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<blockquote data-quote="Trouvere" data-source="post: 4697424" data-attributes="member: 37250"><p>"<span style="color: SandyBrown">Yes, fine, fine. We'd like a room for, let's say a week?</span>" Keldar looks to the others. "<span style="color: SandyBrown">And dinner immediately, please! We've not eaten all day.</span>"</p><p></p><p>Once immediate physical needs have been dealt with, Keldar pokes around their assigned room, noting a conspicuous lack of marble and fine furnishings. "<span style="color: SandyBrown">I suppose I could see a crystal bridge if I leant out a window and craned my neck hard enough,</span>" he grumbles.</p><p></p><p>"<span style="color: SandyBrown">Right, then. Important matters. Gems. Pirate gold. Someone stand by the door, and cover the window.</span>"</p><p></p><p>Keldar spreads the takings out on the table. He begins dividing the gold into six piles, flicking coins about deftly. "<span style="color: SandyBrown">Keldar, Tommy, Tarag, Rapture, Galwynn, Fimble... Keldar, To-</span>" Fimble's instant refusal surprises him. "<span style="color: SandyBrown">Well, really? We'll find some way to reward you for your help, Fimble, if exposing the thieves of your family fortune is not enough.</span>"</p><p></p><p>The coins are quickly stacked in five even piles. "<span style="color: SandyBrown">Now, as you must remember, on the morning we left Orussus, I borrowed fifty gold from Rapture. I now repay it. Keldar always repays his debts.</span>" He moves five platinum dragons from his own stack to the fourth. "<span style="color: SandyBrown">Ah yes, and we can't forget that Galwynn owes me 100 crowns, for those healing potions I poured down his ungrateful throat.</span>" He moves ten platinum coins back to his own pile. "<span style="color: SandyBrown">However, I think it's clear Galwynn felt so guilty about his role in the selling of my ship that he - and Rapture - wanted none of the proceeds. And we have no idea where they've gone or if... if we'll see them again any time soon. So I think it best if, for now....</span>" Keldar takes Galwynn and Rapture's shares and collapses them together, and redivides those coins, adding them to the other three piles. Then he quickly begins distributing the gems three ways.</p><p></p><p>"<span style="color: SandyBrown">There's a thought!</span>" he says. "<span style="color: SandyBrown">Tarag, dwarves have a feeling for stone, and always know how far underground they are, I've heard. And here we are, in one sense hundreds of feet below the ground I'm used to walking on, and in another sense, still in the open air. How does that feel to you? Does only your left elbow itch? Does just one ear pop?</span>"</p><p></p><p>"<span style="color: SandyBrown">There we are! A perfectly equitable distribution, with old debts settled.</span>"[sblock=OOC]Poor Fimble cannot profit. 9000 gp of gems; 5111.6 gp of pirate loot; 4687.2 gp to Tarag and Tommy, and <em>mumble</em> (4737.2) to Keldar.[/sblock]</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Trouvere, post: 4697424, member: 37250"] "[COLOR="SandyBrown"]Yes, fine, fine. We'd like a room for, let's say a week?[/COLOR]" Keldar looks to the others. "[COLOR="SandyBrown"]And dinner immediately, please! We've not eaten all day.[/COLOR]" Once immediate physical needs have been dealt with, Keldar pokes around their assigned room, noting a conspicuous lack of marble and fine furnishings. "[COLOR="SandyBrown"]I suppose I could see a crystal bridge if I leant out a window and craned my neck hard enough,[/COLOR]" he grumbles. "[COLOR="SandyBrown"]Right, then. Important matters. Gems. Pirate gold. Someone stand by the door, and cover the window.[/COLOR]" Keldar spreads the takings out on the table. He begins dividing the gold into six piles, flicking coins about deftly. "[COLOR="SandyBrown"]Keldar, Tommy, Tarag, Rapture, Galwynn, Fimble... Keldar, To-[/COLOR]" Fimble's instant refusal surprises him. "[COLOR="SandyBrown"]Well, really? We'll find some way to reward you for your help, Fimble, if exposing the thieves of your family fortune is not enough.[/COLOR]" The coins are quickly stacked in five even piles. "[COLOR="SandyBrown"]Now, as you must remember, on the morning we left Orussus, I borrowed fifty gold from Rapture. I now repay it. Keldar always repays his debts.[/COLOR]" He moves five platinum dragons from his own stack to the fourth. "[COLOR="SandyBrown"]Ah yes, and we can't forget that Galwynn owes me 100 crowns, for those healing potions I poured down his ungrateful throat.[/COLOR]" He moves ten platinum coins back to his own pile. "[COLOR="SandyBrown"]However, I think it's clear Galwynn felt so guilty about his role in the selling of my ship that he - and Rapture - wanted none of the proceeds. And we have no idea where they've gone or if... if we'll see them again any time soon. So I think it best if, for now....[/COLOR]" Keldar takes Galwynn and Rapture's shares and collapses them together, and redivides those coins, adding them to the other three piles. Then he quickly begins distributing the gems three ways. "[COLOR="SandyBrown"]There's a thought![/COLOR]" he says. "[COLOR="SandyBrown"]Tarag, dwarves have a feeling for stone, and always know how far underground they are, I've heard. And here we are, in one sense hundreds of feet below the ground I'm used to walking on, and in another sense, still in the open air. How does that feel to you? Does only your left elbow itch? Does just one ear pop?[/COLOR]" "[COLOR="SandyBrown"]There we are! A perfectly equitable distribution, with old debts settled.[/COLOR]"[sblock=OOC]Poor Fimble cannot profit. 9000 gp of gems; 5111.6 gp of pirate loot; 4687.2 gp to Tarag and Tommy, and [I]mumble[/I] (4737.2) to Keldar.[/sblock] [/QUOTE]
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