SESSION SEVEN - Laundry Heist

[Mubistar, 18th day of Sigen]

Morning comes and after the impromptu sleepover at the detective agency, the gang begins slowly waking up to share a very hashed together breakfast. There's tea and coffee packets available for drinks, and Ross goes out to grab some fish for some protein. Meanwhile, Yak makes a return, with Murphy in one arm, and a basket of breads and fruits in the other. Compliments of the ship's chef, Bruno.

It's during this together breakfast that people notice that Caira's changed, both in demeanor and in colour, her feyladrin ancestry taking on a more wintery appearance. Furthermore adopting the moniker, Cairi.

After further discussing plans further, the team decides to go check out the college, and see if they can't snag any more of those cultist robes, and get some more information.

Meeting the (beefcake) minotaur running the front desk, Brenvis Orina, who, as they'd come to learn recently, is also the secret supplier of shellrock for Lorenzini. After having him check the IDs and a bit of failed flirting, the party is invited onto the campus, and they immediately get to searching. Ross recalling that when he and Edenberry stole the laundry yesterday, it smelled fresh, so there might be cleaning facilities on campus.

Following his nose, Ross leads the group to the common house among the dormitories on the upper levels of the college. There, among various amenities, is a laundry room, where students can drop off their bags of soiled clothes, and a dutiful team of cleaners spend their day washing and drying them. It's a tedious job, but someone's gotta do it!

A quick bit of snooping, and they're able to spot two robes currently making their rounds through the different stations, one just dropped off and placed on a low hanger, and one currently getting a good scrubbing in one of the washing tubs to the back. The individual doing their best not to pull the submerged cloth into view too often for the sake of privacy.

Miguel promptly throws a monkey wrench into the system and steps in to talk to the man washing the clothes to ask a couple questions. Startling him and earning quick usherings out of the room in response, Miguel pleads ignorance, having just arrived at the school and not knowing how everything works yet.

Upon being pushed out by the man, Ross quickly uses the chance to sneak by and grab the soaking cloak. Aided by a smartly placed 'Pass Without Trace' from Cairi.

To cause further distraction for herself to grab the other cloak, and to give Ross a chance to escape, Cairi uses thaumaturgy to swing the windows open, Ross wasting no time to yeet himself through them and dive into the water below, somehow not drawing any attention in the process.

As Miguel drags the man for further, dizzying questions going around in circles, Cairi uses the chance to sneak in and grab the cloak for herself, stepping out with only the tired man giving a passing glance and a brief question on if Cairi picking up or dropping off. But quickly goes back in to get away from the party before he gets even more behind on his work.

Rushing off to regroup, they find Ross near the beaches by the lower levels of the campus, soaking wet with sopped cloak in hand. The time for cheers of success is cut when a panicked student happens upon them, quickly casting a darkness spell around the lot of them, and scolding Ross to be more careful with his cloak, not to have it out so willy nilly.

Miguel manages to get the young elven man to share where to get replacement cloaks, posing as asking for a friend. The elf warns them not to be so careless once more, and the group splits ways after catching his name, Nikhir Burnabby.

With new information, the party heads towards the seamstress over by the study hall and wait to figure out what to do, when the student that Ross and Edenberry has robbed the previous day came strolling down the hall and into the Seamstress' room with two copper coins that were green with oxidation. A quick plan was hatched to jump the kid after he was done getting a new cloak and take that one too.

Will they succeed in robbing this kid a second time? Find out in the next session!