The Contact (OOC)

That all sounds good to me. I'm happy to skip to waking up after a nap.

If fossball's absence continues into next week I will reach out to him.

Aight skipper! Skip away!

I'm back, sorry for my abscence.

Norbert will be trying to get closer to the two men from now on. He is still very confused about the magic that healed Olaf. But if nobody else freaks out about it he is fine with it too.

Welcome back, no worries.

Norbert is welcome to ask :) Albert will gladly talk about Raynor

Roald did share the information with Albert. He still has some doubts about Norbert. I will try to work towards/create a situation where Norbert can help Roald in a convincing way.

Ah, OK, cool. So it is known. Ignore me. :)

Do you have anything to say about where we go next? (fair chance you are writing that right now.:)

In a few minutes 😃

No rush, I just did not want to cut you guys off.

The mayor's son wasn't aware of his sister being taken?

Or am I mixing things up now?

He gave no indication that he had any idea about what was going on.

Surely he would have mentioned it if was his sister? Unless he was involved, of course, but --aside from the assumption that he knew the details-- there has been no suggestion of anything like that.

Albert wasn't there when the others saw the empty cupboards. Did Roald or Norbert let him know?

Surely he would have wondered why you were not accepting their food or eating anything? I see no reason they would not have told you if you asked? But it is up to them.

Norbert would have mentioned it, but seeing there is enough he has no problem joining for one more meal.

That's possible, but he was also very tired at the time, so I figured he didn't have the brain capacity to really give it much thought :D

If Norbert did mention it, Albert will be a bit confused. "I guess Norbert didn't see the correct cupboard".

Is it still before lunchtime? Did you only sleep for an hour or so?

It is nearly mid-summer, so the sun rises early, so the 'mid-morning' that you got here can have been a while before lunch, but it is hard to see how it is now much before lunchtime, so I am not sure where Albert thinks he will get more food by then.

Oh, sorry. For some reason I thought it was morning. Uhm I guess it's a bit after noon already then? I'll edit my post to say 'dinner' instead of 'lunch' then.

You have just woken up. :)
Cool. Some time in the afternoon does make more sense.

I think I got away with it, guys 😅

Is the deep forest somehow on the way to the baron?
I don't really want our 'mission' to get side-tracked yet again. So if it's not anywhere near or on route, I'll just go without my gear

Her use of the word 'somewhere' indicates that she does not know those specifics, 'the deep woods' does not sound so much like an actual place as just a descriptor like 'over yonder'. You can press her on that and see how you feel. You could also track down Stephan (easy to have discovered that he is one of the older kids at the table) and ask him for details, but maybe doing so in public would be less than politic?

Your two bits of information were that 'your friends went back to town', and that, maybe, 'Aunt Nicki took them'.

I did use slightly provocative words like 'took' on purpose, but the kid did not imply there was force involved and everyone else seems to think they went back to town.

Given the information: Albert is welcome to be suspicious --there are definitely lies afoot-- but would also not necessarily kick himself if you got to town and found they were not there.