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Message: <blockquote data-quote="hewligan" data-source="post: 4890793" data-attributes="member: 19688">The three men make a hasty retreat, being careful not to run, but moving quickly to pick there way through the corpses and off into the night.Ironbriar remains silent as they depart, a scowl forming on his face. Perhaps now that he knows his situation is hopeless, some of his old bitterness has returned.He listens to Jovik's taunt, and then Danth's short sermon. After a moment, he speaks up."Yes, I am your prisoner, but I am a powerful man. I have many important friends and people who owe me. People who I have dirt on. It is amazing the things you learn as Justice of a city of this size and with this much debauchery about it. Take you, for example ..."he motions towards Danth"The Father of your flock, found cruelly murdered, his face torn off .... I had him killed. I watched over that ceremony. It was my hand that moved the razor to carve off his face as he still lived. And do you know why? He was chosen randomly. He was chosen because someone needed him to die. I heard a little whisper in my ear, shall we say. An important man who wanted rid of a nuisance presence in his district. I took care of it for him. His character is unblemished. He owes me. ""Now I am not so foolish to think that the many people who fear what I know, and who owe me for dark deeds I have performed for them would be sad to see me killed, but they would also not want me pulled before justice, for then I will reveal all of their dark secrets and take half the city's power-brokers with me.So you have only 2 choices really. You can kill me now, for if I think I am to be killed I will die fighting, even if it is with my teeth and nails. Or, I can lead you on, show you who REALLY led this sect, and teach you what I know of her, and how she tricked me .... and where she dwells. But to do that, I need a promise. A promise made on all that is holy to you. A promise that when I fulfill my part of the bargain you will let me escape. I have contingencies. I can disappear within 12 hours, perhaps less. I will never resurface in this land.That is my bargain. Kill me now, or parlay with me, and I will help you, but then you must promise to let me go after I lead you to her with all the knowledge you need to defeat her. But if you want to take me before justice, and pull me and half the city down, then prepare for not a single breath of help from me, and resistance at every single step you take.It is your choice. I may have little bargaining power, but I worship death, and it holds no fear for me. Decide!"</blockquote>

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