Viola might well take a tour, given how much she loves sights and sounds--but hanging around near the grogs would probably impair their ability to make contacts. Still, she doesn't want to get too far from them.
Scott
Chersonesus is an ancient city. Historically Byzantine, these days it's dependant on the Empire of Trebizond - the locals are primarily greek speaking, but turkic speaking visitors from the Crimean hinterlands are common. The city features a fine cruciform basilica fronting onto the central square where Constantine saw the statues with the greek plaques earlier - it's reputed to be on the site of Vladimir the Great's baptism to Christianity, and as you'd expect there's a strong divine aura present.
Finding other singers is less successful - where they exist, it's generally too early in the day still for them to be present at the inns. The one you do manage to speak to is fluent in greek, but knows only very basis Kipchak.
When you get back to the inn, you find the singer's brother still doesn't appear to have returned. The staff are a bit surprised - they would have expected him to be back by now.
Send the grogs to look for him, with Constantine acting as a scout. Viola will follow at a discreet distance.
I don't know where else we're likely to find someone fluent in both Greek and Kipchak, so we'd better carry this through....
Scott
The inn staff aren't sure exactly where he was heading, but they're at least able to point you in the direction the buriel left in. The grogs get lucky with further directions from some street hawkers, and after a while the route starts to seem rather familiar to Constantine...
This is the route Constantine's funeral procession took? OK, before we get any further, Viola is going to take the grogs aside and warn them that we might well be dealing with faeries. They are not, under any circumstances, to conclude any sort of deal or eat any sort of food given them by a stranger--and anything else in that vein--without checking with Viola first.
Scott
The brothers both nod respectfully taking note; also a little nervous, "Understood Maga". They'll get back to retracing the procession and watch for the signer, or any strange mutterings.
You continue on, ending up at the large square in the middle of the city Constantine was in before. The square itself seems to be doubling as a market place - although Constantine notices that it's quieter than it was earlier (it's by now getting on towards late afternoon), there are still a good number of both merchants and shoppers present.
Filling one side of the square is a large church, cruciform in shape. On the other side of the square is the bronze bust where Constantine near where he saw (or rather, didn't see) the procession he was following earlier disappear. Near it are a couple of other statue bases, missing their statues. All three have writing engraved in what looks to be greek.
What are you doing?
Presumably the grogs will start asking questions.
Scott
What specifically do you want them to ask about?
If it's the wagon, a few people remember seeing the wagon, but no-one remembers seeing where it went - nobody saw it vanish, they're just not sure what happened to it.
Have they seen any of the people involved before? What do they know about them? Anything else unusual happen lately around here?
Scott
A couple of the stallholders recognised the brother from the siblings' performances at the tavern - they've been playing there throughout the winter. One of them thinks he might have seen some of the others drinking with them at some point, but isn't entirely sure - they'd never paid that much attention to them.
As to the unusual - they have't really seen anything odd (apart from people asking weird questions about funeral processions). Although, now that they come to think about it, the wagon was going to wrong way for the church, which is where you'd expect it to be going.
Talking to an attendant at the church, apparently her funeral wasn't scheduled with them.
Let's keep looking. Assuming we find nothing more, let's continue the search for a singer...but tonight, Viola wants two grogs (both awake at all times) staking out the square. Was today a date of any magical significance?
Scott
You keep looking round the square, but seem to have already covered most of what can be found out by mundane investigation on your own - there's the statue bases with the greek writing, but none of you are able to read greek. Are you casting any spells?
Viola doesn't have any Magic Lore (unless I've missed it), so she's not very sure about any magical significance beyond it definitely not being an equinox or solstice. Faerie Lore she's better with, but the only things that occur to her is that the recent melting of the sea ice is probably a transition that will have attracted the attention of faeries somewhere (albeit that was a week or so ago now and the middle of even a coastal city isn't an obvious place for that to manifest), and that funerals in and of themselves are something that often attracts faerie attention - the most common type of faerie road is a corpse road.
I'm not sure if they would see it without looking actively, but Viola and Constantine will both search for a regio boundary.
Scott
I'm treating Second Sight as "always on", so you should be able to pick up on things passively - actively looking doesn't hurt, however. Unfortunately, in this case you quickly realise you can't even see the familiar cords which you know are there - the divine aura appears to be smothering your second sight.
I've been playing Viola so long I occasionally forget there's such a thing as formulaic spells....
We've got a +13 casting total for Piercing the Faerie Veil (including a Potency bonus for a violet sapphire), which means we should be able to do it even in the Divine aura, and even with no words and subtle gestures.
I will let you roll, in case there are surprises.
Scott
Viola quickly realises that the divine aura here is strong enough that casting without words isn't going to be an option (a divine aura is -3 per aura level rather than -1). Fortunately the market, although dying down now, is still busy enough and noisy enough that casting with standard vocals with subtle gestures (and strategically positioned grogs) in a moment where nobody's paying you any particular attention isn't too much of a risk, and Viola successfully casts the spell on her second try.
Looking around the market you can see there is indeed a faerie regio boundary present - a path winds its way around the statue with the bust of the woman, but then appears to peter out. From the faint sound of a dirge she can hear, Viola thinks it would continue for funeral processions.
Hmm...then we need a funeral procession...but probably not a real one, because we don't want a real body being pulled into a regio. Now where could we get a casket?
Scott
Plus there's the problem of where the real body comes from (a CrCo 20 spell is one of the less morally dubious approaches).
Caskets...there are almost certainly people who sell them. Or you could use magic (probably not in the middle of the market place). Or you could grave rob, I suppose, which would have the advantage of coming with a real body, but possibly a few attendant disadvantages.
[Sorry for the delay. Christmas hasn't been a particularly calm time. 
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I don't think we're going to manage CrCo 20, esp, not with a longer duration. We might however put a live grog in a casket. That might even make the procession more interesting than usual to the faeries (and it's not like accidental live burials never happen). A MuMe or MuCo spont might help him to ask deadish, in order better to seal the deal.
Let's see if we can scare up a coffin. Yes, Viola could conjure one up, but she'd prefer a real, non-perishable one.
Scott