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Message: <blockquote data-quote="John Out West" data-source="post: 7558833" data-attributes="member: 6893656">It might be easiest to think of a plot on the highest tier and work your way down to its lowest levels. I'm imagining this being a plot by someone very powerful and influential, which the players cannot touch at their current level, but as they gain more power they'll eventually be able to take him down.Question: Who is trying to create a disease outbreak and why.Answer: The King's Vizier, a wizard and personal adviser to he king, is attempting to create a disease outbreak in the poor part of town. The Vizier is a good man who has warned the king multiple times that in the case of a siege, the town would almost immediately succumb to an outbreak of diseases, and that the king should prepare for it now. He has been ignored, and is now going to manufacture this disease outbreak.The Vizier, unlike the king, is an elf. He has lived through a disease filled siege before hundreds of years ago and knows the woes it brings, yet the king refuses to act. The Lower District in which the butcher shop lives is cloistered, with its own walls and gates that can allow the guards to cut it off from the rest of the city, while allowing the king to see the effects of a diseased city.Why the Children aging? The Vizier has a Human Wizard Apprentice who has knowledge of Chronomancy; time manipulation magic. The children were in the dungeons because they were thieves. He struck a deal with them that, if they performed this task, he would free them by giving them a disguise, in that he will age them to maturity and would therefore be unrecognizable. However, after they finish the task, they must return to him when they have matured so he can end the aging spell. They are instead captured, and are unable to return to the Vizier's Apprentice.Spiraling out of Control:   The Vizier tasked his Human Apprentice to disease the meats, who gave the job to young thieves. The young thieves accidentally diseased the wrong shop, which imported the large number of its wares directly to the castle larder, diseasing the royal family. The butcher is executed for his "negligence," which has endangered the royal family.  One of the young thieves that the Human Apprentice had made older has begun blackmailing the Human apprentice, saying that he will tell the diseased king of this whole plan. The Human Apprentice sends men to kill them (But fails due to the players) and then is forced to give the now-grown child thief what he wants: Magical Weapons and Equipment. Thus he forms a gang of enchanted thieves which run a muck in the city.With the Royal Family out of commission, the Vizier is now the head of the city. This has caused his worst nightmare to come true, as the neighboring nation has sensed the city's weakness and sent an army to siege them. The army is a long ways away, but the looming threat is represented in peoples constant hoarding, price gouging, and an increased interest in buying arms and armor. Emissaries come constantly to threaten the Vizier and demand a surrender. Although the Vizier now has control of the city and could prepare his Anti-Disease measures, he has no time or money, as he must instead prepare for the siege by building an army and supplies.Ahem, that is to say that:Tier 1 villain: The Magically enchanted Thieves.Tier 2 Villain: The Vizier's Apprentice and his time-manipulated prisoners.Tier 3 Villain: The Vizier and the royal guards.Tier 4 Villain: The General of the Conquering army.Lots of clues to who is responsible. The magic weapons and assassination attempts are a good giveaway. The Child Thieves themselves would most likely say that a magic user put them up to it before they die. The disease, although annoying, is not actually deadly and is more of a nuisance; which means whoever manufactured this disease was not intending on mass murder. In the City's Library, the book on Famous Diseases has been checked out by the Vizier for well over a year now. The Vizier's Apprentice participates in shows and exhibitions, displaying his time manipulating powers, including causing a Seed to grow, bloom, and wilt in a mere day.Hope this helps.</blockquote>

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