Trading with Trolls 5
"You cannot know how good it is to be rid of that scold's bridle of sky iron. Especially for one as used to the free flow of mana as I am.
"Our direct patron is Rushagorn Brokadin. He's been running trade between the two separated troll warrens in the Undercity. Ulo is a trollish, um, shaman? The representative of the East Marches he's been dealing with, anyway, assuming I remembered correctly which is which between East and West. She has a deep seated grudge against some elf, but other than that she seems okay.
"In any case, our mission at present is mainly exploration. We need to find a way from the region accessible via the Guild lift to the area where Ulo's remaining kin settled -- apparently they had a nice place, but were driven out of it and it seems to be occupied now. I didn't see by who or what. We can't use the route they traveled on the last trip, because on the way back, we stirred up something big and unpleasant. It's been suggested there may be a way past that through deeper levels.
"I hope I speak for the group in offering a full share of the payout and of any loot picked up along the way. I'll be right up front in saying you'll take on your fair share of the risk if you come along. There are some very strange things down there in the dark.
"Oh, and from recent experience, be careful eating anything offered by the trolls; it doesn't always seem to agree with humans."