The special job from Mom

Hello journal, I hope you're doing well. I know you can't talk or nothing but I figured you deserve a greeting since I write in you. Now after me and the crew got back from our n̶a̶t̶i̶c̶a̶l̶ ̶n̶a̶t̶u̶c̶ ̶n̶a̶u̶t̶u̶ sea adventure the group had split up, right. Vino found where the new corpse takers were operating from, and Derek and Tannhäuser apparently perform some magic that got them in trouble with the church, Mama said to never get on the churches bad side, they got connections deeper than the oldest parts of the city. Now Derek and Tannhäuser got me thinking we had to deal with their situation as a top priority so we got them laying low and the crew decided to ease off on anything going on. Bow we kept quiet for two days when little Sally came to the store with a message from Mom. She said to deal with the new corpse takers guild as I was already investigating them it was my responsibility to do so. I made sure Sally got fed proper and decided to use the old noggin to get to work. First Vino, Basal, Bella, and I went down to one of our family stores where I got info about any clients who lived in the building Vino found the other day. As it turns out there was one who quit cold turkey 6 months ago, now not many people can quit sugar like that and we in the family like to keep happy customers to keep our business going, so I grab a sample and a chocolate bar as I was craving some chocolate and we went to contact of Basal's. He found out that the new group has been selling quite a bit of stuff you would find off people. More than an expected amount, prolly means they getting the bodies by unnatural causes if you know what I mean. I'm not sure myself but I was told to say stuff like this in these situations.
 
With our information in hand, it was time to see the former client Antonio Valari. Me and Basal convinced the door people to let us in. I did some flashing of the old ring as it's a tried and true method that works. And when the servant got testy Basal said he owed us money to get us in, Basal real smart in these situations. In the meantime, Vino and Bella were to investigate around the building. They came up to me to get a taste of sugar for some guy for some info but I need to find out what they did next. Basal and I got in met with Mr. Valari where I did my selling speil, quite well if I do say so myself. Dannastra was there, she's a scary sort, got no honor is what my family says, and I know my family has honor to spare. Now even though I gave a great pitch, the man was clean and said he was a changed man. Now this part was hard, Mama said when I client doesn't budge you should still give them something for their time, so I gave up the chocolate I was excited to eat but it was probably for the best.
 
Oh, I forgot during that we got him to talk. Now I know the type Mr. Valari is, a man with a hunger, usually, the only hunger I see is for something else but I could tell he wanted to be seen and talk about his plan. Now with that info in hand, I did what I was taught to do, butter him up. Mama said a happy client is always willing to buy more, she also says those with an ego want to stroke it, so I let him stroke it. He began telling us that he was collecting the bodies, Dannestra was not a fan of this it looked like. He brought us up to where his master plan was, now I didn't mention this before the place smelled like the storehouse where Mama brings undesirables except worse. As we got closer to the location the smell got even worse and then he showed us the balcony. Now I'll spare you the details as this a not a topic for the dinner table as Mama would say but for the sake of record, I will say that he had a huge pile of dead bodies, human and animal piled in a room. The real freaky choice to do but that gave us the ammunition needed. We bid a good day where he asked if we wanted to help, I told him I'll talk to Mom as I always work through Mom and we began to leave.
 
However, at the door, we were met by the 8 servants and Dannestra. I've seen this before, a group thinking it's time to silence the opposition. I flashed my ring again invoking Mama's name which seemed to deescalate the servants but Dannestra. Well, I did say she's got no honor, she leaped forward barring a jagged splintery blade going after me. That's when. Uh sorry, journal, I just saw the time and I need to sleep. Got an early morning and all that, I'll fill you in on the details next time.
 
-Diggs