And So It Begins

The group engaged in a process of surveillance and information gathering to find out everything they could about Zahara's.
Miandra spent most of the time researching the black rod recovered from the shrine.
Learned about the composition of the brothel's guards, their staff, and a few interesting personalities including an exotic Varghani woman who arrived and never left and a deva who resides there of her own accord.
Also discovered the identities of twelve of the brothel's patrons.
Miandra's research and a visit by her and Shashank with Zeltas the Elder, a Zahara's patron and noted sage, revealed that the rod the party found was a segment of the Rod of Seven Parts.
Biren and Terius spoke with another patron - Halbrook Thornwell, head of the Iron Storm Brotherhood mercenaries - but little came of their conversation.
Quinn spoke with the patron Arendal Gaunter, a powerful wizard and member of the Order of the Obsidian Tower. Oddly, he alluded to his companions having powerful magic which could be liberated from them.
Upon meeting back up after their day of investigation, the party was assaulted in a deserted intersection by a pack of demon worshipers, led by the mysterious, red horned skull-tattooed stranger from Highwood.

Sold the elven relics to the eladrin embassy
Shashank, with group consensus, decided to begin a war with House Malor in retaliation for their attempts on the groups' lives.
Singled out Malor's lucrative Zahara's House of Earthly Pleasures, said to be the best brothel in the city.
Sent Biren and Terius in to pick a fight to get some measure of the brothel's defenses, though they were repelled without much success.