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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Medriev" data-source="post: 4577187" data-attributes="member: 21864">Chapter 5 - Gray Dwarves and Dark Elves (Part 5)“This is the place,” said Dulvarna with a wary glance towards the duergar trading post in the east wall. Rendil Halfmoon has directed them to the shop before them, a structure seemingly built from a stalagmite mound in the eastern half of the cavern. It was called Gendar’s Curios and Relics and was said to be run by a drow exile. Dulvarna led them cautiously through the doorway into a rambling shop filled with shelves of random treasures and curios ranging from amulets to daggers to the dried limbs and heads of creatures known and unknown. Larger items including a golden structure of revolving spheres set on frames stood on the floor of the outer chamber while through it all, at the back of the room, the companions saw a counter, behind which stood a dark skinned male elf poring over a scroll spread out on the counter. He wore a patch over one eye and looked up to regard the newcomers as they entered. His face cracked into a truly predatory grin as he saw the adventurers enter his shop.“Welcome, strangers,” he said then. “To my humble establishment. And how can I assist you today?”“Where do you get these treasures?” asked Telkya, her curiosity genuinely aroused by the strange shop.“People bring them to me,” answered the dark elf. “I am always on the look out for new curios to sell and folk are always looking to buy the treasures of the Labyrinth.”“And who brings them to you?” persisted Telkya. “Few travel the Labyrinth simply seeking treasures to bring back to you.”You’re right of course,” the drow responded. “But people can be motivated to seek out such things. You, for example, are likely not here to discuss the wares I sell but have some other purpose in coming here.”“We seek duergar,” said Lavren then. “And would know if they inhabit the Horned Hold. They have some things that are not theirs.”“Indeed,” answered Gendar. “And something that I desire as well. Perhaps we can aid each other.”“Perhaps we can,” said Erlmoor. “Does that mean they can be found at the Horned Hold.”“They can,” Gendar answered. “And one of them has something that I once possessed, a skull scepter. I will pay for its safe retrun.”“How much?” Lavren asked at once.“Three hundred gold,” answered the drow just as quickly. “No more no less. If you refuse I will find someone else to recover it. From you if necessary.”“Don’t threaten us,” Enlishia snarled in response. “I dislike dealing with drow as it is. How will we know that you will pay?” “You will not,” answered the dark elf. “But since you seek the duergar anyway I give you a chance to make some gold. As I said, if you refuse or take the scepter for yourselves then I will send others to recover it. Plenty come through here seeking gold. Someone will take on the task.”“We will do it for you,” Erlmoor answered. “Though I too mislike your threats. Know that we are called the Defenders of Winterhaven and it would take powerful sellswords indeed to take anything from us.”“Fair enough,” said the drow, nodding. “Bring me the scepter and you shall have your gold but if you’re not back here in a tenday, I’ll be hiring the next likely band to come through here to find it in your stead.”The companions nodded and as one, turned to leave the curio shop. They crossed over the eastern side of the cavern to the duergar trading post and walked inside as though they were customers. Barring the door behind them, they headed for the passage at the southern end of the back room. Litiraan conjured light to an unlit torch and together, the six companions started back out into the darkness.</blockquote>

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