Night's Embrace: Part 1--A Touch of Darkness

[jkason]

Titus Farrab, human ranger

To Titus he says, "When's the coronation? I think she said it was some months away."

Titus nods. "Assuming the coronation and the anniversary line up, it's about four months. But I'd rather get to the warning sooner rather than later. Anything that's taking this long to plan can't be a simple matter of thumping a head or two."

"Has anyone considered how we're going to find this...Night's Embrace cult? The letter doesn't make it sound like they'll be kidnapping anyone, or broadcasting their presence before it's too late. What now?"

Titus shrugs as he turns to Sulannus. "If the princess really is going to contact Kel again, I say we start there. You have to imagine a princess--poorly dressed or not--" Titus winks mischievously to the elven archer--"has some sort of intelligence network at her disposal, or knows better who does than a batch of bumpkins like we do."

 

[Boddynock]

OOC: I'm going to be out of touch for a couple of days, since the place I'll be staying doesn't allow me to access ENWorld. I'll try and sort something out while I'm there, since this will be an ongoing pattern until Easter. 'Nock

 

[Boddynock]

OOC: OK, I'm back on deck and I've sorted out the problems with access.

Kel smiles at Nhalia and says, "Good. Let's go. I'm keen to see just what these beauties are worth."

"And if I can afford to keep one of them until after I've seen Aileen again," is his unspoken thought.

Following Grahl's instructions, Kel and Nhalia make their way to the jeweller's.

 

[Rystil Arden]

*Julian Lindros takes a look at the gems and agrees to appraise each gem and give the group certificates of the appraisal if they pay him 5% of the cost of each gem up front.*

 

[Boddynock]

Certificates of appraisal sound quite ... impressive to Kel. Certainly it would be helpful to know just what these are worth. The only trouble is in managing to pay the 5% fee up front.

Kel takes Nhalia aside and says quietly, "We probably don't have enough to pay his fee. Perhaps you could ask him if he'd like to buy one, and deduct the cost of the fee from the price. Maybe lay it on thick that he'd been recommended by Master Grahl."

Kel pauses for a second, then says slowly, with some regret apparent in his voice, "Or they might be worth more as a matched pair. Ask him about that, too."

 

[Rystil Arden]

*Nhalia nods in assent.*

"Excuse me sir--can we deduct the price of appraisal from the sell price of one of these if we sell them to you. Pleeeeeease?"

"Oh, umm...you don't have enough to pay for the appraisal? Well, not to worry, Miss--if you sell the sapphires to me, I'll throw in the appraisal for you. Are you selling one or both?"

"Kel?"

 

[Boddynock]

"Excuse me sir--can we deduct the price of appraisal from the sell price of one of these if we sell them to you. Pleeeeeease?"

OOC: Really subtle, RA.

"It depends, I suppose. Are they worth more as a matched set than they would be if sold individually?"

 

[Rystil Arden]

"I don't suppose so. Though the cut is similar, they aren't identical. It would be the same price either way, more or less."

 

[Boddynock]

"Fine, then we'll just sell one of them."

 

[Rystil Arden]

"Very well then. Let's see, here's 1105 gold. That seems fair. Pleasure doing business with you!"

*The jeweler counts out 100 platinum and 105 gold into a large coin purse and hands it to Kel.*