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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Goonalan" data-source="post: 9385675" data-attributes="member: 16069">Catch The PidginBackstory:The PCs do not know each other, or at least they didn't (it's presumed) until they all got hired for this job.However you all know Dicky Bird.[ATTACH=full]369453[/ATTACH]That's Dicky on the left. Edna Gingster on the right.So, Dicky went missing about a month or so past, and although that wasn't particularly odd, what was odd was that each of you were contacted individually just over a tenday ago and invited to a meeting with, Edna Gingster.But let's back up a bit.There are a few reasons you might know Dicky Bird.And between the four of you, on your journey so far, you have discussed Dicky Bird quite a lot, and so this is your cumulative knowledge-Dicky Bird is a middle-aged halfling, a happy-go-lucky sort of fellow, always with a smile and enough coin to stand his round.Those of you who didn't know Dicky well presumed that the halfling worked in a trade of some sort, or else he was a cook, or a cobbler, or...But Dicky Bird, aka the Fat Pidgin, was the best second storey guy this side of Baldur's Gate, although in later years the Fat Pidgin contented himself to be the watch bird, or overseer, for various 'untoward' operations.Dicky was/is an excellent burglar, but getting on in years.Those that knew Dicky well, also knew that he was on the way out of the business. Not forced out you understand, just had enough- and getting old. Dicky was always going to retire while he was at the top of his game...And so when he disappeared, well... you didn't think too much about it.That is until Edna summoned you.You, Edna assured you during your individual audiences, were the best person(s) for the job.The job being to find Dicky Bird- and quickly, and safe and sound.First things first, Edna and Dicky it seems were/are an item, or else... well, there's something going on there.Edna Gingster, sole heiress of the Gingster Hand-Pie fortune. That got you thinking.Then she offered you 1,000gp.Each.For the safe return of HER fluffy little Pidgin.You took the job.You, and the three other new hires, spent the next few days finding out what you could- about Dicky's various (underhand) activities, you found a few folk to chat to that he had previously worked with.The story you revealed beggar's belief, it goes a little like this-Dicky was done with the thieving game, he was looking forward to retirement, although... all his years he'd always put a little of what he'd 'acquired' aside, and thus built a small fortune for himself.Then he met Edna, and she was all that he could talk about, and while he was in love with the Gingster heiress, there was something that didn't feel right. That bothered him.Dicky, all of his colleagues said, didn't want folk to think that he was dating Edna because of her fortune.The Gingster fortune making anything Dicky had saved look like a pittance.Dicky's pride got hurt, and so he got foolish... maybe.He knew, he told his colleagues, where there was an ancient dragon burial site, just hidden away in the country less than fifty miles outside of the city.A secret that had been passed to him by his father, and from his father's father before that.A dragon's treasure, just waiting for the taking.Of course Dicky didn't tell anyone where the treasure was hidden, he gave no clues.But, a few days later you discovered that a fat halfling with at least a passing resemblance to Dicky was seen departing the city a tenday past.For the last four days you have been following Dicky's trail, which brings us very nicely to the here and now.You are on a merchant's wagon, having signed on for free to guard the merchant (Parp Lowder) and his provisions, your and his destination- Kirkgate, the next village up the road.Kirkgate is just short of fifty miles away from Dicky's (and your) home city, could Kirkgate be the place Dicky was heading too?To make clear, you are looking for two things-1) Dicky Bird, although you think Dicky may be travelling incognito. You doubt he will be using his real name.2) An ancient dragon burial site, that's what Dicky was looking for after all. If you find the site then you may be able to find Dicky. Maybe.Oh, but one more thing.Parp Lowder (the Merchant) only agreed to travel to Kirkgate because you came on board- he's a little fretful, there has been trouble reported on the road to Kirkgate- bandits have been attacking merchant wagons.You'd better keep an eye out.</blockquote>

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