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<blockquote data-quote="RangerWickett" data-source="post: 4838954" data-attributes="member: 63">I thought of that, but I'm struggling to come up with a credible threat that a) won't actually kill the Caliph or Ahm-La-i-m (because if the assassins can pull it off, hey, why should the PCs interfere?), but alsob) is dangerous enough that the Caliph and his guards can't handle it themselves.&nbsp;One of the PCs is an actual assassin assassin, and is totally for hire. I already gave her a side mission in the party's last dragonslaying endeavor, where she had to make sure to silence a particular ally of that dragon. I tossed it in to give the player something to do, since she seemed to want more personal involvement. I should probably follow up with that.The person she took out was a wayfarer, a sort of teleporting courier. I figure the wayfarer was delivering communiques between the now-dead dragon and someone who has it in for the Caliph, and he wanted to make sure the wayfarer didn't try to bargain his information for safety.Heck, maybe the wayfarer was actually working for Ahm-La-i-m, who wants to accelerate his succession? (The now-dead dragon had kidnapped a sha'ir who was loyal to the Caliph.) Hmm.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="RangerWickett, post: 4838954, member: 63"] I thought of that, but I'm struggling to come up with a credible threat that a) won't actually kill the Caliph or Ahm-La-i-m (because if the assassins can pull it off, hey, why should the PCs interfere?), but also b) is dangerous enough that the Caliph and his guards can't handle it themselves. One of the PCs is an actual [i]assassin[/i] assassin, and is totally for hire. I already gave her a side mission in the party's last dragonslaying endeavor, where she had to make sure to silence a particular ally of that dragon. I tossed it in to give the player something to do, since she seemed to want more personal involvement. I should probably follow up with that. The person she took out was a wayfarer, a sort of teleporting courier. I figure the wayfarer was delivering communiques between the now-dead dragon and someone who has it in for the Caliph, and he wanted to make sure the wayfarer didn't try to bargain his information for safety. Heck, maybe the wayfarer was actually working for Ahm-La-i-m, who wants to accelerate his succession? (The now-dead dragon had kidnapped a sha'ir who was loyal to the Caliph.) Hmm. [/QUOTE]

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