<b><span style="font-size: 18px">Beldabar's Rest - Inn Under the Fishyard</span></b><br/><span class="fixed-color" style="color:rgb(41, 105, 176)"><br/>
"I wouldn't be surprised, given the numbers of disappearances, to find reward potential. That being said, if there was enough interest, the Temple of Tymora here is known to extend sponsorships to adventuring companies ..."</span>Hey, maybe all that finding out random local knowledge might pay off after all,<span class="fixed-color" style="color:rgb(41, 105, 176)">"... and it so happens that I represent the <i>Steelshank Company</i> with references from Baldur's Gate to Silverymoon."</span><br/><br/>Which is absolutely true. Granted, she leaves out the bit about the organization's diminished capacity, but Ixana really did have some hope of securing funding from the Tymorites. After all, it was a good cause, largely local to the area, Tymora was the goddess of bold risk-taking in the name of helping people, *and* she really did have references.<br/><span class="fixed-color" style="color:rgb(41, 105, 176)"><br/>
"What I need to secure such funding is a plan. We have an approach, and an entry, but currently are short a skilled sword arm from being able to describe that as viable, as one of our people is being held by the ruffians. It is unlikely they would believe me a bodyguard ... but either or both of you would certainly look the part. If we can reach the captives, we can add their capabilities to our own ... and then the situation begins to look quite bleak for the miscreants. There should be significant looting opportunities - this is not some two-man operation they are running, they will have assets on hand, and I see no reason why our people should not re-purpose those assets to less harmful aims."</span><br/><br/>So that's three potential sources of funding, right? Adventurers were always partial to loot. And if they could take the entire stronghold, they might even be able to get some wagon loads out of the place. Certainly a convoy of the rescued women would be the safest way for them to travel back to Yartar. And it was likely Lo'anta wouldn't be the only captive with skills. The more Ixana thought about it, the better it sounded. They could snowball right over the evil-doers' entire organization. And even if they couldn't, they could put a serious hurt on it. They just needed to get to the captives. This planning thing was easier than it looked!<br/><br/>Glancing from one man to the other she adds,<span class="fixed-color" style="color:rgb(41, 105, 176)">"And of course, the captives in question seem to be predominately young women. I'm sure an adventure like this would present the opportunity to substantially burnish one's reputation here in Yartar."</span><br/><br/><span class="fixed-color" style="color:null">She's not so uncouth as to openly suggest gratitude on the part of the rescuees, but some of that sort of thing was likely. Even if it was just thanks to tales of the dashing adventurers that saved them. Pretty young local women tended to be friends with other pretty young local women, after all. </span>