Spar: A dwarven con artist played by Andy. He's now the head of an illegal dwarven nog smuggling ring, and looking for an opportunity to plant the Dagger of Betrayal into Tara, his former human lover and now head of the Kami Guardian's, back.
Salt: Spar's daughter by dwarven chieftain Onyx. She is currently estranged from Spar on account of his oathbreaking ways. Well, that and sleeping with Tara, which Salt finds repulsive.
Pyrite: A less maligned dwarf than Spar, who helps him with his operation.
Iron: The provider of the dwarven nog.
Lucius: Spar's human friend and right hand man.
Herminus: One of Spar's underlings, formerly the head of security at Sabina's Castle.
Quartz: A member of a scheister dwarven troupe that hoodwinks humans, also a good friend of Spar's.
One very successful month of selling to The Wanderer's House later passes. Spar, Herminus, Quartz, and Iron were sitting in Spar's new apartment, when Salt marched in. She bore a summons from The Greybeard Council for Spar, commanding him to appear before him to explain his smuggling of dwarven nog in three days or be executed. Salt read the decree aloud, rolled it up, slapped it in Spar's hand, and walked out, with no other words exchanged.
Spar found Pyrite as quickly as he could. Pyrite had just heard about the summons and was freaking out, dead certain that the summons was a formality; they would kill Spar. The council was in the back pocket of the Kami Guardians, who were looking for any reason to kill Spar. Spar asked who chafed under the rule of the Kami Guardians the most on the council. Pyrite told him that would be Jadru, who was almost always kept close to Tara. Spar asked to be taken to the Kami Guardian's temple, which was just outside of Argentum Prime, near the jungle. Pyrite refused, walking in was suicide! Spar said he had a plan, but that he couldn't ask Pyrite to do it for him. Pyrite said he'd only let Spar go if he could come with him. Spar said he'd expect nothing less.
Spar went to Luscius and asked if he knew a disguise artist. Luscius said he did, and brought him to see Spar. Spar asked for a disguise by the next morning. The man told him it would take a massive amount of money... which Spar produced immediately. Startled, the man said he'd get to work. The next morning Spar and Pyrite went to the temple, which was grown into the jungle, just outside Argentum Prime's walls. After a little while Spar saw Tara going out to the privy. He followed her out, and when she stepped out of the privy after relieving herself he tried to stab her with the Dagger of Betrayal.
Spar missed.
He tried to stab her again, but Tara pulled him down with magical vines that sprouted out of the ground. Spar told Tara the curse was now passed to her. Tara laughed, who did Spar think he was fooling?? The last thing Spar saw was Tara walking away, laughing. The vines tightened, and Spar saw darkness.
To be continued...
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