OOC: Sorry if the change was a bit jarring… it really does say that in the adventure-as-written, but… well, anyway, let’s move things along!<br/><br/>[Each of you receives 150gp cash, and a 2,000gp House d’Kundarak letter of credit, assuming you part with sceptre and amulet]<br/><br/>Your meeting with Surkil at the Duke’s Arms goes well. Each member of the original party receives the 150gp bonus you negotiated for, and he’s delighted at your rescue of Synys - who receives the same sum as a hardship bonus. He’s delighted with the ancient tablets and writings you recovered, and rubbings of those wall-carvings too difficult or awkward to remove. Your retrieval of the sceptre and amulet far exceeded his expectations, and it’s his great pleasure to offer you the further sum of 12,000gp for the pair - a more than reasonable price - and provides a six notarised House d’Kundarak letters of credit valued at 2,000gp apiece. The existence of the third, empty alcove also catches his interest - “things,” he points out, “are more valuable as<span style="font-style: italic">sets</span>.”<br/><br/>Sur’kil offers a further 100gp cash to each of you for the remaining treasures you’ve gathered - although as most of these are the blackscales loot, they are not part of his core business as a dealer in fine antiquities, and the price reflects this. Likely they would fetch between 150gp and 300gp per player in one of the major cities of the Five Nations, depending on market conditions and how well you’re able to bypass various middlemen.<br/><br/>You get the sense that as an antiquities dealer, he’s sufficiently tied into the underworld markets that he won’t report you, or try to kill you, If you tell him about the appearance of your aberrant dragonmarks. If you chose to do so, he’s quite fascinated - and relates to you a tale.<br/><br/>“In the course of previous research, I once uncovered a tale of a group of explorers of the Q’barran peninsula. Five of the members of this group were said to have all simultaneously developed the so-called aberrant dragonmarks in the course of an expedition. Though the tale didn’t detail their destination, the coincidence now seems… suggestive. The appearance of so-call aberrant marks would be rare enough, but one true dragonmarked among their number claimed to see her mark change in shape at the same time. Frankly, this last ‘fact’ caused me to dismiss the tale as exaggerated, if not a downright fabrication. Alas,” he sighs, “what became of them, I do not know.”<br/><br/>He gladly offers to perform some additional research on your behalf, and requests a further meeting in a few days. “Doubtless,” he observes, “you’ll wish to take the liberty of Adderport for a few days to recover from your ordeal.”