Ponderings - 3

Last time we ended our day in the Tourmarine bnb, however before going to bed Zac saw some kind of face/entity looking at him outside the window. Telling the group such, Alistair did a divine sense to find that dozens of undead lurked outside the bnb walls. Sensing danger Alistair turned himself into a holy undead bug zapper and went running into the dark, only to find that the undead eluded him staying just out of range of his blessed aura, concentrating themselves into the shadows. Unable to solve said mystery and not feeling any immediate danger the party went to bed for the night, albeit sleeping in shifts just in case. Not much happened, however Pomegranate noticed a strange man walking in front of the bnb multiple times. Waking Zac the pair and then trailed him to a house using their familiars, spooky and arrol?. In the morning the party met up for breakfast before splitting up. Zac embraced his inner male maid cafe persona and took charge of earning money for the day, learning that he had a knack for the craft. Anika and Chioni went back to the noble's hotel to find their staged room had been broken into, and after some serious sleuthing found that this was most likely done by a professional thief, only leaving behind a boot print and some partial hand prints in the the fake blood our party had left behind. Anika and Chioni went and got a money voucher for their "inconvenience" from the front desk after complaining.
 
Alistair and Pomegranate went on their own adventure, chasing down the man who Pomegranate had seen the night before. Adopting the personas of city officials (reminiscent of census takers mixed with tax men) they coerced entry into the mysterious man's safe house. At first they were doing well, their ruse working, but their hosts found themselves at their breaking point when Alistair started for force his way into the basement. With that the man they were tailing, an arguably ugly halfling/dwarf/gnome with a wine soaked nose ran from the house and evaded capture. The other man however wasn't as lucky, as he was beat, and tied to a chair. Anika, Chioni and Zac then arrive to find their other party members trying to play good cop and bad cop, breaking various war crimes and trying to force feed the restrained man food in exchange for information on his accomplice, to no avial. Zac turns out can not only make a fine cappuccino, but can be quite scary when he needs to be and intimidated the man for answers. The party learns from the tied up man that Tourmarine is run by the thieves guild, and the man who got away was a representative who was using this house and it's tunnels for free as part of a payment plan for a protection racket. Using some deductions based on who ran away, the now revealed hold the thieves have on the town, and the footprint found by Anika and Chioni, the group surmised that the man who escaped and the one who ransacked the room were one and the same, and used a magical scroll of finding to begin tracking our target.