Chapter 1: The Letorneau Plantation

"Sometimes trouble finds ya, sometimes ya go looking for de trouble and put et out. 'Nother mate o' mine, he's good people." reaching out to clasp the man's hand in his own nodding towards Hiram, "So what made you think I'd be showing up? Bit o' trouble?" Lynch inquired.

I figure Hiram would want to introduce himself, also unsure why Aengus would know I was coming... cus I didn't know I was coming here...

Hiram offered his own hand, "I'm Hiram. Lynch and I have been working together for some time. On our trip in, he spoke highly of you, and I'm pleased to finally put a face to the name."

Skaa stablehands' house

Stepping into the somewhat-crowded room behind Aengus, Daclish grins at them briefly, his teeth flashing in his ash-darkened face. "He knew because I told him that you were coming." Then he settles down and asks Lara: "Would you share some with me? I've built up quite an appetite."

Skaa stablehands' house
Daclish nods his thanks and slurps some soup from the bowl while Aengus grunts and grumbles (Spoon? What's a 'spoon?').

Then he replies. "It's like I said. There's an item we need from the big house; we steal it, then we escape. It's why we needed the belts." He looks surprised for a moment, then shakes his head. "Oh, I almost forgot the belts. Here they are." Daclish plops down the five red belts he'd acquired during the afternoon's excursions with Aengus.

(Note: spent 1 resource to get these)

"Those should help us when it's almost time to leave; we can at least access the stables without extra suspicion now."

(edit to add location)

Mateo looks to Dezire, "Do you think we should take a look around the house at night? I'm afraid I'm not very good at sneaking. I'd probably be of better use looking over anything you might find."

Nodding Lynch closed his eyes figuring in his head the lay of the land from their vantage point before they came to the plantation plus what he had seen while working thinking of places to stash things or people he's seen. Pulling in Hiram and Daclish Lynch muttered a bit among the three to see if what he was thinking makes sense. Hiram had seen most of the same areas probably Lynch had and Daclish had experience in this kind of environment.

"Shouldn't be a problem Aengus." Lynch stated pretty sure he had a few options in mind considering, "To put all the bullocks out on the table we're looking for a book the noble bird in charge is keeping on suspicious skaa some of them being in Mantiz. Personally that just sounds like a book of good people she'd like to get kill so we'd like to get our hands on that and save a few necks... maybe make a few friends. It's probably in the house someplace but we don't know where. Considering what I've heard about these two and a 'rebel' what's really been going on and what can we do to help mate?" Lynch added with a nod, there were times when you sat down and chatted people up, most of these people had been working since before dawn and cutting to the brass tacks was the for the best he figured, Aengus had probably been up from before dawn...

(OoC: Curious if I have the best chance at the roll with Influence of 5, also would I gain a bonus from other players like Hiram being Perceptive Trait & Daclish being a plantation worker as a profession trait to make good on the promise.

We spent some time up on the vantage point and I've been around the area a bit so I'm looking at
Influence 5 +1 for Always having a Plan Trait +1 Circumstance bonus from the Storyteller
Possibly Laborer +1 (Stash it someplace easy for workers to get at unnoticed from guards)
I don't think Connected counts is this situation since we're getting a +1 for something that sounds similar already
Let me know if I can get +2 from their traits and if Laborer and/or Connected make sense and I'll edit this for the roll.)

It's a difference of 7 up to 11 die being rolled so I figured I'd wait and find out on that since this is kind of important I think

Looking at Influence of 5+2.

Edit: Modded post since I wasn't following but now I'm tracking.
Edit2: I'll take the 5s for an Outcome of 3 with a nudge. (Aengus did like a bloke who didn't dance around subjects when you needed to say something)

"There is plenty more snooping to do, or should I go tell the others what we found and let them know we have a wrinkle. There's more going on here than we know."

I would be in favour of gathering more information first. I'm not entirely certain what the others are doing or what they could do with this new information. Knowledge is power, and more knowledge provides a stronger base from which to act.

"Fair enough. We'll give the house some time to quiet down and got to sleep. Then what? Should I hit the study again for a more thorough search, or check out what is going on in the basement?"

Mateo runs his hand over his head in thought. Perhaps check out the basement. I will give the study a look over. If I'm caught there, I can simply say that I could not sleep and decided to get an early start.

"Makes sense. I'll claim I got lost looking for my servant quarters, since no one has shown up to escort me yet."

::Guess we are waiting for things to die down here, then Ill be sneaking to the basement. I'm thinking Physique+Drive+Profession with any penalties from the narrator.

Hiram gratefully ate the weak soup, again amazed at the generosity of those with so little. He had seen it time and again in his interaction with other skaa. Most of the time, they were happy to share what little they had. He paused between bites and asked Aengus, So both skaa and nobles are being taken? Where were they dragged to? I can't imagine they were taken through the front door!

Hiram shook his head in unbelief, "I can't believe they're turning against their own now, and the gall to just stride through the front door with the victims! What about the Obligators? Surely they've been looking the disappearances of the nobles? And has Maark said anything about what he saw in there that would cause him to risk his life to escape?