He chortled softly, before nodding. "Remember me coming back with this wrist blade? Turned a succubus, erinyes, angel, archon, and a celestial snake bard race woman loose during it. The three good ones stuck together and captured the erinyes, the succubus got out, and I decided that a party of three celestials was better tackled by someone other than my lonesome. The succubus hunted me down later, as the way I released them from their imprisonment altered her somehow, and staying with me is keeping her sane. Well, saner than she was. She will be coming with me, the dragon, and the elf while we traipse out to find the rest of the dragon's hoard. Whee."<br/><br/>He didn't mention the soulstone, there was no reason to reveal that boon yet. "The rest of the initial story is that the star guardian was instigating the riot I mentioned in my report, admitted it to my face, and offered to disintegrate me if I tried to interfere with his mission. Hence why I joined the dragon and assassin. Far less messy.<br/><br/>There is a sergeant at the nearest guard house that knows I am the thieves' guild master here, and the mayor and others are paying a small fee every month to not get robbed blind. The book on the desk has the names. I swept all the gangs and groups of thugs in the city up into the guild, so there shouldn't be any sort of competition, hence why I am offering protection instead of work to the trainees. Got a couple as street leaders, but no one that I would trust higher yet. A small bandit group formed out of town a couple days, but I let the watch know about them and their hideout, so they could get some good work done after sitting out the dragon and paladin fight.<br/><br/>And that has been my guild leadership in a nutshell. The good news is that the worst of the problems will be leaving with me, so you just have to keep the profits coming in."<br/><br/>Another pause, as he took a pull from the tankard, and he refilled it before continuing. "The other issue is that the star guardian implied that the paladin mission was a sanctioned mission, AND the guild master knew about it. Hence why I have been sitting on the full report of the situation for a week."