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Message: <blockquote data-quote="DEFCON 1" data-source="post: 3229793" data-attributes="member: 7006">The four men sitting around the table look up from their game and take in Ari Osten.  One of the begins to sneer at the newcomer... but it only takes a quick first impression for them all to see that Osten is not your typical wet-behind-the-ears wanna-be mercenary, here to try and make himself known.  All four can see how Ari carries himself... the calm demeanor, the ease by which he moves, and most especially the quality (and obvious use) of his weapons and armor.  He is a man who knows combat and knows his way around veterans.  So the sneer quickly disappears, and honest conversation with a fellow mercenary follows."The lycan job?" says a man wearing pretty well beaten splitmail and missing his left ear.  "Bah... not worth the effort."  Next to him, a female dwarf snorts and nods her head.  "Damn Flamers... don't want to pay an honest day's wage.  That's de problem.  Think we all should be helping out from the goodness of our hearts because 'the Flame will provide' or some such nonsense."  "Yeah.  Exactly.  Granted, it pays better than any of those lame guard details, but I'v spoken to men who've gone on these Flamer crusades... always more deadly than they'll tell ye, and the payment isn't worth the risk." says the earless man.One of the other men nods in agreement with what's been said, but adds nothing.  However, the final man... a shifter of quite large size wearing several layers of cured leather... adds in a final word.  "Of course... odds of it being real werebeasts is pretty slight.  They were wiped out by the Flame eons ago.  I'ts probably a tribe of shifters that has got Elder Nevillom's undergarments all twisted up.  I've heard about that man... holier-than-thou and gets all worked up.  Doesn't like the fact that this whole province has more lizardfolk and other humanoids outnumberin' the pale faces.  So the job might be easier than what's advertized, if he's got his eyes all crossed."</blockquote>

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