#baronyofthesilverwolf

"Sounds good, thane." A smile "Geez, Brriar's gonna love this job"

"What's your name?" She asks the Nocker as almost an afterthought.

"Joshua K'putzenkepple" He says

Mortal name Joshua Keppler

She nods, and then closes the door to the trailer, locking it, and leaving him in the dark. To Lavender, now that he is no longer part of the conversation. "There was an expectation of 'visitors', but none so quickly. I apologize for not cluing you in ahead of time." She looks over the trailer, and smiles. "He should be quite comfortable in there, even unclothed. In the sun, this trailer will heat up nicely. It's why all of our lord's trailers are air conditioned. Not that you need bother turn it on. As long as you hear him move now and again."

"Willy's the one who noticed, giving credit where it's due."

"Willy? I didn't know she noticed anything outside of her workshop." She nods. "I'll be sure to give her due credit. And not underestimate her in the future."

"I wonder if the drone sounds distracted her. Hey?" A curious look "Everything okay with you?"

Silence for a moment. "Lady Calanthe does not particularly approve of these antics. Drawing trouble to Silverwolf with little to gain."

A brow "Ah, and you're the.. outlet for her disapproval." A shake of the smaller warrior's horns "Well, I'm sorry you had to deal with that. Anythinng I can do to run interference?"

She frowns, and shakes her head. "She is my lady." Stoic. "I'll take the news back to her." Something lightens in her gaze a little, and she adds, "Perhaps they'll need a message sent to Dark Gate. They should be duly warned as well."

"They should" She agrees and carefully schools her features, "Given your training and supervision of the matter I think, if you want one knight's opinion, you'd be best qualified to go there and share this with the Chief"

Linnea's cheeks color just a bit, and she clears her throat. "We shall see. Please, can you ask Willy to look at this phone when she returns? It might not be her area of expertise, but perhaps she has some insight."

"Will do" She assures

A nod, and Thane Linnea heads back to the manor.

Willy had gone back to her workshop, like a swallow to Capistrano.

"Hey Willlllllyyyyy !!!!" She calls helpfully

Willy pulls her door open. "Yeah?"

"Need your help for one more thing if you can?"

She holds up the OTHER nocker's phone

"It's a phone."

"Right, but it's got steam punk stuff and nocker tech... and secrets. Can you hack it or get it working?"

She grumbles but takes it.

.... and examines it.

Mmm litle whistle on the side, a few gears and knobs.. and.. ooo.. what's this?

Only one way to be sure! She tweaks it.

Ah! Who.. close. there's a needle trap in this. Sticks you right in the head if you try to use it with the wrong code.

"Nasty sonnavahbitch....."

"Shit"

"Yeah." She keeps inspecting.

Mmm ah, she could get the rigght code by getting the finger prints off it likely.

Then deducing the code

She takes it over to a work bench and tries to figure it out. Metalwork is easier, and she prefers it, but.....

It takes a bit, but nockers know nockers.

And she gets a few guesses on equations.. and.. did this dumb son of a bitch use PI as the code?

he did!

Well, it only takes the first 6 digits of Pi.

And click.. the smart phone is open

"It's unlocked. Don't think there are more traps."

"Thanks, Willy. Good eye earlier too" the knight nnods to her

"Fffft. Obvious shit. Even -you- might have thought twice."

"Gee, thanks" Lavender says, "The praise is going straight to my horns"

"Mmph."

"You want to look this over or shall I? or. I guess we could leave it to the boss' choice"

A shrug. "I can look. Or yeah, the Baron might want to see it."

"Well the Thane wanted you to look at it, nnot sure that stops with the traps so have at if you want"

She grunts and inspects it. Call history, app usage, so on. She takes notes.

Huh.. contact calls... seems one labeled 'Leech's Goon' got a lot of calls. Another 'horned whore rival' has only two calls. Chuck Whuck's House of Drones... at least five calls.

Loads of tracking apps, some purely chimerica, annd internet searches on Centaurs!

"Centaurs. Heard 'bout them. Looks like he was looking for 'em." Willy shows Dee.