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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Jack7" data-source="post: 4661815" data-attributes="member: 54707">By the way, I wanted to mention this example of how criminal work regarding murder and resurrection might cross pollinate each other.A Guild of Assassins makes a deal with an evil sorcerer (I am using the term generically, not as a class matter) regarding death. They will carry out their normal business, or even carry out assassinations of the evil sorcerer's choice (probably the children of prominent or wealthy people) and then when the parent's or survivor's of the victims come to the evil sorcerer for resurrection help part of the fee includes a kickback to the Assassin's Guild.If both parties kept their activities secret then both would have a steady stream of business and could make money from multiple revenue streams without putting themselves at any greater risk than normal (unless discovered of course). then they will have some really angry "former customers."Such a "death and resurrection racket" would even make a good basis for a criminally oriented D&D adventure, because you would have to investigate the possible connections, find the connections and any supporting evidence (maybe even go "undercover by having a party member intentionally slain" as a targeting act to infiltrate the operation from the inside) and you would end up opposing an Assassin's Guild, the sorcerer or sorcerers working with them, and anyone in the supporting network. Such as a Death-Fencing Network. (Assassinate, strip corpses and homes of all assorted goods, fence stolen items elsewhere, then split that take along with resurrection revenues among fences and principles.)You might even have high level, but secretive, political support (A Star Chamber, or Sub-Rosan political network) out to off or disgrace opponents, or drain them of money, funds, and support, in order to make them subservient to those that had them killed and raised.Tie that in with possible attempts to wipe the memories (so as to make use of resurrected individuals as desired) of those "raised" (and 'Razed and Raised' would take on an entirely new meaning) and you'd have a multi-functional, extremely dangerous, lucrative set of criminal enterprises.</blockquote>

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