As the train departed Orithea Manuel , El Kevin and Ulvaar took up position on the roof to go safari shooting while Padme sneakily went through Bree's stuff in her cabin without finding anything while Padme made sure no one crept up on Padme. They had some other ideas for the morning but were interupted by the train screeching to a halt and the Screaming Malice attacking.
El Kevin, Manuel and Ulvaar moved forward across the roof along with Cardiff and the guards, they noted that Bree and Boone moved to guard Luc and Ottavia and finally noticed that Luc and Ottavia must be working with them. The players became sidetracked going back over their notes on everyone's nocturnal activities and decided that yesterday Bree and the others were covering for Ottavia and Luc , they resolve to put Bat Manuel on their trail in Trekholm as this point I remind them of the large monster and they prepare to deal with it.
Padme and Nevla are ahead of the others put poor at ranged combat so they head over the roofs to avoid the crowd and then plan to get back into the carriages to deal with whatever is causing all the screaming. Manuel starts a deadly barrage of alchemically enhanced bullets on the Malice, joined by less deadly but still accurate fire from El Kevin for both of them the touch AC of the Malice is nothing by the end of round 9 the combined fire of them , Cardiff and the guards drive off the malice while Nevla, Padme and the Crissylian knight engage the malice spawn in HTH Combat cutting through them rapidly , in the end only 8 passangers are dead by the time the malice is driven off. By the time they can reach the front of the train the bandits have done some quick looting and withdrawn , they find where Mr Mapple fell and then got up again but don't have time to find him again before the trian gets moving.
In the aftermath of the fight they dismiss Cardiff and the Crissylrian knight as suspects but are now settled on Bree, Boone , Verzubak , Luc and Ottavia as Ob agents they are not certain that there are not others. Padme poisons Boone's lunch with a vile emetic and he spends most of the rest of the day and night sickened and nauseated , ensuring he cannot murder anyone in Trekholme before Nevla can have him assassinated in Naalam.
In Trekholm they split up to follow people again leaving Ulvaar as hotel guard. Nevla follows Eleanor and Isobel, she hope to get a chance to listen to Vledheim Heid as well, Padme is tasked with Verzubak, El Kevin with Bree and El Manuel with Luc and Ottavia. All are stealthy With a mere 39 El Kevin declares himself the Penumbra while with 40 and a later 43 El Kevin is again the night.
Bree is observed trying to screen Luc and Ottavia but failing as he stand no chance of noticing the tiny shadowers, then she goes and observes Boone's room in case he is faking illness as she suspects his murderous ways, however he is too ill to murder anyone. Nevla overhears Eleanor discussing selling Isobel and decides killing her now would be dangerous and unprofessional but decides she wants to stab Eleanor personally although she will be able to live with it if someone else kills her.
El Kevin gets close enough to the lighthouse to see the lantern in action which seals it that Luc and Ottavia are Ob and that this planar energy Lantern is important they finally feel they have a breakthrough in their main mission , they have a discussion and decide that their best bet is to try and grab Luc and the Lantern at the last stop. They are puzzled why Luc had no ring as it seems to them he must be important , they decide Boone and Verzubak who lack rings are probably hirelings and Nevla thinks that Ottavia must be from a new faction as she has a silver ring. Cardiff successfully sells his papers and retires in luxury.
Nevla returns in time to listen to Damatta and Vleid talk she lurks at the back and is not seen but would have approached them if they had not gone to talk to Ulvaar, Ulvaar says that he thinks they can help but the others are sleeping (or actually sneaking around 2 of them being in the shadows near this conversation) and Dematta should talk to them in the morning.
The train set of to Naalam and they noticed Luc , Verzubak and Bree's attempts to locate Risuri agents but did not work out what they were doing. Bree talked to Nevla who is travelling as Finona and had mentioned Caius , Bree told her she had been meant to meet Caius and asked about him Nevla told her what had happened largely truthfully just leaving out the RHC involvement. Bree was shown Finona's ring and showed Nevla her own. resulting in a cry of "See I told you 5 letters. mostly 5 and a few 4's it must be the rank". Bree passed on the information to Ottavia and she used a sending it was confirmed to her that the Ring was not worn by the real Finona so they have identified Nevla and her fellows as the Risuri agents, they are not yet certain Boone is a murderer but that won't matter as a dryad assassin is waiting for him in Naalam.
They plan to help Demata and then go to the arena were they hope to get a chance to do something unpleasent to Eleanor. With Demata and the family they hope to arrange a none violent solution and have used the mage they have on retainer here to contact Cippriano their current plan for the sending is
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