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I mean, how do you want to present this errand to the party?

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I don't mind them knowing as long as they don't go and arrest all my friends! ...Or you could just tell them you think it's a good idea, I bet they'd listen if you said so. .........Well, Lann and Seelah would. 

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That is a little less measured than I would be if I were speaking freely.

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If you want to translate 'don't fuck over Woljif and his friends' into paladin-speak you can run it by me?

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Something like... "we have a lead on some potential recruits to help with the crisis, our contact with them is Mr. Jefto, he needs to clear up his status with them and all parties need to be confident they won't regret offering cooperation, do you all feel qualified to avoid making the Inquisitor's error?"

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Sure, that's fine with me, as long as you've got my back if they decide that actually Hulrun had the right idea.

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I don't have to go on to divulge any more information to them? I'm not prepared to violently defend you and yours from a paladin or a count if that comes up in any situation where they're not betraying rules of engagement or enchanted or something.

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...Does it count as 'betraying rules of engagement' if they say they won't go arrest all my friends but then they change their mind? 

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Not if they then unrelatedly catch your friends in the act of a new crime or something. But yes, if they falsely promise to set aside past suspicions and then don't, that would be the sort of thing I'd stand by you for.

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It's kind of weird that 'beating up someone for betraying your group to the law' counts as Lawful when it's paladin-types doing it, but he's not about to complain.

Got it. In that case that's good enough for me.

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Is this setting private enough to bring it up, to your mind?

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Tail-twitch.

There's kind of a lot of paladins around here. Our room should be fine.

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All right. He is frankly buzzing with anxiety and would like a chess game the way some people would like their fiftieth beer of the week, but so what. "There's something slightly sensitive to discuss, if we could all duck up to the room reserved for us briefly."

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If he knows—

If he knows, then Daeran would rather get their little party killed than their little party and also the rest of the tavern. As obnoxious as Iomedae's people are, they're still a marginal improvement on the demons.

"Of course, Select."

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The rest of the party will also follow him upstairs.

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He's not going to get the wording EXACTLY like how he told it to Woljif but - "Mr. Jefto has a lead on some potential recruits, if everyone feels capable of avoiding the Inquisitor's mistake and avoiding using their cooperation against them, and I think the balance of considerations are in favor of pursuing it. There's a prerequisite errand where he needs to clear up his own status with them, and the idea is to request Fiducia Dyra's help because she's less likely to have contact with anyone who'd misuse leaked information, but if anyone has a better read on Fiducia Rathimus or his policies that would in principle work without requiring another outing."

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"Fiducia Rathimus is an honorable man, but he's also... er... very Abadaran." By which she means he charges a fortune for things she'd do for free in his place.

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"Are you sure this is a good idea?" 

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"If I only did things I were sure were a good idea I would never succeed at any task with more than three steps."

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"If you really think we should go for it, I'll trust your judgment, just... I mean, he is a thief. —And we'll have to be extra careful when we come back with Dyra, she can't walk quite right."

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"I suppose I would appreciate the opportunity to conduct anthropological research about mongrel customs."

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"Do you have a guess at whether a Lesser Restoration would set her right?" Blai asks Lann.

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He rubs a finger against his horn. "I doubt it."

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"Well, I can prepare an Ant Haul to carry her up the rope if need be. Or approach Fiducia Rathimus, being as I do still have some spending money."

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"I don't object to going through Rathimus if you're the one paying for it." The mongrel girl would be better, her Truthtelling almost certainly won't last half as long, but there's not a good way to say that without sounding suspicious.

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