Session 2-0: New Recruits

Autumn winds whip frosty mountain air through the streets of Capitol, foretelling the coming of winter. Pastoral places ply their vocation in earnest as the harvest season comes to a close. Livestock and grain are driven into the city from the surrounding countryside, and trade vessels have begun returning ahead of the winter ice flows.

Shop windows swell with colorful costumes, sundries and frivolities as the city prepares for Panaxius, the city-wide masquerade festival that marks the end of harvest and trade for the year.

Folks gather their cloaks closer as they bustle through the streets preparing for the festival. The crown commissions bakers and butchers to prepare delights for the citizens while the temples and theaters decorate for their rituals and entertainments.

But the underworld prepares differently. Heavy clothes conceal forbidden weapons and armor, and for a single day crime can be completely anonymous.

So begins the Season of Skullduggery.

B.F. Bagman's Job

Several days ago B.F. noticed an older fellow clumsily casing House Kleidemos. After casually observing this human elder over the course of several days, he decided to approach him and offer the crew's services.

It seems Gianni Kleidemos once stole a hunting trophy from Thefri, and he wants it back. The trophy is a white claw from an especially large lion. The Kleidemos family keeps exotic war and hunting trophies, so Thefri believes it is displayed among them.

Thefri offers 200 g.p. for its return, but he is growing anxious to have it back. This task must be completed within 72 hours.

Reputation Yield + Rep: Thefri (he seems unaligned) - Rep: House Kleidemos, the nobility

Dell's Job

Guild gossip says a personal item of Arch-Cleric Philomelos of Hyperion went missing after the porters delivered a marble slab. Word is the Dock Street Boys are hunting the thief, but a clever crew could beat them to the punch.

It is a faith job, so coin may be sparse, but a favor owed by a major faith has a value of its own.

Dock Street has a head start, so the crew has at best 48 hours.

Reputation Yield + Rep: Philomelos, the Temple of Hyperion and the Faith - Rep: Dock Street Boys

Uma's Job

High Priestess Astora of Axius has been buying her daily bread at precisely 7 AM every day for several months. This morning she was a no-show, so Uma brought bread to Astora's home.

There Uma learned that Astora's eldest daughter, Lysandra, was kidnapped by river pirates and is being held for ransom. Astora's family can only scrape together 500 g.p., a mere 10% of the 5,000 g.p. demand. Astora is understandably beside herself. She will award the party the 500 g.p. if they can return her daughter safely.

The exchange takes place tomorrow night at the Belaying Pin.

Reputation Yield + Rep: Astora, the Temple of Axius and the Faith - Rep: River Pirates