#node 57

[my-favourite-zhent]

Node 35, Node 26, Node 37, Node 53, Node 2, Node 57, Node 42

Zarys: You're the one who recruited me, Rugan.

Zarys: You're the one who taught me rule number one, remember?

Rugan: Bwaah.

Zarys: No. Olly didn't remember either, did you Olly?

[TagCinematic]

Zarys: You're dead the moment you steal from the Zhentarim.

Zarys: Which you should've known. That is, if you'd done your research before impersonating one of us.

We walk in to find Zarys overseeing the torture of an agent that handed over special cargo to us. The agent is currently bound to a chair and badly beaten, and we're due to get the same treatment in her eyes - unless we can talk her out of it. Volume is likely louder than normal conversation but not shouting - she's standing on a raised platform perhaps ten feet above us and the tortured agent,

[my-favourite-zhent]

Node 26, Node 30, Node 35, Node 37, Node 41, Node 57

You're the one who recruited me, Rugan.

You're the one who taught me rule number one, remember?

Bwaah.

You're dead the moment you steal from the Zhentarim.

No matter who you are.

[my-favourite-zhent]

Node 57

… let's say I'd rather not fight, then. What's your business down here?