<hr/><br/><strong>Patch's initial inquiry:</strong><br/><br/><em>"Does Gentle live alone?"</em>Patch inquired.<em>"No wife, no kids?"</em><br/><br/>Moon snorted unpleasantly, and eyed Elsepeth wearily.<br/><br/>"It is as I said," Moon stated.   "A curious man does not a good killer make."<br/><br/>Elsepeth glared at Moon, lifted her hand to signal that he should shut his mouth, and smiled politely at Patch.<br/><br/>"No, Patch," she said gently.   "Ventle does not have a wife or children."<br/><br/>"He adores men," Moon said off-handedly.<br/><br/>"Yes, there's that," Elsepeth said, smiling carefully.   "He did live with his mother, but she passed away nearly a year ago.  I believe she died from cirrhosis of the liver."<br/><br/>Here, Moon took a pause, took a deep breathe, and said:   "When that woman was young, she was stunning.  She danced and sang and lived.  It is a pity that she grew old and ugly and dull."<br/><br/><hr/><br/><div align="center">(https://s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/236x/6b/42/ed/6b42ed9f6e59f8b7b316f84f8d05c08a.jpg)</div><br/>Finding an address in the Four Corners district was hard, but fortunately, Patch and Charlotte knew the neighborhood and Patch particularly knew the bakery.  The bakery was run by a gentleman named Thomas, who inherited it from his father, another man named Thomas.  That Thomas inherited it from his father, whose name, for a little bit of change, was Cohen.<br/><br/>It wasn't difficult for the Dragon's to make a few inquiries about Ventle's movements.<br/><br/><div class="quoteheader"><div class="topslice_quote">Quote</div></div><blockquote class="bbc_standard_quote">Roll Result: PhantomPistoleer rolled: 1d20, adding 1 to the total<br/>Comment: Gather Information<br/>Result: 18, <br/>Total: 19</blockquote><div class="quotefooter"><div class="botslice_quote"></div></div><br/>Charlotte, particularly, learned the following:<br/><br/><ul class="bbc_list"><li>Ventle regularly had guard duty every day from three o'clock in the afternoon to three o'clock in the morning.</li><li>Ventle usually purchased a couple sweet rolls every afternoon before going to work.</li><li>Thomas hadn't seen Ventle in two days.</li><li>Using different channels, the pair also discovered that Ventle did not report to work in the last four days.</li><li>There were no lights in Ventle's flat.</li><li>His door was also locked.</li><li>Lastly, the pair had an orphan knock on Ventle's door, but no one responded.</li></ul>[li]<br/>[/li][/list]<br/><br/>The pair watched the flat for two hours afterwards, and again, no movement.<br/><br/><hr/><br/>The flat isn't difficult to get into.  Without being detected, the party can pick the front door's lock (DC 15).  They can also break in through a window.