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I'm running a homebrew campaign set mostly in Andoran. My players have had a few run-ins with the Lumber Consortium, and they now say that they want to disband the organization and liberate Falcon's Hollow. I'm happy to give them an opportunity to do so, but I'm a little stuck as to how this would work.

In my mind (and as I've established in my game) if anyone in the Consortium gets caught doing something illegal or immoral, the Consortium blames that person (and maybe a few others around them), while saying that the organization as a whole opposes such actions. So even if the PCs remove Thuldrin Kreed from power (get him arrested, fired from his post as a gavel, killed, whatever) and expose the brutal tactics he's used to dominate Falcon's Hollow, this wouldn't stop the Lumber Consortium from propping up a new gavel to be slightly-less-overtly terrible. They're still the only ones with the rights to harvest the wood. I've come up with a few ideas for how they could stop the Lumber Consortium as a whole, but wanted to get some more input.

Option 1: Provoke the Lumber Consortium into a heinous action, on the order of laying siege to the town. (Perhaps the PCs lead a workers' uprising, and the Consortium moves in force to quash this rebellion.) The PCs would still need proof that the actions had widespread approval throughout the organization, and maybe even proof that the Consortium was involved at all.

Option 2: Convince Kreed that the Lumber Consortium is about to replace him. He could then, theoretically, provide an abundance of evidence that his brutal tactics were condoned, approved, and even encouraged.

Option 3: Have the PCs head to Almas, and use the rules from Ultimate Intrigue to build support against the Lumber Consortium.

I don't particularly love Option 3, and I'm guessing my players wouldn't choose that if presented with multiple choices. Can anyone else think of other ways to take down the Lumber Consortium, once and for all?