Editing RttToFC/Session5 (section)

==Lei Zu's hunt for the mayor's letter==
Lei_Zu: Once we have an agreed upon place to meet again Lei Zu will take up Easily Overlooked Presence Method again and visit the mayor's place.

Kuros:	It is late evening. Do you go immediately?

Lei_Zu:	 (yes, ideally I'd like to see him finish the letter so I know hwere it goes)

Lei_Zu:	 (Once there add mundane stealth and Mental Invisibility Technique to see what he's doing and if I can find that letter.)

Kuros:	The mayor is not in his office.

Lei_Zu goes through his things, looking for just-finished letters (and if something else seems suspicious he can look at it later)

Kuros:	You find quite a few letters. The ones you skim over (unless you want to take more time to read each) seem to deal mainly with town business, taxes, trade, that sort of thing.

Kuros:	But no letter.

Kuros:	There is a stack of fresh parchment on the desk, though

Lei_Zu:	 In that case Zu stealthily moves through the rest of the building looking for either the mayor or anything else that might help me find that letter.

Kuros:	You find a lot more paper, and a few people working late, but no mayor.

Lei_Zu:	 Ok, Plan B: Zu leaves the building, drops Mental Invisibility and enters it again, to speak to the first person he can find

Kuros:	You find an old woman laboriously binding paper with string, and stacking them into cubby holes set into the wall.

Lei_Zu:	 "Excuse me?"

Kuros:	She grunts in surprise, and drops the scrolls."

Kuros:	"Look what you made me do!"

Kuros:	Groaning, she gets on her knees and begins to pick them up

Lei_Zu:	 "Oh, I'm sorry." He helps her if he can.

Kuros:	"Who are you, anyway? I haven't seen you before."

Kuros:	She glares at you suspiciously, holding her bundles of paper

Lei_Zu:	 "I'm on the way to Lanterntown, but I'm staying in town for the night at <name of inn>. The thing is, I need to send a message ahead to Lanterntown and I thought the mayor's office would be the best place to find a way to send it."

Kuros:	"Do we look like a post station, young man?"

Kuros:	She sighs in exasperation.

Lei_Zu:	 "No, but I thought if anyone knows how to get a message there, if would be the mayor's office."

Lei_Zu:	 He shrugs apologetically.

Kuros:	"There's a post station in town."

Kuros:	"They have fast riders if you're in a hurry, but it costs a lot."

Kuros:	She begins to put away her papers, sniffing

Lei_Zu:	 "I must have missed that. My, is my face red. Thank you."

Kuros:	She doesn't reply, absorbed in her work.

Lei_Zu goes to find the post station

Kuros:	It's a small building with a large stable in the back. You can hear (and smell) horses as you approach.

Kuros:	You see a light burning in the window

Lei_Zu:	 Wrapped in his aura of unimportantness and walking quietly Zu begins to check the stables for recent departures.

Kuros:	A few stalls are empty

Lei_Zu looks around for someone tending to the horses

Kuros:	You find a stall with fresh hay and feed, but no horse.

Kuros:	And there is no one tending the horses.

Lei_Zu:	 Walking slowly but confidently as if his presence is nothing out of the ordinary Lei Zu approaches the door from the stables to the post building and enters.

Kuros:	The door opens into a small room. Across one wall are square cubbies with rolls of paper sticking out of various ones. In the back of the room, there is a wooden table covered with even more papers. Behind that is a large, portly man looking over a piece of paper.

Kuros:	He's dressed in a uniform, and apparently knows how to read and write.

Kuros:	And he is older, late fifties.

Kuros:	He looks up as the door opens, and a flicker of annoyance crosses his face. 

Lei_Zu:	 As he gets up Lei Zu clears his throat, calling attention to himself.

Kuros:	The man whirls to face you. "Wh-- What-- Who are you?"

Lei_Zu makes a confused face. "Who, me? I'm Bley. Sorry to have startled you."

Lei_Zu:	 "Who are you?" The question immediately follows his previous statement as to keep the man off balance.

Kuros:	He goes back to his desk, settling himself into his chair. "I'm the postmaster, boy. What business do you have here?"

Lei_Zu:	 "Oh, good. Did you already send the rider to Lanterntown?"

Kuros:	He narrows his eyes. "Official communications are not your business. Now be off with you, unless you have some business!"

Lei_Zu:	 "Oh. I just thought, I could send a message with the same rider and it might be cheaper that way. But if he's already left ..."

Kuros:	"I can get your message there by tommorow night, if you need it."

Kuros:	"Won't be cheap, though."

Kuros:	He squints at you.

Lei_Zu:	 After waiting a moment to see the mans reaction Lei Zu bows slightly. "Sorry to have wasted your time then. No way I can afford that." His voice is a little sad.

Kuros:	He grunts, and goes back to reading his papers.

Lei_Zu leaves the building, leaves the village, goes to rendesvouz with his agata

Lei_Zu:	 He then commands it to fly along the road leading to Lanterntown, looking to catch up with the rider. Going by air he should be able to catch up with him.

Kuros:	The bug takes off, and heads north. Even at night, the road is relatively busy, but you do see a rider galloping north.

Lei_Zu:	 (does he have a post uniform, too? how many villages are there between this one and Lanterntown? how far away is the next one and could the rider reach the next one?)

Kuros:	(You can't tell about his uniform from this far up. 1 village. The next one is about 20 miles away. Yes, he can reach it.)

Lei_Zu turns his clothes night black and makes sure his face is well covered. "The hard way then," he sighs.