Okay, I'm more fully awake now, so here's something I want to bring up again while I can hopefully put it together in a cognizant manner.
KY galaxy braining that Irish role blocks visitors is really bugging me. (Note, we've established this even if the knife/whatever happened to Shade is seperate. It's not important what happened to Shade for the purposes of this point) Sure it could be a lucky guess, but it could be something more. While I'm annoyed at Shade for going in on me, I don't think he's entirely without a clue, only partially without a clue. If people are in communication, it would have to be KY and Retal. I'm more suspicious of KY for the simple fact that Retal appears to have a legit reason for knowing Irish role blocks people, IE the visit and the ticket. Thus he is the "origin" of the knowledge and it would have to spread from there. While it could be that he's scum and he communicated this fact to scum buddy KY, it could also be that KY, rather than doing noting as he claimed, actually spied on Retal somehow and gained the same information he did. "Doing nothing" is always a dubious claim to make, and yes, I do know full well I myself said I did nothing, but when so many people say it, some are probably true and some are probably false. Granted, KY-Retal could still be a strong pairing, but I hope I explained why I'm more interested in KY first.