"Can they stop by here as well?"

"Gonna have to get used to dealing with women if you want to trade downstairs."

"I don't, ah, take issue with women - it just might help give us a sense of who we're hiring."

"'Nother wizard, guy who shoots stuff, cleric. Wizard's the expensive one and also least necessary considering. I'd like the budget to bring at least one for watch-keeping purposes."

"Just, uh, three extremely generic examples of the type?"

"I mean, they have personalities and presumably also favorite colors, but if you assume that you won't be too far wrong."

"I feel like most adventurers don't travel with drow! Or women."

"They needed me for my darkvision and then looked me up again when they wanted to question a lady monastic."

"Oh, are these the ones who -"

"Think so."

"Ah hah. - I wanted to compensate you."

"Compensate us?"

"I heard that some adventurers inconveniently got into our foreign affairs at sea and got called off, and I thought you ought to be compensated about it."

"Wouldn't turn you down, though I'd also kinda like to know what was actually going on."

"Oh, we're enabling various shuffling around of navies so that the more useful parts of Taldor have its firepower and Cheliax subsidizes a lot of weaponry that ends up in our hands. I think, it's not my area of expertise."

"...huh. Well, uh, I... hope that works out, I guess."

"Me too! I hate all policy we can't set the betting markets on, honestly, but I expect it'll go fine."

"We were going to mess something up?"

"I don't know the details but I assume they wouldn't've called you off if you weren't."

"It could have been that we were going to learn too much. But here you are not even swearing me to secrecy so perhaps it wasn't a consideration."

"I'll be fairly annoyed if you go tell Cheliax but I'd be surprised if that's why they wanted you out of there."

"I do not plan to go tell Cheliax."

"Convenient!"

"Do you mind if I tell my party?"

"Well, are they going to go tell Cheliax?"