On 4/11/2024 at 3:51 PM, Gengy said:"Indeed? Well, this one is unsure how a humble hotel owner can be of aid to the Coedd, but if it is the desire of a guest, please allow Ben Ying to listen. Follow." Leading the Coedd to yet another privacy booth, Ben Ying waited their entry, and then tapped the table to both activate privacy and notify servers that they were not to be disturbed.
"Now, this one is interested and you have our attention. Speak your message."
Iago flashes his eyebrows, impressed by the technological privacy measures. Nice, we just hide behind a tree and everyone pretends they can't hear us. He sips his drink slowly and thinks through the message.
Coedd's areas of interest and the Biarbu's seem to align. You are spreading the word of Fascination while cultists spread the word of Coedd. You've opened the Golden Pheonix while we have the he takes a deep breath and mumbles the next bit, hopefully too fast to hear Super Secret Coedd Spying Base It was funny to them, certainly, but utterly mortifying now he had to say it out loud in a serious conversation. He sips his drink again, letting a pause hopefully killing off some of the impression doubtlessly left by the name. And it seems we might be evenly matched if we were to clash, sapping both our resources. Now. Coedd has no interest in Tekhum outside of Coedd, outside of Sansar. As far as we can tell, the Biarbu have no presence on Sansar. We wanted to initially propose a...a mutual non-inteference treaty. Coedd will not seek to establish its power outside Sansar, the Biarbu will not seek to establish theirs on Sansar.
If that were agreeable, we would also propose an expansion - that on the rare occasions when Coedd wishes to operate outside Sansar for whatever reason the Biarbu perform what is needed and vice versa. This is, to be clear, an addition to the original offer of mutual exlcusion and can be rejected seperately.
Elsewhere
With the slot machines exausted, the group make their way over to the Blackbird tables. While most cast a disinterested eye and then head off to the bar, Siobhan takes a seat and smiles at those around the table. Deal me in the next hand please. She lifted a corner of the cards and looked at their values, sliding a pile of chits over with the other, tapping the table for another card almost immediately.