Big City RPG: Yup, Here We Go Again!

[Xenoe]

Patrick arrives at the same conclusion as Fu, there are no hidden compartments in the room.

OOC: that's not what I'm searching for; should I be assuming there are no drugs in any wooden storage containers?

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(Fu's team)

Fu goes and asks the the dorm mother for the check in check out record.

"Simpette's a nice girl, but that gambling habit of hers really dragged her down," says the dorm mother as she sighs, handing you the ledger, "I've warned her multiple times about going to such disreputable places, but since she usually returns before curfew and respects the rules, I thought maybe it wouldn't be so big of a deal. After all, unlike other cities, Mansiil has a very active night scene, and the streets are busy with people all the way until midnight."

After receiving the ledger, Fu flips through the pages. Every page represents a day, and has lines upon lines of checkins and checkouts, with a brief reason written if the time is particularly close to curfew. Overall Fu learns that Simpette tends to go "shopping" once or twice a month, and tends to skirt the 22:00(time is written in military time) curfew on those days by as little as a single minute at times.

It is estimated that it takes at least two hours hours to walk to the Golden Goose from where the dorms are, and work typically ends at 18:00 for the House of Blooms, leaving no time to actually enjoy herself. So either Simpette is a seasoned marathon runner, or she typically takes one of the taxi carriages that runs along the main roads.

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(Kobe-Juan)

The older gentleman looks around the residence for anything that might have been written or read by Maf Dili. He is in luck for he finds a small shelf with a series of mismatched tomes. Although the printing press has been around for a while now, literacy still wasn't prevalent in the lower classes, and so its a little surprising to find a considerable collection in the hands of a waitress.

He casually flips through the well worn pages of a random tome. It's a smut novel. He flips to the back cover and see's that the publishing date was a mere six cycles ago(eight cycles in a year).

He places the book back and flips through the rest of the shelf.

A around a third of the bookshelf contains smut romance all worn from use, two volumes of cooking notes, hand written, another third of the shelf is devoted to study materials for the Imperial scholar examination, three volumes of tea guides, and three volumes of poetry anthologies.

All of the books, besides the cooking notes, are in their original print, and are almost unmarred.

Unable to immediately glean any useful information, Kobe places the last volume back in its original location, and just as he's about to go check elsewhere, he hears a light rustling sound. Looking to the source, he finds three live cockroaches attempting to consume two of their dead brethren. Nature, how quaint.

Undisturbed by a couple of insects, Kobe-Juan then heads towards Maf's small writing desk. In the little drawer underneath are some study notes, a couple pages of what look to be novel manuscripts, some half baked poems, most left unfinished, and a couple of semi-romantic correspondences with a pen-pal whose signature reads 'Jorfi'. The writing matches the two volumes of cooking notes in the bookshelf.

Kobe-Juan then attempts to find any secret passages by tapping the floorboards, walls, and looking for any mechanisms, but is unsuccessful. The house seems solidly built to code, and is without any unregulated additions.

Kobe-Juan meets up with his disciple, who disappointedly shakes his head.

"I couldn't find anything of note Master, no secret passages or anything of the like. The only thing that was strange was that there was not a single pair of shoes to be found in the house. If the criminal abducted the girl in this very house, why would he steal the shoes as well? "