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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Gregor" data-source="post: 5684166" data-attributes="member: 11751">********Bronze TridentReece looks over the scribble that Romeo claims is his signature, raises an eyebrow and shakes his head.  "No problem Romeo, not everyone in the guild can read or write.  At least I'll always know that this smear means you." He chuckles and writes down 'good standing' next to your name, blows on the ink and then shuts the book.  He takes your purse and places it into a drawer on his desk.  He opens another drawer and pulls out a heavy bag filled with what sounds like more coins.  When he starts to dig around in side the bag though, you see that he is taking out black iron rings that he is inspecting for size.  He gives you a couple and when you find one that fits, he says: "That is your guild ring.  You wear it on your left index finger.  Wearing that ring is your only method of gaining access to the guild house and we use it as identification amongst our members.  Put it on and follow me." Reece takes you out of his office, which he pauses to lock back up and takes you across the main cellar room, over to the other iron door.  Up close you can see that this door has a number of reinforcements on the metal, as well as four different heavy locks that Reece uses a different key for each.  Finally, he swings the vault-like door open and before you is a barricaded wood and iron trap door in the floor.  Reece laboriously slides back the iron barricades and lifts the heavy door up by a large iron ring on the surface.  The faint smell of mildew and sewer rises into your nostrils and a wrought iron ladder leads down into the darkness.  Reece picks up one of 5 lanterns that hangs from some hooks on the stone wall and heads out into the main room to light a wick from the burning one on the barrel.  When he returns, he hands you the lit lantern and says: "Here you are Romeo, just head down that ladder and follow the old sewer tunnel.  There is only one path to follow from this location so you'll have no trouble finding the guild house.  Make sure your ring is visible.  Also, this is a one-way entrance only so you'll want to locate another exit when you're down there.  Oh and watch your tongue down there, we all may be guild mates, but you would not be the first green member to have his throat slit over some choice words." </blockquote>

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