Three's a Crowd, Four's a Conspiracy
| Three's a Crowd, Four's a Conspiracy | |
|---|---|
| Date | 2/7/25 |
| Storyteller | Zoro |
| Tier | Expert, RP/Difficult |
| Player Characters | Jovial Guts, Mantella Bright-Eyed, Rowyn Lloch |
| Rewards | 300 xp, 1181 gp, 2 silver, 5 copper |
| Result | Success |
| Author | Jovial Guts |
| Downtime | 7 |
Three Associates infiltrate a gang to disrupt their alliance.
Log
Lots of details here, so I'll try to summarize it as best I can. The Black Family crime syndicate, the Keepers, and an unknown group called "TLK" were going to meet up and discuss an alliance. Our job was to get in there, figure out what's going on, and disrupt it if we can. We decided the best way to do that was to infiltrate the Black Family as a group of professional criminals and negotiators. Mantella was the talker, Rowyn and I were the negotiators and muscle. We were pointed toward an abandoned district to look for "The Grave Digger", eventually coming across a bright red tent. There we met Hector, seemingly the second-in-command for the section of this syndicate we were trying to infiltrate. It took some convincing, but we got him to bring us on for the exact upcoming meeting we needed to get to, in six days. All we had to do was bring a gift, so we went and got some dwarven ale from Desperate Hope.
Six days later, we arrived at the meetup spot to find the Black Family's tents, an opening carved out of a mountain used by the Keepers, and an iron-walled outpost manned by this "TLK" group. We met up with the leader of this group, an elf we later learned was called Scurvy Black, and were tasked with getting info on the other two groups ahead of the meeting time that night. We headed first for the dwarves, and to keep a long story short, we learned a few things there. One, they really don't like "Sunwalker" dwarves, or surface dwellers at all. Should've been obvious, but Mantella's dwarf disguise wasn't allowed in at all. Two, they only speak dwarvish. And given I was the only one that could speak it, that was a bit tricky. Three, that mountain had some deep tunnels leading further in. This place wasn't just an outpost, it was part of a tunnel network for the Keepers, and only a few days from Onadbyr at that. Four, and most importantly for our mission, one of their negotiators called "Marghan Rocknicker" dealt with undead. An Etioling, to be precise. They didn't particularly want us there, so we didn't waste too much time before leaving. And aside from Mantella almost getting bit by the Etioling, we left unscathed.
Next came TLK, who we soon learned were the "True Knights of Lancaster". Complete sham of a name by the way, they claimed to be Hellknights but didn't use like, any of the common lingo we hear from the local Hellknights. Way more crazy than anyone can claim the Hellknights are though, one guy cut his arm off as an apology! He took us to a Speaker Lane or whatever, and this guy seemed more well put-together at first, talking about chivalry and responsibility and all that, but then he revealed to us that this meeting was to deal with the "Common Enemy" of Onadbyr. That was way too big of a risk to let this alliance actually happen, so we quickly switched gears into disruption territory. This guy didn't like undead, didn't know the Keepers had undead either, and he didn't even want to work with criminals in the first place! Easy move, all we had to do was get him proof the keepers had undead.
Hard part was actually getting the ectoplasm that Etoiling thing put off, by the way. I got it, but it bit me in the process. Shit burned real bad, but washing the bite spot off and getting the goo off me got it to settle down. Mantella snuck the goo over while Rowyn and I got social for a bit to avoid suspicion by the Keepers, and before the meeting Scurvy called us over for a summary. We laid it all out, and she was definitely not interested in working with these two groups with the amount of risk we laid out on the table. She told us to tell Hector to get everyone quietly packing up, soon as this meeting was over they were getting outta there. Soon as we got our things and confirmed the situation with Scurvy post-meeting, we got the hell outta there too. From the sounds of it, it went very poorly.