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SHUB: We are not the outdoorsy types.
SHUB: Far safer here in town.
SHUB: Much warmer too.
[20.3] FOOLS' EBONY III
SHUB: Think of all the supplies we would have to take.
SHUB: All those nasty things out there.
SHUB: Did you know that seducers won't come to us in the wilderness?
SHUB: We'd have to hire guards, to keep those awful priests away.
SHUB: And the strain of dealing with all those coarse types ... the Merchants.
SHUB: The Armorers.
SHUB: The Royals.
ADVENTURER: Mmm. I think I comprehend. You want some -- experienced explorer-hero
type, someone used to the wilderness - to go get it for you, set up a supply line, so on ..?
SHUB: Exactly. And find us a nice, useable merchant. Someone we can control.
SHUB: With a big, big warehouse, delivery service, that kind of thing ...
ADVENTURER: Well, gentlemen. Let me volunteer my services! I have always admired you
Mage gentlemen -- so clever, so sharp. No fooling you in anything, is there?
SHUB: No, no fooling us ...
(Enter Prologue)
PROLOGUE: This, ladies and gentlemen, is irony.
(Exit Prologue)
ADVENTURER: Tell you what, I can probably arrange a suitable merchant or you. Take
some gold though -- those thieves know the value of a gold piece! As luck would have it, my
last gold was swindled off me by a thieving priest, in some little town south of here. And I
lost a lot of good stuff in a shipwreck just before that ...
SHUB: Well ... since you have agreed to help us ... we can spare some gold from the treasury,
can't we, Shub?
SHUB: Oh! Oh yes, lots there ... always make more ...
ADVENTURER: Now, I do need to know roughly where this site is, got to pick the right
breed of horse, calculate my supplies to the last drop, figure out what weapons I might need ...
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