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<blockquote data-quote="Mewness" data-source="post: 5350018" data-attributes="member: 14889">Papolstaanas has climbed up on a stool to talk to Castofle and cringes slightly at his reaction. &quot;Um, it's, sort of my fault,&quot; he says apologetically. &quot;I was just trying to... Trying to find, you know, expertise wherever possible. And I have this, ah, acquaintance, who, who works for him... I thought that--he, he doesn't know you're here, I don't think. I'm sorry! I didn't mean to-to--&quot;He trails off, looking down at Castofle's preparations. &quot;That smells really good, actually,&quot; he says distractedly. &quot;You know, I was just thinking, have you tried thickening it? Because when we drank zocalti with him, Hulgrimi I mean, it sort of--this is kind of disgusting, actually--but the liquid sort of came out through his skin. Um, so maybe that's why he has some trouble tasting it, because, you know, part of it escapes.&quot;[sblock=ooc]My understanding--and please correct me if I'm wrong--is that it doesn't really matter, for our purposes, who &quot;wins&quot; the competition, as long as somebody does. Our purpose is to get Hulgrimi out of his funk, so that he starts acting like a responsible leader and pays us the restitution he owes us. If he also decides to deal with Balsamae in the future, that doesn't affect our present mission. Balsamae's crew may see it as a competition, be we don't have to. (And I don't know why Balsamae's crew would deliberately try to prevent Hulgrimi's paying us restitution unless they're actively scouring the area for evil deeds to commit.) I'd still like Castofle to &quot;win,&quot; because he seems like a nice fellow, but sabotaging Balsamae seems to me to be counterproductive. It might be useful to find out what he's doing, of course.[/sblock]</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Mewness, post: 5350018, member: 14889"] Papolstaanas has climbed up on a stool to talk to Castofle and cringes slightly at his reaction. [COLOR="Wheat"]"Um, it's, sort of my fault,"[/COLOR] he says apologetically. [COLOR="Wheat"]"I was just trying to... Trying to find, you know, expertise wherever possible. And I have this, ah, acquaintance, who, who works for him... I thought that--he, he doesn't know you're here, I don't think. I'm sorry! I didn't mean to-to--"[/COLOR] He trails off, looking down at Castofle's preparations. [COLOR="Wheat"]"That smells [I]really[/I] good, actually,"[/COLOR] he says distractedly. [COLOR="Wheat"]"You know, I was just thinking, have you tried thickening it? Because when we drank [I]zocalti[/I] with him, Hulgrimi I mean, it sort of--this is kind of disgusting, actually--but the liquid sort of came out through his skin. Um, so maybe that's why he has some trouble tasting it, because, you know, part of it escapes."[/COLOR] [sblock=ooc]My understanding--and please correct me if I'm wrong--is that it doesn't really matter, for our purposes, who "wins" the competition, as long as [I]somebody[/I] does. Our purpose is to get Hulgrimi out of his funk, so that he starts acting like a responsible leader and pays us the restitution he owes us. If he also decides to deal with Balsamae in the future, that doesn't affect our present mission. Balsamae's crew may see it as a competition, be we don't have to. (And I don't know why Balsamae's crew would deliberately try to prevent Hulgrimi's paying us restitution unless they're actively scouring the area for evil deeds to commit.) I'd still like Castofle to "win," because he seems like a nice fellow, but sabotaging Balsamae seems to me to be counterproductive. It might be useful to find out what he's doing, of course.[/sblock] [/QUOTE]

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