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[Anastasia]

Ready to move along now or anything else to add here?

[Nephrite]

Good to move along.

[Anastasia]

Soon enough Ruby returns. She takes a seat and speaks without preamble. "Mister Sisatar is interested, but he requires one more thing before an agreement can be reached."

[Nephrite]

"Of course." Moore says, waiting for Ruby to elaborate.

[Anastasia]

"Collateral, as your information must be ascertained, and providing information back is not free. A deposit of 3,000 gold coins will suffice," Ruby says.

[Nephrite]

"Of course." Moore says as he withdraws his Brightwater writ.

"Will taking the sum from this be acceptable?"

It has 9000 left on it, at present.

[Anastasia]

A look over it, "Mmm, yes, that will do. We'll see to it, we'll need to borrow it to facilitate the exchange." Ruby says, "But that is acceptable."

[Nephrite]

Moore hands it over to Ruby.

"By all means, please do what you need to do." Moore says. "You all have always been stalwart allies for me in the past, I see no reason for that to change now."

[Anastasia]

"Mister Sisatar appreciates your business," Ruby smiles.

"One thing," Cresiel speaks up, "Is your chef willing to share his recipes? I know someone who would appreciate them."

With a look of amusement, "Well, our particular set up for refreshment...perhaps we could negotiate favorable terms for both sides." Ruby says, putting down the paper.

[Nephrite]

Moore blinks, then his smile spreads into a grin.

"I'd be happy to add in whatever we would need to on our side of things." Moore says.

[Anastasia]

"To a large degree we use magic, though a chef is behind it all. He is amply compensated for his excellent work, his name is Daraguluthios, a brass dragon. One that only stops talking when his mouth is busy eating." Ruby remarks, "So this may be expensive."

[Nephrite]

Moore considers for a moment. "I suppose we could always trade in new recipes or... perhaps even some exotic ingredients?" Moore taps his chin. "But if neither of those are of interest to him, I'm sure we can find ways and means otherwise."

[Anastasia]

Ruby rises, "Well, regardless, it is his choice. Please wait."

This time, it's not long. A fat man dressed in white and an apron waddles out. Yet your true seeing can see the form of a brass-coated dragon above him, his current form clearly a lie. "Oh, what's this, someone likes my cooking enough to want to copy it? I'm flattered, really, but who are you and what are you willing to offer, and it had better be good because these recipes are one of a kind, including a lot of the ones for dragons and earth elementals!"

[Nephrite]

Moore smiles. "I see you follow the creed of not trusting a thin person's recipes, Mister Daraguluthios."

"My name is Moore, I'm the Duke of Songs of Celestia. This is my comrade, Cresiel. Yes, the food here has always been quite impressive." He nods afterwards.

"As for what we can offer... working with Celestia does allow me some measure of freedom, I understand you use magic for most of the food, but if I was able to bring you exotic ingredients from Venya itself to add to your repertoire, would that suit your fancy at all? I am also quite familiar with the food from Aurora and would be happy to share some of their recipes with you, or even the recipes from Mount Celestia itself."

Moore folds his hands in his lap to await an answer.

[Anastasia]

Diplo here.