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End of Agent: Two Meetings

(Events took place before Broken Tool)

Due to the situation of him being legally dead but still unofficially wanted by the Maelstrom, Sarij’s visits to the Astral Place tended to be limited to short job briefings or meetings with the entire company. So when smaller meetings occur they tend to take place at Rhlagr’s Reach.

Sterrbhar, who had been looking into the the matters of Sarij’s arrest which broke his plea bargain with the Maelstrom and the matters of Balthius’s continued incarceration. The Hellsguard Maelstrom officer met with both Sarij and Berrod in the Reach to discuss his findings.

Unfortunately, Balthius seemed to being held at a higher pay grade than his rank would allow, or at least it was deemed ‘not his business.’ He was able to find better luck with prodding into the matter of Sarij’s arrest. The reporter who had broken the story about Blutvyse being on the seas once more, suddenly seemed to be allowed attend and report on more exclusive events, a sign of bribery. However, the corruption did not seem to end there. Bloodied Heart acted against the higher ups to get the details about the supposed sightings of Blutvyse assisting the Razor. His vendetta led him to a meeting at the Silver Bazaar south of Ul’dah. Very few witnesses cooperated with Sterrbhar with divulging details, but a few remarked about a dark skinned blond highlander Immortal Flames soldier with a much larger, likely Roegadyn, man. Sterrbhar concluded that Bloodied Heart was duped with false information that led to Sarij’s arrest; a dupe he gladly let happen due to a personal vendetta against Blutvyse.

After Sarij had to depart for a time, Berrod and Sterrbhar discussed added details from his investigations and what to do going further. Naturally, with the pair of them together discussions lead to matters of Monks while standing underneath the statue of Rhalgr.

Many bells later when the light was beginning to fade from the horizon, Sarij returned to the place he met Sterrbhar and Berrod for a second meeting. Crooked Tarot arrived in his theatrical style of cloak and dagger, which Sarij assured was not needed, but the Highlander countered with ‘I like it.’

Their meeting was more directly related to the matter of Iron Jaw and the possibility of him having damning financial ties that could link him to the Spinner’s Shears and ultimately destroying his reputation and exonerating the Astral Agents at the same time. Unfortunately, Iron Jaw seemed to be clean as a whistle. All of his financial dealings were well within non-suspicious ranges. Even when the man was in direct control of the Astral Agency every meeting with other Free Company heads was reported and recorded in transactions.

The meetings with the other companies piqued both Sarij and Crooked’s interest. The former director instructed the highlander to investigate what he could into the companies Iron Jaw met and ones he had control of in general. He also urged the man to look into members of the companies that left after Iron Jaw took over. With his orders, Crooked departed as sneakily as he arrived.

“Escort a boat of cargo from the ruby sea back to Kugane.”

Inferno appointed Kugeki to lead a group of the employees to bring a boat of requested resources back to the city. The team consisted of Kugeki, Sterrbhar, Toumin, R’ain, Mahk, Teagan and Kazan. At first the job seemed easy enough for the group to handle. 

However...

First a group of red kojin attacked the boat. Dragging Mahk and Kugeki under the waves while the rest of the team dispatched them as quickly as possible. The two were brought back to safety and they were all on their way. 

Only a hundred yards from the city limits of Kugane and the team was stopped yet again this time by a group of archers and gunmen. They took damage and did their best to fight back. But all ceased as a lone hyur of the name Sid appeared. He begged with the group to give back his boat. 

As it turned out, the boat had been stolen from him and after a short debate they agreed to use the boat and then return it. 

Sid was grateful of them and gave the group a gift as well as his promise to return with any new and rare finds during his journey across the sea.