Bargains and Black Sorcery
Tenth Day of the Fourth Month 292 AC
The death mage is as morbid a sight as when last you saw him. You almost have the urge to drag him into the sunlight through the open door just to verify he is nor some manner of unliving horror. He is also to your quiet dismay...
enthusiastic about Argo, launching into detailed anatomical speculations about how the bull-man is in his words "put together." Argo himself may not be able to understand more than one word in every twenty out of the mage's tirade but from the way his hand grips the haft of his axe it is quite enough.
Fortunately the bull-man restrains his rage so you are not put in the unfortunate situation of having to explain incapacitating your own guard, or worse left with the dismembered body of a prominent mage on our hands. Once the discussion shifts to the matter of the Seeker the tall cadaverous mage grows more subdued: "I have been encountering revere impediments in using divination on the construct non-destructively... magic fails to bind properly in to bone and flesh which makes the results garbled at best..."
The dark-robed sorcerer motions with his left hand as he speaks words of power shadows trailing in the wake of his movements before coalescing into blurred man-like shapes. The sounds the shadows made were muffles as if heard through deep water or heavy stone, save for the odd fragment of a word you could not even guess the language of.
"I am sorry it was not all that you had hopped, wisdom," you offer, and empty platitude that cost nothing.
The mage snorts. "Not half as sorry as I am young one... the depth of lore just out of reach. I would be willing to pay for a chance at further study, at least half a year. In simple gold if you prefer or..." A cold wind whistled through the house, setting the windows rattling against iron frames. "Other servitors of unwavering rare and exceptional skills."
What do you reply?
[] Take the Seeker back
[] Accept the deal
-[] To be paid in coin: 1800 Gold
-[] To be paid in unliving servitors: a total of 12 HD of undead including
--[] Skeleton (Human common animal or exotic if you provide the corpse)
--[] Zombie (Human common animal or exotic if you provide the corpse)
--[] Ghoul or ghoulish creature (Human common animal or exotic if you provide the corpse)
--[] Shadow or umbral creature (Human common animal or exotic if you provide the living victim/soul; HD cost x1.5)
--[] Wight (HD cost x2)
OOC: The minotaur passes quite a difficult will save there.