• The ancient elves have left!  Looking up, you realize they are right.  They were here when you all awoke... they must have departed with their ship while you were all interviewing Shaemus.  Folk say they sailed off north over the Lake until they were out of sight.
• People are saying that the Praefectori and several other major nobles were summoned to the castle in the hours after the elves left.  No one knows what it means.
• Its a full moon tonight... for the last 3 months, someone has disappeared each full moon, with a strange sigil carved above their hearth.
• There's a major investigation underway into the murder at the Wandering Mage yesterday.
• A large shipment of halfling tobacco has come in at Stoutport.  It may be weeks before it reaches Bardstown, but it should finally alleviate the horrific prices on tobacco in the city.
• The games at Kilkarney's are all rigged; alternately, some claim that Kilkarneys ensorcelles people to make them gamble more; alternately, they are looking to expand and add a horsetrack soon... hurray!
• There is a feud between Dillon of house Schmidt and August, youngest son of house Cammarato.  There's talk there may be a duel.  Their powerful fathers are working to squelch these rumors.
• Some traders who were here yesterday left in a hurry for the Fidelis border.  Some suspect they may have been agents of the church of Bardos.

You find plenty of folk willing to talk to you… unfortunately none of them are quite the right type.  You find longshoremen, warehouse workers, sailors, ore shovelers, even a ship’s captain.  All of them have heard stories of folk who dwell beneath the waves, and some even believe those stories, but none of them have heard anything that matches up with what Shaemus has told you, and none of them fish below the docks.  A few have heard that there are spiders under the docks and a few other note that they dump the garbage and waste from their storehouses right into the canals and are surprised to learn anyone fishes down there at all.  All of them believe, to the last man and woman, that if there WERE any sea people hanging around Bardstown, they would have already been identified and it would be common knowledge by now.  

Perhaps it was just bad luck, perhaps Guilim isn’t accustomed enough to a port town to identify a lobster-man from a sailor, or perhaps there is just no one about right now who can add anything to your investigation.

Rohuzar is going look for lobster traps and fishermen, asking after what they know and what other strange occurrences might be happening. 
investigation - 8 

persuasion - 24 

As the others at the docks are interrogating people, Eskil decides to go for a different approach. He finds a quiet spot by the waters surface (I assume there is some easy way to get down there, like stairs or ladders used to get on row boats or something like that) (Investigation, just in case: 16 ), and spends 10 minutes ritually casting Speak with Animals. He then sprinkles some crumbs left from his breakfast cookie on the water, trying to lure some fish to the surface. (Animal Handling: 17 ) If some come, he asks: "Hello! Do you have a minute to talk with me? I'd like to ask what you know about the people living under the water." (Persuasion, assuming feeding the fish gives advantage: 9 )

If he can manage to converse with some fish, he'd like to ask: 1) where in the lake the people living underwater live, 2) if they too can speak with animals, and 3) if they can speak with animals, what could he give the fish to get him to tell them he would like to meet them.

It takes most of the morning but you eventually find what you're looking for.  Initially suspicious you are just looking for his fishing hotspots, he calms down once he realizes you are an armored adventurer and not a crafty fisherman.  He is happy to chew your ear off about all the comings and goings beneath the docks.  Not much is helpful but he does confirm a few things.  

• He confirms Shaemus' story about nets, traps, etc being stolen or broken under the docks.  He's heard the stories about sea people being responsible but suspected it was a treacherous fisherman sabotaging the competition.  In any case he hated fishing down there at night because thats when the spiders come out.  They never attack, but it is creepy to hear 2 foot long spiders munching on lobsters above your head while you are trying to fish in the dark.
• He can also confirm virtually everyone has abandoned fishing below the docks at night.  
• He also says he heard a partial body was recovered during the day by fishermen.  It was last month, before Lem Lemonhands disappeared.  It looked like it had been eaten.
• Most of the fishermen he knows are superstitious and there are a lot of different opinions about what is going on down there... but most are variations of... someone or something doesn't want us down there....
• He continues to share legends and idle fishermen tales about giant lobsters and pike that you can ride but it seems he ran out of useful information.

It takes you quite a while to find a way down on your own, but eventually you find a ladder leading down to a canal.  You can see where a boat or skiff is normally tied here, but it is gone at the moment.  Sprinkling your bread crumbs, you see the water is about 2 feet here with a sand bottom covered in small freshwater clam and snail shells.  There is also a few water plants growing.  Looking off in either direction, you see the gloom below the docks spreading off, with a long sliver of light, like the sunrise, on the lake side where the docks end and open water begins.  Also, here and there you can see where light breaks through due to a canal, illuminating other areas to your east and west.

Eventually, a large carp rises to the surface and begins to pluck your breadcrumbs into its sucker-like mouth.

Fish are not particularly intelligent. 

• At first you think you are making some headway as it acknowledges seeing lots of sea people on two legs, but you soon realize once it mentions boats that it is just talking about fishermen.  It generally likes fisherman as they leave lots of tasty garbage behind them.  It becomes very confused when you explain you are looking for people that live under the water.  It tries its best to explain to you that people live above the waves, not below.
• Eventually, you gather that it only knows of a single creature like what you are describing... like a human but living beneath the water.  Its a horrible thing, not something it would ever try to talk to, just swim away from... the waters taste like death when it comes... the fish tries to think... it may be coming again soon.  Its probably best to leave the area.

With that it grabs a few more pieces of bread, bubbles a thanks, and swims away.  For the duration of the spell you try to chat with a few smaller fish, but none either possess the intelligence to carry on much of a talk, or aren't aware of any news outside of fish school drama.

Wines

House Merlot: a house-made red wine with a bouquet that is buttery and full   Glass 5sp, 8cp; Bottle 1gp, 7sp

Holy Dwarf Riesling: a finely made white wine that is described as powerful and rough   Glass 1gp; Bottle 3gp

Beers

House Stout: A house-brewed dark stout, described as refreshing with an aftertaste of barley    Pint 9cp; Huge Mug 3sp

Turtle King Amber Ale (chilled): copper-colored golden ale, described as a nutty golden ale with a hint of chocolate and a bitter finish, served ice cold somehow   Pint  9sp, 9cp

Liquor

Hot Corn Spirit: clear and very harsh    Shot 1sp

Top Hat Halfling Rum: decent rum, made from sugarcane    Shot 4sp

Food

Shredded Red Salmon and Artichoke Heart Stew  1sp, 9cp

Giant Rabbit Jerky Basket   1sp, 2cp

You find one reference to a spider that feeds on aquatic creatures.  It is a blind spider from the deep caves in the mountains called the Cave Fisher.  It has developed an unusual, dense webbing.  It lowers a ball of this into the water and fish and cave shrimp are attracted to chemicals it releases.  The webbing is able to hold its “stick” even underwater and the spider reels back in whatever prey is unlucky enough to take the bait.  Certain specimens are said to have adopted their feeding style to lasso goblins or other terrestrial prey, those this is all anecdotal without confirmed evidence.

we are far from the mountains though so you cannot say this report has any certain connection to your study of the Cave Fisher.

You were raised on tales of ghost ships prowling the midnight sea or of murdered sailor’s ghosts come back to haunt their killers… but you haven’t heard of anything that would make sense within the context of the pieces of evidence assembled here.