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1. Get your horses saddled and your belongings packed up without attracting any notice. (Remember, many of the tradehouse's patrons are just arriving.)
2. Leave the tradehouse unseen by any watcher. (it is very late afternoon, and you'll recall this is a walled compound a mile or so out of Halfday with fairly open ground around it.
3. Get away from the immediate area.
Man, it keeps coming back to me how singularly poorly built Lan is for subterfuge. :)
Sounds like our 1) is going to be Corson being low-key and using his eye for people to notice any watchers before they notice us.
For 2) The best Lan can offer is a distraction. Pay a piper to play a raucous popular tune to get tankards slopping and feet stomping while we slip away. With his knowledge of Performance he might know a good, rousing ditty.
Rhod or Tov, you got anything good for 3? Any skills that could find us a route covered by undergrowth or trees, perhaps? Or sheer covert movement?