The Four Lands - The Intelligence Service

"Probably the oddest recruitment I've ever heard of," Donovan says. "So what's the goal of your organization? You've told us what you're offering our purses, but what sort of work is it you do?"
 

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"Simply put we look after the Republic's interest in this nasty times. We keep the confederation carefully watched as well some of our other neighbors and we stop internal dissent before it can reach a boiling point."
 

Frigin stops eating as the lady starts to speak,(mostly do to their being no more food around him). He looks a little confused at first and then his face brightens as he is told that the job will last a year and he will get 100 silver every month. "This is great!" he says before the lady is truly finished but with a look he is quiet again. As the others voice their opinions about the work they are about to do and even ask what it is they are to do, the confused look resurfaces on Frigin's face.

"Clan... claninsty... I don't understand you wish us to be a Clan in a stine?? I don't know what that is... will we get a uniform?" he asks.

To Orion he pipes in "No one will kill you if I am on guard friend so have no worries."

He listen very intently almost leaning towards the lady when it is asked what the group will be doing, then slams a hand on the table and laughs. "HA! You are going to teach us to be cooks!"


 

Arie leans over to Frigin and says quietly, "Claudestine. It means secret and sneaky. You are not to tell any one who you are or what you are doing, unles the leader says you can."

The monk/priest inwardly smiles at the simplicity of the mind of the loyal fighter.
 

Stalker quietly curses himself for not making himself clearer. He also realises that he inadvertently made an assumption, which his dad told him never to do. So the question is Is the school in town or is it in the middle of nowhere? He decides that the answer is not really important at this stage and holds his tongue.
 

Nico listens carefully to everything the Lady tells the group, weighing his various commitments and loyalties before replying.

"Sounds like an excellent opportunity to me - count me in, Lady!"

A couple of opportunities, actually . . .
 

Braxton finally speaks up. "Lady, while this sounds like a remarkable opportunity that I am quite interested in, what happens if say in six months we decide this isn't for us? Are we free to leave at that time, or once we agree are we indentured to you?"
 

"And I would like to ask of you a similar question,'What if we find a difference between what the light teaches and what your school teaches?' "
 

Donovan Tepari, human cleric

Donovan nods to Braxton and Arie. "Put in their camp. What are our exit opportunities, now or in the future?"
 

Netzach nods nonchalantly. It's evident he doesn't care as all things come secondary to his primary goal of freeing himself from the demon. However this base of operations, and the stripend could help to give him a way that he can take to his quest.
"Fair enough, but if these teachers get uppity I'm drawing blood. I won't be turned into some bringer of the light like the rest, but I have no qualms with working for them for a fee."
 

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