You wake up and go downstairs to the hotel bar and restaurant to eat and plan out your day.

While there, you overhear a conversation between a Vrusk and a Human. The two are friends and both work for Sik'Triksta on the monorail. (Racial hatred is not as widespread as Legrange had wished, apparently). While recently at Quazzt's Depression, the Human saw starship lights in the sky, which was very odd since starships are only supposed to land at the starport.  Why they should land at Quazzt is beyond him.  "Probably just extremists," the Vrusk says, which is answered by a shrug from the human.

Hammer says conspiratorily as everyone eats, "Did you hear that? If the ships all go through the starport, then our RIK friend may not know if a Sathar group is coming here or not when the ships start landing in places they're not supposed to."

Desiraye nods as she takes another drink of her morning coffee.  "Good point Hammer!  I think our friend is doing a good job and all but, I think he has a problem with his pride getting in his way.  Not a bad trait but, kind of leaves you with blinders on sometimes.

Like when I mentioned the Sathar being able to jump in to an area with little problem.  The Qantariate has a way of doing it, some of us have seen it happen before we got here.  Doesn't mean that the Sathar aren't bringing ships in here too.  Maybe we should check out the lights?

We have any other business to look into here?  What about the Dralasite?" (Wasn't there a Dralasite involved in our investigation?)
This message was last edited by the player at 01:43, Tue 25 June 2013.

Here's from the quest thread:

You found three potential suspects while investigating the broadcast interruption:

Kirscht:  This is a human female who has a criminal record for theft.  She normally lives in Jedsis, but visits Quazzt occasionally to visit her ailing grandmother.  You get details of her domicile. (You have not talked to her.)

Semoins is a Vrusk executive who showed up as one of those in the control room.  Semoins was also among those quarantined with you.  He is part of the Clik A'qat trade house, which manufactures glass.  Upon interrogating Semoins, you found that he was told to place a thumb drive in the control room by a dralasite who apparently threatened him.

Blirdor:  This is a dralasite, known to be a prolific gambler and one who is unusually successful.  It appears that this is the dralasite who threatened Semoins and had him place the thumb drive in the control room at the broadcast station.


Hammer says, "So we investigated the house of Kirscht and found her to be some sort of thief hoarder, and she also visits Quazzt occasionally to visit her grandmother.  Now these guys are talking about Quaazzt's Depression, whatever that is.  We could look into Blirdor today.  Don't we also have to get back to Nuna at some point about her results of research on the artifact?"

Hammer then turns to the strangers talking. "Hey, I couldn't help but overhear you talking about the starship lights over at Quazzt's Depression.  Any idea what you think they might have been from?  It sounds really strange yet fascinating."

OOC: personality/leadership only a 30/30, but he'll give it the ole college try

(Success.)

The Vrusk and Human actually appear quite friendly.  The human turns to the Mechanon curiously and answers, "I don't know for sure.  All these crazy disturbances are from extremist groups.  I know that much.  Kraatar has no shortage of extremists."

"I agree," says the Vrusk.  "You've got the LeGrange extremists, the Vrusk houses, and so forth.  We don't subscribe to that brand of thinking.  It's all just racist if you ask me."

The human says, "Yeah, so whatever's causing starship lights is probably coming from one of those groups.  But the only way to really know for sure is to go to the starport and check their records.  They have records of all landings that take place on the planet.  All landings are supposed to come through the starport, not through Quaazt's Depression."

OOC: FYI, Please reacquaint yourselves with the planet map.  If you want to go to Quaazt in the future, you can, but it is about a 6 day journey on the monorail, since travel is about 8 hours for each hex on the map.   You'd have to take the transglobal monorail.  (As noted, you cannot take a starship because they are off limits except for the starport.)  So you'd probably want to take care of all business in Gozzorf City (the capitol) before taking off on a trip like that.

Here's another copy of the map blown up (and cut in half).