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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Wrahn" data-source="post: 1869260" data-attributes="member: 9191">All~“Yes, well… harumph.” Mr. Vanderhorn seems to consider Elly’s ruse.The worm-like smile seems to slide across his face again, “Of course, I should have seen it before Lady Raerdale.  A person as distinguished as yourself I should have recognized immediately.”“But you see I am not sure who would handle such things any longer.  It is highly unusual.  Highly unusual.  Let me consult with my colleagues and we shall figure this out.  I beg your indulgence for you to wait here a moment longer.”He turns and re-enters the door he arrived from.  Fifteen minutes pass and the secretary returns.“Please, come with me.  She leads the party through wide, smartly decorated hallways, to an oak door, which she opens, ushering them into a room dominated by a large table and large antique chairs.  The walls are lined with book shelves.“Please wait here a moment.  Mr. Thaddeus is collecting the appropriate documentation.  Is there anything you would like?”A short time later, a man who appears in his late forties wearing a rumpled brown suit and a pair of spectacles walks purposefully into the room carrying a large tome.  He sets the book down carefully without sitting down himself.He looks over the assembled group.  “First let me apologize for Vanderhorn.  The man is… unpleasant, but is a wizard with numbers.  We really shouldn’t allow him to greet customers.”“So you understand, we very rarely these days get customers in to pick up lots stored with us.  It has been a very long time since we have done that kind of business, but, the planes being what they are, very rarely we get people coming in to claim lots that were stored with us.  The last was a guardinel some hundred years ago.  Before that an adventuring party had found a claim ticket in an ancient ruin. A hundred and fifty years before that.”“Maern said that the lot number you were looking for was 3521E?  That is an early one.  Just so you understand there was a fire in our warehouse that destroyed a majority of those items.  We will certainly reimburse you the value of the item if it turns out it was destroyed.”“3521E, nope it looks like it is intact, now if I could have your claim tick…”He stops mid-sentence and appears to be reading the book more intently, he looks up at the group once and then back down.“Well this is unusual.  I imagine you don’t have a claim ticket then.  Well, far be it from me to argue with Mr. Blaunth himself.  I will return shortly with your item.”He turns and walks out the door.</blockquote>

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