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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Jack7" data-source="post: 4755976" data-attributes="member: 54707">Note: This is a mission or adventure for a Sharper. In my setting a Sharper is a character acting completely alone, without a party, team, or back-up, and often undercover. Sharpers may be of any "class" but almost all Sharpers, because it is so dangerous to operate alone, are also trained and experienced Vadders.D&D/Fantasy Adventure - Terra-Ghantik (Terra): The Industrial Act - Tomas, the Constable of Regions VII and VIII in the city of Constantinople approaches one of the Sharpers and asks him/her to undertake an undercover mission for him. Tomas, who has a wide net of agents and spies throughout the city has heard rumor of a potential mutiny among the Garrison who patrol and guard the Byzantine Industrion (the chief Industrial District of Constantinople near the Harbor of Theodosius and the Shipyards of Caesarius). Tomas has been unable to find out anything detailed enough which would allow him to take any type of action, but while conducting his initial investigation some of his informants in both the Thematic War College and the Industrial District inform that a conspiracy may be afloat between a certain General Hubus Costus and Iraenus, the Constable of Region XII, where the Industrial District is located. Unable to discover exactly what may be afoot, how large the potential conspiracy may be, or who else may be involved, and fearing that the plot may actually intend a coup against the Emperor, Tomas hires a sharper to infiltrate the Industrial District and the Guild of the Purple. Tomas suspects that a particular guild member and merchant by the name of Arcates with ties to shipping caravans and with ties to Seleucians at theThematic War College may somehow be involved and hires the sharper to track, shadow and surveil the man's movements. Not long after infiltrating the guild as a dyer and taking up surveillance of Arcates the sharper notices a monk from the monastery of Myrelaion coming to visit his suspect regularly. Following Arcates at night he discovers that the man meets an Imperial Librarian from the Library of Deoklarion on a dock at the port of Caesarius. On his way back home the sharper is covertly approached by the same monk he had noticed earlier who tells the sharper that there is a very good chance that both the Imperial Court and the Thematic War College may have been infiltrated by one or more Dragoons. The monk will not tell the sharper what the Dragoons may be up to or hoping to accomplish or who they may be but does arrange and agree to pass more information to the sharper once he can. They agree to pass written information using a clay dying pot as a dead drop. The Sharper returns home to sleep, goes to work the next day and upon arriving home for the evening, planning to surveil Arcates again, he is met by Imperial Police who arrest him for the murder of the monk whose name he does not even yet know. The Sharper is taken to the Region XII holding prison, is briefly interrogated and then transferred to the prison of the Garrison of the Imperial Legions where he is tortured for three days about what he may possibly know. After that it is all downhill for the Sharper until he/she can discover what is really happening, who is really involved and how he might possibly act to save himself and complete his mission.</blockquote>

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