1875-08-29: Lien on Me
Lien on me
Summary: A loan is approved and shipped towards Barjols. Repairs are expensive.
Date: 1875-08-29
Related: The Swarming of Barjols
NPCs: {$npc}
Players:
Bast  Vemmorn  Mattias  

Five hundred gold crowns. It was a a small fortune, though to one particular banking house it was a trifle. And as the request was passed from Clerk to Chief Clerk, the request for five hundred gold crowns, Aequorian coin, was approved in the name of one Lord Sebastian Bordeaux. The paperwork was filled out in a flowing script, seals were stamped, and the appropriate number of copies were made.

Within a finely made strongbox, all dark wood and bronze fixtures, those five hundred gold crowns were stacked neatly, each tower perfect and ramrod straight thanks to the little sticks of dowling that ensured a uniform appearance of the coin within the box. This was no pirates cache after all. No jumble of coin, it was a delivery. And it was as neat and perfect as it could be. Atop the coin that took four separate clerks to count and recount for the sake of completion and diligence, a copy of the paperwork was placed atop, and the strongbox closed, locked, and sealed with a thick black waxen seal bearing the crest of the Banking House of Thynne.

The lock was exceptionally heavy, and the key was sent on ahead by another messenger. Though any strongbox would eventually yield its contents, it would take a good while at the very least. The key certainly made things easier. Once prepared, the box was loaded aboard a coach destined for the Barjols, a typical coach at that, Four Corners markings, and apparently blessed with a full compliment of passengers. Though upon closer inspection, should anyone be that unfortunate to stop a coach that did not intend to stop, except at two locations known only to the driver and Chief Clerk, they would find the passengers to be exceptionally well armed.

And so the coach bore its way towards Barjols.

Back within the Banking House, that fortress like building ensconced amidst the marketplace of Four Corners, the paperwork was filed, with a singular addendum, a lien was attached naming a vessel as security for the loan. Its Captain, one Lord Vemmorn Bordeaux.

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