Zoom 2021-08-05 21:00

==First part of the day==
Francis continues asking around – concentrating on work gangs working on the walls: There are human and Dark Elf supervisors overseeing gangs of slaves and some freemen masons. There is no talk of sedition or propaganda being spread – more just people questioning what the point was as "these walls won’t stop the orcs".
*Caradoc demonstrates his Mageblade skills to the Rogues Hall.
*Hamish joins the Rogues Hall to learn about the Blackfist monk path.
*Joshua prepares for his decision on conversion. He now knows that Perceval is a male Dwarf. Later on, he helps Caradoc shadow Umar.
*Garaf trades information in the Temple of Perceval (but not the info about sapling ballista bolt)
*Dougal sits on a park bench in the Blackeyed District trying to ‘passively’ gather information.
*Quercuis,Wun and Brokev do their ‘good deeds’ in the fields:  There is no overt hostility to the Elves, but there are the odd mutterings of discontent and questioning of Raston. Also the occasional comment of “I’m going to get out of here soon...”
==Umar’s night out:==
Umar goes off to find the pub that he had had such a good time at last night. He is shadowed by Caradoc and Joshua - and later on by some unknown human, who is so bad (or unlucky) at following that he is spotted by Caradoc, Joshua and even Umar. So Umar goes up to him and asks ‘Are you following me???’ The guy runs off down the nearest alley – and Umar follows. Caradoc goes down a parallel alley and attempts to get ahead of him, whilst Joshua manifests Kirsten and slowly follows his tracks.
At the crossroads at the end of the alley, Umar charges on ahead, while Joshua (when he gets there) follows the tracks to the left. Caradoc at the end of his alley sees the guy whizz past him – followed shortly by Kirsten and Joshua. Joshua continues to follow the guy whilst Caradoc fetches Umar.
When the guy’s tracks shows that he has slowed to a walk, Joshua decides to stop and wait for Caradoc and Umar. When the three are back together again, they start following the tracks again which lead to the back door of a warehouse in the Blackeyed district. There is small sign carved discreetly into the doorpost – a shield with a sword crossed over it. (The sign is at least a couple of weeks old, and appears to have been cleaned of mud/grime multiple times) There are raised voices from inside.
Umar decides to go off to the pub (shadowed by Caradoc), while Joshua climbs onto a convenient roof to keep a eye on the warehouse door.
==At the pub:==
There is the standard itinerant crowd there, and Umar starts asking around about the giants that were shipped to Ghoulagabba prior to the Elven invasion. It appears it was thought that Willston would gain ‘special favours’ with Ghoulagabba by sending the giants there – especially those who didn’t follow the ways of ‘Old Torgan’.
Caradoc notices that a Dwarf is interested in Umar, and seems about to make an approach to him, but then changes his mind and goes and sits with some sailors and dock-hands.
After a while, Umar leaves, but Caradoc stays and watches the Dwarf – and then follows him when he leaves about 45 minutes later.
==On the rooftop:==
After about 10 minutes on the rooftop, Joshua realises that he is not alone: There is a guy further along the roof to his left also keeping an eye on the door of the warehouse – and in a position ideally suited for the job. Joshua doesn’t think that he has been spotted. After about half an hour, the guy gets up (and he is clearly carrying a crossbow) and makes his way down off the roof – and from the sound of it, meets somebody else coming up the roof. A new guy takes up position on the rooftop perch while the original guy is seen to go in to the warehouse.
After a while, a Dwarf (the one from the pub that Caradoc is following) comes down the ally (causing the new watcher to become alert). The Dwarf goes up to the warehouse door, knocks on it, and is allowed in. The watcher settles back down again.
==Back to Caradoc:==
After following the Dwarf back to the warehouse, Caradoc scouts out the warehouse and determines that this is the back door: There is also a side door that is being guarded by a Dark Elf in official city livery, whist the front doors on the main street are bolted shut. Scouting further around the area, Caradoc determines that the warehouse is just one of many similar warehouses that are being used to house slaves: They all have a side door guarded by an Elf or Dark Elf, and a bolted front door. Only one other has a back door though – and this has a similar sword and shield sign on its doorpost.
At this point Caradoc realises that he has picked up tail – so he takes a slurp of invis potion and gets the hell out of there.
==Meanwhile, back on the roof:==
Joshua tries to wait it out until the next change of shift on the roof. Unfortunately, he doesn’t last that long and after about 3 hours he shifts a shingle, making a noise. So he grabs a slurp of invis, and high-tails it out of there – noisily down the wall and away as fast as he can. Meanwhile, the watcher, alerted by the noise from Joshua, fires a crossbow bolt into the door of the warehouse – causing people to boil out the door like a wasps nest that has been kicked.
Joshua makes it back to the party’s digs – saying that not only had he been rumbled, but he doubts he covered his tracks well enough for us not to be expecting some unwelcome visitors pretty soon...