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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Rayex" data-source="post: 4370568" data-attributes="member: 15833">The group move out, following the stableboy to the estate of Lord Nanther. In no more than fifteen minutes you look up at the entrance to what almost looks like a park. Where Melvaunt generally looks dirty and inhospitable, this place looks like the very opposite - Clean, fresh and welcoming.The guards at the gate inspects your seals closely before letting you enter. As you walk the path up to the estate proper, you hear the sound of children playing somewhere in the grounds, and dogs barking in response.Another set of guards are stationed at the entrance to the house itself, and yet again your seals gets a close inspection. You are admitted, and told to please wait inside the door for someone to take you to the Lord himself. However, as you enter a tall, blackhaired man is walking down the stairs. The man, leaning heavily on a gold-tipped ivory cane with a handle shaped like an isis head, match the description of Lord Nanther. He has the slightly dishelved apppearance of a man who hasn't slept in days, although he is well dressed and capable of feigning a smile. He bids you to follow in to a sitting room, and after dispensing with the introductions, he collapses into a large padded chair and fixes his steely gaze upon each of you."I wish to pay you 1,000 platinum pieces to find my son, Oreal. While he's a grown man and I don't follow his activities on a daily basis, he hasn't been seen for five days - far too long. Worse, rumours abound that other noble scions are missing. I've exhausted all prudent avenues of investigation, but with the increased orc raiding of late and the heightened tension caused by the missing sons, I'm affraid I have little to show. I am certain you, as neutral operatives, will have better fortune. I must warn you, as the lord of this great house, I have many enemies, both within the city and without. Some no doubt seek to take advantage of this distraction to undermine my authority. House Nanther's utter destruction is not beyond the pale. Such is the politics of this wretched city.""Please bring my son back to me, forcibly if need be, safely and soundly. If you find the other scions, please return them as well - surely the other great houses will blame House Nanther for any deaths or harms inflicted upon their kin. Just to be clear, however, the platinum I am paying you is for Oreal's safe return alone."</blockquote>

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