"Well, I'm here for a singular job." Julian considered not telling them the target, but there really wasn't a point in not. As long as he didn't tell them how he planned to get inside, they could know all they wanted.

"I'm here on contract to steal the Baron Kaskar's statuette of Empress Kristina V." Which was in a way, true. The legendary platinium, gem-studded, exquisitely carved (and magically enchanted) statuette had been something people had been hiring the guilds to try and steal for over a century, but the Baron's defenss against theft were formidable. The contract had been kept on the books, even after the Guilds had largely given up on trying to get it, mostly as an object lesson to the newer thieves that there were some things they could not take. "Obviously, It would be poor form for me to not pay my respects to the local Guildmaster before starting. And of course, now you know you can hold me to receiving your cut of the take."

He knew that they would find him either mad or insanely arrogant, but he really didn't care. He could handle the baron's castle, now that he knew what he knew.