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Sir Ewen wrote:Seeing Thilisa return to safety only to have her marry another man has little to recommend it...
Sir Ewen wrote:Doesn't departure from the Green Dragon Inn as witnessed by Tora close the logical noose a little tighter around Sir Toren? It's just another piece of data that happens to fit him, and we have yet to find a data point that impugns an alternate suspect. With Sir Rollard seemingly off the hook, Sir Toren looks more suspicious than ever.
Sir Ewen wrote:To wit, are Stables run like Valet Parking?
Sir Ewen wrote:What exactly happens when you arrive at an inn and stable your horse?
Sir Ewen wrote:Are written records kept of riders and their respective horses, or is pure memory work involved? Do you get a chit to redeem for your horse?
Sir Ewen wrote:How do ostlers prevent someone from innocently, or maliciously, taking out someone else's steed for a ride, or outright stealing it for that matter?
Sir Ewen wrote:how does the busy ostler avoid this logistical and professional nightmare, especially during the busy times (noble wedding, wool fair, etc.)? The ostler naturally has stablehands and such working for him; how does he make sure the boy tending the stable overnight doesn't give somebody the wrong horse?
Sir Ewen wrote:How does one access one's horse after hours, say if one has to leave town during an emergency?
Sir Ewen wrote:Are riders paired to horses by rider's name, or by description ("the bay mare in the end stall is owned by the tall guy with the hooked nose who arrived yesterday")?
Sir Ewen wrote:Is the owner-steed relationship a matter of public knowledge, or does the ostler maintain a certain level of confidentiality about such things
Sir Ewen wrote:("Who owns that beautiful black Khanset mare?" "None of your business, mate.")? Would an ostler or stablehand answer a question by a knight about who is the owner of a non-knight's horse?
Sir Ewen wrote:Do inns ever stable horses of folks who are not staying at the inn? And is my assumption correct that such an arrangement would certainly not be the case at the present time in Minarsas?
Sir Ewen wrote:The fellow we spoke to at the Green Dragon Inn had so many horses going in and out earlier this morning that he couldn't provide much information, aside from the fact that Sir Ewen's rather unique Khanset handn't left. But surely horses only went out with their proper owners?
Sir Ewen wrote:Ostlers are guilded, so I imagine a certain level of record keeping is more likely to be involved than in non-guilded professions.
Sir Ewen wrote:Stables of which we are aware in Minarsas include one each at the three inns (Green Dragon, White Horse, and Cask & Flagon), presumably one within the castle walls, and a freehold ostler located between the graveyard and the market square? Does that cover it?
Sir Ewen wrote:None of the knights, for instance, are parking their horses near their tents on the common due to lack of space or something?
Sir Ewen wrote:Do the temples (Laranian and Peonian) have their own private stables? Any there any other stabling locations we would have already obviously noted in our various peregrinations about town?
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