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[King Zultan]

Is it good money?  Ask obliquely.  Also ask about the ring, but don't mention the one we have.

I thought we had the assassin's signet ring.  Did he have multiple on his person?

+1 lets kill this guy.

[Devastator]

Although you can't get her to outright admit a value, you manage to gather that the pay will be in gold rather than silver, which implies a fairly high price.

Anything else to ask?

[ZBridges]

Where does the target live and work, does the method of assassination matter, and does the target have a guard detail?

[King Zultan]

Where does the target live and work, does the method of assassination matter, and does the target have a guard detail?

+1 All important info.

[Devastator]

The target is a Ba Soro.  You are told that you want the younger Ba Soro, and not the elder one.  The home is given as a pair of conjoining apartments in the Merchant Quarters.  There is no information forthcoming as for the guard detail, but she expects it will be somewhat similar to her own, although maybe a little more, given that they probably know their assassin failed by now.  So expect something special.

Also, "Apartments" is being used in a general sense.  These are basically urban mansions with dozens of rooms across multiple floors, not your two-room home.

[ZBridges]

What does he look like?

[Devastator]

You get a description, but he's just an ordinary guy.  You'll recognize him if you see him.

Feel free to ask more questions, but you'll be down to two actions when finished.

[Egan_BW]

Let's move on.

[ZBridges]

If there are no further questions:

Make a show of going to the apartments in the area to inquire about open servant positions, citing our experience under Huan Zhang.  After hitting a few nearby apartments, go to Ba Soro's apartment and try to get a servant job there.  Carefully inspect the interior of the apartment building for anything we can exploit.

[King Zultan]

If there are no further questions:

Make a show of going to the apartments in the area to inquire about open servant positions, citing our experience under Huan Zhang.  After hitting a few nearby apartments, go to Ba Soro's apartment and try to get a servant job there.  Carefully inspect the interior of the apartment building for anything we can exploit.

+1

[Naturegirl1999]

If there are no further questions:

Make a show of going to the apartments in the area to inquire about open servant positions, citing our experience under Huan Zhang.  After hitting a few nearby apartments, go to Ba Soro's apartment and try to get a servant job there.  Carefully inspect the interior of the apartment building for anything we can exploit.

+1

+1

[Devastator]

You fail in the primary goal of infiltrating the target.  You do get several job offers on the way there, however.

First off, from the outside the buildings look reasonably secure.  Each building is about four stories tall and made of wood, and the two of them are surrounded by similar buildings.  Some are all residential, either for small apartments, larger apartments, or urban mansions, and some have ground-floor businesses in them with living space above.

There are no sizeable ground floor windows, as is normal, but you make out four doors.. a front and a back one on each of the two buildings.

What was meant by conjoined you can see means that there were two seperate buildings, except they've been connected on the first two floors by a sort of passageway, an addition built linking them across what was once an alleyway.  It's been built up to two stories, but still looks like seperate construction.

You do manage to get inside as part of your attempts at an interview, but you are only lead to a foyer, and are constantly under observation by a servant, as they talk about how nobody is being hired at the moment, and that you should look elsewhere.

You are a bit pushy about things, and try to press the matter a little, trying to wear down the senior servant who is dealing with you, and sort of succeed.  After about fifteen minutes another person enters the foyer; a foreigner who is wearing a full suit of decorated gleaming steel armour, a full on dark-blue cloak, helmet off, and a sizeable foreign-style sword.

He's very intimidating.

Anyway, you are shooed off at that point, being told to leave by the foreigner.

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Week 14

Assets and Abilities:
Prestige = 2
5 silver.
Concealable fighting dagger
Shun Ziji's dark blade.
Steel Dao.  +1 Combat.
Assassin's signet ring.
Plan to travel to Mzulft by ship.
Adventurer's diary (partially studied)
->Information on southern jungle nations
->Secret locations in southern jungle.
->Information on spiritual beings, spiritual being society, spiritual being outlook. (Studied)
->Information on animal life of the southern jungle
->Information on magical beings of the southern jungle
->Instruction on spirit-related magical rituals.  Versatile dust triggering rune.  Thought communication? rune?  Minor dust metabolic energy collection rune. (Studied)
->Instruction on an unknown magical field. (Partly studied.  ? uses remain.)
->Instruction on wilderness survival methods
->Instruction on what seems to be the language of the southern jungle nations.
->Instruction on an unknown language.

Skills:
Charming, +1
Urban Navigation, +1
Combat, +1/+1.  Unarmed combat training.  Also applies while armed.
Dao training, +2/+1.
Weapon handling I

Magic:
Research:
Magical Theorist. +0 (0/21 to +1)

Material Compositions:
None known.  Some training in ink.

Energy Manipulations:
Earth Magic Theory +0 (2/7 to +1)

Developed Magics:
Versatile Dust triggering rune.
Minor Dust Metabolic Energy collection rune.
Can connect or break ink-based magical constructions.

Allies:
Huan Zhang, diplomat, 2 prestige, 0 favors.
Li Song, martial arts student, 0 prestige, 0 favors.
Bu Siro, absent minded magical researcher, 4 prestige, 1 favor.
Upscale Weapon Shop.

Enrolled in advanced Dao training, -2 actions a week, -2 silver.

[ZBridges]

Discreetly watch the building and note who leaves and enters it.  If the target leaves the building, tail him.

[Devastator]

Discreetly watch the building and note who leaves and enters it.  If the target leaves the building, tail him.

If you go with that, let me know what weapons you will be carrying.

[ZBridges]

Is it correct that our Dao training does not improve our ability to fight with the dagger?