Seems she still fails to see the severity of this. She still put Clara's life on the line. Her words indicate intent even if she failed to see death as a potential consequence. We expect better from our subjects and even more from our council. Her defense is shrugging it off with "Well she didn't die." She has clearly learned nothing. She's fortunate we need her set of skills while Dredge is an issue. So what if we base her punishment on how well she meets expectations? She will have to write dull boring logs of her missions. Further poor behavior or poor performance will increase severity while meeting or exceeding expectations will decrease. She does exceedingly well she is only suspended from the council. She does exceedingly poorly she dies. Or worse as there are worse fates. She has one chance here to learn what is expected. Don't fail.

>>1088536

I agree with this punishment as well.

Absurdity DeVoid 2024/04/13(Sat)04:00 No. 1088659 ID: f393b8
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Possible answers to the question that was asked:

A) Vote for the punishment.

B) Vote against the punishment.

C) The Executioner's vote counts.

D) Other suggestions.

Why are you asking us? Our votes have no sway here. Go ahead, do what's expected, veto the whole vote.

I don't know, why are you fighting like this? I thought you liked each other

Arguments happen, even among friends.

D. Before we vote, I want to hear Bobbie's reason for doing the needle test despite the majority being against it, and why she feel she needed to do it. Basically, I want to get an understanding of each other to better communicate appropriately early on before the arguments tear our team apart later on. Ive been through that before, and I dont want that to happen here again. Is everything alright Bobbie?

My reasoning for not using the needle test was that things can be very bad if the archer figures out it was all a lie, and we lead him on keeping him under our thumb with a lie. Everything about our relationship with him is built on a bridge of lies, which path could turn into a tightrope if he starts investigating or asking questions. We'll have to tread carefully with how we interact with him and our actions around him now.

>>1088677

I agree with this suggestion.

Absurdity DeVoid 2024/04/14(Sun)10:58 No. 1088761 ID: 11d55a
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Possible answers to the question that was asked:

A) The punishment is not necessary, we can skip it.

B) Continue with the voting.

C) Other suggestions.

B. And I vote punishment.

Sorry Bobbie, but, you have to remember that we have a village of humans nearby our castle, and one of them even gave us a gift of apples. If you start showing a bias against humans and treat them unfairly against other species, they could start a protest, or worse revolt. We will go with your plan, but I highly recommend you treat the archer just as equal as your other allies that follow you from this point on.

And yeah, we love you Bobbie, but this punishment has to happen because we don't want this team to end up like what happened to Ramming Rage and his allies. Like Abdle said, if we are going to deal with a life or death situations, we can't have anyone going off to do what they feel like doing. That doesn't just go for Bobbie, but it goes for Abdle, and all of our followers as well.

A) This isn't how adults should deal with their interpersonal problems. If you two can't talk this out, then maybe your partnership just isn't working. And hitting each other when you don't like what the other did won't fix that.

This castle could really use a therapist on staff.

My vote is for the vote of the executioner to count, as for my vote it is that the Queen needs to be punished.

Well time to deal with this tie, by rolling the dice. Every even number on the dice is going to be for the punishment to be ignored, every odd number is going to be for the punishment to happen.

rolled 3 = 3

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>>1088765
This.

Absurdity DeVoid 2024/04/19(Fri)02:21 No. 1089180 ID: d2faab
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Possible answers to the question that was asked:

A) If we are going to start with the partnership I expect to get paid for working with your master.

B) You seem familiar, have we met somewhere previously?

C) Check back on Bobbie and see how she is doing.

D) Other suggestions.

D. I'm all for letting them start business as long as we get compensated in some way (TAXES BAYBEE!), but I think we should first ask questions before we make our decision. Like, does he has a way to sustain himself so he doesn't bite the other villagers for their blood without their consent? Would he be willing to pretend he isn't a vampire if being a vampire is a problem with the chief? are his employees vampires too? what is he and Maya Din's professional relationship, like how did they meet and what does she do? Stuff like that.

But starting a food industry here could help this world progress

(not B. I do NOT want her being suspicious of me and us. Sorry, I'm no longer the Peregrine she wants me to be.

>>1089183
Thinking it through, if humans don't like buying from monsters, they simply need to hire humans and non-monster employees to cook and sell the food. Humans will buy from other humans. Simple.

How is Bobbie dealing with her current punishment?

So they don't have any other locations, this would be the first? Without being able to observe one of their operations we can't make any promises. Perhaps they could be afforded a trial run, under intense scrutiny.
We'll bring it up the next time we meet the village elder and get back to you.

Well no promises but economic growth is usually good. Just remember we are not the law in that place. For now. Follow their rules. Oh it may help if you provide gifts *cough*bribes*cough* to the village chief. Should you be willing we'll have improved odds. Still no promises though.

One final idea, they could cook a meal for the chief later on to help convince him later after we talk to him and hes on the fense about it.
But yeah, we'll talk to then, but no promises.

Important for us to talk to bobbie and see her thoughts about it and speaking to the chief about it too

Absurdity DeVoid 2024/04/21(Sun)09:11 No. 1089318 ID: 41733f
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Possible answers to the question that was asked are all up to your imagination. So good luck, but nothing will be lost if you answer the question wrong, this is all just for fun.

The armor is her body is my guess.

I guess one more question before she leaves, are there any interdimensional beings or travelers out there that we should be wary of or not trust?

Are you a rotting corpse, only kept alive by your armor?

If her armor is not her body, then I bet she is green

Dislike speculating though playing detective is useful. Sharp wits are key in warfare to figuring out the opponent's moves. So since it's no stakes let's puzzle this. From what is stated she specifically says the armor gives her body shape. From which it can be inferred she would have no shape sans armor or similar items. While she may *be* the armor itself, she may also be without form if she had none. So, 3 likely possibilities. 1, she's the armor itself given life, 2 she's a slime or ooze, 3 she is a spirit that has possessed it to give herself shape.

You are a mimic that is disguised as a suit of armor. If we are allowed to ask questions ask about the world where her boss came from.

Absurdity DeVoid 2024/04/23(Tue)09:07 No. 1089464 ID: a07698
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Just to mention that this picture does not represent something that happened in 30 UPDATES OR LESS quest. This is just an artistic representation of the chaotic energy that occurs in that story.

Possible answers to the question that was asked:

A) They can be trusted.

B) We should keep them at a distance.

C) We can't trust them.

D) Other suggestions.

Probably a minority opinion but xenophobia is fine if pragmatism has precedence over xenophobia especially for official policies. Personally like Humans because of warfare innovations. Have yet to see a species more dedicated to winning wars. So you'll get second opinions if you worry about crossing lines. Where were we? Oh, Vance. He's a wildcard. He may do well, he may cause political scandals. So keep your distance for now.

>>1089467
Agreed. Take the wait and see approach

>>1089467
Yes, just keep an eye on them

To me, they all seem like people who just want to make money and we might get something by working with them.

Absurdity DeVoid 2024/04/25(Thu)16:16 No. 1089705 ID: 6b926a
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Possible answers to the question that was asked: Who do you want to bring with you for the first meeting with the villagers?

A) Bring only human allies.

B) Bring only goblin allies.

C) Bring half human and half goblin allies.

D) Other suggestions.

B) the only humans you have on staff are weird, and the goblins are... well some of them are... Well at least you have Grimlith

anyway, if you are going to work with the village they'll have to get used to you being the monster queen.

While a mixed group would show that cooperation can be done, Polt has a point that the humans we do have are unusual. Only normal-ish one we have is archer so bring that dude. We never got his name did we? Everybody else can be non-humans. Oh and this goes both ways: we don't have to like them and they don't have to like us to do business and cooperate. Perhaps by cooperating we'll both benefit which is enough. Good way to start warming relations.

So to take all the notes that we know so far about this village: They don't care about the previous ruling class, they don't have any religious beliefs and they probably created hundreds of fatherless children. I suggest we might as well go with all humans or all goblins presentation. First impressions are important and if they do see that we are working with humans maybe they will be more inclined to go along with our ruling. On the other hand, they have been ignoring our presence and if we show up with nothing but goblins on their doorsteps they will not be able to ignore us any longer. Whatever is picked I have a feeling that this is going to be an uphill battle to get them to respect our authority.

hate to say it, but take Gram along with you. Gram did lead the girl who gave us apples back to her home, so she should have some kind of good standing reputation with humans, or at least one of them.

Absurdity DeVoid 2024/04/28(Sun)06:11 No. 1089923 ID: d37872
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Possible answers to the question that was asked:

A) Change the leader of the village with somebody you trust more.

B) Make the leader of the village trust you more.

C) Make the leader of the village fear you more.

D) Other suggestions.

B) who would we replace him with? It would have to be a human, but one we trust, and we don't have any of those yet.

Ruling by fear is a lot if work, let's just butter him up

Option 2. Very easy to improve on garbage.

I feel like we could pull off the ruling by intimidation, we are already using that technique to survive. So why not try it here as well?

Going with B. If we can gain his trust, he'll have our back later down the road.

If it was any other village nowhere near our castle, i would have picked C. But since this village is pretty close to us, forcing him to fear us might not be a good idea as he could secretly work with our enemies out of cowardice to try to take us down later for revenge, and his safety. Keeping good relationships with him will prevent him from doing that, and might even give us some information.

Absurdity DeVoid 2024/05/02(Thu)08:34 No. 1090154 ID: 3ef18f
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Possible answers to the question that was asked:

A) Tell them that they are all a miserable pile of secrets and that you are the answer.

B) Ask them how they would feel about living next to a vampire pig.

C) We are the new law of this land and you have to deal with it.

D) Other suggestions.

Perhaps you've heard the tale of the original owner of the castle. For those of you who have yet to hear the tale he showed kindness and mercy to non-humans. His goodwill was never repaid because of betrayal - from his own people. Still, we believe this legacy deserves to be honored. We have taken in humans ourselves as you see. We have also driven off a group of humans that have taken criminal actions against this village. With them gone you are free. Free to pursue whatever future you wish. However both our people are imperiled. While we are both free for now, we believe they will seek vengeance. Whatever cruelty they have inflicted will follow once more. For the sake of both our people, we cannot allow this. Only united can we cast off these chains once and for all. So We ask of you - is freedom worth putting aside our past to face them as one? (Few things end grudges and rivalries like mutual enemies of a greater scope)

I like A but

>>1090156

I like this suggestion more.

The previous protectors of this village the Teacup Bulls have been challenged for their position and we are going to take that mantle. From what I heard is that they weren't much loved and that is what we will try to change in our relationship. If we cooperate both of our dides can benefit and make us all stronger.

Absurdity DeVoid 2024/05/04(Sat)09:03 No. 1090288 ID: 7ec7db
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Possible answers to the question that was asked:

A) It is a pleasure to me you.

B) Shut up nerd!

C) I think I know who the thief is.

D) Other suggestions.

A. Get the pleasantries out of the way.

This Is just a setback. Really, i think the jeers from the crowd would have happened no matter what we would have said. So heres an idea: if we can find out who the theif is and arrest them ourselves, it might help gain some of the villagers' trust in us. Not all or most of them, but it'll be a start. Stuff like this takes time. One step at a time.

Actually, now that I think about it, only one person jeered, and that same person threw the tomato. the other villagers were just silent. i guess having no reaction with only one person jeering us is better than all of them booing us. So yeah, we just have to prove ourselves to them.

A) but also tell us more about this theft. It didn't start at the same time we took the castle I hope. If we can catch a thief it would be good for relations. And if the thief is one of ours then a public punishment would show we don't hold ourselves above the villagers.

There is a possibility that the thief is the cat that we have to deal with. Maybe she sees this village as part of our kingdom and steals from our people.

Well to quote the video game Deus Ex "In the end they'll beg us to save them [all]." Half-tempted to take a page out of Seven Samurai and raise the alarm but that might just get us mobbed. Go with option one. Oh ask what problems they think we're causing. Even with social as a dump stat can still make a good speech. Polt/PEA thx for the vote of confidence. Which of those do you prefer BTW?

Absurdity DeVoid 2024/05/06(Mon)11:49 No. 1090434 ID: 69fd8a
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Possible answers to the question that was asked:

A) Impres the child.

B) Ignore the child.

C) Insult the child.

D) Other suggestions.

A. Time for a bit of a magic trick, and us lesser demons can help!

Tell him you have great insight, and to prove it, tell him to put his hands behind his back, and have us guess how many fingers hes holding up.

We lesser demons will look behind him and give you the answers. Make sure to have the cheif's daughter stand behind him to confirm your (our) answers

Defend yourself Bobbie, tell Archer that you were distracted and that they all were too close. Tell Gram that she should relax and tell Worm Works that he is still shady. As for the kid, yeah let's impress him with a stunt that your two warriors can perform.

Well it's a lot harder to block without a shield archerbro. Either way... power is all well and good but do you have the skills and wisdom to lead? We can channel your power and have it be where it's most needed. However we would like to see what you are capable of before we make any decisions.

B) Tell the boy there isn't a good reason, as we don't need the help of sulky children. children hate to be denied, he'll want to join even more, but later.

Absurdity DeVoid 2024/05/08(Wed)07:23 No. 1090568 ID: c6a1d6
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Possible answers to the question that was asked:

A) 6 fingers are up.

B) 2 fingers are up.

C) 4 fingers are up.

D) No fingers are up.

E) You are cheating.

F) Other suggestions.

E) so that's your power kid? Having too many fingers? Cmon Abdle this one's not worth the effort. Let him think you're lame, if he has any sense he'll see his mistake soon enough.

Wait, is that one kid standing next to the kid in the viking helmet staring at the lesser demon counting the fingers? We're supposed to be invisible, right?

I am going with the second set of arms and that there are no fingers up. Whatever this is, it is just trying to confuse us.

Guess we have to give an educated guess using logic. Okay.

Soooo, seeing how he has two arms from the front, but suddenly 6 when looking in the back, it looks like its some kind of illusionary magic. So we have to figure out which is the real arms.

I do not think the top arms are real for sure. If you put your arms behind, it always most comfortable to rest them on the lower part of your back. Having it up high like that is rather uncomfortable.

The bottom arms seems a bit too obvious if we consider he knows we know hes using illusion magic. Plus, it kinda looks like his arms are a bit too long, and his elbows are positioned in a weird spot

Im going to go with >>1090587 and say it is the middle arms (holding out no fingers). It also looks like his arms are positioned towards the middle from the front too.

Depends. Which row, top, middle, bottom, or all 3 rows? Either way a clever play even if it's sleight of hand. So what do you use these powers for kiddo? Just alleviating boredom of existence?

Absurdity DeVoid 2024/05/10(Fri)02:54 No. 1090668 ID: cce3c7
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Possible answers to the first question that was asked:

A) Take the gift.

B) Refuse the gift.

C) Break the gift in front of the kid.

D) Other suggestions.

Possible answers to the second question that was asked:

A) Go with your idea Worm Works.

B) Don't do that.

C) I don't care what you do.

D) Other suggestions.

B) Refuse the gift. Thanks, but no thanks. It looks a bit too valuable to receive, and with a thief running around, I don't want people getting the wrong idea as to why we have something valuable that came from this town. Best wait until we gain the trust of the other villagers at the very least, y'know?

To politely refuse it, tell Scarecrow-kid that it'll be wiser if he keeps it in his possession, as it looks a bit too valuable to just give away, and as the years go by, and it goes up in value, it will help get him through college in this economy. read discussion thread plz https://questden.org/kusaba/questdis/res/140583.html#142162

B. I will say that is a good idea, except, well... these villagers are pretty wary of us wormworks. I think if they are going to report anything that was stolen from them, they would more likely report it to someone they trust more, like the authorities (if this town has any) or to the chief. not to any newcomers working under the goblin queen. They might even give us false information as they don't trust us that well yet. That said, we can probably ask the chief about any reports of anything stolen, or get the chief to ask the authorities for some reports.

Let's take the gift that the kid offered to us, no need to hurt his feelings. As for the your plan Worm Works go for it, even if some people may not want to take it at least it will show that we want to help then out. Expecially now when they have been targeted.

1A) it would be rude to not accept.

2A) (I think that's a silly idea that will at best have the villagers lying to you for laughs. They arent going to trust you yet. ) sure thing Worm Works, you do that and get out of our hair back to us later

1) Social issue. Politely abstain from voting. 2) ...Further details? How is compiling a list (assuming no lies) going to help? Forward it to the spy rats perhaps?

Absurdity DeVoid 2024/05/12(Sun)04:29 No. 1090774 ID: 20a211
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Possible answers to the question that was asked:

A) Go outside and talk with the village crowd once again.

B) Don't go outside.

C) Call Maluvia a filthy fuman as well.

D) Other suggestions.

Perhaps have archer test the waters. He's human so maybe he can warm them up for us. We'll speak if they're less hostile.

Talk with the elder, his daughter, the kids. Ask people who actually live in the village what the people there would want from a partnership.

>>1090776
Yeah, it would be for the best if he starts as the opening statement before we attempt to talk with them all once again.

>>1090783
I agree with this. We can probably ask the chief and what the villagers want from our partnership while Archer warms up the crowd for us.

And, uh... when we are ready to go back out, I think we should have Abdle do the speech instead of Bobbie so her racism against humans don't bleed through her speech, yeah? Bobbie can use a break after all.

Absurdity DeVoid 2024/05/13(Mon)17:22 No. 1090879 ID: 20a211
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Possible answers to the question that was asked:

A) Go and talk to the crowd.

B) Let him finish.

C) Tell the village elder to finish.

D) Other suggestions.

D:

If i Remember correctly, as lesser demons, we can talk to our allies to some degree if we're in the same vicinity, correct?

what if we told the Archer to tell the crowd that he attacked Bobbie first, so she had every right to do make it difficult for him to join, to make sure he was truthful in wanting to join after he initially tried to attack. It might not make all the townsfolk agree with him, but it will give them a better understanding of the circumstances.

>>1090903
yeah, warn archer not to be too detailed.

Bobbie needs to get better at hiding her real opinions if she's going to be a good ruler. Try talking to Migreveo some more but say the opposite of what you think of him.

Let's just suggest to him to tell the truth, that would be better than letting him try to lie in front of all these people. As for Bobbie she should apologize to apologize to Migreveo and ask who he will send to our castle for evaluation.

Seems they are unpragmatic about this. Healthy skepticism would be fine. However this is what happens if xenophobia overrides good pragmatic sense. Give archer a chance. Perhaps his genuine courage of conviction will be enough. Otherwise, well, should they prefer to languish, fine. We'll play the long game and be good neighbors. However they feel they'll have to get used to us since we're staying.

Absurdity DeVoid 2024/05/16(Thu)02:14 No. 1091045 ID: ae9a5f
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Possible answers to the question that was asked:

A) Give an emotional speech.

B) Give a condemning speech.

C) Give a humbling speech.

D) Other suggestions.

Oh good job archer.
A) try something more honest and "real" seemingly. They don't like us and we don't like them, and that's okay. But we're not going anywhere so it would be better for everyone to work together.

Let's give a condemning speech but make it a light condemnation and end it up with their appraisal.

First off let's get one thing clear here. We have stolen nothing. Had we desired their stuff we'd just send our army and take the stuff. We refuse to be tyrants. We prefer trade because we both profit from doing so. Past that it's hard to say for sure. We've made the strategic case in a persuasive way so if they are still unpragmatic about this they'll just ignore what we say regardless of how much sense it has. ...Option 1 because emotions may succeed where logic has failed.

Absurdity DeVoid 2024/05/18(Sat)06:00 No. 1091215 ID: ae9a5f
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Possible answers to the question that was asked:

A) Cut off the source of his power, which is his nose.

B) I don't know who you are or why you keep being mean to me but you need to be nice to me right NOW!

C) Show them your power.

D) Other suggestions.

Seems you've underestimated us. Serious mistake. Do you really believe we'd fall for such a lose-lose scenario? We kill him we're tyrants because we kill people who aid us on whims. We refuse and we look weak and powerless. However by exposing your little trap we've shown how wise we are. So if trapping us is your goal you've miserably failed. So save your breath since you're clearly wasting what little you have.

Hey guys I have a theory


https://questden.org/kusaba/questdis/src/170693510616.jpg

>>1091221
Hmm, I think you're right. someone should keep an eye on this one.

Just say no, you don't need to explain yourself. What kind of queen would do what any random yahoo says?

Absurdity DeVoid 2024/05/20(Mon)02:34 No. 1091334 ID: 47343b
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Possible answers to the question that was asked:

A) Keep calm and give Worm Works the benefit of doubt.

B) Instruct your guards to go there and capture him.

C) Instruct the crowd to go there, hopefully that will stop whatever Worm Work was doing.

D) Other suggestions.

A) you can't really do anything discretely while the crowd is here. Maybe you could quietly send someone to remind him to not look suspicious (while also spying on him)

Let's just try to send as much of the crowd there. The more eyes looking for them the better, we do not want to have a missing child on our first visit.

Just keep cool. He's probably not going to be awful. Once we're sure he's done nothing bad we will have to have a talk about the optics of this.

Absurdity DeVoid 2024/05/22(Wed)06:07 No. 1091562 ID: 88c326
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Possible answers to the question that was asked:

A) So you seem to be the one who stole from the villagers.

B) There is more than one way to skin a cat and if you mess with me I will show you all nine of them.

C) Secretly send Gram upstairs to ambush her.

D) Tell Gram to shoot arrows at her.

E) Other suggestions.

E. I wanna have a little fun battle of wits, so lets ask her to come down on stage, get the chief to ask us both questions along with questiona from the audience.

>>1091571
This doesn't seem a crowd that goes for flashy theatrics. Counter the cat's silly witicisms with simple truths.

Try to flirt with her, who knows it has a possibility to work

D. Forget the sharks with laser beams. Forget walking away from them before they're dead. Just shoot 'em dead.

Absurdity DeVoid 2024/05/24(Fri)06:47 No. 1091675 ID: 687c26
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Possible answers to the first question that was asked:

A) Make it the best possible place to live.

B) Make it great again.

C) Make it my own.

D) Other suggestions.

Possible answers to the second question that was asked:

A) Continue to look for them in that place or outside of it.

B) Talk to the puppet and ask it where they are.

C) Forget about that right now we are dealing with the cat.

D) Other suggestions.

Firstly no. What we are here to do is between ourselves and the people. Like I expect you to keep your word even if I did tell. Second go talk to the puppet about this whole thing. Sneaking into a place with a kid is bad optics. Disappearing with a kid is worse optics. What you're doing had better be very worthwhile...

'Acomplish'? You make it sound like we're here to use these people. We are merely here to maintain amicable relations with our neighbors.

Archer, check if there's a basement or something, if you don't find them get back out here. WW is probably doing something innocuous in the most suspicious looking way cuz he's a liability.

Okay, so I would like Bobbie to focus on the crowd immediately, and Abdle to talk to the cat. Consider that she is doing this as a distraction to keep your eyes on her for what she might actually be trying to accomplish with this stunt. Thieves are tricksters like that. You might want to see what mr big nose is up to for example.

Abdle, tell the cat that since you just moved in, your here to establish a good relationships with your neighbors in which both parties can benefit from. If the cat questions it, just tell her there are plans to help the village get better and easier access to food (there, we fulfilled our obligation to Maya)

For Archer, play along for now, and lets ask something that could put them on the spot. Tell the puppet that you saw him walk in with his first customer, Mandy, and you would like to see what he written for the record what Mandy said regarding information on the thieving going on in town.

I have to wonder though, who might be controlling this puppet?

I agree with your suggestion we should keep an eye on the big nose guy. As for the cat let's just shoot at her. Archer talk with the puppet and tell it that Mandy was stolen from you and ask if we can have her back.