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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Ambrus" data-source="post: 2770915" data-attributes="member: 17691">Damien smirks at Tremance's admittance of a dislike for paperwork. That's probably the real cause for the mistakes in your ledgers. Damien seems willing to address Tremance once more when Grendel speaks first. He listens to the sailor's opinion as well as the large barbarian's desire to be done with the meeting, seems to reconsider what he was about to say and instead simply nods to Grendel with a smile. This is probably more money than any of these fellows has ever been offered for employment in their lives. "Very well Mister Grendel. It will be as you say." Turning to the clerk Damien says: "It seems we have an agreement Mister Tremance." Damien looks over to the other two members of their odd group. By the mariner's beard; what have I gotten myself into?The young scribe pulls an oiled leather scroll case from the bag at his feet. Pulling off its cap he begins removing his scrivening tools; a pen, pen-knife, blotter, sealing wax, inkwell and a sheet of parchment. He sits back down, dips his pen in the inkwell and begins to write in a fine calligraphic script. Damien will write out a brief but complete transcript of what Tremance has asked the group to do on his behalf, for how much money and with notes to clarify what conditions must be met for proper payment.When ready, Damien will pour some sand onto the parchment to soak up any excess ink, blow on it to clear it off and then hand the pen and parchment for Tremance to sign. Assuming he does, Damien will then heat some wax so that Tremance can press his Excise House clerk's seal onto the parchment. He'll then roll it up and put the contract back into his scrollcase before offering the clerk his right hand."Now then, perhaps you could tell us more about these numerous mistakes that appear in Covis' manifests. If he is somehow doing something illegal we'll need to know what part of his operation to focus on so that we don't waste our time and your money by investigating the wrong thing."OOC: Dalamar, let me know if you want me to actually type out the contract. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f609.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=";)" title="Wink    ;)"  data-smilie="2"data-shortname=";)" /> [Sblock]The contract accurately describes everything that Tremance stipulated and agreed to though there is a single word that has been omitted for simplicity: permanent.[/Sblock]</blockquote>

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