Correct, both heightened awareness and tears to wine would boost the perception checks involved in Ears of the City.

EDIT:  It seems like the question of splitting the party is currently up in the air.  Vrenna is in favor of splitting up to cover more ground, with one group heading to Morast while the other runs down leads in the city.  Meanwhile Felix holds to the conventional wisdom of "never split the party".  Where does everyone else stand on the issue?

I will say that there are a number of things to do on both fronts, so I'm not that worried about people getting stuck in limbo while they wait for the others to catch up.
This message was last edited by the GM at 19:56, Tue 02 Nov 2021.

Blow it up, Sherlock. :D

I am fine with splitting the party.

I'm neutral. If we split the party at the very least someone with good negotiation skills needs to be included with both groups. I don't think we're going to get far with these interviews without someone that's good with either persuasion or intimidation, Livi has neither.

Well, one of the things I'm OOC trying to avoid is all six of us bombarding an NPC with questions in rounds.  FWIW, Vrenna's social skills are disgustingly good, and beyond that she's mostly here to trick you all into following Hell's plans support other characters' actions.  Like now.

Alright, my internet is being dumb and I've dropped a post, so trying again - I've got heightened awareness and eyes of the city, am I rolling or able to take 10?

You can take 10.

I'm fine with splitting at this point if it comes to that.

So that's three for splitting the party, one against, and one neutral.  While you can split up as you see fit, here is some party info that might be relevant:

-Vrenna and Kara are the most persuasive.
-Maritine and Liviana are the most perceptive.
-Fala and Felix are the most lethal.

If we split up I'll volunteer go with the "visit Morsat" group. Having a source of healing will allow us to hustle more for travel times.

Vrenna, I am sorry, I do not understand the comment. I do not see a mention of who was going where when I looked over the posts once again.

Oh I'm not troubled!  :)  The topic came up because Vrenna said she would be a bad choice to go to the village, and should talk to the accused and take care of local things instead.  Felix said she should go to the village.  At this point I really only care that we move on from this decision point before we stall.

I have been quite sick for the past week. I am trying to catch up, though! Sorry about that.

Aww.  I hope it breaks soon!

I might have jumped the gun on posting the next threads.  Take as long as you need to finish your conversations in the courthouse, then move on to the location thread your character is heading to.  I'll need everyone to pick where they're going before I move the separate threads along.

Also, I noticed Felix suggesting heading to the Karb Isle Sanctuary to speak with the doctor's assistant.  To clarify, the Sanctuary was burnt to the ground during the Beast's alleged attack, and Karl now lives in Lepidstadt.

I just... never felt like we settled groups, and I've been really hesitant to be as presumptuous OOC as Vrenna is IC.

Based off of Tyrant's message it's suggested we split up into groups of 3.

Vrenna and Felix have both vouched that they want to be in team "stay here". Kara and I have already posted in the swamps thread.

If we want teams of 3 that breaks out to:

Team Travel:
-Kara
-Liviana
-Fala

Team Stay:
-Vrenna
-Maritine
-Felix

The only ones who are unknown at this point are Fala and Maritine so if they'd prefer a different grouping they are free to say so.

Fala does not mind, but based on Vrenna and Fala's background, Vrenna might?

Vrenna has whatever opinion she has.  I'm not even evaluating it, because I fervently do not want to lean on anybody's decision today.  Please.

Maritine will stay with Vrenna since she's curious about the Beast and they've already pulled together some useful information through combined tricks and should have similar success with talking to the Beast.

It should help get the ball rolling a bit more and hopefully start tying some of our clues together.

Awesome. Post asap. And let's send Vrenna's familiar along to observe, even if it's out of range of anything else.

You around?

I'm going to give Fala and Maritine a few more days to show up before I remove them from the game, but they haven't even logged on in about 10 days.  It looks like we might have lost a few players to the usual attrition.

Fortunately, I held on to a couple of RTJs that I really liked, but couldn't quite fit into the party, and they were still interested.  Meet:

Harald Goldtooth, an apprentice Scaled Fist monk.
and
Wyra Whitemane, a paladin in service to Ragathiel, the Empyreal Lord of vengeance.

Here's the new guy!  I look forward to punching things what get in our way.

Scaled Fist Monk and native of Ustalav, Harald Goldtooth.  At your service.

Well, my sheet is done.  Pretty sure anyway.  I'll be bringing a really strong arm and some good looks to the party.  Now I just need to integrate into the ongoing threads.