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<blockquote data-quote="covaithe" data-source="post: 5062111" data-attributes="member: 46559"><p>The dwarf, with an effort of will that can't have been easy, manages not to roll his eyes. <span style="color: tomato">"Well, of course I don't have the ransom money <em>with</em> me. What would be the point of that? You'd just kill me and take it. It's with the bondsman, of course. We work with Jespa Finch in the docks; you know her? Five hundred each, that's standard rate. As I'm sure you know."</span></p><p></p><p>[sblock=streetwise DC 5]Bondsmen are people who, for an up front payment and a regular fee, will pay ransom money for adventurers delivered to their custody alive. The fees vary, but usually it's something like 250g up front and 20g a month thereafter. For that rate, if an adventurer finds himself in a situation where death seems otherwise unavoidable, he can surrender. Then, if his captors turn him over alive, the bondsman will pay a ransom on his behalf. The ransom is almost always 500 gold, the same as the cost of a resurrection. </p><p></p><p>[sblock=DC 10]Jespa Finch is a bondsman -- bondswoman, if you prefer, as she is amply female -- working in the docks area of Daunton. She has a fairly good reputation: she checks to make sure her clients aren't dead before forking over the cash, and if there are any rumors of her denying payments to legitimate clients, she's quashed them thoroughly enough that you haven't heard them. Also, like many of the better bondsmen, she is... enthusiastic... about discouraging non-clients from using her name in an attempt to delay their fate.[/sblock]</p><p>[/sblock]</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="covaithe, post: 5062111, member: 46559"] The dwarf, with an effort of will that can't have been easy, manages not to roll his eyes. [color=tomato]"Well, of course I don't have the ransom money [I]with[/I] me. What would be the point of that? You'd just kill me and take it. It's with the bondsman, of course. We work with Jespa Finch in the docks; you know her? Five hundred each, that's standard rate. As I'm sure you know."[/color] [sblock=streetwise DC 5]Bondsmen are people who, for an up front payment and a regular fee, will pay ransom money for adventurers delivered to their custody alive. The fees vary, but usually it's something like 250g up front and 20g a month thereafter. For that rate, if an adventurer finds himself in a situation where death seems otherwise unavoidable, he can surrender. Then, if his captors turn him over alive, the bondsman will pay a ransom on his behalf. The ransom is almost always 500 gold, the same as the cost of a resurrection. [sblock=DC 10]Jespa Finch is a bondsman -- bondswoman, if you prefer, as she is amply female -- working in the docks area of Daunton. She has a fairly good reputation: she checks to make sure her clients aren't dead before forking over the cash, and if there are any rumors of her denying payments to legitimate clients, she's quashed them thoroughly enough that you haven't heard them. Also, like many of the better bondsmen, she is... enthusiastic... about discouraging non-clients from using her name in an attempt to delay their fate.[/sblock] [/sblock] [/QUOTE]
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