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While the others go into the spider's den, you stay outside to keep an eye on the rest of Devargo's men . . . and you suppose be safe enough to scurry off and fetch Sabrina if Devargo proves more aggressive and better prepared for intruders than expected. Unfortunately, keeping an eye out for clientele was not going to be very possible here for two reasons - one, most of the passerby here and ascending up onto the pleasure yacht were not among Korvosa's wealthy. Those clients took advantage of private individuals such as yourself, or the Callistra's flock, while the people here were just looking for a quick bedding for a handful of silver. Two, one of the guards must have caught sight of you offering one of your cards to one of the very few people who might meet your standards, and you were told in no uncertain terms that freelancers were not welcome here, and you could either go talk to Madame Halvara if you were looking for work, knock it off, or get escorted off the premises. You opt for none of the above, but are a good deal more discrete about offering your services while you continue to wait for the others to get done with their little chat.

One curious thing does catch your eye, though . . . out on the Jeggare River. While there were a few boats still out on the river willing to risk the dangers of night fishing, this was a small three-person rowboat, and as far as you could tell it had no lines out into the water. Being about a hundred feet out from where the Eel's End was moored (permanently, apparently, as it had underwater scaffolding to keep it afloat these days), you couldn't make out much, but there was definitely people moving about on that rowboat. And they didn't seem to be moving off, either, instead just sitting out there in the river. Vjala's written warning comes to mind then - could this be part of Lamm's attack on Devargo? But what were they doing there so far out from the Eel's End? There wasn't much that they could do that far away from Devargo's home . . . could they?


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Devargo smirks as his eyes flick over each member of the group before returning to matching Dalen's gaze.

"Quite the motley crew you have there. I'm sure you're quite confident in your chances of squashing Lamm, but he's as tough as a cockroach, so you'll have to forgive me if I don't share that confidence. I can provide you with an opportunity to take your shot, but it has to be tonight and we've only got the one shot before Lamm goes to ground again. Convince me that your crew is the one that I should be granting this opportunity to."

Devargo then leans back in his throne and simply watches the group, clearly waiting to see what all of you will do in reply to his open challenge.

Spoiler: Aliani
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Perhaps it's just your lingering unease from past visits to this place - you seem to recall in another life (or was that two lives ago now?) that Devargo rattled off your home address with the unspoken threat that you had better provide for him, or you would be getting a very unpleasant wake-up call some night - but you were having a hard time getting a good read on Devargo.

It occurs to you, though, that perhaps there's just not very much to read, either. The man was dead on the inside, comfortable in his life here in this little rotten kingdom, but too hardened by his experiences to be able to enjoy it. But no doubt he didn't want to lose his comfortable life, either, and would dispose of any threat to that life - like Lamm. He would certainly lose no sleep in killing any or all of you, and his only interest in any of you at all was because you had a mutual enemy in Gaedren Lamm. On the other hand, unless and until he felt threatened by you, he probably wouldn't have any interest in killing any of you either. So, provided you didn't threaten him, you would probably be able to get out of here with an intact skin. The only question was how could you motivate him to give you what you wanted without pushing him, and when he already seemed to have everything he wanted aside from Lamm?


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You've been keep a discrete eye out for any traps or possible hidden sources of death in Devargo's throne room, but aside from Devargo and his wanna-be lackies in the room you don't see any immediate dangers. Well . . . aside from that patch of floor just in front of Devargo's throne that looks a little too swept clean of cobwebs and debris. You're pretty sure there's a trap door there, probably activated from some concealed switch on Devargo's throne so he could dump any unwanted visitors down into the ship's hold below. What sort of deathtrap was down there waiting, however, you couldn't tell, not with the trap door currently closed.