Into the Moral Darkness: IC

[Velmont]

"My name is Venial, and the name of the one I represent is in a missive I carry and must show only to the chairperson. I hope it won't delay much my meeting. As I told, all I ask is five minutes to present myself and after that, I'll leave if the chairperson seems not worthy to answer my friend." tells Venial.

[SBLOCK=OOC]If all is correct with the secretery, he will leave and find a quiet place to write down that missive. It will be a missive written by Ardak asking to listen the carrier request.

Venial will take the information problem that cost his parent's lives to turn that to his advanatge. As most of teh things he will tells are true, if teh chairperson does some quick verification afterward, he shouldn't suspect much and as he won't speak about Jairal, his mole might not hear about his investigation.[/SBLOCK]

 

[Nonlethal Force]

The secretary pauses and writes down the information. "I will slip this note to the chairperson as soon as I have a chance. We will be expecting you for at least a short visit this afternoon."

[Sblock=OOC]Everything you suggest is fine. Anything more to do before returning in the afternoon?[/Sblock]

 

[Velmont]

[SBLOCK=OOC]Maybe, I need to think about it, I want to maximize my time, but I'll answer you Monday, when I'll be back from my week-end, where I give a show at Toronto.

Just a question, how many hour I would have before meeting teh chaiperson? Minus the time I use to produce the missive.[/SBLOCK]

 

[Nonlethal Force]

[Sblock=OOC]If Venial wants to do a poor job on the manuscript, at most 2 1/2 hours after completing the work.

For a good job, 2 hours.

For an excellent job, 1 hour.
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[Velmont]

Venial find a quiet place and start to work. He takes his time and try to remember all the small details he had seen on the different official appers of Ardak when he was with him. He respect the dwarf and the best thing to honor him is to make sure he never know Venial's had use his name to help himself, even if he doubt teh dwarf would be angry at him if he knew the situation. The dwarf himself had been victim of treachery inside his guild.

After making up for all details, he make sure the ink dry enough that it wouldn't look too fresh and then put it into safety in one of his inner pocket. For the remaining hour he mingle with teh people of the mansion and starts to talk with them. The conversation always finish by turning around Terrence Newburg, as Venial tries to learn what happen in Stalagmite these last month, and more precisely, who Terrence Newburg had been seen with and what he has been claiming lately and what he ahs done.

[SBLOCK=OOC]Venial try to do an excellent job and then start a gather information on Terrence Newburg. He will surely need to interrupt his gossip and news fiding to meet teh chairperson.[/SBLOCK]

 

[Nonlethal Force]

In the course of time after making the letter, Venial is able to legitimately speak to two employees of the Baron's estate on the subject. Both of these employees seem to be of a fairly insignificant rank, although the second is a secretary of one of the chairperson's (He didn't say which one).

[Sblock=Snippets]Rather than RP out the whole of the conversations, here are a couple of the snippets that Venial gleaned.

From the first, a middle aged seemingly human female: "Don't like the man, myself. He thinks that he's bigger and more powerful than his is. He's a braggart, and often a liar, too. Ultimately, though, what he proposes is to put his own people in power and put all of us out of jobs. The gods all know that if he was to succeed in his plan to become the elected official that all those in the Baron's estate would be out of work. And not a one of us would get hired by Newburg, of course. Some of us have mouths to feed, you know?"

From the second, a young well dressed male: "Officially, I don't know the man. From what I hear around the office and around town, I think he plays with a stacked deck, if you know what I mean. I don't think the deck that he plays with has very many cards under the value of 5, but I bet he's got more aces in the deck than four. In fact, if I can continue the analogy, I wouldn't be surprised if his deck actually contains about 60 cards and the extras are all aces, too. All that I know is that I'd not want to get into a war against him. And I think that while he boasts a lot, his power base is not overstated."

That is about all that Venial can get out of the conversations before it is time to go meet the chairperson of religion.[/Sblock]

 

[Velmont]

Venial head back to teh religion office with his missive in his pocket. Things doesn't seem to go too good in the direction of Newburg. He seems some kind of power hungry, but that doesn't mean he is teh one who want to get rid of me or put the Baron in a bad situation to the point of helping follower of Vecna... I should also consider it could have been a coincidence that I was sent in the hand of Vecna followers, that that would eb most unliekly. The one who warned Jairal would probably know that he is not clear.

He finally reach the office and gently knock at the door before he enter and look for the secretary. "Hi, I came back to see the chairperson."

 

[Nonlethal Force]

The woman nods her head and smiles. "Yes, I told the chairperson that you wanted to see them. They agree to spare about five minutes of there day, although if your need is legitimate he might be able to spare more and put off his later appointments. Will you wait while I go and tell him you are here?"

 

[Velmont]

"Sure" Venial wait a moment as the secretary go announce him. As he wait, he gather his thought.

Be as true as possible, it will only help to make it believable. The Figther's Guild have been infiltrated and Ardak want to learn more about Vecna as he think on of teh infiltrator have link with the cult. only thing he isn't sure, it is where is situated the head of teh cult. being on teh border, it could easily be on either side of it. He just want to investigate and need help, nothing more. He doens't blame Fereness, as he is not even sure it could come from here, but he want to keep open all door for the moment. Why he has chosen me, because I work here for the Baron, so I could easily make this visit. Also, he help me and know he can trust me because my parents died because of them... a few little white lies, but base on many truth. They should be open to it.

 

[Nonlethal Force]

The woman returns with the chairperson, who speaks. He is an averagely tall man, but wears a full length robe with the insignia of both St. Cuthbert and the Baron. Of course, St. Cuthbert's insignia is above the insignia marking service to the Baron. "Well, I am a busy man, and I hope for your sake the same can be said for you. Come into my office and tell me of this need that is so secret that my own secretary could not know of it."