He spent the luncheon with the Daggermark representative, playing the Game with the ambassador. He looked over the proposal, expertly showing that he was slightly enthused about the offer, then hesitant, and then handed the portfolio to Talia. "While I would enjoy having such a guildhall, sadly we already have two factions lined up for the first ones, and unfortunately the recent windfall of Varnhold has significantly pushed back most of our plans until we can finish stabilizing the area. I will need to talk with my advisors about possible workarounds and will either have a plan tomorrow morning, or a compromise."<br/><br/>Once he got away from the Daggermark representative, he immediately hunted down Talia and got her alone in her office. "Thoughts on the Daggermark offer? I have little desire to let a foreign assassin or poisoner guild that I can't tell to back down. I have few problems with one or two of them here, even train some of the guards in counter assassin techniques or do some penetration testing in the name of getting along, but a nest to strike from is something else all together."<br/><br/>If Talia had no objections to the guildhall, he would simply offer to send a messenger to Daggermark once the other two guildhalls were built, the shipbuilders and quarriers had both requested government funding for their guild hall (and without him even prompting them either). If Talia did, then he would float the counter offer of having a couple of them come train his guards. He then planned to make a joke that it wasn't like they wouldn't get the information anyway, he might as well get something out of it.