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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Paranoia833" data-source="post: 3557620" data-attributes="member: 49641">Helping himself to a glass of Brandy, Melchior perches himself behind Avram's chair, casually reading the notes over his comrade's shoulder. "Hmm... he's right, Taskerfein does seem like the most obvious candidate for our manipulations. That said I'm of a mind to investigate dear mister Gageron himself. People who make that much money always have something to hide, and he would make a useful pawn if we could find some way of binding him to us. Might be a good idea for me to do some sneaking around behind the scenes at this party..."  Melchior strokes his new for a second, thinking briefly. "Come to think of it, I think I might take our humble master's advice and get myself a new suit. Having a change of clothes could come in handy." He chuckles."Yes, Gageron will be my little project for the night but we should really come up with an overall plan for the party. Our main objective is to make inroads with the Kunderak, but I can't see us getting anywhere significant without a product. Ideally I'd like to buy out Taskerfein and simply remarket his wine to the dwarfs under a new package, but to do that we'll need two things: the first is money, enough to settle Taskerfein's debts and to expand his operation significantly. The second is Taskerfein's complicity: One of us, I'd personally suggest Avram for the job, should approach him at the ball. Become the man's new best friend, find out who he owes money to and make them disappear. Solve a few of his problems for him and make it clear that much more lucrative opportunities await him if he plays our game... make it seem like our interest in him is purely financial, we don't want him twigging our true mission at this stage. Meanwhile we'll also work at undermining his competetitors (hence my interest in old Gargy), dig up dirt on them, blackmail them, kill them if necessary though I'd prefer not to resort to murder until strictly necessary. Everything to make us an irreplacable assett to house Kunderak. Once we've got to the point that we have an open invitation to any of their functions and a few contacts within the house itself, then we should be able to start work on our true goal."Melchior grins again."So what do you think?"</blockquote>

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