Which is kind of pointless since he seems to have consumed so much, any alcoholic side effects escape him...

Anybody: So Alcohol doesn't bother you anymore?
Musashi: I wouldn't day that. look at this. *holds up his left hand. It is perfectly still*
Anybody: solid as a rock.
Musashi Yeah, but I fight with this one. *holds up his right hand. Which is randomly flopping about.*

Either BM is very bad at hiding his plots, or this is all just to easy to figure out...

And Tasuh is immune to alcohol. He's been drinking for 1000 years.

Its easy to figure out from our perspective, where we see what everyone sees, hears and thinks, but from our characters standpoints we know nothing.

It wouldn't be that hard for our characters to figure it out...

"Hm... Super rich guy just happen to 'forget' to get this key thing. None of us seemed to care, so he starts listing off many things that just happen to be perfect for us..."

And of course, when we actually get there, I think it will be very, very obvious...

Actually he meant to imply that the Ibric leader never sent the key, not that he forgot to stroll by. And he controls the vault, hes not rich on his own.

Doesn't Arianna already have the Besta mind link? (since she is a besta) Or was that mentioned in the list of things for somebody else in the party? (I'll have to remember to have Arianna talk to Palidor more often... I forgot about the mind link.)

Bestas develop mind links with their own pets, things they're near all the time. The mind link would let you speak with any animal.

Sounds like it's his fault to me...

And do we have to go get this key thing? It sounds mandatory, but for story purposes I assume we all have to go.

I was thinking that Celes would force you to go, but yeah were all goin one way or the other...