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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Deuce Traveler" data-source="post: 5692913" data-attributes="member: 34958">The party eventually makes their way to Sir Silvershield's office, which is inside one of the larger government buildings near the town center.  You've seen Silvershield a number of times, but have never spoken with him until now.  He greets you politely and asks that you take your seats in front of his desk.  A set of highly polished mail and boots rests in a corner of the room, though the Sherriff himself is dressed in the clothing of a minor nobleman.  Something about both him and his clothes disturbs you.  His hair is neat and oiled without a hair out of place.  His mustache is perfectly trimmed, and even his clothing is so wrinkle-free it commands your attention.  The legal books on his nearby bookshelf are pressed with book ends that keep them perfectly straight, and they are organized according to height, width, and even color.  Even the papers and writing utensils on his desk are laid out in a rectangular and square pattern.  You begin to wonder what kind of madness lies within this paladin's mind when he mercifully breaks your increasingly paranoid thoughts by saying, "Thank you for coming on such short notice.  I hope your trip here was uneventful."You explain that his messenger tried to pick one of your pockets and was caught by a city guardsman.  He sighs heavily, "I apologize.  He was sent to me by the thieves guild with a proposition, and although I do not like working with the Guild, it is a recognized occupation by the City's law and therefore a situation I must tolerate.  If I had my way we'd change the law and make thieving illegal, with or without a license.  All we would need to do is triple the city guard and hand out severe punishments to the first ones to break the law and we could have this city theft free!""Unfortunately, we can't go after licensed thieves, but we can make the unlicensed ones regret their choice of careers.  City officials have been trying to track down the location of unlicensed thief and mob boss 'Jimmy the Fish' Sabatini for the last two years.  The City has offered a 1,200gp reward to any brave group of men who have the courage to hand to Jimmy a summons.  He is suspected of operating a thieving operation without a license and the Guild has word that Jimmy will be conducting a special auction tomorrow night underneath the goblin section of the City slums.  That's where you come in.  Using the maps of the sewer system, I've laid out a map of the crawl spaces you will need to traverse in order to navigate past Jimmy's guards, and hand deliver him his summons.  If you are detected by the guards before handing over the summons, the operation will likely be cancelled and the participants disband.  Of course, when you undoubtedly witness the criminal activities unfold at the auction, you will further be risking your lives as criminals do not like men who tell tales.  If you can last long enough to use a magical device I will give you, it will alert myself and the city guard and we will descend down to arrest Jimmy the Fish, but we cannot do so until we know for sure that he has been handed the summons.  I envy you and wish it was me taking up this honorable suicide mission instead, but I will not be able to fit through the crawl spaces, so it is not meant to be."  He does genuinely look saddened by this.</blockquote>

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