Black Watch Chronicles III: Tidings of Comfort and Joy

The third in a series of adventures involving the Black Watch.
Scribe Notes

Summary

Adventure: Tidings of Comfort and Joy
GM: Ben Taberner
Session: Spring 808 wk
Night: Thursday - starting 18th Sept 2008
Location: Chez Mitchinson
Level: Medium

Party

• Lyric Henrikson - played by Michelle Ellis (Scribe)
• Vapour - Human Air Hage played by Neil Davies
• Avatriss - played by Jill Mitchinson (Party Leader)

Bodric Henrickson (GM Info), A Dwarven Rune Mage played by Mandos

• Mavric Henrikson - played by Lisa Martin
• Henric Henrikson - played by Chris Caulfield

Employer

Senior Sergeant Antaeus Albrecht.

Mission

Inexplicable art-related crimes are cluttering up the Seagate Watch's Log Books, and they have even less grasp of what to do than they do with missing healers or homicidal boogey-men.

Pay

Guild rates, cheer.

Lyric's Scribe Notes

1st Thaw

Well, Henie, Boddie, Mavric and I were back in Seagate because we need some supplies for our Inn so we are going to be selling jewellery and stuff but as it is guild meeting time it was perfect to get in and see all our friends and maybe practice some magic or get weapons and stuff or maybe sample some of the local inns so we can get some new ideas for our inn now that we have had it for a while but more importantly I get to see Jazmyn if she is home and tell her what I have been doing and maybe we could go shopping or sunbathing or something else she likes to do especially now it is spring but then again she is from that really cold plane so she probably sunbakes in the really cold for Alusia but it must be pretty much warm compared to her home but while we were at the guild hanging around chatting after the meeting and because their wasn't many adventures there were lots of people around hanging around which was great because you get to meet some really nice and not so nice people and they all seem to like me and talk to me and tell me interesting stories and stuff but as we were standing around some guild security asked if we were interested in work and because I recognised Albrecht from last time I figured it couldn't hurt to talk because we may get paid to stay in Old Seagate while we sell all our stuff or even better we might get to fly somewhere anything that would break the boredom of the same old same old at the Inn and anyways Boddie really need to get out because everything is the Inn this, the Inn that, brewing this, distilling that. Geez. I think it is time that he finds a nice wife, he is almost old enough and if he is going to get all domestic maybe that will make him happy, he just doesn't seem to know what to do with himself.

Anyways, all four of us ended up in a meeting room with a really tall odd looking guy who I am pretty sure is a human but he is very strange looking, very shiny like he has been polished and weird hair like the tips have been frightened white and a female human who is tall but not as tall as the man but she looks very serious, like when Henie can get when he is contemplating whatever he thinks about when he daydreams, she has that sort of look, except she is a girl and she is human and taller than Henie and probably better looking but I can't tell cause she is a girl and human.

Well Guild security introduces some strange man with a big moustache but I didn't really pay attention as I was excited to see Albrecht and happily asked him about his family and introduced my family and stuff as I had told him all about them last time I saw him and now he can see for himself and for sure can believe all the stories of killing monsters in Novedom and stuff which would of course be stories he repeats and now he can picture us all when he recalls them. Maybe Mavric could go and tell the stories of our travels to the watch. I should remember to ask Albrecht next time I see him.

Well the guy with the moustache talks about needing an able group of adventures and that is definitely me and my family because we are very very able. Not sure about the two others but we will see how it goes.

Well the moustache guy goes and Albrecht talks about us looking into some weird stuff that is going on in Old Seagate. He tells us the nasty scary story again about the kids being killed in the meat works a couple of years ago and that around that time there has been some big big murals painted that just appeared over night around Old Seagate and then the people started to act very strangely and crime increased and they think it was related to the murals somehow and they have now got new rock paintings popping up overnight that they are now worried about this as some of the poor hungry people in Old Seagate are now doing some street performing which is bothering them as they are not saying very nice things in the performances and it has gotten people upset so we need to look into it. The rock paintings are on rocks which are part of the road or street markers or part of buildings and stuff so it isn't as if they can be prepainted in advance and left there and just like the murals they are not sure how they are being done without being seen and stuff or how they are being painted so they are worried that there might be higher crime or even murders or torture like there was when the murals we around so they are worried and want us to look into it and again they want us to be quiet about who we are and what we are about or what we are up to as yet again there are reasons why they can't be seen to be doing this work for them.

So we decide that yes we will be involved in the job and decide to introduce ourselves, the tall man is a human and he is called Vapour and likes himself a lot and he talks and talks and talks all about himself and if he isn't talking about himself he is doing exercises or coming up with stupid comments but as he is part of the Air College maybe this is normal but just listening to him talking about himself about how pretty he is and how he has been Mr Air College for 3 years running and on and on and on, nothing like Ibrihim so maybe it isn't an air college thing and some of the stuff he says and explanations of what is going on in Seagate I think he is a bit of an airhead and he takes that as a compliment as that is what he thinks the air college is referred too as a nickname so obviously he is called it a lot and then he said he has a huge dragon fly that he wants Mavric to ride so there is no damn chance of him brushing her hair as Mavric says it is a mating ritual! And then there is Avatriss who is a Mind Mage - oh goodness not another one and yes that is why she has the human look that Henie has but she seems to have an issue with sex and that some people have sex for other things other than to make babies because when I was explaining that last time I was in Old Seagate with Teeanna and Peter and Ibrihim and Kirgoth and Jules that the criminal people thought that Teeanna was moving into their territory and they thought I was a male dwarf prostitute because prostitutes get paid for sex and I was explaining this to Mavric and Avvy (or is should we call her Avric) thinks I have an issue with sex but I think she does as she wants to get people on her couch and thrash it out or axe it out or something like that but we need to work out who is going to be the party leader and as I have worked for Albrecht and the Watch before and also worked lots in Old Seagate and know the names of three of the heads of the criminals gangs that I should be the party leader but Henie wants to be the party leader as well and we just can't have that as he would just nag and think and wait and we would get nowhere so I would prefer Boddie if we had to have one of us at least he would let me hit things or Mavric as she would let me hit things too or be sneaky or something fun but nooooooooo not Henie so the Vapour aka Airhead is also wanting to be the party leader and that is definitely out of the question more than Henie so I think if I can't be party leader the only person left that would work for the family is Avvy so she is chosen but I am worried that she could be just like Henie but at least she won't boss us around like he would. And at the end of the decision she mentions she is a local and lives around the docks so she could be so useful when it comes to working in Old Seagate because she can talk to everybody.

Well, OK now she says she can't tell her family she is in Old Seagate as they will want her to work which sucks because it would be so useful to have those contacts but I am sure we can work out a way to get them to know she is here but working and not available to work in the family business. So then it happens, we talk about plans for what we are going to do, talk talk talk so boring, can we get going already! Then I remember that guild security gave me a letter from the head of the criminals I know and they had told us of a lady to see about where the artist was, and he is an artist so he might have something to do with the paintings, art, painting, same sort of stuff isn't it? Then Avvy has some great ideas and we decide that we should all go down and stay in Old Seagate were we can case out there area see if there is any strange religions popping up or groups we can join that might be doing street performing and I am sure Mavric can get some work and I can tell good stories too or we could do some gambling or see if we can get work but we need to be seen as separate groups having us mixing with humans might be a bit obvious that we are adventures so we are going to have us family members in one room of a hostel and Avvy and Vapour will be in another room and pretend we don't know each other and we can continue with our buying and selling of stuff for the Inn or get a job or something and that the others need to come up with a cover, I suggest that they need to act as boyfriend and girlfriend but yet again Avvy has a problem with this you know her issues with sex and all but it is all pretend she doesn't have to have sex with him just sleep with him because the other option is that one is a guard and the other has something that is worth lots of money and if that is the case they become a target for people who might attack somebody who only has one guard but goods that need a guard, I think they should be girlfriend and boyfriend but then we won't hear the end of it from Vapric but it is probably the best idea so I say it over and over and hope that it ends up being what they do see if I was party leader there wouldn't be a need to argue the point oh well.

We decide that before we head off we need a decent map and get Albrecht to put pins in it so that we can see where the murals were and where the current paints are so we can se if there is a pattern or consistency across the two crimes of art that we are looking so we get a map that is as good but now need the pins put in and Albrecht says he will get back to us on that but Albrecht does mentions that by Blue Gate near Hogs End across from the meat works there is a very good recent rock painting so we decide we need to have a look but also need to organise somewhere to stay so Avric tells us of a place to stay and Henie likes Avric as he tries to get her to take one of the pieces of jewellery we are going to sell and he keeps telling her it is for her and she keeps saying no and he keeps saying take it and he only stops because we hassle him that he likes Avric and he stops and we start to head off, us dwarves are going to go down in our wagon and the others on foot and we will organise our accommodation and have a look at the stuff at Blue Gate but then when we head out on top of the stables is Molly.

I call out to her saying hello and she seems much better than I last saw her and Vapric also knows her too as it seems that she has been spending time with air mages and we try and get her down because Austin the Namer is looking very much upset then Molly shows she is still Molly by saying she thought she was on the roof of the stables and then she was there and when I asked her if she could think she was really standing next to me she thought I was funny but then Vapric says he is going to fly up and get her, fly, fly but then again he is an air mage but we wait and wait and continue to try and get Molly to come down but then Vapric climbs up to the roof to get her down and then finally he decides to flys her down why he climbed up there in the first place I don't know and she seems just as excited about flying as I do as she screams and screams with joy and seems to really enjoy it. But Austin mentions that the Astrologers have been following Molly around as she keeps having statements amongst her ramblings as she has good days and bad days and some good days she talks about she mentions about "Look to the Child" and that she has dreams and that her dreams are like art as they are all bright colours ands vivid and Austin thinks she might be dreaming and saying really important things but as she still isn't really well it is a bit erratic with what she says and stuff but as she has feelings and senses stuff.

So for some reason it was decided because Molly was having a good day maybe Vapric could take her to the Blue Gate to see if she feels or says anything about the pictures that are painted around there so they take off with Molly screaming with joy that she was flying and I hope it is me screaming with joy soon because of flying but they head off and then it is decided that Henie and Bodie should head off in the wagon and find a hostel or boarding house and Avric says that they should find one with paintings on it would be really good as it would be a discussion point and I think that is a good idea but Mavric, Avric, Albrecht and Austin wait for Molly and Vapric to return from their trip, and they take ages and ages to come back but when they do come back Molly is not very good at all and it works out that Molly saw the paintings of the stones and thought they were pretty but then said that the Story is as "old as the stones that are broken to pave these streets" or something like that and that "grandfathers faces is revealed by the rising tide" and Vapric says that basically it is a picture of a camp fire with a fire in the middle and figures all around the campfire with each rock being different people horses and stuff and the fire rock is a read rock and that the rocks are only painted on the street side of the rock so not all over the rock and then Vapric said that Molly looked at the meat works and then really got upset and cried and tried to hide as close to him as possible like she was trying to get inside him by squishing herself against him if he had a clock she would have hidden under it but she just had he's greasy chest and weird outfit but by the sounds of it so she was really scared so all those stories of the kids and torture must be true and not just scary bed time stories which of course I knew because I had worked in Old Seagate before and I am an adventurer and old enough now not to believe in bed time stories not that I was ever afraid of them nor did I ever believe them because the true stories have to be scarier and therefore more exciting as people were really doing this stuff rather than make believe, but actually they were torturing and killing little kids and babies so that isn't very exciting at all but rather yucky but anyways I am sure Avric is now jealous that she has Molly to contend with for Vapric but then again nobody can like Vapric as much as Vapric but then what is Henie going to think when he finds out Avric is jealous of Molly it will break his heart for sure.

Ah, no, Boddie and Henie has headed down already to Old Seagate and now we need to go to the library to do research, noooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo oh but yes it is ok Mavric and Avric is going to go library and Vapric and I can help Austin get Molly inside as she really isn't very happy I think the word is comatosed I am sure that is what Austin called it but basically she is just standing there and Austin doesn't seem very happy with Vapric for giving her one of her bad days after it being so good but to me she looks and acts just like I remember but Mavric said that she isn't going to do research but librarians are there to do that it just takes longer but that is much better than searching through lots and lots of books and they are much better at it than we are so that is good but I couldn't believe she volunteered but next time maybe I could volunteer and get the librarians to do the work for us it might make me seem more interested in that sort of stuff. Anyways once Mavric and Avric come back we head off down to Old Seagate to find the boys with Mavric and I in the front because I know where they are but with Avric and Vapric walking behind so we don't look like we are together but I can hear Vapric going on about how good it is for Avric that she is getting to sleep in the same room and that they will get to mate, ohhh yuck I need to get some sort of silencing spell actually maybe Mavric has one I really should ask because we would have had such a nicer walk if Vapric didn't sound so desperate and Avric was getting more and more angry with him saying he had no chance and stuff so maybe Henie will still have a chance after all but then we will have to wait and see with that but I found the boys staying at the Wayward Shepherd Inn and we have two rooms for us dwarves and let Vapric and Avric get their own room.

The boys are in bar of course which is great because all Mavric and I have to do is drop our gear and come back down so we can have an ale if you can really count it as ale it is a little better than dish water but Boddie says it is better for us to stay somewhere like here as we aren't to rich nor too poor plus there was some anti dwarf inns around which I never suspected there would be in Old Seagate because I thought anybodies money would be good enough for a room but obviously not here maybe a dwarven clan came in and damaged the inn previously or maybe that will happen in the future and they are afraid but either way I am sure the damage wouldn't be from us even though they didn't really like us

But finally Avric comes down from her room and she looks a little distressed but then orders two beers and goes and sits with some scruffy looking guy that looks really shocked that she has come up and given him a beer and sat down, geez Avric must be really angry with Vapric to chat to him and she talks and talks and talks and the guy looks more and more confused as the conversation continues but then I thought about Henie and how upset he must be but as I said to Mavric it wouldn't have worked as she is so much taller than Henie but they Mavric said she was told that when you are lying down height isn't a problem and I suppose she is right but then Vapric comes down to the bar looking shiny and happy as ever and goes straight over to Avric and Avric loudly introduces Vapric as her brother, heeeeeehhheeee he has got no hope now because people don't like it when brother and sister make babies together oh yuck but Vapric gives up and comes and introduces himself to us like he doesn't know us and everything then when the guy leaves Avric comes over and does the same and then we found out that she is going on a date with the guy who's name is Fred and they are going to a theatre which is a permanent place were travelling, well I suppose resident, actors and musicians and bards and stuff show their stuff and Mavric is really really excited about it and says can she go too so it now looks like we are all going and I can only imagine what Fred is going to think when his date turns up with all of us in toe heheheh very funny.

So we clean up and head off to meet up with Fred who Avric is paying to go to the theatre with her hehehehehe and on the way we see a strangely painted fountain which looks like it has a dryad or something earthy like thing but it is probably one of the painted things so we will have to go back and have another look tomorrow but then Avric found Fred and Fred was not at all pleased that we were all there well specifically Vapric but hey it is her brother hehehehe so he has no competition with Avric hehehehe.

We finally arrive to the theatre and wow what a building it is really really new and has many tiers to it and it is called The Sphere and it is new and purpose built like and it costs 1 copper for the lower or upper floor and 2 for the second floor so Mavric and I decide to go to the second floor as we can see better than being on the ground floor, I don't know where the boys are something about a backdoor and not having to pay or something and I am not sure where Avric or Vapric has gone so Mavric sits at the seat as close as possible to the stage but I see there are some really nice seats that have nice cushions and stuff but when I go to sit there they so I can't and that it is only for gentry and I say that I am gentry and they said I am not the right gentry so I sit in the seat closest to them after putting my war hammer next me and look at the idiot menacing for a while and he looks frightened but doesn't let me sit there even though they are empty but hey I don't care as the show starts and man when it does it was boring as it is a history or stuff but has lots of talking and not a lot of jokes or singing and it goes on for so long that I am almost falling asleep in my beers but from what I can see from Mavric she is almost falling out of her seat, I am not looking forward to sleeping in the same room as her tonight because she has this big stupid excited grin on her face and I can just imagine how much she is going to go on and on and on and on about it and I am sure she is going to come up with some new ideas for shows and is going to do a critique of this one and on and on and on I am sure she is going to go, hopefully it is a late night drinking so I can go to sleep with the light on and then the show is over and Mavric runs over and yeap I was right she goes on and on about how it was a saga and that men were playing girls parts and the painted backdrops and proper costumes and that their were 12 actors and even a dwarf and an elf (like I didn't notice already) and she was really excited that it was a was the good verses evil with the good guys won in the end. Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh now she wants to go and talk to them all and tell them how great they are but is already wanting to make some suggestions on how to make it better and stuff so when we talk to some guy on the stage she gets told to ask for Gothry, whoever that is but when we get to the back door some Orc (who we find out later is called Ugrake) lets us in once Gothry comes and gets us who was the dwarf from the show but once we are inside we see the boys are there too but I don't think Ugrake likes them very much but Boddie seems to be staying away from Henie for some reason and I am sure he has been causing problems but then I find out why because it seems that Henie is dating the elf? Didn't know Henie liked elves but Boddie seems pleased with the rumour so I should ask him about it later. But anyways talking to Gothry we find out some interesting things such as Arty is the main guy who organises anything and that he doesn't take kindly to criticism and he is a little wary of Mavric's excitement about telling Arty how she can help the play being better but when Mavric stopped talking for two seconds she realised that Gothry had gone very white with shock and swayed more than caused by the drink but I think she will say something anyway but she promised Gothry that as tonight is a celebration not to mention any of the issues with the play and Vapric is very excited that Sabastian Silverfoot is one of the patrons of the theatre and when he said he was apprenticed to him the actors were very excited. But Arty is quite a nice jolly fellow who likes to drink a lot and he wasn't upset when Mavric said why isn't there any girls in the play and as it is a new thing it isn't as if it is a tradition or anything and that she could join and would love to do anything including make up or anything if she could and oh please if it will shut her up please let her join but then the party was over so we headed off but instead of going straight back to the inn Mavric made us follow a very drunk Arty so that she could go back tomorrow to give some ideas and debrief the show and stuff but finally we get back to the inn but Mavric was very chatting about the show and wanted to stay up all night to write a new play to show Arty in the morning but her tiredness much have hit her as she just fell asleep while writing so I put her to bed so that she is not to stiff tomorrow for her meeting with Arty but I might talk to Bodric tomorrow and see if I can stay with him or him and Henie if Mavric is going to be this excited again because it is a really hard thing to get sleep once somebody just talks and talks and talks and doesn't realise that people are not interested or are bored.

2nd Thaw

And once Mavric wakes up she starts chatting again, a little confused as to why she feel asleep as she hadn't finished her play but excited about seeing Arty again but I think she is a bit keen and is going to visit him way to early for somebody who will for sure have a major hangover but she is sure she is going to get there by 10.30 but when we went downstairs for breakfast but byt the look on Bodric's face I figured I might go somewhere else for breakfast which Avric was keen to do to so we go down the road to an eatery and we talk about how her evening with Fred and I found that human mating rituals are really really weird as Avric had asked Fred out and paid to go to the theatre and his beer at the pub and everything and then she said that Fred thought it was a date but Avric didn't as she was after information and stuff and then to top it off which I am sure would have confused Fred she offered him work if he goes and visits her some of her family members so for sure he thinks it was his lucky day but if he knew it wasn't a date I am sure he would be crushed and probably would never talk to her family because how could a man show his face if he knew all this but I didn't say much to Avric about Fred's feelings or stuff about dwarvian dating because I didn't want to offend her.

When we got back Mavric and Henric had headed off to see Arty, ah the quiet time, perfect to go for a bath and relax, maybe go for a bit of a walk but then Mavric and Henie are back pretty quickly. It sounds like Arty was happy to seem the (doubt that) but they made mums special hangover cure and the Arty was quite keen in Mavric ideas and she is so excited that she wants to go and work with them and has already told all of us that she isn't going to go back to the inn so at least I might be a bit quieter up there, which actually isn't good just spending time with Boddie and Henie, I think I might need to go out more with the guild.

But we head out over to the abattoir and Hogs Head. On the way we walk past the Mothers Lemente and there is thankfully still no pearl back up there but everything normal but when we get to Hogs Head and the abattoir it we see all these really cool paintings on the road with lots of cobblestones all around a centre one that looks like a pyramid and then oh my goodness my family is going nuts, they are talking about hitting it, then Vapric is talking about getting paints etc so I rush into the bar to talk to the bar tender who I haven't talked to for a while but remember that he was one of the nuts so I need to distract him so he doesn't see what is happening and I have a beer and talk to him about the painting and did he get it commissioned etc and he says no why would he want to do that and stuff then there was HUGGGEEEE bang and I think somebody just hit one of the stones and it wasn't very successful but the bar tender is freaking out so I talk to home about roadworks and stuff going on and try and keep him from the front door and the bar tender talks about somebody standing on a rock and something about Song to Carzala but didn't get it painted that is all says in his normal strange manner the Avric comes and gets me which I am disappointed about because the ale here is much better than were we are staying but we head back to Seagate looking to stop at the watch and the guild with a small amount of paint, Bodric with sore arms and the knowledge the centre stone is naturally strong and definitely out of place.

When we get back to the watch and ask for Albrecht some guy winks at Avric or Mavric I am not sure who but he says he has something for us and his name is Lofty and it works out he has a map for us (to be attached) which has markings for all the random paintings around Old Seagate and the dates of for them are:

Map

Mark

A 20th Ice (might have been earlier but not sure) - At the Hogs Head/Abattoir

        Paintings of a fire side scene with the middle stone as the fire and the hard one to break

B 21st Ice - Fountain

        The nymph person that we had already seen

C 23rd Ice - Well

        Caricature of witches in the old traditional way with black hats very different to Jazmyn

D 25th Ice - Public Stocks

        Pictures of laughing/funny Imps with pitch forks (mustache 
        boss picture was near here and noticed around 26th but not separately marked.)

E 25th Ice - Taxation Office Steps

        Has a teeth and tongue down the stairs which has been painted over with cheap white
        paint but you can still see it.

F 29th Ice - Statue of the Beltons the guy who made the Old Seagate Freetown

        It has been touched up with flesh like colours and stuff. Looks prettied up.

G At least months ago - Church of Luck

        Deserted building with orgy like pictures, might be a wild goose chase

Looking at the map we see that there is a trend going from Blue Gate downwards then it curls around to the G spot which is a bit old and maybe a wild goose chase but we really should find it even if it is hard to find but if we can exclude the G spot we have a travelling line which is straightish but then the conspiracy theories come out about who could be doing the paints and it being a carnival or god only knows what and around and around the theories go, where they stop nobody knows but stop!!!! We really need to find the G spot and see if it is important so we decide that we need to have a look at all these spots and see if we can discount the G spot altogether.

We need to check into the guild library so decide to go there first so Avric organises to catch up with Lofty at the Gangly Fox but as we are organising to catch up with him he mentions that the pub Diamond Spider Tavern might be a good pub to go to which is near spot B, it is in the lower class section and that this is were a lot of the street performers are performing but we still organise to meet at the Gangly fox later.

Luckily it isn't a long walk because more theories are abound, trying to link the paints to 7 sins and all sorts of stuff, it is all very interesting but I think it is giving Vapric a headache as he is getting more and more confused and angry that we are talking about all this stuff but then we get to the guild and give the flakes of paint and rock to Austin to DA he seems much better and we ask if Austin would like to come out for the afternoon with us to have a nice walk around Old Seagate and have dinner and maybe a few beers as it is a lovely day and if possible he could DA a number of items for us and maybe a divination if needed and he said yes!!! Bloody Henie offers to pay guild rates to him after he had already said yes to dinner and beers and a walk on this lovely Thaw day so I hit Henie and mention that payment was beer and dinner and I am specifying them in the guild notes so there isn't any confusion so there!

Go to the library and they have gotten information on Beltan and it sounds like he gave Seagate away to be a free town and that there is no spots of importance nor complaints about Beltan and stuff and they say that there is a nutty guy called Barnabus and he knows stuff about Grandfather stones in Carzala which are big rock heads with 3 faces and that they guard places in 3's for protection and that there was a good example in Gettsburg in the old Secnette house and that a guild party found them but the dark circle was coming and it was all bad with bad people there so the guild party ran away and when another guild party came back to see the stones they were destroyed so they don't know much about them but the statement of Grandfathers faces is a good match. What they do know is that the Plains Barbarian might have made them and that they are protective spirits or something but I was getting bored and didn't really listen and I wish I had headed off with Henie and Vapric who went to see the alchemists, I need to learn how to blow things up if it means I get out of the library but then they said that the protective spirits are good not evil spirits but then that was all they really knew so we go and collect the boys and they have found out that the paint from the theatre which Vapric got and the paint from the rock and rock fragments are pretty much the same composition but weather different which they said was due to one being outside and the other inside which sounds pretty clever but they said that we should go and see a Mr Candy who buys all the bulk stuff the alchemist don't want which I don't know if that is a good thing to purchase but he seems happy to buy all the stuff and he could be the maker of all these paints.

So we head off with Austin for our walk and he seems happy to be out and about as I am sure he doesn't get out so I talk to him about stuff and see how much he sees and how he has been treating Molly and then all of we are at the Gangly Fox to see Lofty but as we want to walk through all the A to G spots while we have Austin in toe we say that we will meet him at the Grey Swan and we head off to the spots starting with F but Lofty comes along anyways!!!!

Spot F

The Statue is painted really respectfully like they have put makeup on it but not really like a stage actor but more like you would do on a doll or marionette like setup and the others ask me to document that the statue was erected in 775 in memory of so he was dead before then.

Austin DA - Not magical

Then we head off to G spot

G Spot

It is on a small building that looks closed but has some caretaking happening but not for a while and the painting is old and a bit more of sketch of people naked running around and jumping on each other and probably having sex and stuff and it is the Church of Luck and Chance and considering the other businesses in the area that the building is in the G Spot is not important and deemed a red herring.

Austin DA - Not magical

E Spot

The tax office with the big tongue and teeth and they have tried to paint it over with really cheap white paint and it is such a bad job you can still see everything still and it looks funny bright colours and it looks like it is a joke.

Austin DA - Not magical

D Spot

Stocks with imps with pitch forks and it looks like they are laughing at the people in the stocks and it is quite funny to look at and it is painted right down to the road so it is quite detailed.

Austin DA - Not magical

C Spot

The Well is painted with all the witches with black hats which looks like out of a fairytale and not really what witches really look like anymore.

Austin DA - Not magical

B Spot

Fountain with a dryad on it and it looks like it would have been hard to do but must have been when the fountain was off.

Austin DA - Not magical

While we are here, Lofty mentions that there is an old mural from the previous art crimes so we go and have a look. It is really near the theatre but it looks different to the paintings we are seeing now and the pictures had kids in them but they have faded away now and some of the kids have vanished from this one too and maybe when they killed kids maybe they vanished from the painting but Lofty wasn't sure and this painting has scorch marks on it from where two buildings burnt down which is where the theatre is now and they found out that the buildings burnt down due to young people were smoking stuff and listening to repetitive music and the fire started from there so they are sure it was an accident not to make room for a theatre but nothing to do with the kids vanishing because it was much later. But Lofty said that when the theatre burnt down wax was running down out of the alleyway and there was a foot in a boot and looked like it was cut off with wax so they think maybe some magics were involved but not sure so it sounds really strange. Buildings burnt down were wholesalers and a printer.

A Spot

The fireside scene we had seen earlier and hit got paint off and a little bit of rock. The paint is really really thick and it is magically protected !!!!

Austin DA - Yay Magical, something is Magical.

Austin starts to divinate while we protect him with Vapric going into the Hogs End to get some beers and chat to the meat workers that were in the bar and then some strange guy came up and shook a tambourine in Avric's ear and she turned around and punched him in the nose and he was really surprise and had a bleading knows and Mavric and I talk to him to get him away from Avric before she brings everybody around to watch a fight when all we want to do is be quiet around Austin while he does the divination and we talk to guy and his name is Turley and he is quite upset about being punched but I give him my beer and say not to scare Avric as she doesn't like tambourines so to be careful and Mavric talks about stuff and find out that Turley is a troubadour and he says it is slow lately because of the stupid theatre and that it is taking all his money because they are getting all the sponsors and being organised and stuff so he isn't getting as much coin as he would normally and he didn't know who was doing the paints around town and so we go and check out his act to get him away from Avric and so we go to Dukes Arms where he starts to play and man he is terrible but Mavric tries to support him by doing some dancing to his music and acrobatics and stuff but he runs away and I think that is he realises he is rubbish and the fact that one of or friends just punched him in the nose but at least he left Austin alone while doing the divination so we head back to see what is going on and we just have to stand around an pass the time until Austin finishes and my goodness Mavric and Henie are coming up with ideas for new plays and I ask Boddie if I can sleep in his room tonight so that Henie and Mavric can share because they will talk and talk and talk and he says yes because he knows I am the better option to share with and finally Austin finishes his divination but he says we have to wait until he has done his diagnoses and gives us his report.

As Austin knows his way back and was not afraid to walk through Old Seagate alone we headed off to look around Spot F and Spot G to see if we can find anything that that the random art people might find interesting to paint and we found a rock wall corner that had a nice place which would a nice location to paint and then a sundial which might be useful too so we split into two groups, Boddie, Avric and Mavric looking after the wall and Henie, Vapric and I looking after the sundial so Henie climbed a tree that could see the sundial, Vapric needed a sleep so laid in the grass nearby where he couldn't be seen and I went for a walk, unseen of course, to see who was about and during the walk I saw Boddie dressed as a street urchin and the girls heading off to the nearest gate so I headed back the way we came but didn't see anybody and when I got back to the boys I didn't tell them I was there as Henie was having fun waking Vapric up regularly so I preferred that he didn't know I was there because he would just talk about his ideas to help Mavric with her play so I just sat around waiting and then finally Avric arrived and got the boys up saying that nothing was going to happen at the wall nor here as she did something from the mind magics that makes you see the future, obviously this is something that Henie isn't very good at as he just sat in a tree and didn't find out if it was useful but we headed off after Mavric and Bodric who had been left outside but Vapric headed back to the inn for some reason but that is ok as I am sure we will get more done without him sleeping on the job so we go outside the walls to something called a Gibbet and it is an old historical thing and Avric seems was excited that it might be the next thing to be painted and what Mavric was supposed to wait and see if it was painted and Bodric was supposed to meet her here but neither of them are there so I tell the others I am with them which gives them a nice surprise and I locate Mavric who is down by one of the docks.

When we catch up with Mavric she is rolling around in the mud, climbing over rocks and stuff and some guys are working there and I think they think Mavric is a bit loopy but she is very keen on the fact that this big boulder which is covered in mud might be a grandfather stone and it would be really really cool if it did and she had been talking to the leader of the work gang working on the new dock they are building around the rock and Mr Savage is organising for it to be built and Mr Savage is one of the people who paid to have the theatre built with the others. And Avric thinks that the dock is really really strong for what a dock would normally need to have but they say that Mr Savage is a merchant and needs his own dock and that they don't know much about him other than is an employer who pays them to do work so he doesn't know much but as it is low tide they are trying to do as much work as possible but we decide we need sleep and to come back when it is high tide and that the boulder might be easier to clean off and not so many people working around it.

3rd Thaw

So we head back and of course Vapric is sound asleep which is probably a good thing so that Avric gets a good sleep without him oiling himself up or is it down and stuff but we all get a good night sleep and when I wake up Mavric is off to watch the theatre rehearse and talks to Arty about a new play they are doing and he doesn't remember the name but it is about a mad old king but he isn't sure if it is a comedy or tragedy and it sounds a bit strange that it is supposably a favourite of the sponsors but Arty hasn't heard of it before but then he doesn't remember the name either which is also strange and the guys from the theatre didn't like having Mavric there watching and she thinks she was just making them very nervous.

Vapric decides he needs to check with Sebastian if he is aware of the play and if he is one of the sponsors who is interested in having a play that nobody remembers the name and stuff and if it wasn't him who of the sponsors are keen on having it played and when Vapric gets back he says that Sebastian is interested in having it shown as Mr Savage requested surprise surprise you know Mr Savage the sponsor of the theatre and the new dock and as Mr Savage has talked about it so much to Sebastian and is so enthusiastic about it and Sebastian is just interested in having good shows on and if Mr Savage likes it all the good for him so he isn't possibly involved but I am worried about this play and we really really need to find out more about it because what happens if it opens a link to the other plain where the bad guy who was killing all those kids came from or maybe we end up on a plain like those people stuck on the element plain or something else, oh got to find Mr Savage too and stop random painting and stuff. Geee our list gets longer not shorter got to do something about that.

We head off to the guild to check on Austin and his divination and see if they know anything about plays on Mad Kings and about the rocks and stuff but it doesn't seem if we are having any luck as Austin is confused about what is going on and is going around and around in circles and seems like he hasn't slept and looks distressed and the librarian hasn't found out anything more about the grandfather rocks and really needs more information to know which Mad King or a play name or anything but one good thing comes out of our visit and that is getting another Namer to come out and visit stuff with us and that is Adolphus and he is keen on dinner and beers too and he comes out and about because Austin is going to be busy for a while and Adolphus likes road trips and sparkly things so Vapric says if there isn't anything interesting for him to divinate he has had tea with the dwarvian god Krom he has an item that he can look at and Vapric seems a bit taken back when Mavric and Henie say nahnahnahnah nah, saying they've been there done as they have met the same god before too so we head off to the new docks with the boulder or grandfather stone or whatever it is and talking to Adolphus he is really interested in unusual places and stuff and when we get down to the rocks we get to look at the boulder and talking to the workman again Mavric gets up on the rock and after a small amount of washing it looks like there is some carvings and it is probably a grandfather stone and so we start washing it more until there is enough for uncovered for Adolphus to DA and it's GTM is grandfather stone and that its power is in containment!!! Which is very strange as they are normally for protection but being a grandfather stone is good because Vapric flys off to get Austin for us and get him here because Adolphus finds it funny that this is the reason why Austin is so confused as he is trying to figure out one part of the puzzle and should divinate this bit too. So while we wait we look at the map and figure out where the third grandfather stone is with Spot A being one and this dock spot being Spot H where would Spot J be and when I get out my great mapping instruments out and do as accurate triangulation it appear that it would be near the Gibbet (tbc because it could have been a backyard, need to confirm with Ben due to late discussion, crappy notes and bad memory)

But while Avric and I were looking at the map with Adolphus the work men get a bit upset because a carriage arrives and it is Mr Savage and they are worried because he might think they have to be working but as it is still quite a high tide they can't but we make up that we are picnicking so the boys jump into the water like they enjoy swimming and Mavric jumps off the rock in the water for the same and I pull out the bits and pieces of food out of my pack to set up a picnic and Mr Savage comes over to talk to us and I offer him food like cheese and bread and he does take it and eats it and enjoys it and we have lovely conversation about swimming and dwarves of this age and stuff and he knows I am girl and my age but I have a really good look at him while I ask him questions oh and I forgot I had asked Adolphus to DA him before he come over and when he finally leaves he says that he couldn't DA him and once he goes around the corner I locate him and he isn't found which is really weird because I got a good look at him and my range much further than just around the corner. So is he an illusion or from the future like the other guy that killed kids or something else, we really need to know more about this Mr Savage and as Boddie had harassed the carriage driver he knows that they live in Old Seagate but we will need to find out where.

And finally Vapric arrives with no Austin and he says that he is too tired to do anymore but he is sleeping and seemed happy that he isn't going crazy or something with the divination results and so we head back to the inn to clean up and Mavric sees Arty who found the paperwork with the name of the play which is "Thus mourn the Winter for the Spring"

So because we haven't done enough today, shhheeeshhh, we decide that we should head out to Raphael Gate to have a look at the gibbet as it seems to be the approximate spot on the map if the there was a triangle that make up three grandfather stones as they do come in threes and if we can find it we might be able to find the centre and they think that might be a good thing and stuff and when we get there and look around for a while it then we notice that the gibbet steps might be one so Adolphus does some DA's and yes it is. This one grandfather stone is for focussing of spirits and god stuff and it complements and reforces the others

So it works out that

1 = Protection (A Spot) 2 = Preservation / Containment (New wharf) 3 = Focussing and stuff (Gibbet)

but we are going to need Austin to divinate the two of them so that he gets the whole picture of three but we decide that it is time to finally have a rest and decide that we should have dinner at the Black Swan as we had said we would feed Adolphus not just take him out on the town and we if we can't shut up Henie going on and on about Liessa and how she is so wonderful and wears open toed shoes and all sorts of stuff. I think Henie is organising for a church to be setup to honour her and have a following and stuff, does that make it a new cult as Liessa isn't dwarven so mum and dad will be upset if he isn't worshipping one of them but her and Adolphus gets so bored with all this talk of Liessa he gets Vapric to fly him back to the guild by while he is gone Henie still goes on and on and on about Liessa it is doing my head in and then Vapric finally arrives so we head off to see Mrs Quic who was the person that Mr Sloakam, Mad Abbey and Mr Ketch told me in their letter that she would know all about Renado Grenalt who was the artist that did the tear thing from the crazy god that was making Molly go crazier and everybody else go crazy and cause riots and stuff Black Watch Chronicles II: The Absent Physician and when we get to the house she lives in, if you can call it that she says that he is up north near Aladar or something like that doing some exhibing and that she gets money from him every once and a while or an IOU for storing his stuff. His stuff, his stuff is there can we look at it as his paints are good and we might like to buy some of them but then she says no that we can't today but maybe tomorrow so we organise to come back tomorrow but we think she might try and sell them now she thinks they are worth money so that is a bit bad so we decide to break into her attic where the are supposed to be but then on the corner of the street we see a puppet show with all these kids watch but the story is a bit nasty with a knight or noble which is a mage and bad things happen to him and dragons and all sorts of stuff. The puppet show is actually really good with exploding powder and minor magics but it is very entertaining but through the show Henie startes to get a bit unhappy as there appears to be a redheaded character in a lovely blue robe and that she is very displeased with the knight and some of the others come to the conclusion that the puppet show is about Engalton and Liessa no wonder Henie is a little worried as the story isn't very nice so at the end Mavric talks to the puppetter about why he is doing a show on Engalton and Liessa and he decided to run but Avric stopped him which was good because I was too tired to chase after him. Talking to Orly, that's his name, Orly we find that he is a roving puppetter but he has paint all over his shoes and looking at the puppet tent thingy we can see that it would be easy to transport paint around and stuff so we ask him about Mr Savage but he just says that he has been around for years and is a merchant but Orly seems to have a real fear of mimes as he is afraid that they are after him or his spot or something but finally Henie hypnotises Orly and we can get some proper information from him which as we said we are here to help and are his friends he asked that we him him get rid of the paint as he has been told people are looking for people who have paint and we ask why and he sayd that he has been paing the all the stuff and it works out that Arty has been getting him to the paint which makes sense because I think those arty people especially ones called Arty are just up to no good but then again Mr Savage is involved with everything so far and the others think that he might be doing it for Mr Savage too except for Vapric because he is an idiot and thinks that we need to talk with Mr Savage directly because he is probably just a nice person and we are just all wrong. Does not understand, he doesn't come up on DA, he is unlocatable, he is hiding himself for some reason and if we just ask him he will know we are looking for it and it could all be bad. We need much more information before we do that but anyways Orly sais that Arty had got him to paint story book scenes all for advertising upcoming shows and stuff but he didn't do the blue gate paining which we thought was different because the red used was very different and when he gave us the paint we could see that it was definitely not for Spot A and he then says that Mr Savage is a very hands on guy and does a lot of his own work and doesn't have a lot of staff and that he can get anything you want but we need to get back into Mrs Quic's so we organise to meet with Orly at the Dukes Arms so we can talk more later but then we discuss well argue about what to do with the paint but we decide if Mrs Quic has paintings up in her attic maybe she has paint or maybe she wouldn't notice if she had paint so we take it with us and then Vapric complains that it is too hard and that he needs his beauty sleep and then Avric comes out with a great comment that I have to put in the notes for history stake and that is

Avric to Vapric "for a human you are a pussy aren't you" hehehehehe.

Vapric decides that he should help rather than go and have his beauty sleep and pulls out a magic rope which just attaches itself to whatever we want and we can climb it so I make everybody unseen but Avric is still being funny say things like Vapour Vapour your so fast, Vapour Vapour your our man and stuff. It is all very funny but we all got up to the roof alright and we aren't seen but there is a lot of work to remove the tiles and wood to get in but we do it and nobody comes to look for us and we find the pictures ok and there are some really pretty ones and some crazy ones but Henie has to go and see Orly because he organised to see him soon so he heads off alone while the rest of us have a look around and we take a number of the pictures some good and some crazy ones so that we can get them DA'd and stuff maybe hang them in the pub or something and we leave the paint and head off but we have to come back tomorrow as we need to come and have a look at the paintings with Mrs Quic so if she notices anything missing she wont know it is us or anything.

So it is decided that Vapric and I should fly back to the guild to drop off the paintings and that the others will met up with Henie and Orly at the pub and we will meet up with the later.. YAYAYYAYAYAYYAYAYAYAYYAYAYAYAY I get to fly I get to fly I get to fly I get to fly YAYAYYAYAY and we have so much fun getting back to the guild, I am glad Vapric likes flying it means he is good at something and it is soooo much fun so we drop off the paintings and ask then to do all the special checks to see if they are special or anything and we head back to the pub to find that Orly has been beaten up by his associates because he has been talking to us and that Henie has been feeding him and giving him alchol but as we are Orly's friend he doesn't understand why this guy doesn't like us.

So after dinner we decide we really should look at the house and alley that is the middle of the triangle of the three grandfather stones. This area is around the back of Flasher Street and down Crabbe Alley which isn't an area I remember but it looks pretty dodgy but Vapric still finds windows to check himself in, even if they are broken he really needs to do something with his hair because he keeps playing with it so it must be driving him crazy maybe he needs to put little plaits in it to get it out of his eyes or something I might need to suggest it to him but when we arrived at the alley there was a number of people standing around watching two people setup for a bit of a fight and it looked like one side was the dock boys and the others were from the abattoir and they were all in for a brawl so we after some discussion or some might say argument we decided to break it up which the view not to hurt anybody as it should just be a scuffle so I quicken the dwarves so we can go at better speed and be as fast as Vapric when it comes to making a defensive line but when Bodric calls Charge, only Henie, Bodric, Mavric and I move forward in the defensive line and yes there may not have been a lot of space between the four of us but we were fast quickness is the best but the call of charge made the guys who were circling each other and just kind of pushing each other to rush for each other until they realised it wasn't their friends saying charge and then they all turned around to face us and when we called out to lay down their weapons and nobody will get hurt they stepped up and tried to hit us so we had to defined ourselves and Vapric calls out to them asking them to drop their weapons and move to the sides of the alley and they didn't do that either so unfortunately we had to defend ourselves. We hit a lot of them except Mavric seems to have problems from the beginning and Vapric finally joins in too but Avric just casts some magic and I think she did that control person thingy because one of the leaders who was telling them to defend themselves all of a sudden he started telling them to lay down their weapons and stuff so that was a bit strange but the not hurting them didn't work very well even though we were trying not to hurt them one of the ones that I hit fell over on some blood and broke his hip, Vapric was a little excited and killed one but he can be resurrected, we hurt one of Avric's family competitors arm and the boss of the butcher is hurt by Bodric so we have a bit of repairing to do but in the end they all disperse and we are all ok so now we can look at the alley but Avric organises somebody to get a wagon and a healer because we really need to help the people we injured because we didn't mean to but it just happened that we hurt them and I feel bad because I didn't really hurt the one I was fighting he just slipped and hurt himself not my fault but we really need to fix the one Vapric killed because he obviously didn't know that Henie had already hurt him some and that two hits was one hit way to much! But the Watch arrived while waiting for the healer and a really smelly wagon arrived but as Avric and that were talking to the Watch and I mentioned to Henie that we really should have a look around while we can so I made myself unseen and unlocked the house that we thought was the middle and had a look around but I didn't see anything but then when I came out Avric and Henie didn't believe me so they went to the basement to have a look and see if there is another stone or something on the floor and were talking about digging up the basement because they couldn't find anything how silly is that maybe if we had an earth mage we could do it quickly but not if we are going to do it manually and it is a number of families house so I get them to leave the house and the others and the Watch are saying that there is nothing to see here and try and get everybody away and Vapric and Bodric fly back to the guild with two of the injured and one dead and let the local healer look after the sailor who injured his hand who may or may not work for Avric's families competitors.

But when Vapric and Bodric get back they have seen Austin who seems to be better and says that three stones to divinate makes sense so he will come out tomorrow and that the red paint that was different to the other has an illusion on it which is mildly magical with glamour to catch somebody's eye but don't know who's eye and that has a mild sensation similar to what Molly experienced but considering it was near the Mothers Lement where the sign was with the tear on it so it is expected but they said Austin said that it felt like it was god touched and that it was just a reside and stuff but,as we are so very very tired we head back to the inn to go to sleep but argue on what the play is about and the thoughts are:

1. That it is a really nice play and that everybody will like it even though nobody has heard of it or know anything about it.

2. That the play allows monsters come out

3. Might need guild members for something

4. That the emotions of the crowd might be needed

5. Sleep the whole crowd

6. Nasty ritual that does something (other than bring monsters) men in dresses making strange statements and stuff.

But Avric and I go to bed while the others argue and I can't be bothered to ask them if they came up with any other possibilities.

4th Thaw

We all get up at different times with Avric, Vapric, Bodric and I heading up to the guild to talk to Austin and see the librarian and ask about any active investigations into Grandfather stones and they say that the mad hobbit that they had referred to before but he is off investigating other grandfather stones so we tell them to send a message to him to tell him we have some in Old Seagate that he would want to check them out and Bodie asks the Librarian some questions that makes him very nervous, all he asks is if there is a section that would show information about alternative Seagate's and he is sent off to a section of the library which is all about herbs but he says there is a hooded guy and that we need to look for Renove who is one of the 72 (whatever that means) but the hooded guy yells out don't look for Renove so Bodric said Ok we don't look for Renove and the others were saying that Bodric shouldn't continue to say that name but Bodric says that he has accidently created a second Seagate and they were sure it was an accident and that he wouldn't do it again and stuff but this is the alternative Seagate that provided the coin with the different King and they killer of kids and stuff but that is all Bodric told us. So we go and get Austin and we all fly yayyyyyayyayyayaya flying flying flying flying yayayayya down to the outskirts of Old Seagate near the docks but where they can't see us and organise for a picnic by the beach so that if Mr Savage arrives we have a cover but first we have to get Austin into look at the grandfather stone but they have built all this stuff around it and they are about to cover it so Avric does some fast talking with Bodric making a number of threats at the orc that is working there but we end up being able to come to an arrangement where Austin can go and sit in the mud in the structure to look at the rock, he doesn't look very happy about it but if it makes the headache go away he is willing to have a go so we start having a picnic while Vapric borrows a spade to do some strange defensive moves which look more like poses to show off his muscles, yuck, I just don't get humans but Austin does the divination find and just before he finishes Mavric and Henie turn up

They had gone to Arty's and there wasn't any answer so to make sure he was OK Mavric climbed up to his window and went in but Arty wasn't there so they didn't stay very long just locked up and headed down to the Theatre to see if he was there and he was and then Mavric went on and on and on about the play that they are doing because Arty was keen on getting her opinion as he has been changing it heaps and heaps so that is really strange but she got the run down on it but basically the play is about brothers which are possibly twins as they are arguing about who should be king but basically there is two brothers one is dashing and conniving and the other is thuggish and then there are two sisters one that is competent but plain and the youngest is a bit needy but she has an important reason because she is really really lonely and the older kids leave her out and ignore her and stuff so of course she has to be chatty and needy and stuff but then there is 5 Acts of play yes 5! So a I have put in a brief overview so that I don't bore anybody who reads it later.

Names of characters

Kings - TarPellagris

Steward - Selim

Dandy son - Clothio

Bully son - Carmaddras

1st daughter - Madragar

2nd daughter - Scintilla

Act 1 Is to get to know all the characters

Act 2 Messenger with the Kings will gets murdered and the will is still there but is it the real will and the older sister and the Kings steward have to keep the boys apart so they don't kill each other

Act 3 Looks like it is a dream sequence where the king is in the underworld and the family members are really nasty like the boys fight and the girls are really nasty to the king and stuff but luckily it is only a short act.

Act 4 Normal again but family is fighting in real life, two sons are blaming each other and stuff and then when the steward was helping the King he shows the steward he really isn't sick and that he was tricking the family to see who should be king and that he thinks the steward should be King and the steward who is normally a nice man yells at the king and is really mad and the King screams and throws himself off a cliff what an idiot

Act 5 The brothers kill each other and the older sister has the steward killed because he caused the King to kill himself and then too late she finds out that the king was at fault and not the steward and that she really loved the steward and she killed her true love so she throws herself off the cliff so everybody is dead except of the youngest so she is all alone rather than feeling lonely

But she is queen so she can make people her friend for sure.

So after the explanation of the play and while waiting for Austin to finish his divination we argue about what to do about Mr Savage always about Mr Savage and Vapric thinks everybody is nice as fluffy bunnies but he should know by now nobody is as nice as fluffy bunnies so Austin finishes and we go off to the Drake for lunch then have a look at doing the third divination but I need to go and talk to Mrs Quic about the paintings from the elven guy again so she doesn't think we went in there to have a look or anything and so Vapric, Henie, Mavric and Austin go off to the gibbet Avric, Bodric and I head off to Mrs Quic's but when we arrive the town guard are there because somebody had broken into Mrs Quic but as we work for the town guard too we told them we were there last night too and that there was lots of people around kids, the puppeteer or maybe it was a shapeshifter or Brownies because they like to steal stuff or giants or golems and stuff but they say Mrs Quic is complaining about dwarves and then she arrives and blames us but because we are there she doesn't think it is us and go back to the library in the guild to see what the names from the play are but they are only words from different languages and they don't know anything about the play even though we have more information and stuff they don't really know much do they name of the play characters of the play story line and still nothing but I go and talk to some friends who might know some stuff about Mr Savage had been involved in the original abattoir and came up with the modern ideas of chain gang of meat chopping but he got out of it not long after the children being killed stuff but most of his business deals seem to be on the level as much as merchants are and he can get lots of things that are very hard to find and they tell me I have to learn to get information better a bit quieter I have to visit again and find out what they mean.

So we really need the third divination so we head back to the others and not long after we arrive back Austin finished his divination and says he will give a full report but basically it is a consciousness that isn't aware of itself but is an entity and is enough to make a minor deity or god and wants to protect stuff and when Austin thinks of him he sees an old man mending a net and that its gentle influence has helped Old Seagate and what was here before it as has for thousands of years or something like that and that the locations of the stones don't matter and it does have some of what Molly had from the mad god but as it has been here for so long such a small influence is not a problem and the grandfather stones might be linked to gods and stuff but that they haven't been activated for its final purpose and that is triggered by bringing it together.

Theatre's Patrons

• Sebastian Silverfoot
• Mr Oron Savage
• Sir Donald Jameson (employer with big mustache)
• Silas Kaddich
• Miss Euridice