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Message: <blockquote data-quote="DEFCON 1" data-source="post: 8274507" data-attributes="member: 7006">Hawthorne watches as the dwarven Master Reader takes his time trying to smooth and clean the book that he had found, admiring his technique and desire to keep things tidy.  When the high elf, Ethian is his name, makes the call to journeying out to find this village of Maerin, Hawthorne nods in agreement.  "That was exactly my thought as well, Mister Ethian.  We of the Black Dragon Gate are constantly trying to find and recover old mines across the Sword Coast... both for the historical value, as well as... well, I guess let me be blunt... economical value as well."He tilts his head and shrugs his shoulders in a sort of "It is what it is" sort of response to his own comment.  "We've actually done extensive work trying to recover the remnants of an iron mine north of here in the Cloak Wood.  Was flooded over a hundred years ago by... get this... a spawn of the dead god Bhaal.  Can you believe that?  Who knew the God of Murder hated mining so much that he'd send his kids to go around destroying them.  Crazy."Looking around the room and counting the number of folks here that all volunteered to help him with his research, he realizes that he might have just enough to fill out an excursion party to go off in search of this village of Vermeillon and the platinum mine adjacent to it.  "I've been commissioned by the Consortium to find out whatever information I can, and this book here..." He motions to Ruz, still in possession of A Deep and Creeping Darkness. "...gives us a fairly strong lead to go on.  Shedrick and I will be preparing to journey forth--" He suddenly realizes something and furrows his brow in irritation as he glances at his footman. "--we probably shouldn't have sent the coach back home, should we?  We could have used it."  Hawthorne heaves a big sigh in resignation for not having thought far enough ahead. "Well, in any case... we're going to go look for this place and I have the gold to hire anyone experienced in this line of search and work to lend aid.  You've all proven yourselves useful in a library setting-- anyone feel like you are good out in the field too?"</blockquote>

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