Bah. A mile was far away enough.

Arastoph gazed at the engineer as though he were a bored man, slightly annoyed at the engineers insistence of his own term. Beginning his terms at catching Arastoph's offer concerning personal trades, and then a [i]measly[/i] one hundred piece monthly payment, and just a twenty-five percent share of profit made through his transactions. While yes, the job was to make this man's party some money, the point of the arrangement is to allow Arastoph to profiteer off some of trades. However, he [i]could[/i] use the engineer's offer to his own advantage.

"Ah, caught that, did you?" Arastoph asked simply and slightly annoyed. "Fair enough. Excluding this section of our contract, no personal trades between me and a separate individual of your party are under this contract's jurisdiction."

The corner of Arastoph's mouth curled up into a smirk. "And [i]I[/i] recommend that if you want the best results, two hundred piece monthly payments is the best deal I could offer you... I could make your party that much - and perhaps more - in a week. I will accept your offer of twenty-five percent of the profits made upon your behalf, but if the amount divided between your party is not equal to a base amount of coins, I will claim the total remainder of those percentages. It would keep things fair among the members of your party and prevent money from being wasted."

Now that he thought about it, he wasn't sure if that was something the engineer would understand.

"A person cannot claim ten point seventy-five pieces. You can not just claim seventy-five percent of a gold piece. If the seven of you were to receive that much, I'd take the percentages that do not add up to a base number and add them up together, where I would receive the total of the number equal to the highest solid number. In this example, I would receive five pieces."