Board Thread:Roleplaying/@comment-16047389-20140624184300/@comment-16047389-20140730142731

Leaving the window, you turn your attention to the documents you had taken out of the luggage. You walk over to the desk where you had set them and begin looking through them. Many of the papers are receipts or other various records of sales. Some are letters from various business corespondents from all over Tamriel.

Finally, your eyes fall upon a small ledger. You open it up and flip through the pages. There are records of every shipping transaction the East Empire Trading Company has made this year. This is the shipping manifest you've been after! You remember the letter from Theras, and decide to check the shipments from Valenwood. Sure enough, there are certainly discrepancies. There are things listed that you know for a fact never made it to Cyrodiil. Rare books, precious gems, exotic furs, things that apparently have been missing for years now. Looking further on, you notice that these descrepancies don't simply exist in transactions to Valenwood alone. Elsweyr, Morrowind, Skyrim, even High Rock and Hammerfell. Lhotun hasn't just been tampering with Valenwood shipments, he's been tampering with them all! Accepting bribes from the Aldmeri Dominion may have lost him his job and had him thrown in prison for a few years, but this level of embezzlement is outright treasonous. The Empire would have his head if they knew about this.

The ledger is undeniable proof of Lhotun's crimes, and bears the East Empire Trading Company seal on it. Alone, it is more than enough to have Lhotun immediately removed from the picture, or could even be used as blackmail against him. However, it is obviously a very important item, and its absence would be known the very instant Lhotun looks for it. You could copy the more recent transactions down. That might be enough to warrant an investigation, but who knows how long that would take, or if Lhotun wouldn't be able to cover up his actvities by the time it started. You could leave the ledger, hoping that you might get another chance at obtaining it later. But who knows if or when you will ever get another oppurtunity like this.

A) Take the ledger, undeniable proof of Lhotun's crimes.

B) Copy the latest transactions, enough to perhaps warrant an investigation.

C) Leave the ledger, hoping you will get another chance in the future.