<div class="quoteheader"><div class="topslice_quote"><a href="https://elliquiy.com/forums/index.php?topic=141079.msg6410747#msg6410747">Quote from: Kunoichi on 09-06-2012, 05:04:43</a></div></div><blockquote class="bbc_standard_quote">If 'Sir' was an improper means of address for the yugoloth officer, it certainly gave no indication of that fact.  Then again, given the rather... ambiguous nature of its appearance, it was easily possible that both titles applied, or equally possible that neither was appropriate.  Either way, the Altraloth didn't seem to mind.<br/><br/> "I have little need of art pieces, myself,"  Erebus volunteered, in response to the Bitch Queen's comment.  "But the officer whose forces carried away the artifact is paying me a bribe to drive the price up.  It isn't a particularly substantial sum, however, certainly not enough to bother with when so few seem interested in it."<br/><br/>Yugoloths, of course, were not known for giving away anything for free... including information.  Creatures driven by greed and ambition, having willingly purged their entire race of base emotions like hatred and jealousy millennia ago, they always sought to profit from whatever situation they found themselves in.  Which made this one's actions rather unusual...<br/><br/>"If no competing bidders pop up, I do believe this item will soon be yours, your majesty.  My congratulations."<br/></blockquote><div class="quotefooter"><div class="botslice_quote"></div></div><br/><br/>"I wouldn't have expected different" Na'Amah calmly replied when Erebus admitted to driving up the price. It didn't seem upset.   "But if your colleagues are just bottom feeding they are eventually going to choke on mud. "<br/><br/>The Arcanoloth certainly made a commotion by raising the price to 100 souls and also hyping it as a item of great power.  "You know there is something that I seek, which i'm sure will not be up for auction."   For quite some time Na'Amah had been tracking an relic of truly disgusting power. With it The Bitch Queen could reform any being into what ever it's twisted mind could imagine.  "I believe it was last in the possession of a Yugoloth named Tapheron......"<br/><br/>Meanwhile Na'Amah's Virago handmaiden was still introducing The Bitch Queen to the Lord of the Second.