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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Rystil Arden" data-source="post: 3316265" data-attributes="member: 29014">Ah--I knew she took dwarven for a reason <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=":)" />  (Dassen is 28% dwarven).Okay, so lessee--Fae's Smuggling Plans, Take 1:[SBLOCK=Fae's Smuggling Plans] Gabal, head of the Gate Pass War Wizard's school, in concert with one or more of the priests of Gate Pass (not sure which are there--what pantheon are we using again?  :crosses fingers for anything but the PH pantheon: ) has tacitly contacted one of Fae's covers for help in smuggling an important discovery--rare Oneirium ore found on a meteorite, which has strange properties related to dreams.  Gabal had originally planned to let the priests study the dream-related properties while he searched for a magical use, but with the Ragesians headed to Gate Pass imminently, including the Inquisition (which drives fear into even the priests of Gate Pass), Gabal realised that the Oneirium would be confiscated for certain, and any attempts to hide it would likely be uncovered and used against him in the mockery the Inquisition calls a 'war-crime trial' for 'dangerous magical insurgents'.  Thus, he arranged to sell the ore to Simeon of the Lyceum for a tidy sum, thus saving the ore from Ragesian hands, getting his own hands clean, and lining his pockets.  The only problem?  Those fools of elders decided to block off all egress from the city, and so no matter how he wanted to get rid of that ore immediately, he couldn't get it out of the city.  Ultimately, he offered Fae a sizable 2,000 gold piece commission to do the job for him.  He figures that at worst, she'll fail and at least he won't be caught with the Oneirium himself.  Before agreeing to the task, Fae first ascertained that she wasn't being played--Gabal himself didn't have the money from Simeon yet, and Fae will collect her reward out of that.  Technically, she could claim more than she was offered once she reaches Simeon, but mages have ways of communicating things, so best not to risk it, and besides--she may be capricious and flighty, but once she actually agrees to something, she won't turn her back on that without a good reason.[/SBLOCK]</blockquote>

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