1866-08-16: A Strange Missive for the Banker
Title
Summary: Summary
Date: IC Date
Related: None yet. But will be related to the Courtesan's Academy and their gathering they've announced.
NPCs: {$npc}
Players:
Shirlyn  Mattias  

A servant, unmarked in any sort of livery or telling marks of serving any house, stops off and insists on hand delivering the message she holds to the master of the bank she stands before. After a bit of arguing with the guards she will somehow succeed in delivering the missive personally to Mattias’ hands.

My dearest of confidants,

I am going to the gathering at the Courtesan’s Academy this evening and would like to ask if you would kindly escort me. I need a person who would know the merchant class well and be able to present me accordingly. I do not intend to go as myself, the less a lady of Wayston is seen in this crowd the better. Is it sad, do you think, that I would find cause to use my skill at disguise to enjoy myself without looks of loathing, rather than a far less shameful reason of deep-cunning and wit? I pride myself in being ever obscure, but this is beyond the norm. However, it does one good to be someone else every now and again. Not even I can be surely all of my days.

Perhaps a bit of mirth and merriment will do me some good. I do wonder if you know of a name I could use, somewhat distant yet wealthy? I have already the dress to wear, but must needs a token of my new ‘family's’ trade in wares. Ah. No matter, I will discuss the details of such with you later if you would so kindly accept. If this is too much of an imposition for you, I would find no offense to your rejection of such a request.

Regards,

~S.C.


The messenger is returned with a scrawled reply, the letters as ever looping and unwieldy in part thanks to the banker's gloved right hand…

S.C.

I shall gladly escort you to this event. As for a name… A few blots of ink stain the page where the quill appears to have split against the parchment. Something simple will do. Traders often move all too freely unless they have the fortune to make roots. Forrester. Weaver. Brewer. Carter. Such names speak of honest beginnings. I shall meet with you later at your convenience.

M.


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