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Message: <blockquote data-quote="DM_Matt" data-source="post: 1143954" data-attributes="member: 1213">As Rahja walks into the upscale tavern in Waterdeep, she replays in her head her orders from Grand Matron Sylia, the mistress of the local temple of Sune.  The assignment has been quite an honor for Rahja, and perhaps quite an opportunity as well.  She was to meet with Danilo Thalavar, son of the Lady Thistle Thalavar, the most powerful nobleman in the city of Longsaddle, once a sleepy trade town, now a thriving city of pleasures, owing to its location on the borders of the conflict that rages between Storm and the free people's of the North.  Longsaddle had become a neutral zone where combatnts on both sides could find pleasures of all sorts to distract them from the fighting outside.  It had also become a den of corruption, where traitors, spies, and exploiters of war and suffering from both sides could meet anonymously and not-so-anonymously (OOC: The small town from canon-FR is IMC a hybrid between Westgate and Las Vegas).  Slyia tasked Rahja to negotiate the opening of a temple of Sune in Longsaddle, and had even floated ideas about giving the church of Sune formal powers of some vague sort within the city.  If Rahja were to succeeed in negotiating a good arrangement, she would be appointed Matron of the new temple. There would be obstacles of course...most importantly money, and likely competitioin from the more hedonistic Sharess, but the deal is most certainly possible if she players her cards right...Rahja scans the room as she enters, and the host, a man named Hargin, whom she is well-acquanted with, leads her into the back room, where two scantily-clad waitresses are serving a party five  expensively-dressed young men. The leader stands up to introduce himself.  He is strikingly handsome -- or rather, he clearly used to be.  His otherwise-perfect features are marred by a badly-broken and scarred nose.  Still, though, his personal magnetism and self-confidence clearly remain.  "Danilo Thalavar, at your service!  And these fine young gents are my brothers Horace and Lulo, and our good friends Happy Gondegal, owner of the Shining Way Hotel and Gaston Zibel, who represents those who provide vital services of the night."  "Waitress, some of your finest elven wine for the lady."---------------------------Meanwhile, Ines walks through the shadows of the very same establishment, attracted by news that wealthy, powerful strangers from the north had arrived for a very important business deal in this very tavern...</blockquote>

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