I knocked, Ienas answered through the door, and I told him I had been looking for him. He invited me in; the door was unlocked. I told him I had been sent by 5 different people to collect on debts he owed them: Bivale, Bevene, Daynes, Tiras, and Llether. He asked me why he should pay me and my response ("because I'm asking and I'm armed and in your doorway") made him volatile. He started shouting that he wouldn't be harrassed by some outlander, among other things. While he railed at me, I removed my helm and dropped my sword and shield by his door and sat down a little further inside his house. He seemed surprised enough by my change in body language that he
stopped. I apologized and asked him how he got in this situation and he started to break down and cry, sinking to the floor next to me.
He had inherited a large sum of money and a prosperous guar ranch, had some success in gambling, and spent above his means assuming his gambling wins would continue. He gambled away all his money, letting it slip through his fingers even though he knew better. I am sure we cut an odd figure: him among the tallest dunmer I have seen, dressed like royalty, weeping in my arms, his face buried in my bonemold pauldron as if it were cloth; me unshaven, carrying all my possessions on my back, wearing a