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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Carlo-One" data-source="post: 8119152" data-attributes="member: 7015827">The morning of Ches 22, the three adventurers found their wayward mage in the bar room of the Gatereach. Jandrico greeted them and then went to help Goruna prepare breakfast. Dermot asked Aerikoth what he had been up to and the mage vaguely replied that he had some preparations to see to, elsewhere, but it did not have anything to do with House Cormaeril. Darrow and Shanni indicated that they had come around to Aerikoth’s way of thinking about a more direct approach against Cormaeril, following their meeting with Losifan Urdo the previous morning. Dermot said that they had a bit of approval from some quarters to go ahead, as the ranger put it, but he was still in favor of only killing those that mattered.Goruna and Jandrico placed an ample breakfast before them, then Jandrico excused himself to see if there was any word from his inquiries the previous night. Shanni and Dermot explained that the magistrate in charge of the Empty Fish assassins case was dragging his feet and keeping Rahnee in custody, because he was “ill” and unable to sign her release. They were for going to see about their incarcerated companion and leaving discussion about assaulting Cormaeril Castle until later. Given that their best option, put forward by Darrow, was to enter the castle via the sewers, the wizard said he was in no hurry for it.Jandrico returned at this point and, after ensuring that everything was satisfactory with their meal, indicated that he had some information, if they were interested. The innkeeper revealed that his sources had told him that the magistrate Lemuel, who was responsible for the order releasing the Lady Rahnee, had been poisoned – and not by the Night Masks. Shanni was unsurprised by this. Jandrico further explained that the magistrate lived, but was too sick to act in his official capacity, and was expected to receive a visit from a temple healer that morning. The innkeeper expressed his hope that Lady Rahnee would be out by the afternoon, then excused himself to attend to business.Following some discussion about what the poisoning tactic might mean for Rahnee, the four adventurers decided they should go to the Tower in the Market District, where she was being detained by the Watch. Once inside the main entrance, Dermot approached the clerk on duty and asked to see Jomo, the watchman who had visited the Gatereach the previous night, about the Roaringhorn case. After getting more information from Dermot about himself and the company, the clerk dispatched one of the guards to fetch Jomo.After several minutes of waiting, Jomo finally appeared, approaching the company and being greeted by Dermot. The Watchman motioned to them to follow him to an interior room, where he gave them an update on Lady Roaringhorn’s situation. According to what Watch Commander Meynn had told him, someone had poisoned the magistrate Lemuel, who was supposed to sign her release order the previous day. Jomo observed that the magistrate was known for his drinking, so his actual condition was not diagnosed at first, but a temple cleric was expected to arrive to tend to him.Shanni said that she found the situation a bit too coincidental and they were interested in how it came to happen. Jomo's face reddened and he told them that was all he knew, speculating that perhaps someone had slipped something into the magistrate’s drink to make him sick. Some further questioning of Jomo led them to the conclusion that there was nothing more that could be done, until the magistrate had recovered sufficiently to sign Rahnee’s release. (It seems that Jandrico's sources were on the mark about all the details of this rather embarrassing incident involving the magistrate. Poisoning him in this manner appeared to be a delaying tactic - perhaps thereby giving the Fire Knives a chance to regroup after the incident at the Empty Fish? --C)</blockquote>

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