<div class="floatleft">(https://68.media.tumblr.com/bd040b7ee06e8bd83420093f2678a6ae/tumblr_ohxvndzzor1utyn51o1_540.png)</div>Her quill scratches on the lined parchment, putting the elf's words down almost as quickly as he speaks them. It is of course, written in the curious loopy squggle-text of gnomish shorthand. "All these are questions that can be answered<em>in situ</em>," she tells her companions. "Right now we have more important considerations."<br/><br/>She then looked back to the messenger, and put on a bright smile, though her bright green eyes stayed shrewd and calculating. "Wages. What are we talking about here? And if this fine fellow is coming with us" she dips the end of the quill towards Blint, "That's at least an extra sixty percent of a share... And I presume your lord covers simple expenses for travel to his feif?" Her brow lifts "I suppose that can be waived if it's less than a day by carriage. Provided he provides the carriage, of course..."<br/><br/>To call Elly mercenary isn't exactly fair; she's just not going to sell her and her companion's abilities cheaply, is all.<br/><br/>"I'll give you one bit for free though," she offers to Aldwin. "If your lord has any advisers with a pointy goatee, a fondness for serpent iconography, or an aversion to washing their hair? Or if your lord has created any lone orphans during his ascent to power? That's probably your guy. Nine times out of ten it actually is the person you<em>most</em>suspect, after all."<br/><br/>While chattering about evil viziers, she was scribbling more in common. This slip of paper is slipped towards Bint. It appears to be a contract of some sort. Elly's quillwork is tiny, and even fills the margins. But the parts that are readable without a spectacled barrister on hand make it pretty clear that this is a contract.<em>I the undersigned agree to accompany <strong>Ellywick Rombdoozle, Cayden DiValco, Jill Thunderwind</strong> and <strong>Rini Orlsdotter</strong> (hereafter referred to as "the party") and render the fullest of my aid to their efforts with the understanding they shall do the same..."</em>it carries on for a while in this fashion,  and entitles him to a minimum of 3/5 of a share's worth of all profits, with the remainder held in trust by the party until consensus grants full membership, not to occur before completion of the second paying job or dungeon haul, et cetera et cetera, so on and so forth, ipsum lorem, yadda yadda.<br/><br/><div class="spoiler_container"><div class="spoiler_header" onclick="hideSecond (this);" role="button">OOC</div><div class="spoiler_body"> Don't mind me, I'm just playing a gnome who has a side business of notarizing things.  ;D</div></div>