So looking at the graph:
Benali is using some of the Sherriff's old criminals to help in some task.
That task involves the Lovecraftians, possibly tangentally. Like, what she is after is also what the Lovecraftians are after?
This might involve the patronage of someone who is a rival to the Sultana.
That someone might be the black dragon in disguise.
This task has the dual purpose of both distracting Benali from her current information gathering, and advancing the Black Dragon's interests.
Either the Lovecraftians, or agents of the Sultana, was used to spook Benali into fleeing her villa by the Black Dragon. Whichever wasn't used the spook Benali is also looking into Benali, but the BD doesn't know it.
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I think that makes the web as insane as possible. And ties into every single PCs motivations/backstory and the current/past plots in implausible ways.
green is "going after".
I added a rivalry between the "Sultana Army" and "Royal Proxy" -- it is a secret police/state dept/etc and army has contempt for it.
Benali is using some of the Sherriff's old criminals to help in some task.
That task involves the Lovecraftians, possibly tangentally. Like, what she is after is also what the Lovecraftians are after?
This might involve the patronage of someone who is a rival to the Sultana.
That someone might be the black dragon in disguise.
This task has the dual purpose of both distracting Benali from her current information gathering, and advancing the Black Dragon's interests.
Either the Lovecraftians, or agents of the Sultana, was used to spook Benali into fleeing her villa by the Black Dragon. Whichever wasn't used the spook Benali is also looking into Benali, but the BD doesn't know it.
...
I think that makes the web as insane as possible. And ties into every single PCs motivations/backstory and the current/past plots in implausible ways.
green is "going after".
I added a rivalry between the "Sultana Army" and "Royal Proxy" -- it is a secret police/state dept/etc and army has contempt for it.
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