<table class="bbc_table"><tbody><tr><td>(http://www2.strategyfirst.com/downloads/wallpapers/disciples3_elven_warrior_ART_640x480.jpg)</td><td><br/><br/><br/><br/><br/><br/><br/><br/><br/><br/><span class="bbc_font" style="font-family: impact;"><span class="bbc_size" style="font-size: 3.95em;">KORAM</span></span> <span class="bbc_size" style="font-size: 2em;"><span class="bbc_font" style="font-family: andale mono;">Half-Elf Knight/Marshal</span></span><br/><span class="bbc_font" style="font-family: andale mono;">A Disciplined Warrior from the North</span><hr/><span class="bbc_font" style="font-family: courier;"><strong>Attitude:</strong>  Good Nature/Well Intentioned/Cold<br/><strong>HP:</strong> 33 <strong>AC:</strong> 17<br/></span><hr/></td></tr></tbody></table><br/><hr/><strong>OOC:</strong>Hi!  I just want everyone to disregard the fact that Koram had spoken to some adventurers.  I was under the impression that there were very many adventurers here, beyond our regular party, and that we were going to be selected.  However, that is not the case and most of the adventurers here aren't very vocal... so please disregard part of my initial post.<hr/><br/>Like all of the others, Koram had gotten up with the gang and walked through the locked door and into the other room.  After everyone had settled in, he felt it was correct, as it were, to close the door behind them.  Then, he walked around to help the old man get settled, offering a protestation here and there to the likes of:   "I daresay, old boy, a mighty clever trick to deceive us," and,  "What the deuce, that won't do," until everything was settled.<br/><br/>The marshal was somewhat elated to see a warforged join the party, but his sensation was smoldered when he perceived her to be cold in nature.  Indeed, all of them seemed cold to him.  Had they adventured before and become jaded to it?  At that, he chuckled.  The idea of becoming jaded to adventuring seemed so very foreign to him.  Optimistically, the half-elf decided that he should very much like to converse with the warforge, but would make it a point not to alienate her.<br/><br/>There too was a man of a rather abrupt nature.  Koram wondered if he liked him, and then, Koram thought that the only person that he liked was Jo.  And perhaps the bard, though she seemed very distant, too.<br/><br/>Koram listened intently to Mr. Rengard, and he didn't think much of the task.  Of course he would help.  It seemed like a keen thing to Koram to receive payment for something that he would do for free.<br/><br/><div class="quoteheader"><div class="topslice_quote"><a href="https://elliquiy.com/forums/index.php?topic=51290.msg2395872#msg2395872">Quote from: Odin on 30-10-2009, 00:38:48</a></div></div><blockquote class="bbc_standard_quote">He puffed the pipe, speaking around it this time, <strong>"Payment will be 800 gold...a piece, I trust that's enough?"</strong>[/font]</blockquote><div class="quotefooter"><div class="botslice_quote"></div></div><br/>When the old man came to producing a sum for the service, Koram was about to protest for a larger sum, but was absolutely stunned when Rengard stated very succinctly that they would receive 800 gp.  So astonished was Koram that he sputtered:<br/><br/>"Eight hundred gold pieces!?" he said.<br/><br/>That was enough money to purchase livestock for a nice farm.  It might have been enough to buy a decent house in the city.  Eight hundred gold pieces certainly was a great deal of money.<br/><br/>"That is a great deal of money, Mr. Rengard-- and you will find that I am hard up.  But I am incredulous as to the sum.  Who is furnishing the payment?  What is your cut?  After all, we are entering into a business contract, and contracts would be worthless if everyone trusted one another."