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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Kid Charlemagne" data-source="post: 3919246" data-attributes="member: 93">This isn't the most RBDM, but it's really recent.  Last session recent, in fact.The PC's are in a town with a fractured political situation.  5 nobles families compete for power, with the PC's backing one, 3 more or less undecided, and one that is the enemy of the PC's, and of the house they back.  The PC's want their guy to be the guy in charge, the bad guy wants to be in charge.  The PC's guy has tradition/title on his side, the bad guy has military power on his.The PC's have been trying to work out ways to force out the bad guy (the Earl Braniff).  They've even gone so far as to consider having the party shadowdancer assassinate him, although they're all pretty much good-aligned and so they didn't go that route.  They have been going around to the other nobles, drumming up support, talking up the churches in town, all that sort of thing.All this leads up to a Midwinter Night's Ball, where everyone is going to be.  Things get interesting when one of the PC's recognizes an assassin that the party has met before...  he tries digging into why she's there.  She's chatty and insists she's not there to kill anyone.  So of course, when a distraction arises, she slips off to the nobles-only section of the party, followed by the PC.  She makes her way to a room where several of them are hanging out, including one of their allies as well as Braniff.She pulls out a crossbow and calmly shoots Braniff in the chest with a poisoned bolt, and (eventually) escapes.RBDM moment 1: The PC's and their ally would be suspects #1 in the attempt after all of their strident opposition-mongering over the past few months...RBDM moment 2: The bolt was only STR drain poison; Braniff set up the attempt himself to weaken the PC's ally's position.</blockquote>

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