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Briefing

My latest 'journey' into Pagan territory proved quite fruitless. Tip about hidden valuables turned out to be 'a little' inadequate. But this time my new informant did her job well.

There's a yearly Trade Day celebration being held at the local marketplace. Its overseer, Gavin Quigsley, is a wealthy merchant and brave adventurer. The last expedition was a huge success. It is said that he managed to retrieve an exquisite crystal, buried deep with one of the ancient shipwrecks found near The Isle of Baltia. He called the stone "Pride of Dayport". According to local gossip, men lose their tongue and women can't take their eyes off it, lost in admiration.

Not that I'm getting too sentimental, I prefer big loot and paid rent to delivering paeans about precious stones... I guess the marketplace will be full of guards and townsfolk, so sneaking around might be difficult. But what is life without challenge? And more people means more purses... Time to set out and deprive Dayport of it's inordinate pride.