"I spoke with him already, but you could probably get much more than i could."
how did it go and what did he tell you ?
"Anyway," Ducar starts, in hushed tone, "Salmonious has library copies of the book, and will provide copies for 500 drachma. Night Claw provided the copies to him. It all seemed odd, but i was off to tell our client such when i encountered these little turds."
Ducar then searches the bodies.
Thoese may very well be the books we are looking for. Did you check to see if they have the brand of the library inside ?
she takes the book she brought and open up to the back cover
Like this one here
"That mark is the same."
Then you have found the missing books Ducar, and he said the Night Claw has sold it to him ?
"Yes, his story was full of holes. He said both that Night Claw sold them to him and that he was planning on returning them as they were library copies. But he was copying the tomes."
So he means to enhance his collection i bet. Well never mind he has the stolen books and we should retrieved them don't you think?
"Yeah. I didn't have the coin to get it from him there, and I didn't want to try to assault him in his own shop, so i was actually on my way to our employer to see if he wanted to pony up the scratch for the books."
Sound thinking, let's see what he wants to do about it since we have located the last missing books
But before we head out we should wait for the librarian and if any of you want to interrogate the night claw, before we give her to the proper authorities now would be a good time
The librarian comes out with his hands empty. And he asks, "Did you complete the task I set before you? Did you get the missing books?"
"Salmonious has copies of the books, but wants 500 drakma for them. Apparently they're library copies that night claw procured for him."
"We have to pay 500 drakma to get them back?" asked the librarian.
I don't know that yet maybe you could come with us and threat to have him arrested for the stolen property.
she gives the book she has in her hand
Here is the third one as she nods to the large "rug" and over there the one who claimed to be the Night Claw. So what do you want to do?
"Yeah, maybe since we have one, there can be a discount on the 500 drakma. Also, the contents of the rug might be enough to persuade him to discount further. You're the employer here, how should we proceed?"
(sorry for making you wait a week, I'm planning on buying ferrets.)
"We go bring Nightclaw to justice in the courts," he said. "If we go in and dispense justice ourselves, there is no way that society will work."
"So, we have the one claiming to be Nightclaw. Need we gather proof of purchase from Salmonius? Or shall we just rally guards?"
"Up to you, but I'd rather you have the evidence yourself."
While the night claw is being sent over for justice we can try to talk sense to that Solomnius guy in handing back over the stolen goods. How is that for everyone?
"Sounds fine." Ducar agrees and goes along with Solinas' plan.
If calm discussion do not yield any results i plan to be rough about it. tough no to the point of engaging in combat unless attacked. So prepare to be a good cop, i'll be the bad one she says as the party moves along
the party is led to the precinct of the city guards. The city guards could be delinated from the army by their different colors in their helmet manes. Black and blue, for instance. Salmonius is no where in sight, frankly, when you visited him. In fact, he's at the precinct, handing over the originals of the books he had and . . .
"I've been really bad," he said.
What?
yes.
Hello and good afternoon to you sir, she looks at the books he is handing over to the guards
Would those book be The Mentalla Esoterica, a treatise on Psionic theory and The Psionic Arts of Mars by any chance ? We were about to report these stolen. she says.
"Oh, I've been bad, really really bad," he says. He's saying these things that are totally out of character. What happened? "So, I'm returning the books and I hope there isn't any hard feelings."
Yes no hard feeling, and thank you for returning those stolen books she says with a smile
After that party is out of the building
So an other case closed, well done everyone. Even if we all know that he probably commission the theft she says heading back to the library
[bStill doesn't explaine the connection with the goblins, but it doesn't matter right now[/b]
nope.
The Goblins just wanted to kick someone. :)
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Pay for three days upkeep and get ready for the next scene.
about 200 drakma. According to my fast and easy conversion system, which is not at all how they did it for real -- 20 gp. Turning in Dark Claw gets you about 150 gp. It's about time to award some magic items in this next. :)
Yep.
great.
three days later, you get a note. The note is made of paper, but folded and bonded with wax. There is no sign on the seal. Just that the wax has a pleasant smell to the senses.
If Ducar is the one to get the note, s/he will take it to the others, particularly Solinas, who has emerged as the erstwhile leader of this outfit.
Ha Ducar, how have you been these last few days she says as he finds her after a few hours of searching watching a woman street performer with Thren'ody
"I hope you are well." Thren'ody says with a smile before continuing to watch the woman perform.
"Got a letter, figure it should be opened when we are together in case anything crazy happens."
The woman, a summoner, performs with style and grace with her Eidolon, which happens to look like a flying, feathered snake. She does turns, pirouettes, kicks and dances that are not unlike a ballet.
The Eidolon is the star of the show, however. It twists and turns and does its best to look cute. Unlike other summoners, who summon fierce Eidolons and these Eidolons eat their summoners for breakfast. But they won't spit them out.
This is a fine performance indeed. she says with pride
A letter? right then open it up and do tell us what it says
Ducar opens the letter.
Then'ody smiles warmly at the performer as Ducar opens the letter.