Isabella sits there with her mouth open. She listens to the reverberation of the words in her mind but there is no irony or cynism in his words. Cayden Cailean doesn't think too much of the law too. And to her it was always suspect how that would fit in in real life. Now she knows. And it really would help to be a god to get away with that. But even though she feels the urge to explain to Abomentolor why his behaviour was highly antisocial and in complete disrespect of the law she bites her tongue to honor her faith. "Just give me a moment. We can continue shortly."
She looks through the papers in her hand, sorts her thoughts and gets up to continue the planning with Abomentolor.
"I wasn't expecting people to back at work today already. I only told them to come back two days from now." Jimmy says pleased with the work ethic of the people
"Either that or they really need the coins you pay." Tauriell comments.
"Well that is probably it yeah." Jimmy says walking closer to the site
"Well I was only going to start work again two days from now, but if you are that keen to work we can see what we can do." Jimmy says with a smile, loud enough for all to hear.
Coming from the shade on the side of the Temple behind Jimmy, Hoid says "There are quite a few stories spreading about this place." with a smile
"Hello. I don't think we have met." Gwenhwyfar replies offering her hand.
"We haven't met, and I only met your friend so much in that he helped me yesterday. I came to pay him back." Hoid says fishing out a coin purse to give to Jimmy "The name is Hoid. Pleased to meet you."
"Gwenhwyfar. Pleased to meet you too." Gwenhwyfar replies.
Meanwhile at the manor house
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Margaret, please bring this not to the guesthouse where Gwenhwyfar resides.
I'm glad to tell you that I found help for your specific problem. Proctor Jyronn Imikar from the Cathedral of Abadar told me that he has a scroll of miracle and is willing to cast that on you if you pay the price of he scroll plus the amount of diamond dust used. Which could be up to 25.000 gold. He doesn't really know as that is a very specific request.
Kind Regards
Sheila Heidmarch.
"Yes. I'll deliver it to Mrs. Gwenhwyfar or put it on the table for them to find." Margaret replies and leaves the office.
As she sinds no one in the guest house she puts the note on the table.
At the temple of Sarenrae
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"I hope the stories you heard tell only the best about us." Gwenhwyfar comments and turns to Jimmy as he doesn't seem to notice "Mr. Hoit want's to talk to you."
"Sorry, a bit lost in my own thoughts." Jimmy says turning, laying eyes on Hoid, "How is your cat doing?" Going over to shake his hand, "Jimmy, pleased to meet you."
"The cat is good, thank you so much for helping me out." Hoid says shaking Jimmy's hand and placing the coins in it afterwards. "Is it true you are building an orphanage?" He asks
"A pleasure, and indeed we are. I have no idea how though. We don't really have the time to manage all of this. Nevermind the plans I have for after the orphanage." Jimmy belly-aches
"What do you mean?" Hoid asks interested
"Well Gwen and I are pathfinders, and Tauriell helps out with that. We are away quite often, so I can't run this place consistently."
"Well what plans do you have?"
"It is a bit ambitious but I plan to rebuild the district, to a level that rivals the rest of Magnimar. The people here all work hard but just need someone who is willing to help." Jimmy says with a smile looking at the work that is still taking place
"Perhaps I can help you then. I do the books for some of the businesses in town. They don't keep me very busy though. Besides, you helped me yesterday, so I would love to be of help to you, especially with such an ambitious project."
"Well it would be an orphanage you would be running so I doubt it would be able to pay someone to run it. But thank you for the offer." Jimmy says with a smile
"Well I guess it can't be helped then." Hoid says with a smile, "Promise to let me do the books for any other businesses you start and I will do the books for the orphanage for free. I have the time and earn enough money from my other clients." chuckling to himself
"Well I certainly can't let you work for me for free until we start something else, so here is a retainer." Jimmy says passing the coins back to Hoid
"I don't care if an orphanage can pay a manager. I can. And I want a good one. Are you good at that?" Gwenhwyfar inquires.
"So can you start now?" Jimmy says excited
"I do believe I do a good job, otherwise I wouldn't still be in business." Hoid says embarassed
"I didn't mean to embarrass you." Gwenhwyfar replies blushing herself. "I just mean an orphanage is more than book keeping. There is staff that needs leading, there are kids running around all the time. Money and book keeping is an important part. But the rest is also important. To me even more than the money."
"Well... I have been looking to get rid of my main client anyway... What the hell. I suppose you need someone full time?" Hoid asks getting caught up in the moment
"I can show you around. We already have the non building part of the orphanage. We have staff, we have the children and we have Mr. Brios who is doing the book keeping and supply management at the moment. You can take a look at all that and talk to the people and if all of that is something that you can handle and you'd like to do then yes." Gwenwhyfar explains.
"Oh, and this building stuff too." she adds pointing to the large pile of rubble.
"It's something new, that's for sure." Hoid says offering Gwen his hand again
Gwenhwyfar takes his hand "Welcome to the team. Please come with me. I'll introduce you to the staff."
Gwenhwyfar takes Hoid with her to the temple and introduces him to Carl, Ernard, Thomas and is wife Rosanna. She also explains what changes they made so far to the temple to accommodate the orphanage and what plans she has to give these kids a better future. Like an education.
"About the money and supply stuff you need to talk to Mr. Brios at the meeting house of the Heidmarch Manor. And the details of the building are Jimmy's thing. Any more questions?" she asks excited as it seems as if the project really starts now.
"Nothing that needs dealing with just yet. Thank you Gwen. Now I need to go find Jimmy to discuss this building so I can start managing that." And with that Hoid heads outside to find Jimmy
Jimmy spots Hoid on his way out of the temple and jogs over to him "So what's the news?"
"Say hello to your latest employee." Hoid says chuckling again, "I need you to discuss your plans for the building so I can start managing that and then I would need to be introduced to Mr Brios. Are you okay to start now?"
"Of course. After you." Jimmy says indicating the way to the building site. Jimmy explains his plans for the building on site and then after that has been discussed he heads to the Temple to Tell Gwen he is heading back to the manor to introduce Hoid to Mr Brios
Tauriell comes along to Wumbrout and leads them into the office. "Hello. May I introduce you? This is Mr. Wumbrout Brios. Our current honorary manager of the orphanage." Tauriell says. "And this is Hoid who's lastname I don't know who got hired as a full time manager from now on."
"A pleasure to meet you Mr Brios, Hoid Cauthon." Hoid says offering his hand
"Nice to meet you." Wumbrout greets them. "Did I miss some change in plan? Because what I do for the orphanage is far from a full time job."
"It seems Jimmy is building a new Orphanage and is planning on rejuvenating the whole distract as time goes on."
"Then let me show you what I did so far. I got an extra book for that and a pouch with the remaining coins as well as delivery plans for food and other consumables." Wumbrout explains while getting out the book to show it to Hoid.
"Thank you." Hoid says moving around the desk to look at the ledger with Brios "And thank you Jimmy, Tauriell. Once I am done here I will be heading back to the temple to sort things out there."
"Great. I'll retreat to the guest house. My new home is still lacking even the most basic comfort. Have a nice day." Tauriell says and leaves.
Meanwhile
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As Artoo continues to work on the clockwork in the Shadow Clock Lini decides to go back to her shop to prepare the magical yard sale. She walks past her mage friend's house to take him with her.
After two hours work to list and label everything and set a minimum selling price in her book and putting it on display she is ready. The first customers who couldn't wait already come while she is setting everything up. Selling the magic items is rather slow as they are some very special things.
The highest demand is for the perfumes. Being from the Runelord of Lust seems to pique the interest of some ladies or their husbands who start arguing over who gets what even before the sale is opened. Therefore Lini decides to auction them off to the highest bidder which nets her a nice profit.
Some adventurer buys the sword and the breastplate at a small discount. Bevaluu Zimantiu herself shows up to buy the incense of meditation. Which is a rare thing as she usually only deals with the influential people's servants. After a nice talk she adds this name to her list of contacts.
As it gets late, all interested people are gone again and she starts to pack the remaining stuff up a shady figure appears, puts a large bag of platinum on the table and asks if he may check on the orb if it is what is written on it. He checks the orb casting identify and asks if there are other goods under the table. Finally he buys the orb and the burnt othur fumes at full price and disappears as quick as he came. Obviously you don't try to haggle in a business without names and no questions asked.
"That went well! Now I'm able to pay my debt and still have some money left to buy some improvements for Artoo." Lini tells er friend. "Here take this dust of illusion as a thank you for your help. I know you like such gimmicks."
After all is put away again she closes the shop, accompanies her friend home and walks to the Heidmarch manor to deliver the money. Knocking at the door of the guest house she enters without waiting for an answer. "Hello? Anybody home?"
Tauriell gets up from her resting in her bed. She would have liked to do the elven wood illusion again but she used up the power this morning already.
"Mr. Anybody is not at home. But if I could help?" she replies to the happy gnome.
"I'm heavily burdened with all this gold. Could you relieve me from that?" Lini jokes as she pours about 100 pound of platinum coins on the table from her magical pouch.
"I would really like to. But I don't think I'm allowed to. As my share got calculated down to the copper." Tauriell replies rolling her eyes. "It were 5000gold for me right?" Tauriell asks as she starts counting coins to take her share from the pile.
Picking up the note from Mrs. Heidmarch and reading it she comments "I know where the gold of Jimmy and Gwen is going to be spent for."
"Consider yourself lucky that you get anything at all! I know what you already got from the loot." Lini replies with a mischievous smile looking up and down Tauriell's body equipped with magical gear.