Nix smiles, "I have an idea. Let's go to the garage." With that, the mage begins to move cautiously towards the garage. He adds, whispering, "Don't touch anything without my nod, not even a doorknob."

Willing to follow their lead, Fix puts back the wrapped steak and head towards the garage keeping to the center of the hallways.

With a twitch, Dingo's body rises and begins walking slowly towards the garage. "Make sure I don't run into anything, will ya? I'm gonna see what I can find about the car," he mutters as he begins rifling through the manor's data in AR, searching for any and all information that might be stored about the vehicle.

Dingo
A thorough scan of the house system turns up an RFID scanner wired to the garage entrance that includes the RFID tag of the vehicle. Digging through the sysem, Dingo is able to correlate it to a road side assistance program, as well as insurance coverage and come up with a plate number, and a satelitte radio subscription.

Dingo's self-satisfied humming increases in tempo as he ponders where to go from there. "I have the car's RFID signal, as well as some information on the road side assistance program he uses, his insurance, the plates, AND a satellite radio subscription. Seems our boy's a bit of a naughty one. Hustler Radio? that's sorta disturbing..."

Nix

As Nix wanders the hallways and rooms looking for anything with a lasting impression, he scans over drinking glasses, a cigar case, family photos, and a dozen other predicatable things. As he walked down the main hall however, something that didn't make as much sense stood out. One of the paintings on the wall stood out with a strong aura of pride and determination. The aura is also stronger and more recent than most of the auras.

On closer inspection, the large painting turned out to be of a mounted knight in simple tabard with a lance in the wood. The painting did appear to be old, but the aura upon it is strong and current. It also certainly matches the rest of the aura of the house, without a doubt something cherished or important to the missing lord.

Nix stops at the painting. He stares at it intently for several moment before pulling off a glove, reaching out and touching it... a swirling maelstrom of colors greats his third-eye. The fog obscuring his senses begin to clear revealing...

Nix - Stanton Manor - Hallway
The vision Nix receives is intense, the feelings of righteousness and commitment practically filling the space around the image of Lord Stanton as he says a quiet prayer before the painting. Although the words are quiet, his expression is determined, grim, the image of a man about to do something. The clothing he wears is not common attire for an English lord, but discreet, dark, and armored. The Lord bears a sword and kisses its pommel as he finishes his prayer, closing his eyes and pausing for a moment, then sheathes the blade. Finally he turns and moves down the hallway with a determined stride, and out of the vision.

The reading felt like it had taken months. As the haze of the vision fade, the impressions and images cycle his brain. He looks from the painting to hallway where the lord went. "He passed this way, pausing at this painting. He was dressed for night work, but with a sword. He moved with purpose and intent." He looks to the hacker, "Looks like we are going for a drive."

"Right, do we want to poke around in here for something more or just chase after him?"

Dingo sighs. "You two see if you can find signs of why/where he went. It'll take me a bit to find his car. If you manage to piss something off, grab my body on your way out the door, will ya? I'm gonna be a little too busy to run." With that, he sits on the ground near the door and switches back to VR, ready for some serious hacking.

Nix stops to look at the hacker with a look of disbelief. I just figured out the biggest damn piece to the puzzle so far and now he wants all the pieces laid out nice and neat too! His reply however is something more akin to: "Yea... Ok." The mage sends a watcher ahead of him into the garage to insure no surprises are waiting, then proceeds to check out the garage himself.

Stanton Estate - Garage
The Garage is large and spacious, with enough space for perhaps half a dozen cars. There are currently four parked within, higher end luxury sedans and a smaller vehicle for driving the grounds. Of more interest however is the open space in the floor. Similar to the pit under a car lift, the open space could easily hold another full sized vehicle. The space is to the right side of the garage, an area that seems to be mostly used for storage. A short ramp and tire marks in the dust make indicate that a vehicle had been stored there. Tracks along the top serve as rails for the cover that is now retracted underneath a small work shop.

Sighing to himself at the delay, Fix takes up position beside the hacker's body and keeps watch by the door.

"It would probably be prudent to try and figure out what he was hunting before we take off, especially if he had to arm himself first." Fix softly calls out while keeping an eye for any movement.

No movement, although Fix can still hear the occasional clucking sound from down the hall.

Nix moves cautiously into the garage, not leaving any extra foot prints if there is dust and towards the workshop. Watcher: alert me of anything else moving in here.

The garage is mostly clean, with little beyond what is expected with the exception of the hidden space. The car park does have dust however, suggesting little use or access.

"I'm not seeing anything else. Do we have an idea of where next?"

"I'm thinking we get the chicken thing out of the study and check there. Best odds that if he left notes, that's where they'll be."

"Then I guess we should get going." Nix begins to cautiously begin moving towards the room, reflecting on his studies of paranormal critters.

Reaching the room and seeing the creature, Nix pulls the mana and shapes it into a stunbolt, directing it at the creature.