I eat dinner and help them clean up the Crow's Nest Inn.
Chatting with others over dinner, we learn that JM believes a pirate named Elgar needs to be brought to justice.
I hear a knocking at the door, not yet midnight but later. A small voice, he said Lady Illisandra sent him. He told me that she was downstairs and disguised as a male singer. I tell him I'll come down. I go down, sit at a table, and Illisandra comes up to chat, asking for details. I tell her what happened, and she asks to see the Sapphire, and gives me 25GP in exchange. She is worried that the Cult may try to silence this man Tret. But she doesn't ask us to assist with that effort. We give our regards and head in separate directions for the night.
Trixie finds Franklin and asks him if he can help her, and her group, with a distraction during tomorrow's parade.
After breakfast, the next day, we head over to the Purple Portals, where we are to meet the gnomes with the Church of Ghan, who promised us a hireling and possibly some weapons.
As we get closer, we see the two towers, that actually giant chimneys. We see a few monks in bright orange/yellow saffron robes. They ask us what we are doing here. We tell them and eventually gain access to see Francine Casckstrucker and Rose Thramplestamp. We are lead into the main church and meet Rose.
She tells us we are early, but still is able to offer the use of two constructs as hirelings. One is named Svankmajer (looks like a guard. Good at that, and has a halberd, but can also be an assistant carrying things), the other is a rolling ball that opens up into a kind of dog shape, named Iron-Wolf (a good tracker). Each would charge 2gp/day. She said she also equipment she can show us next time, now that we told her what we are interested in.
We bid farewell and head to the North Gate to meet Burhell. Very busy here. There's a parade going on for the holiday. As we approach, Franklin and the rest head towards the town square, wanting to help out with Trixie's request to create a distraction for the anti-slavers. They were levitating a dragon skull when an actual dragon appears in the skies! The whole City starts panicking. After all of this they start to head back to Burhell, Draxon, and me.