Devilish Chaos
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We tried to meet up with Braith, but he didn't show up. Due to all the chaos that came to our ears that was going on back in Alestia, we decided to leave a note for Braith to meet in 2 days and head back to Alestia via a gate spell to see what was going on.
It was utter chaos. So we all decided to take a little action. I headed down to the docks to see if I could quell the angry mobs in some way. Turns out they were ever so slightly organized, enough that that had a leader. I talked to him a bit, and it was decided if we could get some food to them, that we could make use of them to some of our ends, depending on the circumstances.
Later, I went to speak with Bagram and he told me where I could find Philip Madrigal. I weaseled my way in to speak with Philip and really just touched-base, letting him know where the Hilda thing stood and that we knew Talpin was stirring up some stuff and we may need to leverage his power as an Elector to take care of what Talpin had orchestrated. Philip said he would do whatever was in his power, and I headed back to find Grey waiting for me with an idea.
No, not THAT kind of idea.
Anyway, so Grey and I headed to where the Alestian food supplies were being held and essentially constructed an underground tunnel into them so that the semi-organized mob at the docks could get at it.
When I got home, apparently there had been some excitement on Boyce and Trent's end. Something about a fight with devils… I dunno. I was too tired to listen to this now so I instead went to bed. The next day Boyce regaled me with his awesomeness the previous night but I could see in his surface thoughts that he accidentally got caught in the closet in Talpin's house, alerting Talpin's two devilish girlfriends to Boyce's presence. So really it's all his fault they got into the fight in the first place!
While Grey and I headed out to give the refugee band leader the location of the tunnel and get our relationship finalized, off Boyce went to tell Philip Madrigal what he'd discovered while sneaking around Talpin's house. This basically amounted to him spying a conversation between Talpin and General Zod, whereby General Zod was informing Talpin that the shuffling of troops to the Shesslian border was going according to plan. It was inferred that troops were being moved OFF of the Upper Thalian front to do this, and that this was their actual goal, not to reinforce the Shesslian border.
After all that, we gated back to Endelbar in the afternoon in order to meet with Braith. I changed into my dark elf getup and went to the tavern. I discovered a guy there who fit the image I had of him, and so I sat down at his table. He asked me why we deviated from the plan. Well, it appears Nuladit lied to us. She will have to pay for that in some form or another before this is over.
I told him that the job turned out more dangerous than the original bargain, a member of our group was killed, and we wanted more money. He told me then that this discussion was over, we could keep Hilda. He got up and walked out, and while I couldn't really see what was happening, apparently Grey and Boyce managed to to almost kill the guy instead of just knocking him out as emerged from the tavern into the street.
After stabilizing him, we took him to an Inn on the outskirts of the city to interrogate him. Unsurprisingly, he had been hired by Talpin, and apparently there were two more girls being held in the docks area of Endelbar. While Grey was inquiring about the people working with Talpin, the guy basically just magically immolated. Apparently he was not supposed to discuss such things.
Anyway, we headed down to the docks and rescued the two girls, hiring carriages and sending them back to their families out in the countryside.
And with that, we headed back to Alestia to determine a way to take care of Talpin, who seemed more and more to be the linchpin in all of this.