Constables of the 14th Ward

[Fenris]

After listening carefully to the others excellent questioning of Mrs. Lyman, Jonas feels the need to ask a simple question.

"Mrs. Lyman, do you have a portrait of your husband that we may see, or provide a very good description of him so we know who it is we are looking for by sight."

 

[Leif]

Jonas and Andrew

After listening carefully to the others excellent questioning of Mrs. Lyman, Jonas feels the need to ask a simple question.

"Mrs. Lyman, do you have a portrait of your husband that we may see, or provide a very good description of him so we know who it is we are looking for by sight."

Jonas

Mrs. Lyman says, "Yes, I can show you a portrait of Krado. Of course, I could never part with it, its one of our most prized possessions! So you'll have to be content with just seeing it where it hangs on our wall." Flora Lyman shows you a portrait of the happy couple, painted when they were about 20 years younger. You make particular note of Krado's lively brown eyes, the cut of his chin, and other features that are not likely to change with time. You feel reasonably certain that you could easily pick him out of a crowd of half-orcs! Flora continues, "Now, please understand, Krado, umm, filled out some after this portait was made. He stands about 34 inches tall, and he weighs right around 48 pounds."

[sblock=Andrew] I'm not ignoring you, sir, but I want to let Scott take care of the action with you. Hope you don't mind. [/sblock]

 

[Fenris]

"I thank you kindly Mrs. Lyman, that will indeed help. And now I know I would like to take the key and take a look inside Mr. Lyman's office. Do the rest of you gentelmen have any more questions?" asks Jonas standing to leave. he was eager to search the office for business leads, espcially as to the manner of maps he made and for whom.

 

[Helfdan]

Alarion

"I thank you kindly Mrs. Lyman, that will indeed help. And now I know I would like to take the key and take a look inside Mr. Lyman's office. Do the rest of you gentelmen have any more questions?" asks Jonas standing to leave. he was eager to search the office for business leads, espcially as to the manner of maps he made and for whom.

"Not I, friend Jonas." Alarion once again bows to the halfling. "Be well, goodwife Lyman. And do not lose faith. We will do our very utmost to find your husband." With that, he turns with a fluorish of his cape, and strides out the door to begin his assigned examination of the area.

 

[xedr]

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You get the definite feeling that you've about reached the end of any productive knowledge here, and that it's about time to check out Krado Lyman's office.

[/sblock]Splitting his last crumpet, Darius hands half to Bocephus and eats the rest. [highlight]"Thanks for trying, Bo"[/highlight] Darius and Moru knock on a couple of neighbors' doors and verify that, indeed, the Lymans are regular folks, there have been no domestic disturbances, and that other than current police activities, this really is a quiet neighborhood. And Oh, Yes, Flora is the best baker in the ward and if she ever opens a shop everybody in the neighborhood will just die of obesity. Her sister is married to a 2nd or 3rd cousin of Magistrate Festus himself, so she's practically royalty though she don't put on any airs or anythin'. They had a pet parakeet named Chirpy who carried a pretty tune but left such a mess under the cage I don't see how Flora could put up with it, she's such a fastidious goodwife an' all. But then Chirpy died a couple years ago and maybe that's why they didn't get a new one. And speaking of birds, wasn't there a migration due ...
Delicately extricating themselves Darius and Moru rush back to join the others as they head for the mapmaker's shop.

 

[Leif]

Jonas and Alarion, Darius, and All The Gang

Jonas and Alarion
Mrs. Lyman graciously curtseys to Jonas and Alarion, and says, "I am in your debt, good sirs! I know that you will do all that is in your power to bring my Krado home to me."

Darius
Bocephus accepts the defiled crumpet greedily. "Wow, thanks, Mr. Constable Sir! Mmmmmm, I especially like that special sauce you added to that last one, it was even better that the first! Just the right hint of saltiness!" Bocephus winks indulgently at Darius.

All
Now the majority of the Constables pass out of the Lyman home. You see Darius conferring with Bocephus off to one side, and the grubby goblin has a worshipful expression on his dirty face as he is hungrily devouring the last of one of Mrs. Lyman's delicious crumpets. You also catch a glimpse of Andrew nearby in a field inspecting something, and then he straightens to his full height and heads back over toward the group. (ooc: Scotley still has a little unfinished business to complete with Andrew and his search, but I am assuming that Andrew will be rejoining the rest of you shortly.) You decide to just walk to Lyman's cartography shop, since it is, for Lauralie Summerhome anyway, such a pleasant day! You can't even see your breath when you exhale! You have a pleasant short walk to the shop, and you enjoy the quiet of the neighborhood that is quite rare in much of the 14th. With that, you arrive back outside of "FINDERS, KEEPERS," Krado Lyman's map-making establishment.

There is a man sweeping his walk outside of the bootmaker's shop next door to Krado's place. He sees your approach, and Moru Sen takes the opportunity to question him briefly: "Tell me, if you please, Sir, what do you know of the erstwhile cartographer in the shop adjacent to yours?" "Well," says the gentleman, "I know Krado only in passing, which is to say that I don't really know him at all. He is a very quiet sort, he keeps to himself mostly, but he has, recently, been more talkative. I think he has been working on some new project that interested him very much. He was pretty cagey about the whole thing, wouldn't tell me much about it, other than to say that he couldn't believe someone hadn't thought of it before."

 

[Helfdan]

Alarion

"I shall take a look on the outside, friends, whilst you enter the small cartographer's shoppe." He carefully walks around the shop, of particular interest are any alleys or unorthodox approaches.

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1- Alarion takes 20 on search for a total of 22
2-I believe Darius SPLIT the crumpet, to share it, he did not spit on it...

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[Leif]

Perhaps you're right

Alarion


[sblock] I believe Darius SPLIT the crumpet, to share it, he did not spit on it... [/sblock]

Maybe you're right, but I still like my interpretation better.

 

[Fenris]

There is a man sweeping his walk outside of the bootmaker's shop next door to Krado's place. He sees your approach, and Moru Sen takes the opportunity to question him briefly: "Tell me, if you please, Sir, what do you know of the erstwhile cartographer in the shop adjacent to yours?" "Well," says the gentleman, "I know Krado only in passing, which is to say that I don't really know him at all. He is a very quiet sort, he keeps to himself mostly, but he has, recently, been more talkative. I think he has been working on some new project that interested him very much. He was pretty cagey about the whole thing, wouldn't tell me much about it, other than to say that he couldn't believe someone hadn't thought of it before."

The wheel start spinning in Jonas' head as he hears the neighbour's comments. Jonas takes the key and carefully opens the door to the shop.

 

[xedr]

That's disgusting...

[sblock=ooc]... but if that's what goblins like, Darius will do Bocephus the courtesy of spitting on the crumpet for him.[/sblock]