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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Deuce Traveler" data-source="post: 5838690" data-attributes="member: 34958">Some of the party is exhausted and decides to go home.  However, Needles, Fergus and Hardnose are determined to finish this job despite the lack of sleep.  They go to the goblin section of the City Slums, eventually making their way to Bent Penney Street where goblin vendors sell questionable looking ground meat and sausages in stale buns.  The conversation goes something like this, "No, I don't want a rat sausage with mustard.  I'm looking for Jimmy the Fish.  I know Jimmy the Fish doesn't work here or sell meat.  No, I don't want a meat paste pie.  No, I am looking for Jimmy the Fish, not Jimmy the Meat Seller."Word must have gotten out, however, because after some mind-numbing bantering a young goblin in ill-fitting clothing approaches and asks you to follow him to where Mr. 'Jimmy' Sabatini is enjoying breakfast.  It's a small diner a few streets away and he sits at a small table.  After some warm greetings you hand him the summons and explain to him the situation.  To say he loses his temper is an understatement as you can feel the atmosphere grow chill while his face grows red.  "So, I invite you to my charity and you were Thieves Guild members all along," he asks in a dangerously tense tone of voice.You explain you are Sewer Rats hired by the Thieves Guild to hand him a court summons, but have no intention of trying to do him harm.  He thinks for a moment while he calms down and nods to you.  Three burly goblins that were sitting nearby put their hands away from whatever weapons they were reaching for before the angry exchange.  "No, you are right.  One way or another my opponents would have found me and things could have gotten bloody.  If you agree not to press the issue and not attempt to take me into custody, I will agree to answer the summons and appear at court.  This could actually be to my benefit as I can be in control of how I appear and the direction of the trial."  The man nearly smiles as the wheels inside his head start turning.  "But this will take away from my other secret project, as I was about to use the charity money to try and capture these new, mutated giant rats before they breed and create an out of control situation below the goblin district.  Now, if I had a handful of determined men out to help our community and do this job for me, well then I think I and my staff can focus on this trial, while these young community volunteers can take on the giant rat mission.  Do you know where I can find at least three young lads that know their way around the sewers and could use the meager bit of coin we have to offer?"  Mr. Sabatini asks the last question while staring intently at you.</blockquote>

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