The Last Oddetsey

[alex_holt]

LELAND AND CLEO
Even as they knock on the front door, some information flashes up on the computer about this accountant.

Vociferous Tench
Species: Eel-gnome
Likes: Swamp-beet wine
Reading the Daily Mail
Complaining about things
Supporting his local Swampball team - the Bridgewater Bitterns
Dislikes: Most other things
Any other swampball team

After a few moments, Vociferous opens his front door - he stands about 2 foot tall and has smooth, slimy dark silver skin, big reflective eyes and webbed hands and toes. He peers at you suspiciously.

"May I help you?"

AURELIA

While your team inspects the new recruit, you talk to the Donkey, who is currently very upset. His name is Meander and he is the librarian at the Library of Arcane, Thaumatological and Mystic Studies in Melded - the most renowned gathering of all books of magical subjects in this arm of the galaxy.

What seems to have happened is someone has got into the super tough inner vaults where the most dangerous books are kept and taken three incredibly unique volumes:

Notes on the Origin of Doomforall - by Dr Shah
Tales of the Outer Dimensions and their Powers - by Travavian the Wanderer
A Study of Rift Energy - by Anjushree

[NWOWWE]

As he knocked on the door, information spilled across the screen of the tablet. Oh now there was information on this accountant! Wonderful. Gaunt gave an annoyed sigh and quickly read the information and stuffed it back in his pocket once more. No sooner had he done this then the door swung open. Gaunt looked down at the creature.

"Hello Mr. Tench. As I understand it you are employed by by Ms. Triablos as the company accountant. Well I'm going to be having a business meeting with her today, but I was not given much background on the company itself. Being a business man myself I know that the accountants are the most straightforward and analytical employees of any company so I figured I'd come to you directly first so I could get a very unbiased opinion on the company. Now I don't want to take up more of your time than absolutely needed since I imagine this is a day off for you and I'd wouldn't want to take away your time for relaxing with the paper or watching the game."

Here Gaunt gave a playfully envious smile.

"Now I know mostly about what the company does, but very little about people. It's very hard to do business with people you know almost nothing about! Now you'd certainly be in a position to interact with Ms. Triablos on somewhat regular basis I'm sure so you could probably tell me how she does business. The last I want is to go there and say or do the wrong thing and kill off any chance of getting any productive business relationship."

Gaunt took a bit of a breath and put on a slightly apologetic tone.

"And you'll have to forgive me for rambling on like that. Old salesman's habit. So do you think you can help me Mr. Tench?"