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High Law and Low Justice, Part 5
- Thread starter Maerdwyn
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Bugger. They allways smile before they shaft you.
"Forgive my insolence, but would you allow me a telephone first? One of your underlings might have made a mistake with the money transfer."
Gwydion phones the bank to make sure the money is transferred, then orders it to be transferred in bank bonds to the ship. He'll try to do this without being overheard by the alien, well aware that he's under scrutiny, so he'll try avoid using the ships name. Once the money is in the spaceport it'll be under imperial jurisdiction and he hopes it'll be safe there.
"Forgive my insolence, but would you allow me a telephone first? One of your underlings might have made a mistake with the money transfer."
Gwydion phones the bank to make sure the money is transferred, then orders it to be transferred in bank bonds to the ship. He'll try to do this without being overheard by the alien, well aware that he's under scrutiny, so he'll try avoid using the ships name. Once the money is in the spaceport it'll be under imperial jurisdiction and he hopes it'll be safe there.
Wilphe
Adventurer
"Of course, even I doubt my underlings competance some times. That is, after all, why they are not sitting here having the pleasure of talking to you," he smiles at you dispassionatly as you talk, making no sign that he has overheard or understood you. The first you find out about it is when the tent flap rustles behind you as someone else enters the room behind you.
OOC:
[sblock]Not sure the best way to handle this, I'll give him a Listen check to overhear you and then oppose Bluff v Sense Motive to figure out what he is up to.
He does work out what you are up to and the first you find out about it is when the tent rustles behind you
http://invisiblecastle.com/find.py?u=T20&limit=on[/sblock]
OOC:
[sblock]Not sure the best way to handle this, I'll give him a Listen check to overhear you and then oppose Bluff v Sense Motive to figure out what he is up to.
He does work out what you are up to and the first you find out about it is when the tent rustles behind you
http://invisiblecastle.com/find.py?u=T20&limit=on[/sblock]
Wilphe
Adventurer
It's the burly Girug'kagh who was waiting outside when you came back for your appointment, but for the moment he is content to stand there and block the doorway. The Proctor's voice is calm and clear, "I think you may wish to tell your bank that, you will, eh, call them back later."
Gwydion smiles and takes out the disc from his portacomp. He sighs theatrically.
"Just now that we were getting to be such good friends."
He slightly bends the disc between his fingers.
"Funny, isn't it. You'd think that by now these data discs would be nigh indistructible, but they're still as fragile as five thousand years ago."
He smiles again, or at least shows something with a lot of teeth in it. "You'd get a pretty decent copy out of it's fragments, but still, you'd never know if there was some vital piece of info you'd missed. And it's read only, so it's erased from my portacomp the moment it ejected."
"So please, just play it straight, would you? We'd all be a lot hapier then, with a nice clean karma. I'd hate for negotiations to become unpleasant."
"Just now that we were getting to be such good friends."
He slightly bends the disc between his fingers.
"Funny, isn't it. You'd think that by now these data discs would be nigh indistructible, but they're still as fragile as five thousand years ago."
He smiles again, or at least shows something with a lot of teeth in it. "You'd get a pretty decent copy out of it's fragments, but still, you'd never know if there was some vital piece of info you'd missed. And it's read only, so it's erased from my portacomp the moment it ejected."
"So please, just play it straight, would you? We'd all be a lot hapier then, with a nice clean karma. I'd hate for negotiations to become unpleasant."
Wilphe
Adventurer
The Proctor motions his associate to stay where he is, and remains seated, "Well that might be a risk we are willing to take, especially as how we can't be 100% certain that this information is genuine. Of course one can never be certain about anything, but I'm not sure the extra certainty we might gain from having all of it is worth 300,000 credits and the pleasure I would get from watching Ishargarun here crush your skull like a ripe grape. Perhaps I might reconsider if we had greater knowledge of the provenance of this data? Where does it come from?"
"Well, it would be the pleasure of seeing him trying to crush my skull and miserably failing, for starters. I got this data from the still warm but rapidly cooling hands of a passenger on a ship who suffered from an accident. Someone I recognised from my early days, but he didn't recognise me. Apparently someone tampered with the gravity controls of his cabin. A tragedy."
He smiles.
"Send your bruiser back outside, and we'll negotiate."
He smiles.
"Send your bruiser back outside, and we'll negotiate."
Gwydion gives him a flat stare. "I have lost count a long time ago. This is not a holovid action drama where there's good guys and bad guys and the hero allways keeps his suit in a nice crease to dance with beautifull ladies. All you need to know is that the entire crew was cleared from any charges, and that there are two people who know what I am doing here. Now do we have a deal or do I seek another buyer."
