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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Lazlow" data-source="post: 2381684" data-attributes="member: 24242">Sunderkeg, despite being a good 18 inches shorter, manages to look down his nose at the annoyed half-orc and replies with a growl, "I see someone here obviously doesn't understand the phrase, 'NO QUESTIONS ASKED'."  He relaxes a bit and continues, "This town is completely devoid of able-bodied sell-swords.  To be sure, the only person remotely capable of taking on this task - er, besides meself, o' coorse - is Sir Dudley, and he's been missing a few weeks now.  But even then, there's no way that goody-two-shoes Paladin would take on such a quest under such, shall we say, questionable circumstances."Now you lot, you're the first group o' adventurers - and isn't that what ye are? - to show up here in many, many moons.  You obviously know how to use the steel each o' you are carryin'.  Or harmonica, as the case may be," he acknowledges, nodding to Hamm.  "As for being trustworthy - what makes you think I trust any o' you?  All I did was mention a nice sum o' gold and here the lot of ye are, meetin' with a complete stranger after midnight behind a tavern."  He pauses, letting that sink in a bit."And if ye think I won't be monitorin' your progress, well -"  He stops short, peers at you all, then continues:  "What the artifact does and what I want with it are MY business.  I'm willin' to pay ye to fetch it, and that's all.  If ye're not interested, then so be it.  "As far as the mine, well, everyone here knows the story.  The mining coster comes in, they find a decent vein o' ore, they get greedy, they dig and dig and dig, then BAM!  Dragon outta nowhere.  It terrorizes the town for a bit, then along comes the valiant Sir Dudley, who vanquishes the evil foe.  Big huzzah, townspeople are safe and happy, mining coster is rich, blah blah blah, everyone lives happily ever after."  He chuckles to himself a bit.  "Exceptin', o' coorse, Sir Dudley himself, I suppose," he says ironically.  "Didn't even show up for the unveilin' of his own statue.  Heh.  Course, I don't know if I would either, given that kind o' pose...""So there you have the long and the short of it.  Take it as you will.  I've got your advances in me office, for those o' you still interested."  He makes his way back into the tavern, and you see a lamp being lit through a window in a small room at the back.</blockquote>

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