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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Aldern Foxglove" data-source="post: 5405141" data-attributes="member: 97308">In the Dunn Wright InnFelian Secalli, a well dressed middle aged man whose red sunken eyes and slumped defeated posture indicate recent hardships, has put out the call for mercenaries - which you and your fellows have chosen to answer.The nervous Secalli sits before you his hands hovering close to a statue of a golden hound - some ten inches tall and obviously worth a fortune - which he has placed on the table before you.  Now you are close you can make out writing upon the hounds belly in a language of spiky jagged letters.<img src="http://oriental-decor.com/img/products/s/3657.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " data-size="" style="" />Once all of the chairs before him are filled Secalli takes a deep breath and speaks, "Thank you for hearing me out, I am Florian Secalli, a Goldsmith here in Venza - at least I was.  But I am accursed and I need your aide desperately.  It is this statue which is my undoing, it has cost me," he pauses for a moment eyes bright with moisture and continues in a desperately miserable whisper, "my only son, and two servants and who were practically family, it has destroyed my livelihood and robbed me of peace.  If you can help me break the curse I offer you the statue, it is solid gold and worth well in excess of 1,000 gold pieces.""I received it from a friend some three months ago from my friend Zachary, he was a broken man having just lost his wife and daughter.  I offered him a fair price, but he insisted I pay only a pittance, and refused to take more no matter how I pressed.  I found out later when he left the shop he purchased rope and brandy with the coin I gave him and hung himself....  I... I, excuse me."  Secalli pulls a red silk handkerchief from his breast pocket and buries his face in it for a moment."My apologies, these last months have been trying.  Since I bought this damned hound...  Well, something has stalked me at night letting loose a terrifying howl, I swear it is the hound itself.  It broke into my home and killed my boy on the first night of the full moon I owned it.  Then I made fast the shop barred the doors and purchased guards, but it came again and killed my manservant Harvin, and again killing the cook Erma.  Each time on the first night of the full moon, and each time it turned and left once it had taken a single life of one dear to me.""I discovered the inscription is in infernal and had it translated a few weeks ago, it reads...""Yours I am as you agreed, bound to me by lust and greed. Jealous am I of those too near, for owning me the cost is dear.  I shall bind you unto death, until you join me with your last breath. To be rid of me you must betray, get your nearest love to pay.  Rejoice that you are so bound, to the stolen wish the Golden Hound. In full moons light the price is paid, another shall die should one evade." "I have been warned against trying to destroy it since it is now linked to me, and my own life would likely be forfeit, not to mention that the hound might be released from the restrictions currently imposed upon it.""What I want is for you to come with me to my country house where I have my family protect us and slay the golden hound before it can take another of my loved ones.  The only other way I can free myself of the curse is to sell it to the one dearest to me, and that I cannot do.  Will you help me?  The full moon comes either tonight or tomorrow and I am desperate..." </blockquote>

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