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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Craw Hammerfist" data-source="post: 3349542" data-attributes="member: 49470">You have arrived in Arabel to the address provided by Phaeton’s courier.  True to his word, he has secured an entire house for you and the rest of Phaeton’s. . .protegés. . .lackeys. . .hired thugs?  Regardless of titles, the house is more than adequate, with small private rooms for each of you and a well appointed study.  A separate building houses a stable and a workshop.  There is even a staff consisting of Melena the cook, an elderly farrier/groom named Earl, and Gerte, Melena’s daughter who acts as a maid.  Earl typically has a few boys hanging around the forge helping out with odd jobs and running messages.Within a few days of your arrival, the rest of group has arrived.  A message arrives requesting your presence at the Falcon’s Rest Inn.  The message boy waits to guide you back to the inn where Phaeton greets you.“Ah!  You are here.  And with good haste, I see.”The man stands and greets all of you individually.  Of middle height, Phaeton is well dressed, but not ostentatiously so.  He is much as you recall him from your last meeting.  A fit man in his late 40s, dark-haired but graying.  He exudes an air of competence and resolve.“Please.  Sit.”He indicates several chairs and low couches in the main room of the Falcon’s Rest.  The room is much like Phaeton’s clothes.  Well built and comfortable, but not gaudy. “Now, the reason you are here.  Events over the last two years have served to weaken the Obarskyr family and Cormyr as a whole.  The crown has been forced to pull forces of Purple Dragon Knights out of Arabel to deal with events elsewhere.  This has left Arabel more exposed to depredations by criminals, raiders and traitors.  The Lady Lord of Arabel and her watchmen are necessarily focusing on the town of Arabel itself.  Unfortunately, with the Purple Dragon contingent severely reduced, caravans have been easy prey.It seems that the caravans carrying goods for the Obarskyr family have been particularly targeted.  I want to know by who.  Several of the recent caravans have been carrying magical oddities of sufficient value that I can have them traced.  One of those caravans was attacked and the bait was traced here to Arabel.  I have narrowed the location down to a specific warehouse, but what is inside is unknown.This is where you come in.  I want you to start by getting into the warehouse.  If my goods are in there, I want the thieves eliminated.  Live captives would be nice, but no escapees is the primary goal.”He grabs a stack of leather folders off of a table and hands one to each of you. “Within those folios are maps of Arabel and stiff leather placards bearing the crown seal and reference to the charter, which I hold.  The location of the warehouse is marked.  Keep the placards with you at all times, but do not display them unless necessary.  Any officer of the watch or Purple Dragon Knight will recognize them, but the average watchman likely will not.  The watch it on edge right now and is likely to stab first, ask questions later, so don’t antagonize them.  I’d rather not draw their attention in any event, as there are likely informers within their ranks.  You have questions?”</blockquote>

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