Just want to point out that this is going around asking about Zhang. Seems to me that won't net us much more than rumors about how nasty he is since nobody was willing to approach him.
Isn't that the case with a lot of them?
II seems the most remote in terms of good information, as nobody knows what the criteria is. I still like
I, because while Lady Ji is enigmatic, knowing more about her could at least provide a guideline as to what sort of person she is, and in turn, what sort of person she might want as a member of Luoying Manor. As for asking about Zhang, I can think of lots of information that we could reliably get: how long he's been a member of the inner court, what he's doing here right now, that sort of thing. We would get a few tall tales, I'm sure, but there's a kernel of truth there too.
I'm reluctant to pick V because it's a strange thing to ask these people about, and V is just as questionable in terms of info as I and IV are. That being said, I suppose we could justify the question due to the fact that we're a Physician's Apprentice who would naturally be curious about this sort of thing. Nevertheless, I feel that we've been given an interesting alternative by Zhang: all this time, we've been thinking about our qi condition with the intention of curing it - getting rid of it. Zhang, on the other hand, sees it as a gift; I find that pretty interesting.
Out of all the choices, the most reliable information that we'd get would probably be
III and
VI. There are lots of scholars here who have a keen interest in history, so I'm sure we'd get something out of them with III. Information on Yuhua Hall would be readily available too: this is an opulent Manor that has all sorts of weirdos as members, we'd definitely find more about the woman that tried to kill the Prince with VI, and it'll probably be trustworthy.
However, neither of these are really relevant to our current situation. I mean, it's good, yeah, but if we're a member, we'll get to pick everyone's brain on these sort of things anyways. That's why I think we shouldn't put the cart before the horse: get a membership,
then ask them about all this stuff, not the other way around.
V. Your strange qi condition, though you do not reveal that you have it. So we don't have to lose our arm.
Learning about our qi condition has nothing to do with losing our arm. That's all related to the poison - we cure the poison, we don't lose the arm if/when Zhang encounters us after the conference.
Look, we really need to find stuff relevant to us in terms of getting into Luoying Manor in the first place instead of all this other stuff. We have a lunatic who wants to capture us four days from now, I think we ought to know more about him, even if it happens to be that a lot of it is half-truth. Dude, there's a near-unanimous vote to follow the scholar near the inner court, I think we ought to at least know about the inhabitants a bit if we're going to be sneaking along their turf.
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