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Darkest Corners, volume 2

Marya is reluctant to hand over details on her clientelle, but is eventually talked around

"Aspex, of house Tulthin." she explains "He wanted glasses that let him see the invisible. It was a real challenge - I had to design them from scratch. The house symbol was an Aranea holding a book."
She looks around at the guards "He didn't tell me what he wanted it for, but he wanted it pretty badly. He came to me thinking I was peddling those goblin knock-offs, but he stayed even when I told him how much it would cost. He paid in jewellery, and I'm fairly certain they were his family jewels."
She rustles through a series of books locked in her safe. "He changed address from a high class house near the university to one of those dreadful reclaimed underground shelters from the war. Ah - here it is."
Diene is handed a card with "Aspex of Tulthin" and an address written on it.
you can take 20 on the following by spending some time. If so it'll take two hours. You can have a roll first to see what you know off hand.

knowledge:nobility dc 20:
Tulthin was a Taldane house. It has fallen on hard times. The heraldry is indeed an Aranea holding a book.

knowledge:nobility dc 25:
Tulthin was founded by a wizard. Their family power was built on a reputation for magic and ruthlessness. About eighty years ago they made a play for the throne that backfired dramatically. Their head was killed, and the remainder fled into exile, stripped of almost all their wealth and items

knowledge:nobility dc 30:
Aspex is the last Tulthin. Most have fallen to assassins, or in a desperate attempt to reclaim their ancestor's magical heritage.

knowledge:history or dungeoneering dc 20:
During the war there were shelters built below the city. They are tight, cramped, dark, smelly and almost without facilities. They saw use as prisons for a while, but a few have been 'renovated' into housing.

knowledge:dungeoneering dc 25:
This shelter is in roughly the centre of the city, below thirty feet of conjurestone. The entrance is a set of stairs that go down through three sally ports. Two of these sally ports are shared with 'neighbours' in surrounding vaults.
Darkest Corners, volume 2

"I'm sorry, we're just closing up."
Leviathan Rises Gameplay

"I have my appointment a week from now."

"The Gillmen form should remove most of your worries about a watery environment. While there is a brief period between regain human form and opening the vault, it should not be very long."

"I suggest you each take a large sack - chances are you will be able to take more coins than you can carry."

"I suppose I can give you the plane shift scroll. If you exit and determine I am taken you can shift out. Make sure you are outside the palace before doing so, however."
Leviathan Rises Gameplay

Marya looks at Tarek, then at Weyland.

"The item I most wish you to retrieve is my father. He was petrified into a statue, as were several others. Once he is back here I will have him restored."

A moment of indecision crosses Marya's face, but she continues.

"My father is one of the Ancient Primal Dragons. It is his palace she occupies. Once freed he can call upon his liege and vassals, and when word of her Hoard being robbed spreads she will lose many of her fractious allies. She will almost certainly be too busy to do the sort of tedious magics necessary to track down those she considers pawns unless she believes she can recover what was taken."
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Okay, let's get this moving

"If anyone thinks they can't keep what gets said here a secret, leave now."

leave now:

Really?

Stick around:

When none of you leave, she nods and is suddenly all business.

"Alright. This mission is going to all but bankrupt me, but I can pay you, and in advance."

"Aregenyu is one of the oldest Black Dragons in existence. She has a palace on the Elemental Plane of Water. She rules over a brood of other Black Dragons, and only her power keeps them from declaring independence. I want to raid her Hoard."

"I'm not sure how much you know about Black Dragons, but raiding her Hoard will shame her. If she admits something was taken then the other Blacks will fracture away. Logically her only option is to pretend nothing has been taken."

"I've arranged to meet with Aregenyu. I know what she wants, and she's agreed to meet with me. I can keep her - and most of her 'court' - busy for about thirty minutes."

"The Black Dragons are too proud to do their own housekeeping. They enslaved some local Gillmen who do all the cleaning, maintenance, anything that needs hands."

"You'll go in when I do, transformed to look like Gillmen. We'll arrive at the stables. There you'll go through a secret passage that Aregenyu isn't aware of to the Vault. You wait for your transformation to end, then go in. The Vault is kept dry because a number of Aregenyu's treasures would be destroyed by water."

"There you put certain of her treasures onto a pre-prepared cloth and activate a certain scroll. Activating any magic in the Vault should cause it to lock down, but the secret passage will remain open. If a spell doesn't cause it to lock down, then use fire. You take a potion to transform into Gillmen again, go back into the passage, swim back to the stables, and leave with me."

"There'll be seven of you all together. The vault will detect non-humanoids, active magic and fire. I need enough of you to move a few of the larger items of treasure."

"Everyone who goes gets forty pounds of gold. Don't bother negotiating, it's all I can borrow. Aregenyu knows every item in her hoard intimately, has the magic to track them down, and a burning desire for revenge. Feel free to grab any coins in the Vault though - as long as you spend them quickly and discretely."

"After the mission I should - eventually - be able to get anyone who dies brought back, so try to take as much of the body of anyone who dies as you can. I'll give you some acid - use it on anything remaining."

Sense Motive DC 20
fifty pounds of gold = 2000gp, so 2000gp each.

Leviathan Rises Gameplay

Marya notices the light of avarice enter your eyes.
"Meet me two doors down in twelve hours."
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Marya politely escorts the group outside. Just before they leave she offers
"If you want a high stakes job, comes see me."
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Suddenly Marya breaks off talking to Pepper, and walks over to Kesh
"I just got a call. They've found him - he's in Blackthrone. Do you want me to get a team together?"
Leviathan Rises Gameplay

Marya laughs softly

Pepper:

"Oh really?" she asks playfully "And what do you think that job is?"

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Pepper:

Marya rolls her eyes slightly

Leviathan Rises Gameplay

Marya wanders over to Pepper, and speaks quietly to him

Pepper or Perception DC 16:

"So, you're setting up the 'See something you like' line?" she asks, the hint of a smile on her lips.