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Post by Admin on Jul 2, 2021 20:47:34 GMT
The offices are in the back of the building containing the front desk. The attendant's eyes light up as Kat enters.
"Lady Simone! I am sorry to see that you are still feeling under the weather. Looking for the dispensary, eh? Follow me."
She is lead down a hall and into a small medical room. Drawers and cabinets hold bottles of different medicines. The man says that the nurse will be along in a few minutes.
Free to explore she finds the desks and offices of the building are unoccupied this evening. The maitre d's office is small and a cabinet holds files on all the guests, past and present, to the resort. Aside from a bit of gossip and family history and connections, they only detail financial transactions and preferred meals, rooms, and activities in the resort. Good blackmail material could be sifted out of the records for anyone interested in blackmail. Coy's file is devoid of much detail - suspiciously so. His accounts are all up to date and there is a small biography about the Delambres, but he seems to have no other interests or preferences when visiting the 'Sands.
Kat hears a voice calling from the hall: "Lady Simone? Lady Rein? Where did you get to? I have some medicine for you."
It must be the nurse that the man mentioned. Mustn't it?
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Post by Katerina on Jul 2, 2021 21:27:07 GMT
So he has material on everyone but Coy. Interesting!
Kat as Lady Simone wanders back into the main room having put back the file.
"Sorry, I was looking for a sofa as I was feeling a little feint. Here is a tip for the staff that I forgot to give when I arrived." She replies between coughs as she stumbles back in, producing the money she had made earlier. She lets the nurse help her and will pretend to take an swallow any tablets she is given, instead holding it under her tongue until she can leave and spit it out. She will let the nurse fuss over her and promise to go straight to bed. As soon as she is out of sight she will spit out the tablet and head back to her room.
Kat decides that perhaps a night-time visitor will have to go and interrogate the maitre d' when he goes to bed after the party ends. Assuming she gets back to her room, she waits until the early hours of the morning when the party has been over for some while.
She decides that the visitor should be male. She changes her face and body to resemble one of the guards from back in Eshanta and then changes her cloak to be dark black to hide herself as she snaeks across the holiday camp to the room of the maitre d'. After all, he will have to sleep some time.
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Post by Admin on Jul 2, 2021 21:35:25 GMT
The man is easy to find: an open window to let the cool night breeze into his room and letting his loud snoring out requires little skill in detecting, and less skill is needed to pick his locked door.
Kat is in the room with the man.
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Post by Katerina on Jul 3, 2021 8:41:17 GMT
Kat looks around the room quietly before she does anything else first, checking any documents and the mirrors for anything that may give her some more clues before she does anything more overtly dangerous. If Coy has sealed the man's mind, then there was bound to be dangers there, both for her and the maitre d'. The safe easier path couldn't be trodden if she got into other trouble, so it was best to do that first.
Having a mirror image of the maitre d's interactions with Coy might be too much to hope for though, and she knows that soon things could get really messy for the unknown male assailant if she is not very careful.
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Post by Admin on Jul 3, 2021 8:45:30 GMT
To search or use a mirror would require the light to be turned on. Such a thing would have a very good chance of waking up the man.
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Post by Katerina on Jul 3, 2021 18:09:55 GMT
Kat decides that it was probably best not to put any lights on lest it attract attention. Waking the maitre d' she was less worried about. She looks around for things to secure him with and gag him should he wake.
There was a saying back on Eshanta. 'A Jewellry box was only locked to protect the jewels inside'. If the maitre d's mind was locked then it was done so to prevent someone getting at the secrets contained within it. In a way she was sorry for what Coy had done to the man, but with her people dying daily back on Eshanta she couldn't be too sentlemental about a man she hardly knew. She had to show the Gods that she was useful so that they would help her.
As the unknown male intruder she lightly touched the snoring man. Best to try to subtly slip in first before she tried anything of a more brute force and damaging approach. Carefully she examined his mind and the lock on it to see if she could somehow prise it open in a subtle way.
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Post by Admin on Jul 4, 2021 2:28:02 GMT
A moment after Kat touches the man's head his hand lashes out to grab her wrist. His other hands scrambles at the nightstand reaching for the lampswitch.
"What's happening here?" he asks sharply.
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Post by Katerina on Jul 4, 2021 8:32:04 GMT
Kat as the male intruder is ready should he awaken and she reaches to pin him down and put her hand over his mouth. She's always been stronger than most men back home have suspected and she hopes that is enough here as the maitre d' has never seemed to be the martial type.
"Keep quiet and lay still or else it'll go bad for you." The intruder says in a low growl. If he tries to resist Kat will try and punch the man's lights out and be resigned to working with the man's sleeping mind.
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Post by Admin on Jul 4, 2021 18:08:21 GMT
The man does as ordered. Kat finds that his mind is stronger than all the other people she has worked with in the past.
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Post by Katerina on Jul 4, 2021 19:19:33 GMT
Kat finds this intriguing that the man's mind is so strong. She tests whether it is his natural mind or something else that someone has put in the way to strengthen it or form a barrier.
"Now we're going to play a little game called you answer my questions truthfully. You can nod or shake your head only or lose it if you try to lie to me." The intruder tells the maitre d'. "Now did Coy D'alambre do something to you?"
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Post by Admin on Jul 4, 2021 19:26:41 GMT
It would take some time to dig that deep into the man's mind to discover all his secrets.
He shakes his head in answer to Kat's question. No.
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Post by Katerina on Jul 5, 2021 6:53:29 GMT
"Open your mind to me and let me check." The intruder warns him.
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Post by Admin on Jul 5, 2021 7:01:41 GMT
He shakes his head. No.
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Post by Katerina on Jul 5, 2021 9:39:34 GMT
"You cannot prove what you are saying if you don't. Is something preventing you from doing so?" The intruder demands to know.
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Post by Admin on Jul 5, 2021 9:48:46 GMT
No again.
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