"Any curios I'd have heard of?"

"The Mute Giant of Wilder and the Five Children of Pentode are both of his design."

"Huh! I don't think I've heard the name, what would they look like if I'd seen them?"

"Wonderous and terrifying."

"Well, that doesn't help me know if any wondrous and terrifying things I've encountered were his work or not."

"Have you encountered many wondrous and terrifying things?"

"Several!"

"Well, then I'm sure you've encountered at least one creation of Dr. Salazar Wendigo."

"But which one? Won't you tell me anything about them?"

"And spoil the wonder and the terror? Perhaps you can tell me about what you've encountered and I can enlighten you as to which is from my employer."

"No, that's fine, if you don't actually have anything nice to say about them I don't mean to put you on the spot obliging you to be his advertising department. Are you aware that the slave trade is banned in Kenton?"

"I'd heard - such a silly rule."

"Alas that it is not presently up for review! Since he's not her father, I'm afraid you cannot advertise for the apprehension of this child anywhere in town at all. It's an attempt to enter into a black market, you see."

"Why? It says right here that the child must be deposited at Wilder for the reward, not in Kenton."

"It does say that! I suppose you're imagining someone passes through Kenton to see the advertisement, encounters her later in some other place, and then swings through Wilder with her? But Kenton is not the place to go for slaver gigs. Because the slave trade is banned."

"Well, it's far from the only place we've put up such notices."

"I'm sure! I have no jurisdiction in any other town, but here I can't allow it."

"You can't allow notices of opportunities available in other towns?"

"I can't allow advertisements to be posted here encouraging participation in banned trades even if the trade takes place elsewhere."

"Well, that seems quite silly, but I suppose I can modify the notice to make it suitable to your town's small-minded sensibilities."

"You may as well tell me what you have in mind before you make a print run."

"I will leave in place the reward for information, and a note about the availability of more information about such opportunities in Wilder."

"I'm also separately skeptical that the bounty's legitimate. You can't tell me anything about how this fellow supposedly made his fortune, who's to say he has one?"

"I'm sure there's someone who can attest to his wealth - he's visited Elysium on many an occasion."

"How about you find such a person or two, and find me at the mayoral office after my rounds to corroborate that?"