Colvin - 007

[spiral]

Lothar looks at you with unblinking eyes. Together, the two boats bob and knock each other in the swell, the only noise to pierce the silence the occasional gull caw.

Lothar laughs.

A deep belly shaking laugh, his relief is obvious.

"I thought you were bountyhunters, sent buy the Assasin's Guild!" He stoops over, racked with mirth. "But you just want to know about Dragon Mountain!" He laughs again, almost hysterical.

"I know nothing about Dragon Mountain! You've gone to all this trouble to track me down, and it seems my friends," more laughter, "that you have been ill-informed!"



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Mel scuttles over to Shay and Dalien, and whispers, "He could be lying, and in any case, he's worth 10,000!! Let's get him aboard and secure him!"



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Shay, Dalien, you eye the crew, and Mel, and Lothar, doing your best to assess what these people think of each other. Who fears who? (dicerolls)

The crew of the 'Uneven Keel' are afraid of this man. They wouldn't have dared try for the bounty by themselves, not without your help. If he really does know nothing about Dragon Mountain, it could turn out to be alot of time and expenditure dealing with him, for little reward in your case. On the other hand, you could be doing the lands about here a serious favour.

How in the whole of East Anglia could your runners have heard so wrong? Actually, you can quite imagine. Man goes into bar, asks around about Dragon Mountain. Other man in bar hears only part of the conversation. Other man goes to Lothar, "There's a man in the bar saying he's been sent by The Mountain boss!", and thus ensues this whole misguided escapade..

[Rojito]

Goran says, "I say we take him and ask him a bit more closely about the Mountain, and not the assassin."

[at]

Crom crosses his arms and leans up against the mast. If the fool must be taken down then so be it, but he has little interest in man's past.

Motioning to Goran, loud enough that all can hear "Bring him if you must, but the assassins are no friends of ours and i'll not do their bidding for gold or otherwise"

[Wicksy]

Matrox watches the scene unfurl with interest. Had they been fooled into asisting bounty hunters with a mere snatch and grab mission? Did Lothar know more than he was letting on? If they had indeed been fooled, people would be severely punished but that would come later. What to do with Lothar? He was certainly a brigand and deserved to be brought to justice but he had done nothing to the city of Cambridge to his knolwedge. Why bother? If other lords were incapable of bringing this man to justice why should they bother? With more indescision Matrox decides the only logical choice is to aid the party. If Lothar attacked or resisted then he would act.

[TheUdjat]

Dalien grits his teeth. "Damned runners," he mutters, and then turns away from the scene.

"This was a waste of our time. Let us go find the witch immediately." He gives Lothar a sideward glance. "I don't care about this one. It's not our quarrel."

[TheZebraShakes™]

Shay does believe the captain, Lothar could be attempting to mislead them once more.

"Liar," Shay spits through clenched teeth, and the swine had the nerve to stand there and laugh in their faces. He should die for that alone.

Shay's body trembles as he has far more than half a mind to jump onto Lothar's ship and begin strangling the man.

"Stop your laughing," the furious elf commands. "The prize is still high enough to make dragging your sorry corpse in worth every copper."

"Now you have one last chance to tell us about that mountain, and if I don't believe what you're saying then you and this sorry ship of yours . . . " Shay is too enraged to finish his threat, having come all this way only to have his dream shot down again. He casts his eyes upon the rest of his party, knowing that Lothar would get the picture.

Shay wasn't about to leave here empty handed if he could help it. Even Lothar's bounty would be enough to fund some more investigation into finding Dragon Mountain as they had spent most of their coin searching for this fool in the first place.