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<blockquote data-quote="Nephtys" data-source="post: 4014275" data-attributes="member: 31780"><p><span style="color: White"></span></p><p><span style="color: White">"But if we remove the threat before we recieve our payment the full value of our services won't be payed. They'll give us a pat on our back, or a sword on the shoulder, a couple bars of gold and then send us on our way. If they don't decide to simply take our heads and save themselves the money."</span></p><p><span style="color: White">"How will we recieve the true value of what we'll save? They'll owe us the lives and property of the entire city, perhaps the entire world, and they will never agree to give us more than the crumbs off their tables. And if we survive, whatever payment we recieve, our very existence will become a liability to those in power. Our success will only make their incompetence more apparent, we will become a symbol and a threat that they will have to remove or face a loss of political credibility and power. We will have no choice but ride off, fleeing into the sunset with our pocket-change and crumbs. Is that not why you have hid your actions until now, your fear of their ingratitude? Your fear that your comfortable life here may be over if the wrong people find out that you know too much? Hmm?"</span> Veris lifts an eyebrow, insinuating. <span style="color: White">"It seems to me than the only way to earn more than a small fraction of what we deserve and secure our future safety is blackmail..."</span></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Nephtys, post: 4014275, member: 31780"] [COLOR=White] "But if we remove the threat before we recieve our payment the full value of our services won't be payed. They'll give us a pat on our back, or a sword on the shoulder, a couple bars of gold and then send us on our way. If they don't decide to simply take our heads and save themselves the money." "How will we recieve the true value of what we'll save? They'll owe us the lives and property of the entire city, perhaps the entire world, and they will never agree to give us more than the crumbs off their tables. And if we survive, whatever payment we recieve, our very existence will become a liability to those in power. Our success will only make their incompetence more apparent, we will become a symbol and a threat that they will have to remove or face a loss of political credibility and power. We will have no choice but ride off, fleeing into the sunset with our pocket-change and crumbs. Is that not why you have hid your actions until now, your fear of their ingratitude? Your fear that your comfortable life here may be over if the wrong people find out that you know too much? Hmm?"[/COLOR] Veris lifts an eyebrow, insinuating. [COLOR=White]"It seems to me than the only way to earn more than a small fraction of what we deserve and secure our future safety is blackmail..."[/COLOR] [/QUOTE]
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