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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Deuce Traveler" data-source="post: 5686852" data-attributes="member: 34958">After moving the body into the corridor, the party stands on guard for several hours while the two Union workers seal the wall back up.  The work goes on without event, though the bodies begin to collect some flies.  Gunzuul recognizes the 'ogre' as the halfling in which his now-dead friend had taken the fatal job.Once the wall is bricked up and looking like new, the group backtracks through the sewers and into fresh air once more.  The group comes through near the docks, where the famous statue of the Eagle diving down and attacking the Serpent lies.  It is known simply as the Eagle and Serpent statue, though it symbolizes the rivalry between the warrior family of the Lombard House and the scholarly family of the Saventi.  The free City avoided the influence of the two rival families, and neither House is allowed seats on the ruling Council.  A young woman lies vulnerable and helpless near the fighting animals, as she represents the city and the danger that the conflict put its people.  It is rumored that the Lombards were little more than successful brigands, and the Saventi practiced dark arts.  Eventually the Lombards became the dominant House in the lands outside the City, though the Saventi seemed to reappear every few decades in a partially successful attempts to eliminate the Lombard line.Once everyone is out of the tunnels and secures their equipment, they walk away from the statue and go to the Union Hall to make their report.  The Sewer Rats and Union workers enter the Hall and make themselves comfortable and simple wooden chairs opposite a long table where three Union bosses and Artemesia, the Sewer Rat representative that assigned them, sit.  Gunzuul is quickly introduced to Artemesia before the report starts.  The party and Union workers explain in minute detail everything they saw and did, with contradictions patiently worked out through repeated questioning.  The Union bosses take diligent notes and scribble constantly, never taking their eyes off their own and each others papers.  Artemesia also takes notes, though she studies the faces of her Sewer Rats with interest when they describe the mutant encounters.  At the end one of the Union bosses says, "Thank you.  It's an interesting report and we'll make sure to send a copy to Artemesia once the final draft is created.  The city has sent payment to us for you work, but is there anything you would like to say or ask before we finalize your allotted benefits?"</blockquote>

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