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Message: <blockquote data-quote="MaxKaladin" data-source="post: 1459468" data-attributes="member: 1196">Ok, here's an idea that combines several of these threads.  The house was once a mansion (that's why it is big enough to convert into an inn.  The final generation of the family that owned it fell on hard times and got mixed up with the thieves guild trying to get out of debt.  Well, things got worse and worse but then the head of the family found a  map leading to a treasure.  Thinking this the solution to all his money woes, he gathered a party of adventurers and went looking for it.  Unfortunatly, he died in the process.  Meanwhile, his widow waited in vain for his return never believing he was dead.  Meanwhile, the particular guild that owned the family debt slowly took posession of the house by threatening to call in the lady's debt.  They just moved in and made themselves at home until the lady lived in the attic of her former mansion.  She was weak with worry and felt she had no choice, so she put up little resistance.  Until, that is, the guild began to induct her young son into its ranks.  By then, however, things were too far along and it was far too late.  Not long after, the house was raided by a rival guild and the guild that now owned it was wiped out.  In the process, the son was killed before her eyes and then she, herself, was killed.  All of the thieves guilds in town wanted the house because of its convenient location over the sewers at a major junction of sewer lines that made it a prime location for moving around the city unseen.  Also, the treasury of the defeated guild was never found and all believed it, or clues to its location, lay somewhere within.  Unfortunatly, the house turned out to be haunted.  The lady of the house did not pass quietly into death, but now haunted the house defending it in death as she never did in life.  She drove away all comers and the house fell into disuse.  Years later, a bold young street urchin broke in searching for a dry place to spend the night.  The ghost was about to drive him off, but a strong resemblance to her lost son stopped her.  Instead, she adopted him as her own to the extent a ghost can and became his guardian.  Over time, she acumulated a group of similar orphans who stay in the house under the protection of the ghost and venture out to steal for their needs.  They never venture into the basements, however, because strange and dangerous things have crept from the sewers and begun to make their home there.  For their part, the guilds would love to take over or break up this little band of pickpockets and shoplifters, take over the house again and search for the treasury of the former guild, but cannot strike for fear of the ghost.  The old lady is the daughter or granddaughter of the last legal owner and has legal title to the place.  Perhaps she is a distant relative of the lady's husband who eventually gained the title as the closest living heir.The players now have a number of potential adventure hooks.  One is to help lay the ghost at rest by finding proof of her husband's death or by finding his treasure and using part of it to care for the orphans she guards.  There is also the lost guild treasury to seek out as well as the desire of several guilds to control the strategic location of the house.  There is also the creeping stuff in the sewers to consider.  Finally, there are the orphans to consider.</blockquote>

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