A few hours of aggressive information gathering later, and the succubus will present him with all the information she can find on him. The good news is, he's a relative newcomer to the town, been here less than three weeks, which explains why the message hadn't made it to the guildmaster, yet. While they're rather firmly supplanted or acquired the original town guard, a lot of the members of the new guard were recruits and conscripts, far less skilled than a normal town guard, but backed up by stronger veterans and practicing diligently. Finally, most of the previous administrative staff had remained, so bribery to get legal matters finished was still quite possible.<br/><br/>The bad news, however, was that, as he'd feared, many of the veterans are paladins, as well as the entire leadership, including the nobleman himself. He'd set up his base of operations in the mayor's manor, ostensibly there as a 'guest' of the mayor, but having all but evicted the man from his own home. And, perhaps most damningly, this new guard was dead-set on rooting out corruption and illegal activities in their own ranks, making it very difficult to get anything past them.<br/><br/>At the house, he'll find that he's one of a long list of people, planning to visit, today, ranging from commoners to nobles, all forced to stand in line, and wait their turn, while the guards staunchly keep them at bay, and maintain the order of the line.