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<blockquote data-quote="cavalier973" data-source="post: 5590203" data-attributes="member: 91595"><p><span style="font-family: 'Franklin Gothic Medium'"><span style="color: yellow">Traevus leans back in his chair, looks around the table, then holds his hands out in supplication. "Friends, friends, I must beg your forgiveness; I mean no disrespect, no disrespect at all. I can see you gentlemen are not mere mercenaries that can simply be bought off with coin." He looks down and fiddles with his mug of ale. "The clay pot was more than it seemed, as I'm sure you have guessed." After carefully glancing around the empty room, he leans forward and speaks in a low voice. "There are things happening in the Nentir Vale; I'm not a dwarf that usually pays much attention to politics, but there is a change in how towns are being run; all sorts of new regulations and restrictions on trade, the powers that be in each town acting aloof and despotic in ways they never had before." He takes a sip of his ale. "And so, certain prominent merchants have banded together for the protection of their interests. Since their activities are considered 'extra-legal', all messages between them are confiscated and examined to detect any subversive activities. These merchants have taken to send information to each other through means other than letters. Putting a message in, or on, a clay pot, is one way they send information." He looks up at the companions again. "So, you can see why, once I realized that the goblins were after that particular clay pot, I had to destroy it. We had been discovered. I thought it enough to prevent the, well, the other side from learning what the message was. It turns out that my, er, patron, considered the message to contain vital information of some sort. And so, he tasked me to retrieve it. But I am no adventurer." He looks around at them again. "Will you help me?"</span></span></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="cavalier973, post: 5590203, member: 91595"] [FONT=Franklin Gothic Medium][COLOR=yellow]Traevus leans back in his chair, looks around the table, then holds his hands out in supplication. "Friends, friends, I must beg your forgiveness; I mean no disrespect, no disrespect at all. I can see you gentlemen are not mere mercenaries that can simply be bought off with coin." He looks down and fiddles with his mug of ale. "The clay pot was more than it seemed, as I'm sure you have guessed." After carefully glancing around the empty room, he leans forward and speaks in a low voice. "There are things happening in the Nentir Vale; I'm not a dwarf that usually pays much attention to politics, but there is a change in how towns are being run; all sorts of new regulations and restrictions on trade, the powers that be in each town acting aloof and despotic in ways they never had before." He takes a sip of his ale. "And so, certain prominent merchants have banded together for the protection of their interests. Since their activities are considered 'extra-legal', all messages between them are confiscated and examined to detect any subversive activities. These merchants have taken to send information to each other through means other than letters. Putting a message in, or on, a clay pot, is one way they send information." He looks up at the companions again. "So, you can see why, once I realized that the goblins were after that particular clay pot, I had to destroy it. We had been discovered. I thought it enough to prevent the, well, the other side from learning what the message was. It turns out that my, er, patron, considered the message to contain vital information of some sort. And so, he tasked me to retrieve it. But I am no adventurer." He looks around at them again. "Will you help me?"[/COLOR][/FONT] [/QUOTE]
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