i don't know much about halflings but i could tell that boroman was uncomfortably old for his age
seeing the effect of the wasting curse was disturbing ... and i'm still trying to put it out of my mind
boroman asked us to take a letter of marque to the watch so they could authorize us to search imré's house for any wayfinders-related records or the like so we did
the watch captain granted us a day to search but she was pretty annoyed about it?
imré's house turns out to be three buildings on the outside and a confusing mess of location-warping magic on the inside including doorways that don't return where they lead
several of his guards followed us around to "assist" our search – more like impede! – but despite that bell managed to find a secret door to a small tunnel
i said i could easily fit through it if i kept my head low but spark insisted on scraping her way through instead
that was probably for the best anyhow since dorein was in the room at the other end of it and according to spark her greeting consisted of a warning shot from a crossbow
spark isn't one to be fazed by the threat of injury so she calmly explained that if dorein gave us imré's falsified ledgers we'd let her go instead of turning her over to the watch
that's how we got the combination to imré's safe which held faked ledgers (and several ingots of gold!)
we delivered the ledgers to a very grateful ander (though now that i think about it i'm not sure where the gold went but i'll ask the rest of the group later)
with that task complete we went to meet d'cannith jorlanna
she thanked us for helping morran and told us we could find him working in a laboratory in the basement and we were welcome to visit
but first she had a favor to ask by way of a small job offer
jorlanna's planned one of those parties that involves formalwear and a live band and several people important enough to warrant extra security
normally that's where "house deneith" comes in but house politics keep her from hiring from them?
she wants us to coordinate with another team of six – led by dowser! – to be "visible muscle" and convince potential trouble to not even bother knocking
i have reservations but the rest of our group is in so i'm in
while relic and spark went to meet with them the rest of us visited the well-appointed lab morran was holed up in
he was very busy filling a chalkboard with math errors while his forged arm rested in a state of disassembly that took up most of a workbench
apparently it failed a couple hours after he arrived and he'd stayed awake to work on it the whole time
i got to circling his mistakes while bell tried to convince him to take a break
zer' took the more direct path of dosing morran's coffee (he means well but ... consent!)
morran recognized the flavor and laughed it off insisting one potion of sleep wouldn't do much against the two potions of haste already in him!
when i do this kind of thing medya just lets me snooze whenever i'm standing
most bipeds can't do that – they tend to fall over – so bell gently corraled him off to bed where he passed out safely once his head hit the pillow
relic and spark returned with dowser and his teammate "gwyr calailaimë" for a brief chat
late tomorrow morning we'll tour the space with an eye toward planning
also the whole group needs formalwear but with the exception of zer' none of us wears much clothing in the first place and since nobody here knows what unicorn formalwear looks like so i'm just getting a cape that complements my new legs
...
unicorn formalwear is usually just a cape anyhow