Editing Midnight RPG - Chapter 7.01 (section)

== Durgaz/ Andrew ==

:'''Durgaz:''' "You trust this legate too much. I don't care if he swore an oath to you or not; as long as he wears the robes and symbols of a legate, his first and only loyalty is to the Shadow. If he is ambitious enough to think that presenting Jahzir with this cedeku will increase his standing among the legates, he is certainly ambitious enough to betray you and the rest of us if doing so is to his benefit. 

:"I am also not eager to let anything currently in our possession fall into the hands of any servant of Shadow who knows that we ever held it. There are ways to find beings through their possessions.

:"That said, if your friend truly is as trustworthy as you believe he is, maybe he would be willing to do something for us, out of gratitude for sparing his life. If his allegiances lie with Sunulael or Vrolk, he may have some way of finding out where Walden is. If he can provide us with that information - and if it does not turn out to be a trap - then I will, maybe, be willing to trust him. And if the cedeku helps him continue to aid us, then so be it, he is welcome to it.

:"As for this Al'Kazzir, I don't trust him either. I think it's far too convenient that he should just happen to appear less than a day after we know we were seen by Vrolk. I think it's suspicious that he claims to be in contact with Evelos, an elf we know nothing about, but who we just ''happened'' to encounter while the wyvern's eye was in our possession. I don't know a lot about merhcants, but I don't know what one could be selling, or looking for, out here in the swamp. We don't know how he got here. He just appeared while we were all unconscious ... and when we woke up, he was here and one of us was dead. Maybe Thorton saw something he wasn't supposed to see. We have reason to believe that he made some sort of 'deal' with one of the snakes, a deal that the other snakes don't want him to speak about. And finally, he seems awfully eager for us to go toward Vrolk's tower ... as do, incidentally, some of those snakes. If I had to guess, I'd say he serves Vrolk, and was dispatched to bring us to him. Or maybe he's trying to get us to lead him to Evelos. Or maybe he's just here to lead us away from Cambrial. I don't think he's a legate, because he didn't get up to pray at midnight, and he doesn't have any legate's trappings on him. But I don't trust him, and I don't think we should let him out of our sight until we know what he's doing out here."

:'''Andrew:''' Durgaz doesn't like legates. He didn't like them when he had to take orders from them, and he doesn't like them now. He's also a strong believer in the "I don't trust you until you've had the opportunity to screw me over for obvious personal gain, and you didn't take it" school of alliance-building. Combine that with the shady back-room-deal style of Kyuad and Diero's arrangement, and there's just no way he's going to be favorably disposed toward trusting this guy.

:OOC, though, I think it's a good plan. If Kyuad actally knows where Diero is likely to be, and could get a message to him some way (via Nisse, or spell, or whatever), we could damn sure use some help finding out where Walden is ... Durgaz only knows that he's in "the land of the dead", which could apply to Cambrial or the Dead Marshes, and it'd kind of suck to go 100 miles in the wrong direction before finding out for sure. That would also assuredly meet Durgaz's standards for trustworthiness. He still wouldn't feel terribly comfortable about giving up the cedeku (I'm sure that being a Seer in this world makes you even more paranoid than most), but at that point he wouldn't resist it.