly. Yet he does take the bone to a corner, and his tail wags rapidly.
Tarvi smiles at this, and gives Tram a coy smile. Before any of that. Did you do anything stupid in that lodge?
She waits expectantly.
Oh my, this will take us a while.
Well, Exxor looks to Miro, Tram didn't really do anything stupid in the lodge... you and I handled that aspect quite nicely. Or do I need to point out the halfling teethmarks on my shins again?
I was wondering about the hedgehog bites on your nose.
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He paused and for a moment he took on a hunted look then he shrugged.
"That old pathfinder lodge held many secrets and well dangers. I dont think I did anything in particularly stupid at all...well we did fight a vampire. That wasnt a good time. Animated dolls attacked us. That was strange. A giant skeleton creature with a huge horn skewered me at one point. That was harrowing. There were a ton of webs above us and I was worried about well, spiders or something dropping down on us."
He answered Miss Tarvi wondering what answer she was searching for.
there were magical animated dolls and you did not bring me one to study. I thought we were supposed to be friends exclamation!
She sighs and shakes her head disappointed. Barksalot makes a sound that sounds like a laugh.
She turns to Miro So yes my cousins estate has had men vanishing. They are relatively unimportant to anyone except themselves, but they do make a good show and no one challenge s them because they look the part and have an estate near the mayor s. My cousin and her partner are horrible humans, but I do have fond memories of the staff there. I lived there briefly but once my family fell on hard times we were cut off.
Maybe picked off by shadowbeasts or vampires.
Do you think vampires got out of the lodge?
We saw two, I dunno if there were more hanging around
So, we going to lend a hand to these people?
Perhaps we could be "hired" on as replacement staff...
Well another slip slave might be able to get in
I can get you in. Just because I don't like my cousin doesn't mean we don't speak
Tarvi speaks up from the corner
Time to put on our best clothes
New shirts all around!
Miro gets his good servant clothes on for their newest whacky adventure.
Oh Tram, you never offer Fate a challenge such as that... we are in for it now! As for other vampires, I hope that is not the case. Perhaps some of the bodies we saw in the relic chamber were those that were missing? Do any descriptions match up?
We should also get as good a list as possible of who is missing, when it happened or was noticed, where they would have been assigned... look for any commonalities. Are they all missing from the estate itself, or simply the grounds, were they outside when they went missing - what time of day. The usual search for clues. If we can't learn this in advance, these are the things we should ask people - subtly once we are working.
If they have halfling slaves, I can try to chat them up and see if they saw anything. A lot of the time it is 'I don't give a turd that another slave owner dies.
Plus we must be wary of Barksalot's nemesis, Queen Mittens.
Barksalot looks up
Has there been a sighting?
Tarvi says there are plenty of halflings and she says that she will get a list of those missing
Sorry all traveling internationally at the moment
There have been whispers from the rodentea clans about severed ears and tails left as warnings and robberies of catnip. I fear that there will be a crisis if this continues.
Exxor just stares at Miro trying to process Queen Mittens the arch-nemesis of Sir Barksalot, as Miro continues Exxor leans in and in a whisper to Tram asks, Did he get hit in the head a lot before I came along?
Perhaps we should send word to Barksalot's friend. Rolf Von Bowow. So they can combine their forces.
Whose a good dog?
Exxor watches as Tram, Sirbarksalot and Miro engage in Miro shenanigans, waiting on the information from Miss Tarvi.
Barksalot snorts Now you jest. We all know that the Baron is just a myth. However, Queen Mittens is not to be messed with.
A moment later And for the record I am a good dog. I am the best of dogs. He says quite seriously.
Or heroes have an interview arranged with the head of the house, the house steward, and a few of the guards. How do you want to approach that? What order?
Miro plays the part of the good little slip and keeps his gaze lowered while thinking about how he is the perfect height to jam a dagger up into someone's jibbles.
Exxor suggests starting at the bottom and working their way up... if we start at the top, the top guys will tell everyone else not to tell us anything - especially if one of them is involved.
Tarvi sets up a meeting in a pub with a cook, and two of the halfling slaves, how she arranged for them to get out to go to a pub is not clear.
Miro relaxes a bit when he sees that it is low level staff.
Exxor plans to ask the cook and other help the same questions he wanted to know before...who is missing, when did they go missing, where did they go missing from, what type of person were they.
Exxor will also ask Miss Tarvi if it is even possible for them to pose as house employees; given their apparent notoriety as Torchbearers and city heroes, and acclaimed actors, lest we forget the Trials.
I can give you some tips on acting properly servile. Miro says to Tram and Exxor. Proper cringe techniques every halfling slave should know.
Reeeeaaaalllllly? Exxor asks incredulously, about to make a jest, before he becomes serious again, On second thought, I would gather that you, unfortunately do know...
But let us see if we are playing the role of new employee or Torchbearer Investigator
ask away folks. Consider all your plans made, and set in motion
You are currently at a table, with whomever you wanted to speak with
Miro waits for Tram and Exxor to take the lead.
Investigating the missing servemts
Exxor will ask for the following information, not in an "interrogation manner, but trying to seem as a friend interested in helping the disappeared.
Who is missing, what was their job, what parts of the estate did they work in, did they go to other parts, when did they go missing, was anything out of the ordinary, were there signs of a struggle, what was the person like outside work?
Yea, was there anything strange going on with them? Looking pale and being real tired? Maybe not doing things like drinking or playing cards anymore?
The missing? Na. They was just like normal, then all of a sudden. They gone! First couple was fine, maybe they just got sick, but then more and more and none of them ever came back
Perhaps we can get Barksalot to sniff around. My familiar might be able to help. Speaking of which, where are yours?
Snuffle, snuffle. Waff Waff
Barksalot sniffs out the clues around the windows and pursues leads by questioning the lapdogs that are hanging around the back door of the kitchen, hoping for scraps
Our what?
Barksalot wanders off on the scent of something...
Mind posting it in character?