Okay!
Regarding the House. Who got the pirates, and who's questioning them besides us?
If the House is questioning Pirate McPirate, it would make -no sense- not to give them full disclosure. I posted my suggestion before I thought it through. Not sure if it's too late to rescind now.
Regarding the island. An island full of dragonshards would be valuable...to a House. I don't think anyone else could really mount an expedition big enough to really make it worth it. My reason for bringing it up is that if we come back to Thrasak in three days and go, "Oh, um...actually there was an island. We were totally holding out on you. Can we have more money now?" it's gonna be grim.
So...why were we not telling them again?
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Regarding items! The Artificer's Monocle is 1500gp...which I'm reasonably sure I don't have. How much liquid -cash- do we have access to before seeing the House? How much in nonmagic saleables? I'd like to examine that dragonshard before we see the House, so we can tell if we want to keep it or hand it over.
Finally: If we keep the shard, and info about the island, there's a good chance we're making powerful enemies down the line. Are we sure we want to do that?
And...if not...um...oops. We kind of did.
