"Yet without my help, you will have no means of entering the contest and performing.  I will be recompensed as much for my knowledge, creativity, and foresight as anything else.  The humiliation of old Eloplaster is a thing that carries no price for any but myself."<br/><br/>The boy tilts his head.<br/><br/>"Unless, of course, you are unable to perform?"<br/><br/>(OOC: That's a Resist Arrogance check...1d6, if you please)