Posted by Maltheaus on 5/9/2008, 9:48 am
Meanwhile, the Leader took Tommy on a circuitous route through a small maze of back alleys until they came to a warehouse door. The Leader knocked three times, the door opened and the Gamer was ushered inside a darkened room save for a set of lit sconces leading down a flight of stairs ahead of them. Once all had entered, the door was closed behind them and the Leader directed Tommy down the stairs into a fairly comfortable room lit by a single candelabra sitting atop a small table. Across from an open chair sat a thin man with slick jet black hair and a goatee donned in dark brown robes smiling at the Gamer.
Pointing to the open chair, the man said, "Please, have a seat. I see that you have decided to answer my summons, Master Tanaka, good. I am Maltheaus, Guildmaster of the Deeping Dale Thieves Guild. Welcome to my home away from home, simple though it may be. I was wondering if you could be so kind as to tell me where my little Thief and your companion Neven has run off to?"
Tommy shrugged, leaning casually against a wall. "I could be that kind, certainly. I usually would be, even given how rude your lap dog was in passing on your invitation. What I can't do, however, is give you information I don't have. I was actually getting ready to go looking for him myself when your minions showed up. So if you aren't responsible for his disappearance… Curiouser and curiouser. I suppose it's possible he spotted one of your agents and went into hiding. That would fit his personality. Or he could have run afoul of Venger or one of his agents. Or… Not really enough information to engage in meaningful speculation. I assume you *do* have people out looking for him?"
"I will ask the questions, good sir, and YOU will answer them!" replied Maltheaus with a snarl, "Personally, I think you are a fool and a liar to tell me that you do not know where your own companion is. The young girl who travels with the Wolfen has not left her side since the moment you arrived here. I suspect that Neven is somewhere nearby and you are merely trying to protect him. Fair enough."
Maltheaus clapped his hands twice and the stairway door above them opened. The Gamer could clearly hear the sound of several boots heading into the room, "I want Neven because of the trouble that his abrupt departure has brought me back in Deeping Dale. Some of his fellow miscreants believe that he committed some act of defiance against me and that his departure is a symbol of resistance. A few thieves have abandoned Deeping Dale because of his actions, others have turned against me and now I find myself locked in a thieves war that your little friend's return to Deeping Dale can easily bring to an end."
Bridging his fingers as ten Men in Black began to file into the room from the stairway, the Deeping Dale Guildmaster of Thieves concluded, "Once I find Neven or you reveal his location to me, I am going to bring him back to Deeping Dale and show the rebels that their symbol of resistance is nothing more than a sniveling coward. And then I am going to execute him and hang his head from a pig pole in the heart of the Thieves Quarter as MY symbol of what I can do to all who resist me."
Maltheaus then rose to his feet, "So, I shall ask you one last time. Where is Neven? If you do not tell me, I shall instruct my men to torture you until you talk. And then, they are REALLY going to go to work on you. So, what say you, Master Tanaka, are you willing to cooperate or not?"
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