I'm glad we seem to have the weekend to think this one over, as I'm not sure where I want to go next.
I was a bit surprised that we don't seem to have the option of going to Cliffside Cemetry where the Dragonborn washed up on Silver Beach was taken to be buried. Though we may not want to waste our Speak with Dead token on a random murder that may have nothing to do with our investigation, or perhaps we should go to Silver Beach first anyway in the hope it'll help us work out what our five questions should be if we do decide to interrogate the dead Dragonborn.
The fact we've got a bit more info about that one and that it's more recent makes me more tempted by Silver Beach than following up the other murder at Insight Park right now.
I don't see any immediate reason to follow up on the monster meat (hope the mortician isn't supplying corpse chunks for food!) or the overbearing guard at the Shrine of Ilmater. Unless we really are meant to take a Dirk Gently approach and just investigate the most random and apparently unconnected thing!
There don't seem to be any direct leads to Sceleritas Fel (which feels like it should be an anagram!) or his "Master" as far as I can tell. And this game thing is reminding me of something. Not sure if it's Die Hard with a Vengeance, The Great Game episode of Sherlock or something else entirely! Wild theory: Sceleritas Fel was the bloke with the dead animal on his hat. And I'm getting echoes of Renfield and Dracula from how he talks about his Master. Is a vampire involved? Though Fel describes him as a "noxious angel" and "vulgar fiend", but I'm not sure if we should take that literally.
We suspected some connection between Magpie the urchin and the Guild, and the urchin seemed to know at least something about who we were tracking (either Fel or his Master?) given he said he'd not want to be in our shoes, and obviously got the letter from somewhere. But we've already been to the Blushing Mermaid which I think was our only lead on the Guild, so that trail seems cold for now.
Then there's E Shearan and our bard's false beard (was he in hiding? in disguise? an actor? just wanted a beard and couldn't grow one as he's an elf?). I'm not sure we can do anything with those titbits at the moment, though.
In short, I'm leaning towards Silver Beach but I'm going to ponder it and try to work out what I've missed!
"You may call it 'nonsense' if you like, but I've heard nonsense, compared with which that would be as sensible as a dictionary!"
