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Message: <blockquote data-quote="jkason" data-source="post: 5633312" data-attributes="member: 2710">[gm]Qik: "wand o' magical radiance." Love it. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" />Systole: Daylily doesn't find anything else of value in the house.[/gm]Caan is studiously unresponsive until Relic picks up his bow, at which point he becomes positively livid."Keep you hands off my bow, you old fool, or I'll strangle you with the bowstring when I get out of here!" he yells. He appears ready to say more, but as the guards level their swords closer to his neck, he swallows further threats, though he glares daggers in Relic's direction."Your bow?" Umberto says. "That bow was gifted to you on appointment to our household. You kept that, this house, this plot of land, and a rather sizeable severance, Niam. You could have lived more than comfortably, if you hadn't been so inclined to ludicrous excess." Here the noble gestures to the blood-covered gold collars Relic holds. "I didn't want comfortable, you soft sod," Caan spits back. "I had a grand standard of living, back before you went and ruined your house. I was gonna get back to that. Woulda been a lot closer, too, if it didn't take me so long to get that wand working each time."Gabbiano tenses at the wand's repeated mention, and again as Relic brings attention to the artifact. His eyes seem to take in the audience, and he halts his exchange with the prisoner to respond to the party. By this point, careful to angle himself to try to block out as much of the artifact's aura as possible, Quioan has reinstated his mystic vision, and turns it to Niam Caan. There is a very faint aura of conjuration magics coming from a pocket in his cloak. Quioan believes it's of the healing subschool. But everything else on Caan appears to be mundane."Of course I'll do what I can to show you all our gratitude for your service to justice and my house. Finia, you have the funds, yes?"The elven attendant nods, sparing Daylily only the briefest glare at his unexpected appreciation of her display of temper. She unshoulders her pack and drops it to the ground, where it jingles noticeably."Master Gabbiano feels that Niam Caan's actions have made forfeit his claim to any possessions. As previously agreed, you're free to take any of his gear which you find of use. Furthermore, my lord is prepared to buy any items for which you have no use at their purchase value."Gabbiano interrupts here to add, "This would of course include Caan's gaudy choice in animal collars. I can't imagine you'd have much use for gold collars with my house's seal. I mean, they only make for odd questions, and we don't need those, do we?"Caan opens his mouth to shout down the noble's gifting of his property, but Commander Parsons grabs the man by the throat."I work within the law, Caan. I want your judgement handed down by the Venzan courts for every other scofflaw to see, but I am still well within my rights to kill you now as a threat to a noble of the city. You speak again only when spoken to, or you never speak again. Understood?""Understood," the woodsman mutters, fuming silently.Finia waits a moment, looking from Gabbiano to Caan to Parsons, making sure no one else is going to interrupt, before continuing:"In addition, my lord is prepared to reward you with some 300 platinum pieces as a show of his undying gratitude." She raises an eyebrow as she looks to Relic. "One trusts such a reward would allow significant academic advancement?"[gm]FYI, the sum above includes your time-based gold, since we're nearing the end of things. I'll break all that down when we're done, but didn't want folks figuring time gold on top of that amount and then being disappointed.At this point, I think it's all about whatever kind of wrap-up RP you're interested in, guys. If you have more interrogating you'd like to do of Caan, or questions you have for any of the other NPC's, have at. Caan's gear is as follows, and as Finia says, you're welcome to sell any of it to Gabbiano for the price of buying it. He'll also convert your gems and collars and whatnot into real money. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /> :* Potion of cure light wounds (1)* MW studded leather armor* Masterwork composite longbow (str +1) with 19 arrows* Scimitar* Silent whistle[/gm]</blockquote>

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