I was envisioning more that you could find an important member of the family in the capital for whatever reason. Perhaps they have business there, or just decided to attend the festival. From there you could either talk to them directly, or help one of the Fire Finches pickpocket them.
Cool. In that case, I think I might have Zhizhu keep an eye on Bright Pearl, if only so that we have an IC way of knowing where he ends up after things here inevitably go to Malfeas.
"Good to see you again." Shi-Vash whispered to Zhīzhū with minute movements of her lips, while keeping her eyes upon the boiling pot of water that was the crowd. "Stay close to Bright Pearl - the captain of that ship - and then tell me where I can find him. I have a feeling he'll be vacating...
Grey Stone cleared his throat with a stony grunt. "There's a town up ahead. Perhaps it would do for us to rest our bones within more hospitable conditions."
In truth, he himself was more than capable of happily roughing it in the wilderness, and he was largely thinking about Fat Cat's...
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Kato shrugs. "Well enough, I guess. At least for a teenager living on the streets here."
He then turns his attention to the other matter. "Okay. So you need to get out of this city. And from the sound of it, you need to get out of the Fire Nation as a whole."...
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As the four of you move through the neighbourhood, a voice calls out to you in a loud whisper.
"Yuza? Is that you?"
Looking around, you see a scruffy youth of about fifteen years staring at you with surprise clear on his face. Yuza quickly recognizes him as Kato...
The four of you emerge back onto the street that you had nearly been caught on by the Red Feathers. You can see two of them a short distance away, dismounted from their ostrich-horses and talking to a man selling flaming fire flakes from a stall. From the poster one of them's holding, they seem...
Not that I can see. It was mentioned in our arrival post, but I think that only one of the now retired characters spotted it.
Hmm, that is another way of looking at it.
I suppose one other way though would be to pick up a member of his crew, if Bright Pearl himself stops being an option for...
In terms of plans, I'm kinda thinking one of two things:
We let Rough Hewn Wisdom grab Bright Pearl, take him away for questioning, and then Shi-Vash puts on a disguise so that she can question him herself.
If Rough Hewn Wisdom's not likely to be interested in asking questions, we let him and...
"It'll take them a few seconds to bend a path through the flames!" Niuan shouts before Sesi's finished speaking, the old man sounding like he'd much rather be running right about now. "Come on! The Red Feathers may have moved on!"
You're currently in an alleyway, with a canal nowhere in sight...
Shi-Vash spent a moment just taking in the scale of Lantana, before turning to her fellow Sidereals.
"Well, let's find our wayward captain. The sooner we can get him alone and find out how he was able to get through the Eternal Storm, the sooner our superiors and the pattern spiders can rest...