<strong>One day after first meeting at the tavern, a few hours after sunrise.  The Dark Moon has become invisible in the predawn light, highlighting the Green Moon all the clearer.  The month has just changed as well, after the Scoundrel's month where Dark Moon is dominant, now is the beginning of Harvest month, with the fertile Green Moon having dominance.</strong><br/>(http://userserve-ak.last.fm/serve/252/8484153.jpg)<br/><br/><br/>With a few days to spare before the critical first ball for Lady Belinda as Lord Stannox's favorite niece, manor Stannox was in a bustle of activity.  Several servants scurried about, trying to make to city mansion fit for living once more.  As Lord Stannox hadn't lived a day in the place after buying it several years ago, it had accumulated a lot of dust and detritus.<br/><br/>The servants were mostly hired by Lord Stannox, and thus had no idea of the con that was being run under their nose.  Asleod was someone they knew as a 'trusted advisor' to Lord Stannox, and they had been instructed to obey his orders to the best of their ability, while the lord himself took care of his business outside of Sacrafel.  Of course, Lady Belinda had also been introduced to the servants as Stannox's niece from the beginning, and they treated her according to her supposed position.<br/><br/>The mansion also had an excellent soundproof room next to a few offices, which Asleod had checked over and declared spy-proof, at least for mundane means.  But no one should have any reason to direct magical means of spying towards them at the moment, and those who could do such things were few and far between, even among the high nobility.  Though many of them had magical talent, most didn't have the patience to develop it very far.  There were a handful of truly powerful individuals, but their certainly wouldn't bother with menial tasks like spying on some bumpkin lord's manor.<br/><br/>Now Asleod was preparing some documentation, as well as hanging plans and maps to the walls of the 'strategy room', as he had taken to calling the spy-proof meeting room.<br/><br/>(OOC: This is the 'Noble Side' thread.  Those who appear here will be primarily involved in the nobility's plots among their social gatherings.  When/If you switch from one thread to another, please make a clear OOC notation of it like this.)