Fox will be absolutely miserable at trying to pretend he's an idiot - he's fine with pretending he's invisible, but an idiot is just too much to bear.

He will be attempting to break into the Attaryl school of magic. He will be semi-furtive about this but also will be gently temperature checking people in the party to see how open they would be to breaking and entering in order to gain knowledge on how the magic here fucking works in the first place

he will be getting poisoned and will not be good at hiding his declining condition and his boyfriend is off in the other party, so...