sythyry | Investigations by More Mundane Means [17 Lage 4385]

Mirrored from Sythyry.

Jyondre acquired Rehit himself.  (Rehit, for the record, has never heard that

Eigrach has any law against locating or even scrying of one’s clients.

Bwipin, who was also collected, is quite sure there is no such law.)  They

performed a detailed investigation taking most of the afternoon, which may be

summarized thus:
Rehit and/or Bwipin: “This is a matter of foreigners

    against foreigners.  The city’s policy is that Sythyry — and Jyondre and

    Yerenthax — are honored guests, and should be treated with adequate

    courtesy except when the privileges of a citizen should be emperilled.

    Thus, we require of you the truth!”
Raliet: “I point out that it is a privilege of the

    Jivu that I may not be interrogated in this matter, for certain technical

    reasons which need not concern the off-branchers.”
Jyondre, Rehit, and Bwipin: “Ah, yes.  You-jivu are

    exempted.”
Phaniet: “Your somewhat rebellious (as Cani go)

    teenage pack-daughter there — Azliet — what is her status in the

    Jivu?”
Azliet: “I have been rejected by the Jivu.  Ask me

    whatever questions you wish.  Somewhat surprisingly, even to myself, I am

    eager to obey the civic authorities in this matter, for they are less

    loathy to me than is my aunt Raliet.”
Civic Authorities: “Thank you!”
Azliet: “Under your uncompromising, diligent, and

    all-perceptive interrogation, I tell you all I know!, I conceal nothing

    despite my attempts! Thiane, Zascalle, and children were here one night,

    some days ago, on the ninth of Lage to be precise. The children were very

    strange, even for Rassimel. The young one looked dazed or drunk or

    something, and the older one … made the fur on my tail stand up somehow.

    They departed in the morning, headed for the sky-docks. They left a large

    gift of money to us, which the adults did not distribute equitably. Oh,

    and the children wrote some letters, which we dribbled out over the week.

    We’ve got three letters left, if you want to save us the bother of sending

    them.”
Mundane Investigators: “The ninth of Lage?  It is

    now the seventeenth of Lage!  Nearly a week later!”
Azliet: “You are indeed fucked.”
Mundane Investigators: “This could prove

    troublesome.”

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From:

rowyn

Maybe you shouldn't've excused the children from their follow-up visits after all.

From:

shurhaian.livejournal.com

Hindsight has this tendency to be painfully clear that way.

From:

rowyn

I'm just hoping that Rehit turns out to be as good an investigator as he is a duelist, because mundane means of tracking them are going to be the most likely to work. Fortunately, Feralan is apparently distinctive even with the Illusidor spells on, so maybe they'll be able to follow them.

From:

shurhaian.livejournal.com

Maybe I misunderstood just how much money there was and how much a skyboat would cost. But... if they're getting passage for four people, using money that would have presented moderate difficulty to pay one person's way to Ketheria, just how far could they have gone, and how comfortably? Granted, they're not burdened with the need to pay anyone else's wages, but... it's just been said they left a good deal of money behind, and they probably paid that Khtsoyis mage a good deal more. If so much of it is single-lozens, I wouldn't think they could afford to spend amber like water and still have enough to get a skyboat any great distance - a week's journey by skyboat is anecdotally mentioned as costing a thousand lozens, and that may well be for one person!

Though... sky boat. You're a member of the sky-pilot's guild. If you make a case to the guild that these people have stolen from you, and stolen money that was to pay people on your sky-boat their wages at that, could that loosen a few tongues re: where they went? Without invoking the word "pirate", since they didn't do so by force and did not, in fact, terrorize a sky-boat in flight?

From:

rowyn

Zascalle was Sythyry's accountant. I expect that whatever reckoning zie had regarding how much was left in the Strayway's strongbox was given to zir by Zascalle.

Also, Sythyry has been talking about being nearly broke and how zie had to ask zir bank for more funds for two or three weeks now. One can well imagine that the execution of this task was delegated to Zascalle, and that Zascalle would be the one who told zir how long it would take the bank to produce said funds.

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