Party: Claudia De La Quinne, The Captain, Wenceslas, Vholanthus Sumquaes, Daisy Dandeigh Deveraux
We rejoin our friends at the Abbeverato, where they unwind in their own way until Vholanthus sees a group of city guards arrive, accompanied by an indignant Rusko who proclaims the party stole from the Varangians.
Sergeant Gerardo Pallacino seems to recognize the Captain as he comes out, due to a shield-related incident during a duel in their shared past, and the two share some choice words, before Gerardo notices the females of the party and promptly realigns his focus.
He then proceeds into the bar and settles in to build up a tab with his men, while the party discusses with Jim what they can do to get him off the hook. They learn from the downcast dwarf that his judge would be Iulius Sumquaes, a man known mainly as a hardline pro-Vertangian member of the Parlementari.
Once their course is decided, they split up with him and agree to meet him at the Rusted Cartwheel, a merchant's inn near the Outer Wall.
The group then heads back in and proceeds to use female charms to pump Gerardo for information on the legal system. They learn that Jim's been hoodwinked and bamboozled into giving up what would amount to the proof of his innocence, which was taken to the court to be filed away.
They then resolve to head to the Inner City and speak to both the young lady Duree and the clerks at the Courthouse.
The journey is rather uneventful, with the party avoiding most trouble along the way, and they pull up to the Maison Duree, which is an elaborate affaire with a cold-iron fence surrounding the building.
The Captain spends some time thoroughly intimidating both of the young guards as the party waits to be shown to Lady Abdelaide. The young Lady herself appears in a frills-forward mantua, ushering the group to a discrete pavilion within the estate's bounds.
She listens with fascination and mild worry as the trouble is related that the charming scion of the House of the Three Beams finds himself entrapped in.
She then pledges her help to the cause of the party, provides them with a carrier pidgeon (which goes by Roel, as Daisy discovers) and suggests she will provide the assistance of the Duree family at court. She also suspects that the chief instigator behind the trouble would be Francois Du Treve, due to his family's deeper understanding of the law.
Taking their leave from the Lady Adele and avoiding issues with a different group of (loudly commenting) adventurers, the party heads to the Courthouse, where they have an unfortunate encounter with a halfling clerk that provides more insight into the ordeal awaiting Jim. During the talk, a young barrister comes up to seek the confiscated paperwork and prepare the defense for Jim.
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