"Employment"
Day 153

Two more days had passed for Geist, and the change had been remarkable. The
Inn owner had finally gotten around to charging him, steeply, and Geist had
found himself a hermit. None of those involved with the underworld would
speak with him.  But he had managed to overhear rumors of Spyre agents stalking
around. These were rumors of heresy, Geist was positive of that, but he was
still being kept clear of, and that bothered him.

He wondered if he'd gone about it the wrong way. He never had trouble
getting assignments back at the Sword's Edge base, but then again he hadn't
had much choice either. Getting a job in the city was harder and Geist was
frustrated. His questions were finally answered when he decided to take his
frustrations out on an unsuspecting Gel dealer, whom he tried to beat his
answers out of. He hadn't had any luck, until a small group of armed men
appeared behind him and told him to let the dealer go. Geist complied, and
followed them to the man who was apparently their leader. He was a tall man
with dark skin. 

"I hear your looking for employment," said the man looking Geist up and down.

"Maybe. What's it to you?" Geist replied with a cocky smirk on his face.

"What it is to me is that this is my town.  I handle any and all jobs that
come through here," the man cracks a bit of a smile, "For a modest fee of
course."

"Of course...and you brought me here why?"

"Right to the point aren't you?  You're lucky that I like that.  I brought you here
to offer you a job."

That statement caused Geist's eyebrow to raise slightly, "Oh really."

"Yes, really," says the man as one of his cohorts produces a small wooden
box. "I need a delivery made to New Rolin City done in the next week.  The
contents of this box are to be given to a woman named Minx.  She will be
staying at the Moonrise Inn."

"A delivery?  If you wanted an errand-boy why didn't you hire one of the
local kids?" Geist asked.

The man chuckled. "Let's just say that if the errand-boy was stopped by Spyre
on his way and the contents were found out it would be....bad for the
errand boy.  Besides, I don't pay errand boys 5000 talics for their deliveries."

Geist blinked at the sum "I see...what's in it?"

"That is none of your business.  And I wouldn't open it either if I were you,
Minx will know if you have. And if she reports to me that you've opened it
that would also be bad for the errand boy.  Now do we have a deal?"

"Oh I think we do, but first I'd like to know the name of the man I'm
working for."

The man grinned again, "Of course. You may call me Slade."