Tehr smoothed out the plans as Lucas smoke and looked at the preliminary mockup for the main and second floor.  His mind however was fully on what Lucas was saying and he made noises and nods appropriate to Lucas's story.  "I believe I know what house has recently had such a turn of fate, and they are just untrustworthy enough enough to skimp out on a deal without making reperations.  Certainly the proper thing to do would be to re-negotiate your contract if the work wasn't done, or if it already had, to honor the contract."<br/><br/>Tehr smiled, "I trust your company would be smart enough to never take business from a backstabbing house like that again?" *  Tehr smoothly said, "I mean, I know in my line of work, were someone to not only cause my crew to lose such a comission, but also do extra work just to try to reclaim some of your losses.... well.... I'd make sure that everyone else around knew how untrustworthy they were."<br/><br/>Tehr shrugged as if it was no longer of any importance.  He did some mental calculations in his head and came up with some numbers that he felt safe offering.  "As for paying your crew, when I've finalized the plans, and you come back at 6th bell to pick them up, I can offer you a good faith partial payment on the work."   Tehr figured that he could likely drain his current holdings in the bank account and send for more from mother if needed, but it would leave him in a precariously poor situation until either more funds came from his mother or until he sold the current house he was in.   Since he wasn't planning on even putting it on the market till after his trip to the Ravos lands, that might be a while.  On the other hand if he paid part now, sent for the part from his mother immediately, and filled the rest from his current funds, he would find his fortunes not overly taxed.  "How would 20% of the cost of the repairs, paid up front as a good faith gesture, sound to you?   The rest upon either completion of the project.  Though if you finish your job before I return, my sister will be able to pay you on my behalf.  She will be joining us at 6, and you'll be working with her most likely.  I must go out of town for upwards of a week, and want you to have someone that you can report too if needed.  Does that sound good?"<br/><br/>Tehr was taking a risk of course that they could take the 20% payment and dissappear, but it seemed like a risk worth taking.  Especially if Lucas's company was already hurting from a loss of a job.  If Lucas accepted the deal, Tehr would shake his hand and personally show the man out.  Then, he would eagerly return to his study, excited to work on the plans for the house.  He wanted to make sure there was a secret passage or two, as Angelique had suggested last night.  If there was time left before high tea, he'd work on the charms that he was enchanting for Emily d'Ravos to resell.  He now could use the influx of income that they would bring.<br/><br/>Thinking of Emily made him feel slightly nervous.  He assumed she'd want him to come away to House Ravos lands right away, but what if she didn't attend Tea with him today?  What if she didn't want him to come visit?  He knew that he was worrying over nothing, her intentions had been very clear, but for some reason he cared what the halfling woman thought about him.<br/><br/><br/><br/><br/>*<br/><div class="spoiler_container"><div class="spoiler_header" onclick="hideSecond (this);" role="button">diplomacy check</div><div class="spoiler_body">I'd like to do a diplomacy check here.  Obviously Lucas is talking about House Dale.  I'm sure they'd be hesitant to ever work with Dale again, but Tehr wouldn't mind seeing Dale being blacklisted by a reputable company of dwarven engineers.  Plus, word like that spreads.  So the diplomacy check is more to sort of 'plant the seed' in Lucas's mind that he should do exactly that.... blacklist dale and spread word of it's status among other contractors.<br/><br/>Roll Result: rhev rolled: 1d20, adding 10to the total<br/>Comment: Diplomacy roll for lucas to blacklist Dale<br/>Result: 14, <br/><strong>Total: 24</strong><br/>http://elliquiy.com/forums/dicebot.php?r=44101 (http://elliquiy.com/forums/dicebot.php?r=44101)</div></div>