I am prohibited from doing business until you make amends.

Traders are turning up dead at the exchange, and it seems like you were involved. If East Empire Company suspects foul play, there's no way we can afford to make you grandmaster I'm afraid.

House Hlaalu already owns a minority share of the East Empire Company, thanks to you.

Harald Great-Mane sold? What a fool! The stock price is already returning to normal. Another courier came in directly from the Imperial City to correct the record. But what's done is done, and what's ours is now most definitely ours. House Hlaalu now owns a minority share of the East Empire Company. During the chaos, one of our inspectors retrieved a strange prototype crossbow from their storeroom. Perhaps you might find it useful when dealing with our next order of business.

The stock has plummeted and the Mesa Exchange is completely halted. No over-the-counter trades will be handled, but I'm sure someone there is worried enough to sell all of their stock for a pittance. Come back when you have finalized the deal and have their portfolio in-hand.

Take this new and improved earnings report to the Mesa Exchange and give it to the broker there to read off. Once everyone believes the Company is on the brink of collapse, find someone willing to sell their portfolio, purchase it for a pittance, and bring it back to the me. Rest assured we will be hard at work buying as much as we can on our end as well.

First things first -- obtain the earnings report from the courier and take it to Nalis Doronil in his manor here in Narsis.

The East Empire Company is our primary competitor. They maintain a legal monopoly on some goods and attempt to price us out of the rest. If we can get a directorship or minor voter rights, we would have a voice at the table we have been intentionally excluded from. But to get that seat, we require a massive purchase of stock. And we don't want to pay full price. Thankfully, they have an earnings report coming up shortly.

This matter does not concern you.

%Name hopes that this partnership allows us both to prosper, and that %Name still remain employed.

I hope that this partnership allows us both to prosper, and that I still remain employed.

Certainly no one has the resources to buyout a sizeable portion of the Company. Not while profits continue to climb.