>>5636933The lack of legal action towards Ratana starts to make sense — the reason why Ratana temple has so many misbehaving minors is partly due to parents unable to handle them and sending them to temples instead. Sue them for unnecessary violence and there won’t be a dumping ground for these misfit children.
The Misen temple has done many things to keep the peace — surveillance, manipulation, torture, kidnapping, killing, but there doesn’t seem to be any records of sending kids to Boon’s textile mill.
The crew wants more recent information, not just writings in old libraries, and they decide to check out the sleeping quarters.
Unlike the highly decorated buildings of before, the sleeping quarters is merely a single wide wooden building with wooden stilts lifting them above ground. Just a dark brown thing.
There’s a few monks there who are cleaning the building and the area around it, but the crew is able to avoid them. Even when they’re about to pass out, having the ability to teleport is a massive advantage when it comes to stealth.
Inside the private quarters are mainly books and the bare essentials for living. To the untrained eye, anyway.
Although half awake, the crew deduces that the building feels slightly smaller than it really is, and they were able to find hidden compartments within the walls and floors.
Stashes of bullet coins, polearms, firearms, armor, herbs, medicine, combat manuscripts, maps of buildings around Shadowfall, and strange trinkets — these stashes make the monks are more resemble of a militia or a spy ring than a group of people that wants to spread a religion.
In the smallest of crevices, the crew uncover a small manuscript made from palm leaves. It details the crime organizations within Shadowfall and their current status.
… nearly every gang has been wiped out. Even the Old Tigers, the gang that prevented Red Winter from fully taking root into the southern provinces was recently neutralized. All of them wiped out. The last one remaining is Red Winter and their associates.
