"Ah, lass," Gunthar replies. "If I 'twere twenty years younger," he sighs, "or even just ten..." he shakes his head. "For east, it'll be ten gold a day, and half up-front if you're not to be telling me where we're to be going. Five days, you say?" He pauses. "Since I didn't give that estimate, I can't vouch for its accuracy. But I'll take fifty now, and you'll promise me now - and pay for - the return on arrival,<span style="font-style: italic">plus</span>any extra if the journey's longer through the jungle." He pauses, knocking back the thick, golden liquid in his glass. "But I'll cover the wear on my equipment<span style="font-style: italic">and</span>source the trade-goods we'll need to bring, at no extra charge. I know which merchant's stocks are turning in their storehouses, and whose desperate to sell," he explains, "without adding my ten-percent of the hundred that'll cost, and it's only because I like her smile, and the cut of your jib even if you are lying, lad," he tells Xarces, "and if I didn't you know it'd be fifteen and you'd pay it." He pauses. "You will lay in supplies for at least ten days out and back again though," he says. "They'll be no negotiating that point, or you'll be negotiating it with someone else. Expensive:" He shrugs. "Safe. Fast. Cheap. Pick one."<br/><br/>{Since the sums are scattered through there, he's saying he'll be charging 50 gp up front, plus 50 gp on arrival (for the return trip) plus 20 gp for each additional day it takes you to get there (as that day will also have to be travelled back). He's also saying that you'll need to fund his purchase of 100gp worth of trade goods, presumably for the lizardfolk tribes). Total now, 150gp, total on arrival 50gp plus additional days.}