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Message: <blockquote data-quote="ejja_1" data-source="post: 1466539" data-attributes="member: 7880">My name is Mookesh, I am a traveling scholar and leatherworker. I have been here in Jalston for a little while now, long enough to meet some of the locals and obtain employment and even have a little adventure in-between.I started working here for a Dwarven Miss by the name of Banthward, she was kind enough to let me stay in the backroom of the shop she owns called simply The Leather Works.I make a few coppers a day making belts and fixing the occasional armor piece here and there. Since I have come here, our profits have doubled, as I am quite the salesman.Being a scholar I tend to put my studies ahead of just about everything else, food,sleep and sometimes work take a back seat to learning. This is part of what lead me to adventure.Banthward agreed with me that I should attend the feast of the temple of Darien, if only to see me put some meat on my bones as she put it. I was more interested in their library, as it would be mostly empty on feast day.I grabbed up my pack and my staff, and made way to the halls of Dariens temple were the feast was well on it's way. I sat down at a table next to a rather large man, who introduced himself as Rath. We were also joined shortly by another gentleman who called himself Griz, and then a priest of Darien came by with a few acolytes to serve us the feast.The plates were heaped with Lamb and broasted potatoes, and we were served the temple house wine grown and pressed right here in the temple.All of it was delicious, and our hosts were more than accommodating.At that moment Griz got up and went and talked with the priest who had been overseeing the festivities, they spoke briefly and then both returned to the table at which we sat. The priest’s name was Arronn, and he inquired as to whether we might be interested in making a little money helping the temple.Intrigued by his inquiry we agreed to hear him out, and he told us of a shipment of books that had recently arrived in Jalston by ship. Among these books was a holy book of Darien, and we were to inquire as to it's location and purchase it if we could.Griz went out for a short while and came back and told us that they were in the possession of the local temple of Toefer, a bizarre church that absolves it's members of sin with the whip and the cat of nine tails.I had sold them the majority of the straps and tools by which they implement absolution, and volunteered to use my customer contacts to inquire about the book. I knew the Librarian who called himself Slane, and also a lower acolyte whose name now escapes me.I asked Rath to accompany me there the next day, he would carry my tools and some hides for straps and such. He was also my backup in case things got messy, and I needed some muscle to assist my exit. I told him to meet me at the shop at noon the next day, and not to be late.I went home and retired for the evening, saying goodnight to my employer and turning in with a good book. Sleep came quickly and my rest went undisturbed, and the morning brought the usual meeting with Banthward.I told her that I would be visiting the Toefer church this afternoon to pick up some more business, she stopped me speaking and told me that she would be handling that account from now on and that I was to mind the shop today.My hopes were dashed of making any inquiries, and I went to work as I waited for Rath to show.Banthward had said to push the belts, and that we would have a pickup later in the day to be signed for. I was greeted by Rast exactly at noon, only to tell him that I wouldn’t be able to make the plan happen. I think he tried to make me happy by buying a belt, at which point I tried to discourage him by setting the price at 2gp. He bought it anyway......The day went by and customers came by in a slow trickle, I sold a few more belts at a reasonable price of 6 SP. My signature customer arrived and took his sweet time, but finally signed off and left with the leather armor he had ordered.Shortly thereafter Arronn showed up with Rast and Griz in tow, and threw a small hissy fit about my not being able to complete my task. I told him that when the mistress got back at the end of the day that I would go to the temple then, this contented him a little and he left telling me to meet him later at the halls of Darien.Banthward came back in shortly, and we discussed how my day went. I told her of my sales and she was not impressed, even though I had made a tidy profit. She went to retire and gave me my leave, as she moved away from me I glanced back and thought I saw blood staining the back of her shirt tail.I was in haste to get to the Toefer temple, and paid no heed to her possible injury. I arrived at the temple and the acolyte was there, when I asked to see Slane he said no. I asked why, and he said that Banthward had already spoken to Slane for me about the book.I was furious!Banthward had had no knowledge of my dealings with Darien or anything about the book. I stormed back to the shop and climbed the stairs to the loft apartment were she stayed, I knocked on the door and heard a weak. " Go away, I’m not having visitors."I knocked all the harder, and apparently in my emotional state forgot my own strength. The door crashed inwards on it's hinges leaving splinters everywhere, and Banthward was in the tub washing the blood from her lashed back. "GET OUT!" she screamed at the top of her lungs. " You are no longer employed here!"I sneered at her and said. " You are a Toeferun whore! And you owe me a weeks wages!"She screamed incomprehensibly as she jumped from the tub and started to throw money at me. All I could make out was "GET OUT!"I gathered the money and left without a word, taking only what was mine with me. I headed over to the halls of Darien and spoke with Arronn about all that had happened, he continually shushed me as I told my tale. I’m not sure whether he was pleased with my discovery or not.Arronn left to meet with his superiors, and came back with a different assignment for us. We were all suprised at what he had to say, I think Arronn was as suprised as we were to receive such orders.We were asked to go to a small town named Dartham, and retrieve the Toeferun Cleric that had taken to ruling the town with an iron fist.We left at darkfall planning what to do when we got there as we went the four of us and Rath's pet donkey,the reluctant heroes of Dartham.</blockquote>

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