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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Creamsteak" data-source="post: 4041617" data-attributes="member: 552">"There is at least one task that could be completed, though it's a fair bit more dangerous than you probably anticipate.""Oh, that. Well then, what does her wisdom wish to offer as payment?""Do we have the gems discussed before?""Yes, I have them. So we want to send them into the dungeons?""Alright then, I'll explain. Dragon's Teeth, we have long been trying to recover the Marquis. He disappeared nearing a year ago, and has not been seen since. He had been having fits of illness and could not sleep. Sometimes he even cried out in the night as if asking for salvation from some cruel attacker. One day, he simply vanished. There seemed to be no trail, as if he had literally been pulled through astral walls and removed from our world. Investigators, both mundane and magical failed to find any sign of him. Some tried to mislead the Marchioness, but they were found out by the high chancellor.""But just recently, new evidence had turned up. Dark elves were found in the city. They had long been absent from Istivin, but the stories tell that they were deeply entrenched in this city when the demon queen was summoned within these walls. They have long worshipped her as a god, and an avatar of destruction appeared here, they say. The captain was involved in that affair, and his companions dealt her a great blow that day. That dark elves have appeared again within the city is a sign of much danger.""They were found dead, just outside of the entrance to the deeper dungeons. They were trying to get in, it seems, but someone stopped them. We have stationed guards around the place and quaranteened it from visitation. However, there is a chance that some of the dark elves got through. We are curious what they were looking for inside. Perhaps something going back to the abyssal invasion?""A time that Istivin was in dire circumstance, indeed."The woman in blue draws a small satchel and presents it to Veris sitting next to her. Veris examines the contents and counts them fairly quickly.Veris, "Rubies and blue star sapphires. It looks like 10 of each, about the size of a tooth or marble." The estimated value of the bag is roughly 200 platinum."If you can secure the deeper dungeons and find either the dark elves or any evidence of the Marquis death or disappearance, we'll pay you three additional bags of gems of similar quality. You need only provide the evidence."Orange flinches, "You're just giving them the first bag now for nothing?""Of course. They can't be trusted, but they might truly be influenced by their personal greed. If those whet their appetite then of course they'll follow the trail.""There is still another concern. We cannot let this transaction or others out.""Oh, this is going to be good.""Yes, there is the matter of collateral. As you all know, your weapons were placed in the recieving hall. I assume the quality and enchantment of each of them was fairly valuable to you?""Oh my.""You didn't, did you?"</blockquote>

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