Sarge, Mejest and Crow return their home in the early hours of the morning.
In the morning there is a loud knocking on the door and a thin man with a pencil moustache accompanied by a Iron clockwork and two large muscular men are at the door. Mejest takes up a position with a bow by the upstairs window. Sarge grabs his axe from beside the door before opening it. Crow is still asleep in the basement.
The leader of the men outside asks Sarge and Mejest to come and see Ambrose quick. Sarge puts one down with an axe, the clock work shuts down and the last thug is put down by arrow from Mejest. Afterwards Sarge agrees to go with Marlow aka Mr Pencil to see Mr Quick.
At the Gilded Purse the pair are introduced to Ambrose Quick. He offers to clear the 10GC dept they owe him for breaking into his treasury last night if they do a job, an interview of sorts, to recover 10GC from a merchant in coins called Jeroff Getzmon a merchant who has been living the high life at the purse and now owes Ambrose a tidy sum of 10 GC, get the money through any means necessary (or goods, or his apparently beautiful daughter).
Sarge and Mejest don't want to work for free, and they don't see that what they successfully stole from the treasure belongs to Quick anymore, Quick doesn’t see it that way and unable to agree on a price for the 'interview' job and despite promise of more jobs down the road the pair leave without coming to an agreement. Quick mentions that he hopes that they won't cross paths as enemies in the future. Sarge shakes his hand before leaving which Quick accepts heartily.
The pair take a circuitous route to Father Gregory's shrine hoping to meet up with Alyse.
Once there they find a young novice sent by Father Cornelious, who Sarge suspects has sent the novice on the orders of Father Paulus. He is tending to and praying for Father Gregory. This puts Paulus in Sarge's good books.
Alyse is also at the shrine, having come to check on Father Gregory as part of her daily routine. Sarge and Mejest tell her everything they know about Ambrose Quick, outing him as the leader of a Thieves Guild and a trafficker in sex slaves. Alyse says she will take the information to the Captain.
Sarge and Alyse banter about her relationship for Captain Crawley, Alyse denies this, they also briefly about their work for the inquisition but don't give her any details agree that is best. Sarge and Alyse hug after there is some tension and worry from Alyse they may end up on opposite sides if they go and work for Ambrose. Alyse seems to think battle lines are being drawn and sides must be taken if parts of the council are working against the interests of crossings.
Sarge and Mejest head to the Inquisition's building in redemption but take another circuitous route. Sarge realises they are being followed, it turns out by a young female thief called. Lind, they corner her, ascertain that she is working for Ambrose Quick and Sarge intimidates her in to going back and saying they spent time at pie shops (this did) and casing the house of Jeroff Getzmon (this didn't). Sarge also encourages her to get a bigger weapon than her long dagger.
At sun down Sarge and Mejest got to the inquisition they tell Randolfo about Quick and his den of thieves, Randolpho is concerned it may be connected to the cult but Sarge and Mejest convince him otherwise.
They says that Father Paulus is just immoral. But he may be being blackmailed by Ambrose Quick.
They say Ezikia is entirely innocent.
Lastly they discuss Master Dreen. They tell him as if they have conducted an investigation about recovering Candance form the Island and that she is possessed or replaced with a Demon.
Randolpho confirms what he has learned from the now deceased Phineas Phrent. Phrent was devoted to his "Mistress", presumably Candance and it was hard to get much sensible information from him with his hollering and screaming about his Mistress but he did learn that Phineas was a member of a group calling it's self The Circle (Of Shadows) that was made up of young children of rich members of crossing elite, they partied, indulged in drugs, sex and other activities and carried out dark rituals some of this was classic taboo braking behaviour some had a darker purpose. Candance was brought into this Cult by Phineas and, presumably just before she was kidnapped had participated in a rite.
The rite as overseen by a masked figure unknown to Phineas who had a red orb an "Eye of Madness" that the figure used to conduct a ritual on Candance a "Dark Blessing" that was almost certainly a demon summoning.
Randolpho suspects the Circle is a patsy cell of the Brotherhood of Shadows, perhaps the Demon summoner with the "Eye of Madness" was part of the cult under Catandramues house. Perhaps not.
It is unclear to Randolpho what the plan of the Cult under Katandramuses house was, perhaps it was to bring about the Gibbering fever and with that stopped the cult is now in disarray, but perhaps not.
Either way it is clear that a Demonic presence invades the Dreen household and the Inquisitor will act this night, he will gather what back up he can and go to the Dreen Household, will Sarge and Mejest go with him?