The Enemy Within: Shadows Over Bögenhafen

[Dr Simon]

OOC: You asking me, or in character?

 

[Neurotic]

I'm asking you, hence the gray font. Not sure if we would know, but still...doesn't hurt to ask.

 

[Dr Simon]

OOC: Not a lot I can tell you. It's something of a rarity for the town to have sewers at all. The characters would have noticed that some of the gulleys run above ground, and would be familiar with the concept of chucking ordure into the street or paying a man to take it away, so there's nothing innately suspicious for there not to be anything on the map.

 

[Walking Dad]

OOC: I don't know about this in general, but Nuln has it's sewers constructed by dwarfs. I think this race is quite used to a working sewer system. Anything without underground access is suspicious for a Dawi

 

[Dr Simon]

OOC: I think all the larger cities will be well-served with a sewer system (Middenheim is). Bogenhafen probably punches above its weight, size-wise, because it's quite rich.

 

[FourMonos]

Garold points at the sewer temple location. "Eh, what building is that above ground? Could that be the Order of the Rose we keep hearing about?"

 

[Dr Simon]

Nobody in the room knows the answer to Garold's question, but it is a simple matter to travel across town and find out in person. Directly above the sewer temple, as near as you can tell, is a large imposing single-storey building, with a sign above the main gates on Kaufmanstrasse showing a barrel braded with an ornate letter "S" - the symbol of the Steinhager family, one of the four main families in the Merchant's Guild. Judging from the mix of men dressed as both stevedores and clerks passing in and out of the gates, this is probably some kind of central office.

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The "House of the Rose" that Garold mentions is House Teugen, a fellow member of the Merchant's Guild.
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[airwalkrr]

Aaryn, a bit more puzzled than usual

"Perhaps we should approach this place from the underside via the sewers? I suppose that is technically breaking and entering, but we do have some evidence..." Aaryn proposes.

OOC: Despite my character's massive intellect, I am still a little unsure what we are supposed to be doing at this point. We have some clues, but I am grasping at straws to figure out where they should take us.

 

[FourMonos]

"Hans, can someone here put a temporary ink tatoo of the purple hand on my side where I'm supposed to have one? It might come in handy in a quick look."

OOC: I think the dead cult member (Lieberung) was changed to look like Garold, right? If not, then we could change to Hans.

"I don't know Aaryn, we have a little more knowledge about what is going on here now. Let's just go in the front door with the same story: I was attacked by chaos on the road, you saved me, my memory is damaged but I knew I was to travel here. What say you?"

 

[Neurotic]

"I'm not sure we're good for bluffing without Hans, but if you feel up to it we can try. Still, little additional retcon doesn't hurt so we can try both. First to check on the temple and it's surroundings and then to dress up and knock on their doors. Also, Ordo Septinarius seems public enough, we can go and take a look."