Gethaint sat at the small table he kept in a back corner of the workshop to deal with the tedious bookeeping that came with owning the business. His eyes pored over the columns of figures as he tried to wrestle the numbers into a sum that would make what he had in mind possible.
Suddenly it all snapped into place and he scribbled a couple of notes to delay a couple of purchases and prioritise a few high value commissions. Reaching into a lower drawer he pulled out a sheet of heavy parchment and penned a short note in his best script, signed it and applied a seal in green wax. Then he stood and bellowed to be heard above the clanging of hammers.
"Daris. Daris! Come here please!"
A young dwarf ambled over, pulling off his leather gauntlets as he came.
"Yes, boss?" he replied in the curt manner of dwarfs.
"Daris, I need you to take this drawing letter to Merviggio's strong-house for validation against my account." Gethaint passed Daris the letter. The dwarf glanced at the letter, did a double take then stared at it so hard his eyes almost popped out.
"Gods, Gethaint," he exclaimed, propriety forgotten, "what do you intend to do with that kind of coin?"
"That's the second part of what I need you to do, Daris. Once the letter is validated with Merviggio's seal and your signature I need you to take a carriage to Traconia and purchase one of those automata. It will be invaluable for my research and can earn it's price by performing basic forging tasks." Gethaint explained patiently.
"Hold on, what about the lads. You're not planning on replacing any of us?" Daris voice took on an almost challenging note.
"Of course not, you're all practically family. No, it will be used strictly to forge blanks, we'll train those currently on that task to do more advanced forge work but no one will be laid off. You have my word on it. If all goes well we may have to bring some extra hands in."
"Alright, I'll do it then." said Daris, sounding somewhat molified.
"Excellent, thank you, Daris." replied Gethaint, turning back to the books.
Gethaint Fulger - 1500g
Purchase an automaton to work in the forge. Will also be used as framework for Gethaint's experiments into truely sentient golem creation.
Find a Fire elementalist willing to take Gethaint on as a student or work with him on creating sentient golems.