At the Three Thieves Inn, Bassai, a Naga archaeologist, has breakfast, and consults with a garter Naga who is an informant with scattered details about a First Ones site tied to the loss of Kame Ikata's sanity, and about Lord Titus haut Mikide's aborted expedition. Bassai is given a gold shekel to go about and find what information he can, then present his findings in a report … with a possibility of future help to mount an expedition to the site