It might be a good idea, but it isn't<em>necessary</em>. Simply knowing the Knight-Captain of the Guard isn't the same as being able to, you know, sit down at his table and say, "How would you like to help me get some of my wine out of compound. We could make quite the mint out of it!"<br/><br/>Unless he KNEW YOU, and was used to working with you, that strikes me as... a bad idea..<br/><br/>:D<br/><br/>That said, you being someone he knows-- even if he's not familiar intimately with your criminal endeavors,-- can only be a good thing.<br/><br/>...on the matter of the wine itself, and the scheme..<br/><br/>I imagine it's less of a matter how, "How do we get the barrels out of compound," and more "How do we arrange this..." There is going to be an issue of, well, if all the compounded wine disappears that's going to be a deal and something that will have to be dealt with. It's not insurmountable, though, but I imagine the answer is more 'bribes' and 'contacts' as opposed to a handcart. The more important discussion, though, will be an ongoing relationship to let Piotr's shipments into the city unmolested. It might be that Piotr started putting this all together, /all by himself/, *before* Doryn became the Knight-Captain. Then, when Doryn gets the position, suddenly the plan that would have worked before doesn't work anymore and Piotr needs to make new arrangements.<br/><br/>(Since Doryn, in general, tries to run a pretty tight ship and is big on law & order. I imagine he clamped down on the docks to a large degree and made smuggling and such a lot more difficult.)<br/><br/>:D<br/><br/>Anyway!<br/><br/>Hope that helps.