Game table

As soon as Kitsune enters the door, she is assaulted by the smell and heat of meats roasting, the sounds of vegetables being chopped with cleavers and the slurp of ale bing poured. A man in an apron pushed past her and shoves her toward the beer taps on the side of the kitchen to pickup a tray. She sees the urchin run back through a back doorway.

Into a supply room, Kitsune charges hoping to catch up to the fleeing girl. But where did she go? All you see are bags of salt and flour stack high against one wall and kegs of ale on another. Various chickens and hams hang from the ceiling. There are white footprints on the floor leading from an open bag of flour and going past a ham that has been hit and swings by its hook and then the foot print stop in the middle of the room.

Kitsune investigates the room by going to the floor bag that is open and hastily emptied half way with a lot spilling onto floor and over shoes. She walks the footprint, stands under the swing ham that is slowing down now, and faces the beer barrels three feet away. There are no more steps.

Going through the kitchen once more, Kitsune is handed a heavy platter of ale. Instead of going up to quench the thirst of the gamblers, she goes down the next lower level on the spiral staircase only to find a locked iron door. Streaks of dried blood stain the floor from under the door.

Kon joins Jacob on the roof of the waterworks. They hear the din of the crowd below as well as the strange and magical sound of machinery

Kitsune makes her way with the heavy tray back to the second level with gamblers looking over the lobby. As she goes around the tables this way, thugs and pirates and scoundrels alike take notice of her, throwing silver on to the tray and taking mugs of ale off. One of the pirates looks at Kitsune and admires a scarf, "What a pretty pattern. There’s a land in far off Faerun that makes that." He looks at her as if to determine something about her. Satisfied that she must of robbed it from someone, he goes back to his ale with a single glance back at her.

The kitchen boy does notice her and smiles but keeps serving and taking orders from the patrons. He turns not back to the kitchen but walks further around the balcony rail to a part of the mezzanine that has few tables and goes to a door and knocks. Kitsune approaches him.

You notice that you are on the roof of a building, three stories up from the street. It’s bright morning and it’s clear that the roof is quite solid except for some locked roof hatches. The darker alley has some darkened windows on the third and second floors through which the urchin passed. You see no pits or Duke or Storm. Only roof. But you do hear the noise of the crowd and the hum of machines inside as you stand on the roof.

After a moments confusion, Jacob jumps the alley and lands on the second story ledge of the waterworks building that Duke and Storm have entered. Kon shimmies over the alley with the rope onto the roof. Jacob pops into the window on the second level where the urchin has once before gone into. He looks around and in a bit of finding his way, see the tables of gamblers playing cards and dice. Beer winches walk around collecting silver and getting a bit of abuse from the patrons but they seem to handle themselves. One seems to have gone off to the dar darker side of tHe room with a kitchen boy. You hear the sounds of a fight and spectacle coming from downstairs over the balcony rail in the center of a large round room.