the first part of the investigation yields no results, and in fact is entirely pointless if you get the note from the noodle lady telling you the plan.
knowing the guys plan before hand, our group decided to try to stop it because it was crazy and actually evil, but obviously the scenario assumes the group is ok with allowing a man to start a riot in a city that is already suffering. the gm tried to accommodate us, but seeing as how the great bulk of the scenario assumes his plan has worked, she finagled him into doing his evil deed anyways.
speaking of his plan, it is to cause a distraction to enable him to leave, but he is a master of stealth and disguise, why not just leave? also he doesn't even know there are going to be people helping him leave, is he just doing this to be evil and cause a riot? he is revealing his true identity without an actual exit plan, so is this a sort of weird suicide? on seeing the agents, he tells them to let him do the plan, and will not just leave with them, which also makes no sense. hes been waiting five years to go, why not just go when the people show up saying "hey we're here to get you"
in order to secure help leaving, every faction sends you to kill the strix, with "evidence" to plant in the form of a weird letter that implies that the cheliax killed them? wouldn't the cheliax be the ones ivestigating it? so they show up and say "oh i guess we killed these dudes, case closed." what bizarre dream logic is used to justify that?
the fight in the whale. i like it. it is what is saving this from 1 star. it is silly.