**This is where the day to day running of the Guard occurs**

<Tellos enters, shuts the door behind him and approaches the desk>

I need to speak with the duty officer please.

A guard ambles his way from behind the desk.
"Yes, Sargent, what can I do for you?"

Hello there Bodger, how's things?

Have you heard of a gentleman by the name of Ferret, apparantly he has annoyed a rather large Ogre by the name of Morgrum. Unless we find him first and sort this matter out, we will have another messy incident on our hands.

Heh.... Ferret in trouble again... hang on..... what did this gentleman, a known kelptomaniac do to annoy Master Morgrum Pursesnatcher? Did they catch each other in their own pockets at the same time?

Apparantly Ferret hired Morgrum and some his friends to do a job and then legged it without paying. They are obviously upset and would like to carve him up. I think it would be better if "we" sorted it, rather than letting civilians kill each other!!

But has any crime taken place yet?

Sounds like a theft, if Ferret hasn't paid for their service he has therefore stolen it.

What was the service and was it completed?

Morgrum and some of his fellows were hired by Ferret to accompany him on a journey, which they did. They haven't received payment for this task, as was agreed, and are know, understandably, feeling somewhat "agreived" by the situation.

So was there an official on paper legal agreement between the two of these gentlemen, and what were the specific terms, I am still unsure as to what crime has taken place, and I don't believe we have the the people to cover every location just in case a crime is about to take place.....
Besides, between you and me, perhaps Ferret needs a short sharp shock to stop him to bring him to his senses and join the rest of the law abiding society?
We've never managed to finger him for anything, but he always looks like he's up to something.....

It seems it was a verbal agreement, rather than an official signed contract.

The crime is theft of services, the same as if you asked Master Rourke to repair your armour and then legged it before paying.

As to letting Ferret getting a short sharp shock, from what was being said I think it will definitely be sharp, but on the down side I don't think they'll leave an awful lot of Ferret to rejoin society.

And as to him acting sucpiciously, surely it is our job to find out if he is actually comitting any crimes or if is just one of these people that looks guilty all the time.

(do'h wrong login) :ph43r:

Righty ho then, if you could go and get an official statement from the aggrieved, note down EVERYTHING he says, then return here, and file the report in triplicate so we may begin investigations.

OK, I shall return shortly.

<Tellos exits, closing the door behind him>

Kelptomaniac - someone who uncontrollably collects seaweed?

I just look after things for people thats all!


OOC - still waiting on the ref to confirm how payment is supposed to be made, for some reason he never trusted me enough to give a large bag of gems... :-(

<Ferret wonders back in, looking beaten up and covered in many bandages>
Just wanted to say that for the record, that payment issue never actually was an issue, bit of a memory blank there for a while, but basically nobody was actually promised payment, they were told that anything that we found along the way could be kept as payment, but most folk actually agreed to come along and help because it was the right thing to do.

Oh, and can you pass a message onto a guy called ... RalMorga I think it was, tell him thanks, and I think his intervention meant that some of us were able to help out several others, and in the end it mostly worked out pretty good.

<ferret then leaves, quickly, and nervously from being in a guard house>