Sapience,

After completing a lucrative contract given to the Ivory Mark, by which I slew a nefarious, theiving serpent to safeguard the wellbeing of the youth of Achaea (as we all know, I strive to protect the youth with all of my being), I was dismayed to find that the Ivory Mark had taxed me fifty-one percent of my earnings. The contract was for one-hundred thousand gold and to my irritation I only received fourty-nine thousand gold. This is unacceptable. Murdering those who do wrong in the name of justice is hard work, and hard work should be rewarded adequitely.

My earnings from this kill, plus a little gold I had saved from hunting the evil Vertani and citizenry of Annwyn, afforded me the wealth to purchase my own clan in which I plan to bring equality into the world of Marks. No more eggregious taxation by our organizations, and no more rankings based on arbitrary, easy contracts given out against those who merely wish to wholesale murder the orcs of Dun or the miners of Moghedu.

I have formed Fair Use Contract Killers. The breakdown for our fees are simple, and they will even show you a return should the contract fail.

If you succeed, Fair Use Contract Killers will take five percent of the gold, putting it into its coffers. The rest of the gold goes directly to the mark.

If you fail, Fair Use Contract Killers retains twenty-five percent of the gold, twenty-five goes to the mark who was slain to recoup any losses in minerals and curatives, and fifty percent goes to the contractor, so their gold is not merely wasted.

At the end of the year, we shall use the gold in our coffers to throw a large party for the marks in our organization to celebrate our employment, complete with games, gifts, and an open bar.

If anyone is interested in bucking the oppresive yoke of the clearly monopolous Mark organizations, please contact me and we shall discuss terms of employment.

-Sir Archaeon, Grand Iconoclast.


Penned by my hand on the 11th of Sarapin, in the year 923 AF.