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Amerigo Hieronymus: Tariff Collector and Adventurer The situation with the dragon was like too much drinking or sweets, yeah, it felt good but was in actuality terrible for you. There was no love lost for the creature himself, but he was the kingdom's scaly, grouchy, fire-spewing golden goose and now someone was killing it. He thought about not contacting the dragon at first; Amerigo could claim a larger share if he found the goods AND look like an upstanding citizen for returning a fraction of it. The question was where the devil it was, even he personally would be hard pressed to make that much metal disappear that quickly. It would be the labor of hours for his crew and in his old days he'd be satisfied with fleeing with a single pack's worth. Amerigo was dealing with someone very lucky, very good, or both, and he'd have to get to the bottom of the mystery. Ultimately, he decided to speak with the dragon, they'd need to coordinate efforts and Amerigo figured he could get away with moderate amounts of gloating. Speaking of mystery, there was the issue of a dozen odd aldermen biting the dust in recent weeks. Having their legal and financial counsel bite the dust so suddenly made quite a few houses vulnerable to surprise audits, and he was going to press that advantage while he could. He wasn't going to poke around for the reason why they had died, but half of being lucky was taking advantage of the situations that arose. Amerigo is going to use [Death and Taxes+4] and [Gentleman and Scholar+4] to investigate the missing gold, and trying to contact Glaum himself. He's starting at places where you could even move that much material at once (docks, etc), taking a brief exploration of the sewers beneath, checking for tunnels, etc, and then questioning around town looking for leads on who has suddenly come into quite a bit of money. Mean while the Office of Excise is going to be instructed to audit the estates of the unfortunate noble houses that have lost their legal staff. I won't extract the cash, yet, just let them know what and how much I can take without doing it, yet. quote:[Death and Taxes+4]: There's only two things inevitable in life, and Amerigo's skill with a blade is equaled only with his mathematical abilities and talent for ferreting out lies and deception. Nor has he forgotten where he came from; he maintains the odd hodgepodge of skills and athleticism needed to survive the life of a wandering Ronwayne fucked around with this message at 18:08 on Jul 16, 2016 |
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Amerigo Hieronymus: Tariff Collector and Adventurer Well well well, that was certainly convenient. Amerigo was both pleased to get a strong lead and also professionally insulted that the cur didn't at least wait until he was in the next town over to start blowing his ill-gotten gains. There was a method to professionally squandering you're hard-stolen loot and it seemed the younger generation had not learned that lesson. After having the spendthrift packed up and taken back to the Assessor's office for a more in-depth and personal conversation, Amerigo takes some time to review the correspondence with the dragon. ... ... No, no this had to be some sort of trick, there was no way he/it was simply going to let Amerigo in and pore through the books, but nevertheless, that what the letter seems to indicate. Armies were on the march, empires crumbling, and a dragon now believes in financial transparency. The end times are probably here, but Amerigo decided if that were the case he'd have a front row seat to the event. "Pack my ledgers and tables, we're going to wring out a Wyrm's records of wealth." [Death and Taxes+2] to interrogate this idiot about his part in the plot and [Gentleman and Scholar+2] to use the access Glaum has given me to investigate his records.
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 Well it was a start, now he needed to act on what he found. Amerigo pulls out the city records and spends several hours determining ownership and layout, if there's any sort of plan on file. Obviously they wouldn't include any secret rooms or tunnels but a man with his background could probably guess where they might be. Armed with this information, he proceeds to the fun part. Caravan, temple, banking house, or even a simple warehouse, nothing quite beat the feeling of a lock shattering under your boot. His men and the loaned out goons the dragon had lent him fan out and begin turning over the properties in question, looking for any of the lost loot or further clues. Using [Gentleman and Scholar+4] for researching the buildings for any notable information and developing a plan of attack, and then kicking in doors and searching for evidence with [Death and Taxes+2]. 2d6+8: 17
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"Wow. Thanks." It was that point where you were both sarcastic and honestly meaning it. Bringing him the letter late was definitely better than never handing it over at all. Nevertheless, Amerigo was not happy with what he saw. He liked puzzles, but not ones where he had not the foggiest idea where to start. The only people probably more knowledgeable than him in such matters were either the dragon or scholars in the church, neither of which he was particularly eager to demonstrate his ignorance to. Still, Amerigo wasn't about to let his pride get in the way. He had already succeeded at least halfway by bringing back the gold, but finding the perpetrators was just as vital. A few well placed "donations" later, he attempts get access to church historical archives and other sources of lore, just to see if it really is an obscure/old language, rather than a code. If its the latter, well, you'd just have to crack that the old fashioned way, which would involve cracking things across the knees of that tied up idiot they had in the basement. Hopefully he would know something. Using [Gentleman and Scholar+4] to try to decipher the letter. First I'm asking the tied up goon I caught what it means in case he knows, then if he doesn't, hitting up various libraries to research it. 2d6+4: 15 Ronwayne fucked around with this message at 06:59 on Aug 2, 2016 |
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Chamalian eh? Well, time to get a studying. Amerigo spends an annoying amount of time tracking down this deeply deeply stupid tongue so he can decode what's on the letter. The hoard would have to wait, and hopefully there'd still be most of it left when he got back. He makes sure to get a count of it so he can at least know how badly he's going to punish the crew when the till comes up short. Yup, spending that turn.
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Hmm, curioser and curioser. At least that gave him some kind of lead. Amerigo searches for where the old kingdom was laid out (Unless its just where Sevvran is now), and specifically when and where they supposedly disappeared to. That taken care of, it was time to get the dragon back his loot. The best way would be for the lizard to handle transportation, Amerigo not wanting responsibility for what might happen to several tons of gold just rolling through the streets. The dragon is contacted and he begins rounding up what they collected; hopefully there wouldn't be too much shrink, but he already noticed a higher than normal percentage of the office staff was drunk before noon and also it smelled of much higher quality stuff than usual. Glaum come get your stuff. GM: Trying to find out more about where/what happened to this old nation, and if any of them are rumored to still exist/any other rumors of shapeshifters. Sharing what I know with Glaum, for the most part. Research roll w/ [Gentleman and Scholar+4]: 11 Ronwayne fucked around with this message at 02:14 on Aug 23, 2016 |
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Amerigo racks his brain for the significance of this. He'd have to get the dragon's thoughts as well. Old kingdom of shapeshifters writing in a dead language steals dragon's horde? That's all he had atm. If only Von Voss wasn't flitting about doing something about elves he could enlist* his help. Unless the Wealth Checker had something to do beyond getting back his gold, Amerigo was going to have go and find more out himself. After pressing the thug he caught for more info, Amerigo goes undercover and begins hitting up seedy shitholes in hopes someone, somewhere might no something. He's hit the higher forms of learning, now lets probe some of the lower ones as well. It was good to be back in the field. *passive aggressively whine and bribe until he got compliance Using [Death and Taxes+2] to start investigating this from the bottom up instead of top down. Amerigo will go around trying to lean on sources of who might have heard anything about rumors of the shapeshifter conspiracy. 2d6+4=[13]
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Now he was feeling downright embarrassed. If there was anyone in the kingdom who'd be able to detect a fake coin it ought to be him. That said, dealing with a dragon was like anything else, all you could do was fake confidence until you made it. "From my understanding, obsidian is the key to defeating them; it not only acts as a powerful bane, but may cause them to drop their disguise. The issue is getting it in enough quantity to make this possible. There's ah, also the issue of the fake coinage. I'd have picked it out but I figured returning it to you in the most intact state possible had priority. Why would they mix it in AFTER they took it is the question..." Amerigo, if possible, inspects one of the pieces and squints. [Death and Taxes+4] to try to learn something about the fake coins. 2d6+4=[14]
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"So noted, thank you Wealth-Checker. I'll pursue the fake money. If possible I'd like to collect all that your staff pick out of the pile. Apologies for not discovering it myself." Amerigo was genuinely perplexed. Why on earth would they make that much fake coinage unless...they were possibly trying to shortchange the currency of the realm at large? He'd have to work on finding out where these were being minted, the sheer volume suggested at least a workshop. Time to follow the (fake) money. Attempting to track down places that could make these fake coins en masse.Ooof, only [9]
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