Relationship between the Last Laugh and Kazmojen.

[Whiteraven810]

I seem to remember reading in my Shackled City (hardcovered edition) that there was some sort of agreement between the Last Laugh theives guild and the slave ring being ran by Kazmojen the half-troll Dwarf.

For the life of my I cannot find this anywhere in print.

Can I get any help on this subject please.

[Sean Mahoney]

I am in the process of running Life's Bazaar right now and have been reading this thing over and over for some time. I feel pretty confident in saying there is no connection between the Last Laugh and Kazmojen.

The Last Laugh was hired/instructed by Vhalantru to keep the operation running... he gets a cut from all the transactions from Kazmojen. However, since Kazmojen has gone too far at this point I doubt he cares that he is shut down.

Additionally there is a connection with the other slave ring guy in the area (name escapes me at this second) who runs the stuff in Kingfisher Hollow.

Anyway... no LL and Kaz link...

Sean Mahoney

[Whiteraven810]

Ok thanks. I just need a connection to justify what I want to do in my next session.

I have one player who has opted not to join the party and is basically running the streets of Cauldron looking for leads. To get his character to join the party I attempted twice to have a party of Skulks kidnap him, so that he could be found among the prisoner's when the party got that far.

Both attempts failed (he's smart enough to run and hide). On the second attempt the town guard arrived, and one member of the patrol started walking him to the temple of Cuthbert for healing. That's where we ended. I'm debated weither or not to make the guards Last Laugh operatives in disguise.

If the Beholder is using the Laugh Laugh to keep the operation from being uncovered this may just work. Either having the "guard" pick pocketing this character so he has to do several chores in the temple (as a means to keep him in one place until the party returns to collect their bounty) or outright knocking him out and dragging his character's body back to the Skulks.