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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Express" data-source="post: 1647198" data-attributes="member: 19166">Enter the Dragoneye (con't)Bynara looked at him quizically. “ Ya I know girl,” he replied laughing,” I dunno how I got the nickname either.”Bynara was getting impatient, “Why are we here, are we prisoners?”Redblock laughed louder. He had a scratchy voice and rough laugh. “Prisoners, naw, not at all. In fact, I was hoping we could come to some sort of, you know, understanding.”Understanding? I didnt even know what time it was.Redblock got a bottle and poured us some drinks. He handed them out to us. “I see in your identification says you're out of the House Medani huh?”  It did and I was, so I nodded. He nodded back. ”Ya I saw your mark too. Why wuz you hangin' round the Gobbos, hum? You aren't working for them ?” The dwarf waggled his head and answered his own question.” Naww Koba don't take anything but gobbos.”I said we weren’t. I explained we had a case; it was confidential and I didn't feel I should discuss.“See, now I was sure of that. Ya see?” Redblock turned to the half orc who was stationed in the corner. The half orc nodded his head like a dog. ”That's what I wanted to see- professionalism and confidence. Look, let me get to my point; tell me, you know anything about something called the Dragoneye?”I shrugged, I was being truthful at least.Redblock laughed loudly. “Ahah me either. Ya, see I got a problem. Koba that piece of..... (at this point Redblock grunted something in dwarven.) Dorbo translated. “Excrement” Redblock pointed and affirmed the translation,then continued “Rumor says he lookin' for something called the Dragoneye. He’ s crazy about gobbo history, Claims he's a from a line of goblin kings or whatever they have. He always looking for gobbo junk. So you don't know nuthin bout it?”We shrugged.Redblock continued; he talked fast and liked to talk, I could tell that already.“Look Ima businessman. Koba’s been a gnat I can’t swat. He’s popular withtha gobbos, and that makes him big in the Cogs and the docks. He’s gettin alot of power round there, ya get me? And now our businsess interests are, wahtcallit, overlappin’." Redblock's face was getting red, his voice building in a creshendo at Koba's description. He didnt like Koba, that was obvious.Byanra growled, “Thats too bad.”.“Ya it is. “ He continued on barely taking a breath, his face getting redder.” In the old days I woulda already killed him and his gobbos, but now I got connections, and whatchcallit, responsibilities with some Houses, and they wounldna like it if I started a street war. Got me?”Dorbo took a drink and leaned forward, “What exactly do you want?”“What I want,” said Redblock, going back behind his desk, “is for you to look into the Dragoneye thing. Since you seem to be doing somethin’ confidential that involves the gobbos and Koba, I thought maybe our interests, could, ya know, dovetail. If this Dragonthing is some widget Koba wants, I don't want him ta get it, if its a scheme, I wanna know bout it. Ill pay good coin to aggravate and you know, thwart whatever he’s up to.”I asked why he didn't use his own men. “See, now, that's a problem, “the dwarf said, jabbing a thumb at the half orc,” I got lotsa boys on the payroll. But I got quantity, not, you know, quality.”I considered the half orc. He looked at me through dull eyes, but viewed me like a piece of furniture. Maybe he didn't recognize me from Hennets, or maybe he never saw us. Maybe Redblock was testing us or just playing with us. If he was, he was taking the long way round. Redblock could have killed us already if he chose to. I decided to throw the dice.“Do you know anything about a half elf named Hennet Onaan?”Redblock squinted at me. “How you know Hennet?” For a second I thought I’d made a mistake, but he smiled.“I know the kid." Redblock replied looking at me intently." Hes a good guy; drinks too much and he’s the most unlucky gambler I ever saw, but he’s ok. Whatchu want with him?”I played along, not sure waht I had done..”Maybe hypotheticlly, we might be looking for him.”Redblock’s smile got bigger. “Really? Then I think we might be able to do business there kid.”</blockquote>

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