He raised a hand, clearly not trying to instigate anything. "I merely ask so we don't attempt to receive payment at such a time that would reduce your hoard back to something insulting to you. So, when we finish handing over the ones in the town currently to you, we can reassess the situation then, and decide if then is a good time to balance the books or if we should wait some more. I always strive for customer satisfaction, and would be very upset to leave one such as yourself unhappy with our final arrangement.<br/><br/>However, that does bring to mind an interesting question. Would you, perhaps, be interested in doing more than just killing the miscreants? Would I perhaps interest you in instead getting them stripped of everything, money, allies, family, and reputation, and forcing them to live on with only a sack cloth for clothing, and nothing more, to suffer and be a living symbol of why one doesn't cross and try to use a dragon? To use them as they attempted to use you?"<br/><br/>[diplomacy d20+0 (19)]