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Message: <blockquote data-quote="SelcSilverhand" data-source="post: 3009714" data-attributes="member: 30016">"I prepared a report for you to review that should aid in your search. Our house is greatly interested in recovering this shipment of dragonshards. They are hard enough to come by without our ships being robbed by pirates. Piracy is a heritage to most people living in this region. Nearly every family has a history of it and despite the peace treaties and "official" attempts by the Princes to crack down on it it is still rampant. During the Last War many ship crews became raiders and hit coasts all along Khorvaire. They've got a taste for it now and are loathe to give up the chance at ill gotten wealth. It's a hazard of doing business out here but the profits are too lucrative to give up." He hands you a leather scroll case. "The report is inside. As for lodging, I'd find a place higher up in the city. The harbor area can get rough at night for landlovers when the sailors come in. It can be the best place to find what the latest gossip is though. The Roc's Clutch is a decent place, and cheap too. There is also a fine arms dealer on the fourth terrace near the southern fringe named Hecktat. Her prices are high but the quality is worth it. If you have any further questions you can return here during normal hours."The Report[SBLOCK]The report he handed you contains numerous pages of notes. Most are signed by someone named Brother Ouillie, the man who was transporting the dragonshards. From his notes you learn that he was searching for Siberys dragonshards, a very rare type of crystal that falls from the sky. Some parts of his report have been blacked out and from what you can tell the missing text relates to a deposit he. The last half of the report is full of short notes written in anothers handwriting. Apparently Brother Ouillie was using magical means to send updates on his mission to the House. The last note says that he was leaving aboard a small merchant ship bound for Cliffscrape with a large sample. The last report goes into detail about how the merchant ship never made it to port. Inquiries at every other port within a weeks travel indicates that the ship never made landfall.  The author speculates that the ship was lost at sea due to piracy, as there was no bad weather in that region when the ship disappeared. [/SBLOCK]</blockquote>

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