>> Conversation Log: 19th Sun, 1st Umbral Moon. Home of Lyna Malien, Maid Servicer.
Quote:Lucy Ambers: "Pray, let us take seat"
Lucy Ambers removes her helmet and places it on the green rug, crossing her legs.
Lucy Ambers: "I have grave news."
Eretria Mist: Oh?
Eretria Mist is overcome with worry.
Lucy Ambers gestures to the remaining seat, for her cousin.
Hugo Ambers: "I'm fine standing."
Lucy Ambers: "This may be news to you too Hugo. Sir Oscar was hospitalised earlier in the week."
Hugo Ambers: "How?"
Eretria Mist is overcome with worry.
Eretria Mist: Oh no!
Lucy Ambers: "He lead a team of adventurers against a Garlean camp in La Noscea... where Don Carmine was revealed to have been held."
Eretria Mist: Garleans took him?
Hugo Ambers's eyes begin to well up.
Lucy Ambers: "Don Carmine was successfully rescued, but Hugo... your father, he sustained heavy injury to the lower limbs, third degree burns to his legs and abdomen."
Hugo Ambers: "Can I see him?"
Eretria Mist: Oh no!
Lucy Ambers: "He is being treated by arcanima at Limsa Lominsa. Of course you may visit him. I... I do not know how to bring this news to aunt Lilliane."
Hugo Ambers: "Allow me to."
Lucy Ambers: "Will you tell her.. I have not seen her all week."
Lucy Ambers nods.
Hugo Ambers: "I will speak to her later today, she has been spending much time in the Goblet."
Lucy Ambers nods to Hugo.
Lucy Ambers: "Of the adventurers recruited to lend aid to our investigation Miss Eretria, you proved a most valuable person"
Eretria Mist smiles.
Eretria Mist: Thank you
Eretria Mist: That is most kind.
Lucy Ambers: "I am of want to extend to you a permanent position as an Ambers Investigator in training, alas, this current case seems to grow colder each day."
Eretria Mist: An investigator? Â Me?
Lucy Ambers remains silent, and offers simply a nod.
Eretria Mist: I...I don't know what to say...are you sure I am qualified?
Lucy Ambers: "Qualification is not much of it, save the talent for deduction, which I find luminescent within you."
Eretria Mist smiles.
Eretria Mist: Well...um...yes, I would love to do this
Lucy Ambers nods. "Don Carmine is unable to provide much information concerning his abduction, and none of his kidnappers were captured alive."
Eretria Mist: That doesn't give a lot to go on
Eretria Mist: Maybe something could be found at the camp? Â Something left behind?
Lucy Ambers: "Indeed. We are yet none the wiser as to the reason the Garleans would want the man, and alive."
Lucy Ambers seems lost in thought.
Eretria Mist nods.
Eretria Mist: It wasn't a ransom, but there must have been something they were after
Eretria Mist: How did your Uncle learn that he was being held by them, and the location of the camp?
Lucy Ambers: "Sir Oscar's team held a rescue operation, but it is likely they may have paid attention to clues on the site indeed. I wonder if your father might have information for us after all, cousin."
Hugo Ambers: "likely."
Eretria Mist: That may be important to know
Eretria Mist: And am i right to understand that the Don does not know why he was taken?
Lucy Ambers looks to Eretria. "There was an carriageman held under arrest in connection with the assassin, Alice Blade."
Eretria Mist: Oh? Â Alice had an accomplice?
Lucy Ambers: "Possibly, but we're not sure. According to the Maelstrom guards, the driver confessed to having, at knife-point, as he claims, ferried a woman fitting the description of Alice Blade, and one unconscious man, who was masked under a sack, to the Garlean base Castrum Occidens"
Lucy Ambers looks to her cousin. "That's the one north of Costa del Sol, in Eastern La Noscea."
Eretria Mist: And then she remembered leaving that syringe behind and returned to get it
Lucy Ambers: "Sloppy for her, fortuitous for us."
Eretria Mist: There isn't a lot to go on. Â Looking at the camp is the best lead
Eretria Mist: If the Don does not know what they wanted with him, that means either he doesn't know, or that he doesn't want to say. Â I would imagine he is kind of a private man
Lucy Ambers: "Indeed."
Lucy Ambers: "The obvious concern here is, though Rose's father has been brought back to her, the Garleans will continue to plot. And heavens protect us if another Garlean plot is allowed to fruition."
Eretria Mist nods
Eretria Mist: Finding out why they took him is the key. Â It must have been linked to the Don somehow. Â Otherwise....no, there really isn't much to support another idea
Eretria Mist seems lost in thought.
Eretria Mist: *mumbles* can't really connect that without evidence
Eretria Mist: What happened to your Uncle during the attack?
Lucy Ambers: "T'would seem we have a plan then. Until such time as Sir Oscar wakes to give instruction, we have three avenues to seek a new lead. Question the Don, victim or co-conspirator, for what reason was he abducted. Second, revisit the imprisoned carriageman who aided the fallen assassin, Alice Blade, and three... plan of action to infiltrate Castrum Occidens, in search of other clues. This will require a sizable force and careful planning, so I suggest we focus on our other sources until we are ready to face the Garleans."
Eretria Mist nods
Lucy Ambers: "Hugo, will you stay with Sir Oscar and when he is well, alert us, so we may collect any information from him? Detective Mist, consult with the Maelstrom guard of Limsa Lominsa and question the suspected carriageman. I shall see to the Don and his daughter Rose."
Eretria Mist smiles.
Eretria Mist nods.
Hugo Ambers nods.
Eretria Mist: I will head there right away
Lucy Ambers: "We shall converge again at Ambers Manor in three days, with information gathered."
Eretria Mist: Ok
Hugo Ambers: "Got it."
Lucy Ambers stands, nodding to Hugo. "Now where is that Lyna Malien. Her maid service is required at Ambers Manor, post haste. Just as it is to be expected from these dim-witted Aura. Someone, find her, and have her see to me at once."
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