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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Crothian" data-source="post: 2221886" data-attributes="member: 232">Amber Company Part 2    That was how the Amber Company got formed.  Thanks to the tales of our heroics and Durabo asking ever freaking dwarf if they had heard of us, the news and reputation spread.  The first mission was supposed to take days and took use just many hours.  That was a big boost to our confidence and our ability.  We did things right and we got them done.  And then we drank.      But it was not all good fortune.  There was a halfling that wanted our help retrieving something that claimed was stolen from him.  We didn’t believe him but said we would look into it.  He was expecting us to break laws to get the job down but we refused to do that.  Or at least I did, I think some of the others would have been willing to bend or even break the laws to get the job down.  But certain lines cannot be crossed even if they mean we have to fail.  Moradin’s teachings on that are quite clear.  I’m not the most faithful and devout Dwarf, but I do try to do right when I can.  It has caused problems but in the end I have been happy with the results.      The Halfling had a wolf carved from a rare wood.  I can understand a wolf carved from a rare rock that would be cool and worth something.  I may have to try it out sometime as my carving slowly improves.  But a carved piece of wood, I just don’t understand some people.  Now, the Halfling had lead of who might have it and it was of course only the most powerful merchant in the city.  Now as I said we never believed the Halfling had the right to this particular piece of wood and we also did not know if the merchant guy for he is a human even had it.  But for some reason we choose to help the Halfling out, not too sure exactly why we did but we did.  Now we never actually got to see the Merchant.  His people were not that co operative and had not even heard of the Amber Company.  It can also be said that I really did not like the guy and had some fun at his expense.  A few weeks later I even tried to get him fired.      Having no luck at the man’s estate we went to his place of business.  We had no luck seeing him there because he wasn’t there.  But we were able to confirm with relative certainty the merchant had the particular block of wood, you know the wolf thing, which we were looking for.  We spoke to a wood carver about the rarity of the wood and how it only comes from some place I’d never heard of to the south.  But I still wonder it was wood, wood can be grown, how exactly can this stuff be rare?      We talked some with the Halfling and while we were not ready to give up we did not have a lot of good news for him.  After that back in the pub we ran into a trio of humans that I really did not like.  They claimed to be from the south lands this so called rare wood is grown in.  They also claimed that they were sent but some important person we didn’t know to retrieve the head of the halfling or the carved piece of wood.  Now I am fairly certain the trio of humans was in fact from this southern land and also was in fact sent here by the rightful ruler of the land to retrieve something that was stolen from them.  I am also fairly certain they were more competent in matter of arms then the Amber Company.  But I just didn’t like them.  They were rude and insulting to us.  So, after the questioned us and sat down at a different table thinking the halfing was going to show back up I order them three Shirley Temples.  Actually it was the dwarven equivalent to that drink but you get the idea.  They were not amused and I think the big dumb human was going to start a fight but the female stopped him.  I so wanted him to start a fist fight with a dwarf in a dwarven bar.  I was of course going to be using my axe.      It saddens me we never ran into them again though they were looking for us the next day.  I bought some fruit that was about a week old to pelt them with.  I really did not like them.  Hopefully, one day we will meet up with them again.  We tried to do more investigating but it turns out that the Halfling was killed and be headed by the humans I imagine but we never proved that.  The Piece of wood also mysteriously disappeared from the Merchants estate.  Later on when I finally got to talk to the Merchant and when I was tring to get his man fired I mentioned the humans and the whole story to him.  Hopefully his contacts and ability out reach my own and he was able to get those humans.  I really didn’t like them.</blockquote>

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