Tharirmun seems pleased with you. "Not much of a rule, I am afraid.. but I never cared for managing .. creatures.."
The spider dome crawls around the room eerily, it's one good eyestalk waving and nodding at each of you.
"My passion is possession.. objects. Pretty things, important things.. but most especially..the powerful things."
he chuckles hollowly. It's kind of unpleasant.
"Good help is hard to find. After all, usually if you find some crew willing to go after a nice piece and theyre really good, well, half the time they may want to keep it for themselves. Thats been my curse, I suppose."
A fingerlike tendril or vein from the brain suddenly animates and glows slightly, writhing. Those of you who have spellcraft recognize the casting of a spell- silent image.
A small vista-like scene shimmers into existence in the center of the room. At first it seems like a framed picture of boiling red terrain as seen from above, but then it seems to pan down, closer and closer, and the 'view' angle shifts. It's a landscape- a hellish scene of craggy mountains and boiling red sky.
A shadowy halfling sized figure with coal black skin and curved horns is trying to crawl away down a sheer cliff above a raging lava waterfall. He is clutching an iron rod betopped by a bat-shape and a gleaming silver serpent winds its way down the rod.
The scene freezes and zooms in on the black-skinned demonoid clutching the rod.
"Thats the piece. The Scepter of Qawazu"
"The demon you see there was an employee of mine I sent to steal it, and he seems to have decided to keep it for himself."
"I detest having to pay twice for an item, but in this case, I will double what I was giving him, if you were to retrieve the piece and kill the thief. I suppose I am paying three times as much. Luckily I'd rather have that rod in my collection than the money. Alternately, you may have anything you like from my collection appraised at the same value as what I offer. And oh yes, I will pay up front."
Tharirmun chuckles and scuttles backwards slightly. "120,000 in gold. Or you can pick through my vault. My accountant will appraise any item you are interested in and deduct it from the reward money."
"I suppose the caveat is that if you betray me, I will hire even more hellions to track *you* down and I will likely end up paying 5 times as much again on top of it.."
