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477018 No. 477018 ID: 75ebf5

You’re a bandit.

You’re not a very good bandit, but that’s okay.

You’re the Best Bandit.

There is no one who even comes close to your unique quality.

Previous Adventure: http://tgchan.org/kusaba/questarch/res/474847.html
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No. 478882 ID: e3f578

>>478879
Right now exploring seems to have been the mostly bad thing that leads to bad results.
Gonna go with B since it's the least explory. We can't steal anything from the wolves themselves today, or at least a few hours, to enact the plan, none of it will be legit frameworking on the Raccoon. It'll be very suspicious and very obviously framed.
Crallow can come in later though, at least, and seem unassociated. Same with Hanshah. And the mice.

IF the translation of the letter turns out to be naturally traitorous, however, we'll hardly have to do any framing at all, just get it to the right people. This comes at the cost of being unable of making Palia a hero, but whatevs.
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No. 478883 ID: 54c7e5

Go with A, and with all possible Haste. He's going to be woken up soon, and that's likely where the valuables are kept.

Also, burying whatever it is in the raccoon's scrap piles seems like the best idea, so maybe something that would stand out in it?
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No. 478897 ID: f2c20c

>>478879
A. If he's sleeping and we're quiet then we can get past him unnoticed, because he can't smell us.
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No. 478902 ID: 4a328b

A because BEST BANDITS
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No. 478926 ID: cc1edd

A I guess. best make it personal for the bossman.
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No. 478932 ID: d718d4

If the raccoon letter turns out to be fortuitous nothing-to-do-with-us treachery, maybe we can arrange to have Pallia be the one that found it?

Also, A.
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No. 478933 ID: 4a20fa

>>478879
Go for the prize. A!
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No. 478958 ID: a84091
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478958

A, peek in on Legano

He is your theft-target, after all!

You sneak around outside the smoothed, round wall of the dining room. Unfortunately there’s nothing at all to hide behind here, and as you turn the slow curve you see Legano, sleeping, ahead of you, with nothing between you and him.

Now that you’re here to look for this kind of stuff, you notice his little table has a sliding door in it to keep things in! Maybe there are good bits in there? You aren’t actually sure what there is to be stealing from him that he’ll miss so dearly, that the raccoon might plausibly want to steal!

A: Try to sneak up to the cabinet and see what’s in!
B: Go to the library and ask Pallia/signal Crallow and ask what might be a good thing to steal!?
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No. 478959 ID: 4a328b

A!
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No. 478962 ID: 35dd62

I dunno man, his eye almost looks open. stare at him and try to figure out if he knows you're here as I suspect.
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No. 478963 ID: ec6d4c

A and this >>478962. Caution is your friend, here.
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No. 478966 ID: a84091
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478966

I dunno man, his eye almost looks open. stare at him and try to figure out if he knows you're here as I suspect.

You freeze, and stare very, very hard at his eye.

You can see a dim shine, the slight catch of light in an exposed lens. His eye’s open.

You aren’t sure if he’s awake or not, but you slip back the way you came all the same.

If you want to steal from his personal stuff, you’re going to need to get him out of the way.

A: Go to the library and signal Crallow; have Jashbireth start another fire or something!
B: Go to the library and see if Pallia can come up with something to help you!
C: Try to find the wolf cub Andria and see if she can distract him for you.
D: Contact one of your mice here and have them try to call Legano away for something.
E: Try to steal something from him! You're sneaky enough.
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No. 478969 ID: 4a328b

A!
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No. 478986 ID: 4a20fa

>>478966
D, I guess.
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No. 478990 ID: a84091
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478990

A, go to the library and signal Crallow

It’s easy enough to sneak into the library. Pallia is hiding in a corner now. The mice are going about their duties with the books with a sincere focus that makes it easy for you to slip up to the open window.

You hop up and wait for Crallow to notice you. He flies in, sweeping up the hill and landing on the window ledge with you.

:crclcrallow: “How are things going?”

:crclpocket: “Legano is like, sleeping right there with all of his stuff I don’t know what to do what should the plan be? Should we set another fire?”

:crclcrallow: “You need him away, yes? You can’t thieve the meat from his mouth.”

:crclpocket: “Yeah basically I mean unless I was Piijal and he was Alti Sombri but like I’m not.”

:crclcrallow: “Alti Sombri was also distracted by Abja Nail, when the Delicate Mover stole food from the Endless Hunger’s stomachs.”

:crclpocket: “Exactly whoa hey wait you know stoat myths?”

:crclcrallow: “I’ve had time enough to study lots of myths and languages. I can speak a decent Stoat, did you know?”

:crclpocket: “That is super great and doesn’t help us at all right now shut up what do we do.”

A: Have Jashbireth start another fire! It worked last time! The wolves definitely were not in the manor!
B: Pocket makes a commotion nearby, maybe sets off a smoke bomb or knocks stuff over, waking up Legano. Then Crallow flies into his chamber and steals something, and flies back out?
C: Never mind this! Go contact a mouse for a distraction!
D: Never mind this! Go find Andria and try to get her to cause a distraction!
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No. 478991 ID: d718d4

C. Arson is so two weeks ago. Use the mice!
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No. 478995 ID: a84091
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478995

C, go get a mouse to distract him instead!

:crclpocket: “You know what never mind I’ll just get a mouse to do it!”

:crclcrallow: “It is not entirely safe for me to be flying up here for nothing.”

Too late! You’ve already hopped back down and slipped your way into the dining room. You find one of your infiltrated mice and get his attention.

:crclpocket: “Hey! I need you to tell Legano to go somewhere else!”

:crclmouse: “Is he going to listen?”

:crclpocket: “If you give him a good reason to!”

But what could a mouse say that would get him to leave his bed?

A: “There’s a stoat running around the manor up to no good! He’s right over this way!”
B: “There’s another fire started outside! Come look over here!”
C: “Ivory-Sands Manor has sent wolves to skirmish! Get ready for battle!”
D: “Dinner’s ready! Time to eat!”
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No. 478996 ID: e3f578

>>478995
A or C are the only good ones...

C!
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No. 478997 ID: 4a20fa

>>478990
Ok fine B.
Time to war dance.
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No. 479002 ID: d718d4

A
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No. 479003 ID: 54c7e5

Deciding Vote maybe?

C!
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No. 479004 ID: f2c20c

Hey, can we not pick the option most likely to get our wolf friend killed?

A.
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No. 479005 ID: 37aa84

A, and look at what she did in the mouse passage.
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No. 479010 ID: 4a328b

A!
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No. 479011 ID: 92d34d

D. Low panic, but it still gets him out of his room, and doesn't arouse further suspicion once he finds it's not true. It could simply be considered ill timing.
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No. 479016 ID: a84091
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479016

A

:crclpocket: “Wake him up and tell him there’s a stoat running around getting up to mischief! I mean I made a commotion in the mouse closet so it’s true. We lie with the truth we make the best lie.”

The mouse nods and scampers off. You take hiding spot in the dining room. You can’t really hear the conversation, but it seems to be taking a while.

And a while.

Finally the mouse comes back.

:crclpocket: “How did it go!”

:crclmouse: “He said! Hunting stray thieves wasn’t his job! He told me to get Andria to do it.”

:crclpocket: “Oh no!”

:crclmouse: “I said I didn’t know who Andria was! So he said he would do it himself and then he left. I think he went down the ramp.”

Andria was the name of one of the wolf cubs. The mice reported that wolf cubs were playing in the room with the ramp. Legano’s probably talking to the cubs right now! This is your chance!

You run over to his room and throw open his little sliding door-thing. There are several things in here that you aren’t sure at all what they are, but they must be good things to steal for sure!

They all look hard to carry, but you’re sure you can get one out of here if you hurry!

A: This guy!
B: Him!
C: This lady!
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No. 479017 ID: 4a328b

C just because it is the odd gender out here for some reason??
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No. 479026 ID: 37aa84

B, for whatever reason Legano felt it was important enough to get it a case.
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No. 479030 ID: 4a20fa

>>479026
Seems a good enough reason as any
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No. 479036 ID: dc4a44

As many as you and the mouse can carry
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No. 479041 ID: 8f0a51

>>479016
Quickly move all three out of the room. We'll smuggle them all out one by one.
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No. 479049 ID: c7dc56

C because it's the only one that doesnt look worthless!
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No. 479058 ID: f2c20c

Personally I think A looks like an official stamp, and if that was stolen by the raccoon they would actually have a motive to do so.
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No. 479061 ID: a334f6

It would be best to hide one of the items in amongst the raccoon's piles of junk.
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No. 479062 ID: 1e72ae

B just seems like a sentimental item.(which would not be useful except for ransom) C looks like a manufacture item. (special oil or something, possibly useful for a specialist/someone who would want to buy it, but it could be worthless) A looks too ridiculous to not be important. (or maybe it's just Legano's chew toy, good for either it's intended purpose or blackmail material if it is a chew toy)
Go with A.
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No. 479063 ID: 6cc859

>>479061
This seems like the right idea; actually stealing it just puts us at risk, and it's easier for us if we don't have to get it outside anyway. Maybe tip Pallia off as to its location without letting on that we're responsible.
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No. 479064 ID: d3f29d

B looks like Iaxio's desiccated ear, but that's the wrong quest.

Steal A!
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No. 479065 ID: d718d4

B is the dried up tongue of one of Legano's victims. C is the dessicated heart of one of Legano's victims.

Take A, the thing which isn't part of a dead body.
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No. 479069 ID: a334f6

>>479065
Think again!
A is clearly the dried-up reproductive tract of one of Legano's victims.
This dude is a murder machine!
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No. 479079 ID: bdb3f8

A appears to be the most like a mechanical shiny thing the raccoon might want.
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No. 479100 ID: 35dd62

A looks like its antler-looking bits have some important artifacty scribblings on them. take that one.
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No. 479146 ID: 0857fc

A looks like a key of some sort, designed to be held in the mouth and turned. Or maybe some other mouth-held device.
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No. 479190 ID: adef41
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479190

A, this guy!

Once you manage to drag this guy out, you think this is probably some kind of wax stamp sealer or something for authenticate wolf documents. Yeah, of all the things to steal to blackmail the raccoon, this is maybe the best choice.

Because you are Satis Giilin the Spider Woman, plots are already filling your head without needing Jashbireth around to vet them.

With the raccoon’s letter, you can probably forge some kind of communication between the raccoon and someone else about the raccoon stealing it for a bit. Either the raccoon society One Stream or the rival Ivory-Sands Manor might want something like this stolen!

The question first, though, is where to bring it?

A: Get it to the library’s window and sneak it out via Crallow, then escape! The rest of the blackmailing can come later.
B: Sneak this down stairs somehow, to the raccoon’s junk pile, and hide it in there!
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No. 479191 ID: 54c7e5

A! Right now it's too obvious of a frame job; you even reported yourself for being there.

Like tomorrow, after it's been noticed missing and you've got everything all prepared the plan should be flawless. Hopefully you closed the cabinet?
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No. 479192 ID: 320562

Well, we need to get the raccoon's scent all over it if we want this looking authentic. It'd be best not to have Jashbireth touch it.
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No. 479196 ID: 83cc06

>>479190

A because seriously hurry the fuck up
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No. 479197 ID: d3f29d

A! If they search now and don't find it in the raccoon's workshop, but do find it there later, that's more suspicious. Or something. Right? There's also the risk it'll be found before the frame is complete.
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No. 479199 ID: adef41
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479199

A, get it out of here now!

You and a mouse and then another mouse manage to drag it into the library just as Legano comes lazying back up the ramp. You duck inside! Thankfully Pallia is still moping about, so it’s no trouble to get over to the window and signal Crallow.

:crclcrallow: “Did we manage to steal something at last?”

:crclpocket:We stole something for sure look it is important get it out of here now go!”

:crclcrallow: “… this is heavy.”

:crclpocket: “Yeah I just had to drag it all the way here are you even a bandit go!”

Crallow flies off, gripping the Tangled-Ivy seal in his claws.

A: Exfiltrate the manor! Mission complete!
B: Sneak into the raccoon’s room and steal something with his scent to further incriminate him with!
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No. 479208 ID: dc4a44

A. before the children eat you.
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No. 479212 ID: adef41
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479212

A, time to leave!

You can think of a few ways to escape! No time for debate, you’ve been here long enough!

A: Jump out the window right here!
B: Go down the ramp and out the back door!
C: Go down the kitchen ropes and down the front door!
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No. 479213 ID: a334f6

Our current priority should be to GTFO.
No doubt Legano is going to notice his seal missing quite soon. He'll likely start looking for you with the cubs, the other wolves, and probably the mice. You've also got falcons to worry about, though they may be of limited use at night.
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No. 479216 ID: d3f29d

A! Out the window, bandit-style. The wall looks rough enough for your claws to grip.
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No. 479220 ID: 46bd5f

the window is probably the worst option as there is a) a deep fall awaiting, letting you LIMP away and b) a guard just underneath the window.

Well... backdoor or frontdoor? ramp or kitchen ropes? They will expecting a thief at the backdoor to get out, so I'm tempting to say front door.
However, they will be on guard at all exits, so we might be controlled anyway...
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No. 479237 ID: 54c7e5

A, that guard already passed the window, this is the best time for it.

Also need to get out quick that's the fastest way.
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No. 479240 ID: 14a1d0

Jump like a boss.
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No. 479241 ID: dc4a44

Don't hurt yourself.
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No. 479248 ID: adef41
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479248

A, jump out the window!

You tell the mice to sneak out on their own—they won’t be caught as suspicious, no matter what they do. You, though, you need a special way out of here.

Stoats bounce, right?

You twist and twirl through the air, rolling to absorb the impact. This should be fine so long as you don’t think about your neck snapping or your legs cracking or oh God this was a bad idea you start to panic and fre-------

OW

OW

OW

You’re vaguely aware of a throbbing pain in all of your body before you stop being aware of your body entirely.
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No. 479249 ID: adef41
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479249

You don’t know where Pocket is. Crallow already came back with the stolen seal, and the mice from the manor returned, only saying that Pocket sent them back on their own.

You have a vague sense of unease.

A: Send Crallow back to see what happened!
B: Send Hanshah over to see what happened!
C: Send some mice over to see what happened!
D: Go yourself and see what happened!
E: She’s a good bandit, she’ll be fine! Get back to Hanshah’s place to plot your next step.
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No. 479254 ID: e3f578

>>479249
C, Mice have been really been good at this bandit shit lately, let 'em scout.
Hanshah is a terrilbe bandit.
I don't trust Crallow alone.
We shouldn't compromise you.
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No. 479255 ID: 320562

Send Crallow or Hanny, since you shouldnt be seen there again to avoid getting your friend in trouble and they're strong enough to grab her and run if she's hurt.
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No. 479256 ID: 46bd5f

>>479248
That move made her suspicious, draw attention and injured her to the point of loosing consciousness...
So, don't try that at home, kids!
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No. 479257 ID: d3f29d

A! Mice'll take too long.
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No. 479258 ID: d3f29d

>>479256

I thought "the window" meant "climb down the outside wall stealthily," not "act like a drunk guy who thinks he's Superman"
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No. 479265 ID: adef41
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479265

A, send Crallow back

:crcljashbireth: “… so did Pocket forget to leave?”

:crclcrallow: “I can return to the manor and see if she is still there?”

:crcljashbireth: “Yeah. Yeah, do it.”

You take up into the sky and fly high over the wolf manor. You know there are falcons in there, and you haven’t enjoyed the idea of them catching your sight, but you risk it this time.

You circle the manor a few times. You don’t see a hint of any weasel outside, or at any of the windows. You’re not sure what to do.

A: Fly into the front hallway of the manor.
B: Fly into the… falcon aviary.
C: Fly into the meeting room window.
D: Fly into the library window.
E: Give up!
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No. 479268 ID: d3f29d

D! It's the only room with someone we kinda-sorta trust.
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No. 479282 ID: adef41
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479282

D, the library!

You haven’t actually met her yourself, but you know the wolf papernose is friendly. You’ve been meeting Pocket at this window a bunch, at least!

You fly into the library window. The papernose is huddled over in a corner. You don’t see Pocket around anywhere.

:crclcrallow: “Excuse me, papernose?”

:crclflutterwolf: “Hmm? Oh. Oh, who are you?”

:crclcrallow: “I’m a companion of Jashbireth, who knows you, I believe.”

:crclflutterwolf: “Oh. The fox. Yes. What uhm. Hello.”

You decide you might as well ask her!

:crclcrallow: “We cannot find the weasel we travel with. Has she come by here?”

:crclflutterwolf: “Oh. I haven’t seen anyone. Hm.”

She turns to the mice.

:crclflutterwolf: “Have any of you seen a weasel in here?”

:crclmiceblue: “I didn’t smell a weasel! But I saw one! It came in here a bunch! It was talking to the crow!”

:crclflutterwolf: “… oh. Then you know she was here.”

:crclcrallow: “... is she still here?”

:crclflutterwolf: “I don’t know that.”

:crclcrallow: “Oh.”

You both stare at one another very awkwardly.

A: Fly into the front hallway of the manor.
B: Fly into the… falcon aviary.
C: Fly into the meeting room window.
D: Give up!
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No. 479284 ID: 2bafff

hmm she may have been carried off by one of the wolves so try C
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No. 479293 ID: d718d4

Sheesh, I go away for a day and you have lost Pocket! You are all fail at questing!

Also C, I guess. But we should look through the window first and not go inside if we see a room full of wolves.
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No. 479297 ID: adef41
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479297

C, fly into the meeting room window

:crclcrallow: “I will look for her elsewhere.”

:crclflutterwolf: “Okay.”

You abandon the uncomfortable encounter and flap down to the meeting-room window.

There is a wolf cub there, sitting down. Between her forepaws is Pocket.

:crclthatpup: “And then what?”

:crclpocket: “And then he fell down the entire side of the hill and all the mice spilled out! Two of them died.”

:crclthatpup: “Hah! He’s the worst bandit ever isn’t he?”

:crclpocket: “He then got his paw stuck in a root and I had to bring him water for days until he was skinny enough from not eating to get his foot out!”

:crclthatpup: “I didn’t even know that could happen!”

:crclpocket: “It did so that is how you know it could happen!”

You think she might have this under control.

A: Try to get her out of here.
B: She can handle herself from here.
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No. 479302 ID: 1d8777

B. She seems to be enjoying herself, too.
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No. 479309 ID: d3f29d

I'm torn. On the one hand, Pocket is the brains of the operation. On the other hand, the wolves don't need to know there's a crow involved.

*flips a coin* Mr. Lincoln says B!
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No. 479319 ID: d718d4

Hang around and listen to more Jashbireth stories. Take her away if she starts on stories about crows.
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No. 479323 ID: a334f6

We should keep a low profile.
These two seem to be getting along alright, let's leave them be.
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No. 479339 ID: f2c20c

>>479297
Shouldn't we at least like ask how she plans to get out?
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No. 479346 ID: c4089a
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479346

B, she can handle herself!

Crallow returns. Your heart stops beating as he lands on the back of your saddle.

:crclcrallow: “She is with a wolf cub. She is telling her stories of how you are a poor bandit.”

:crcljashbireth: “I am going to eat her face when she’s back.”

You all settle in some distance away, under a tree, to plan your framing!

:crclcrallow: “This note Pocket stole from the raccoon is written in Raccoon. It is not by our raccoon’s hand. It is addressed to him, instead, from the One Stream central organizer.”

:crcljashbireth: “You can read raccoon?”

:crclcrallow: “I have a passing understanding of all languages.”

:crcljashbireth: “Oh! So what does it say?”

:crclcrallow: “Nothing at all interesting.”

:crcljashbireth: “So it’s worthless.”

:crclcrallow: “I can emulate its writing. We can make a letter of our own, to send to the raccoon, to incriminate him.”

:crcljashbireth: “Sweet meat.”

:crclhanshah: “So, let me hear this scheme. We write a letter to the raccoon, yes, pretending to be raccoons ourselves, asking him to steal the seal?”

:crcljashbireth: “I think so?”

:crclhanshah: “And we have your… wolf paramour find it, so she can win the manor boss’ favor.”

:crcljashbireth: “That was the plan?”

:crclhanshah: “And what do we do with this seal?”

:crcljashbireth: “I guess we can sneak it back into the raccoon’s possession, or…”

:crclhanshah: “We can “find” it ourselves, and be, to the wolves, heroes as well, can’t we?”

:crcljashbireth: “Hmm! But what about Pocket? Won’t they think she stole it?”

:crclcrallow: “She is playing with that wolf pup. The one you said outsmarted you. It should suffice as an alibi.”

Your (currently present) companions and you have come up with a scheme for sure! But the plan is only as good as the companions you had around to come up with it!

You forge a letter to the raccoon, arrange for Pallia to intercept it, and have her be the hero. Then you return the seal, say you wrested it from raccoon paws, and be heroes yourselves!

If there are any flaws or details to this plan that need to be chewed out, this is the one chance to do it!
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No. 479352 ID: f2c20c

Well, some mice saw Pocket take the note, and saw her running around all over the place, but the wolves will notice quite readily that she has no scent. Also, she was witnessed talking to a crow.

How do we explain that? Also, I find myself wondering if there is any raccoon scent recent enough to place him at the scene of the crime? Plus, can't they smell where the new note has been? We'd need foreign-raccoon scent on the new note, and be careful not to get any of our scents on it.

Maybe we could claim that Pocket was paid to give the note to a crow as a messenger's service. Like, maybe the note we stole was saying that he was gonna steal it?
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No. 479383 ID: 536f9a

>>479352

wait until the potion on Pocket wears off. oh shit, get her out of there before it does. and then you can say it was another stoat because Pocket's scent is not there. and we can include a scentless stoat in the letter who works with the raccoon and is an Ivory-Sands agent or something.

I'd also not be a hero. don't be involved. arrange things from the shadows. you're already all kinds of suspicious as is. just plant the seal in the raccoon's possessions and GTFO.
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No. 479393 ID: 37aa84

>>479383
The potion is supposed to last for days so there is no need to panic that she'll be scented.

Actually if we could have pocket sneak back in tomorrow evening and plant our fake note while having no scent we could word the note to make it seem like the stoat that had snuck in tonight hadn't so much stolen the note we have but had taken a note meant for her while pretending to steal it to give the raccoon plausible deniability. Make our planted note sound like the seal had been extracted from the manor successfully but was intercepted in transit, then we show up that next day, probably leaving pocket behind, to deliver the seal back to them explaining how we found it in the possession of some thief. The only question is what hint do we leave for Pallia to lead her to search the workshop and find our planted note.
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No. 479399 ID: c33f8f

>Trusting a bird
>Almost 2013

Just might be paranoia but is it not surprisingly convenient that the Crow can speak and read the language no one else can? And the letter has nothing worth reading to us?

There is probably no need to act now, could be that Crallow is telling the thruth just be sure to stay alert.
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No. 479404 ID: 4780c8

Pocket has been seen acting very suspicious at the exact time the stamp disappeared. No one saw crallow make off with it that we know of, but crallow revealed his connection to pocket. We would be idiotic to assume no one will call us out on all this. We need a believable story in case something goes wrong.

What that should be, I don't know...
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No. 479478 ID: 62496e

>>479399
We can try to find somebody else who can read raccoon, then pay him to read the plant letter (plus a little bonus to ensure his silence).
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No. 479501 ID: d718d4

Planting a note written in raccoon for Pallia to find is useless unless Pallia can read raccoon and know that it it something she should report. If we're doing this we need to find out whether she can read it.
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No. 479526 ID: 37aa84

>>479501
She doesn't necessarily need to be able to read it as long as it seems suspicious enough to have the note checked by someone who can that should be enough. Considering it will have been left in his workshop by someone who recently broke in and stole something important from the manor that would be suspicious enough we just need to figure out a way for her to conveniently find out about the drop off.
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No. 479549 ID: d718d4

>>479526
A note containing instructions from One-Stream to steal the seal would not be delivered by the person doing the thieving. It has to appear to have been delivered some time before the theft took place, by channels unrelated to the theft.

Ideally, Pallia finds the note before the wolves discover that anything has been stolen, so that when they go and check and discover the seal is really missing this will appear to confirm the authenticity of the note.
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No. 479588 ID: f2c20c

>>479501
I think any papernose worth a damn would be able to read raccoon.
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No. 479592 ID: 37aa84

>>479549
That's not what I meant to make it look like happen the note we would be dropping of would look like a progress report letting him know One Stream didn't get the stamp because it was intercepted. What I'm saying is to make it look like what happened is the raccoon had a currently unidentified stoat sneak in and take a message from him while making it look like the note had actually been stolen. She then used the notes instructions, which they don't know the contents of, to take the stamp and get it out of the mansion. The new letter, the one we'd drop of in a night or two, would indicate that someone, who would be us, ended up intercepting the stamp before it reached One Stream which would be when we arrive the next morning with the stolen stamp and then Pallia finds the note Pocket 'delivered' the previous evening implicating One Stream and the raccoon while confirming our story about catching someone, who managed to escape, who was carrying it. The only thing I'm unsure of is how to prompt Pallia to check the workshop for the planted note without making it look like an obvious set-up.
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No. 479593 ID: dc4a44

>>479588
She kinda isn't though.
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No. 479645 ID: d718d4

>>479592
Let's call that plan B. I prefer the original idea where the note is instructions to the raccoon to have the seal stolen. The simpler the story we have to tell the better.
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No. 479836 ID: ac24b2
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479836

You decide a bunch of things, to flesh out the plan, make it meaty

The biggest issue is how to get Pallia to find the planted note that implicates the raccoon.

:crcljashbireth: “So okay. Pallia finds the note, and we show up with the seal, and we’re all heroes. Pocket will have her smell back later, but while she’s scentless we can pretend she’s been the raccoon’s messenger. Or something. Right?”

:crclhanshah: “Sure.”

:crcljashbireth: “The only real hole left is how Pallia finds the note telling the raccoon to steal the darn thing. Or what we do with that.”

:crclcrallow: “Can’t we just include her in the scheme? Can she not be trusted?”

:crclhanshah: “Mice. The answer is always mice, you know? Have the mice bring the letter to her. “Oh,” they will say, “We found this, and it has writing on it, so doesn’t it belong in the library?”

:crcljashbireth: “Huh, that could almost work, but can we be sure Pallia would actually think to act on it? We want her to find the note before they notice it’s missing, right? Or maybe we have the letter say the seal was intercepted, so they think something is up?”

The others give you their equivalents of shrugs.

:crcljashbireth: “The new note we make, that has to smell like raccoon, too, or it won’t be as believable.”

:crclcrallow: “I need half a day to write the note. I can find some raccoon and rub it about on their body, steal their smell.”

:crcljashbireth: “Haha, okay then. It still doesn’t leave us with how to get the note under Pallia’s nose before we show up with the seal.”

A: Have mice infiltrate the manor again. Have them bring the note to Pallia, pretending they think it belongs in the library because it has writing on it. Hope she reads (and can read) it and brings it to Legano’s attention!
B: Wait for Pocket to return; have her deliver the letter, in a day or so, saying the seal was intercepted, but have Pallia “catch” her mid-delivery, and then escape, leaving the note behind! They’re already suspecting a stoat has been messing around in the manor, and it looks like Andria just kept Pocket to herself to play with, instead of turning her in, so…
C: Don’t take too many risks; just have Crallow include Pallia in on the plan, so she knows what’s up and can play along.
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No. 479841 ID: 37aa84

I don't think we should include Pallia in the plan as she isn't really the scheming type and may unintentionally give herself away or heavily disapprove of our methods of getting her acceptance considering it involves damning the raccoon for no real reason, I mean we sort of have a reason but it has nothing to do with her and it is pretty selfish. The problem with A is there may not be any reason for her to just randomly read a note the mice handed her for no other reason than it was a note and she was in the library and if she can't read it herself she may just hand it over to the raccoon unless she has a reason to be suspicious of the contents. B would be extremely risky without a properly fleshed out exit strategy but I think it has the most potential, probably have Crallow drop her off at the library window late at night to avoid patrols, maybe have her picked back up in the aviary window for extraction.
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No. 479844 ID: 4780c8

>>479836
A. We can't use pocket anymore. Palia knows pocket is with us because of crallow. In this case mice is the only way to go.

That's a kinda scary thought.
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No. 479846 ID: 1166ed

A, I guess.
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No. 479858 ID: d718d4

A.

I think Pallia would disapprove of our schemings, so not C. B seems overly dangerous (Pallia may be a somewhat pathetic wolf, but she is still a wolf, and if she manages to actually catch Pocket and turn her in along with the note, we are down one stoat.)
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No. 479870 ID: 54c7e5

A.
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No. 479899 ID: 21b2e5

B pallia will probably see the letter is in raccoon then ask the raccoon to translate it.
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No. 479900 ID: d3f29d

Pallia's heroism will be more genuine if she legitimately knows nothing. B is tricky, because if pressured she will have to admit she knows the stoat works with Jashbireth. That only leaves A!
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No. 479938 ID: 62496e

>>479899
This.
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No. 479994 ID: 4a20fa

>>479844
That.
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No. 480207 ID: d718d4

>>479938
>>479994
The other.
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No. 480263 ID: c82bfa

A.

But go visit her coincidentally at the same time, so that the mice give it to her while you're there and you can deal with any problems that arise.
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