Story questions in TOTB

[cibet44]

In Trial of the beast:

Plot spoiler:

What exactly is Vorkstag and Grines business relationship with Dr Brada? I just can't seem to grasp it. It sounds like Brada would provide Vork and Grine with "deformed victims from the asylum" and in return receive "exotic parts and cuts of the profit". Exotic parts of what? Cuts of what profits? What were Vork and Grine doing with the deformed patients and what was Brada doing with the exotic parts? Wouldn't it make much more sense for Vork and Grine to be dealing with Alpon and just cut Dr. Brada completely? At least then there would be a direct link from Vork/Grine to Schloss.

[Windspirit]

cibet44 wrote:

In Trial of the beast:

** spoiler omitted **

Here you go

Spoiler:

V&G are selling 2 Thinks. First of all they sell (legal) Bleach and other “Chemical” products. Secondly they sell bodies.

ToTB Page 19 wrote:

… trafficking in stolen bodies and body parts, which they supplied to eminent physicians across the region for over a decade.

The Connection to Dr Bada is:

• Dr Brada supplies V&G with the deformed bodies. (I suspect he gives V&G the bodies that his experiments couldn’t fix and they died)
  
• Dr Brada supplied V&G with a list of Customers though out Ustavlav
  
• V&G give Dr Brada some money from the sell of the bodies
  
• V&G supplies Dr Brada with body parts (Choice cuts) in for his experiments on his miss formed patients.
  
• Dr Brada buys Bleach of V&G (Treasure)
  

V&G have nothing to do with the Castle and Alpon. He knows nothing of all that. The only connection is the connection between V&G and Auren Vrood (Wispering Way) which used the Beast to steal the Seasage Effigy. (but V&G woudnt know anything about that)

[archmagi1]

I like to think...

Spoiler:

That V&G were helping acquire the monster corpses for Count Frankenstein, after all, he is an old man bested by an APL 8 or 9 party, surely he's not hunting all these girallion and what have you himself. I like to frame it in this light, especially to cast more of a villain role onto Caromarc (which even without making this connection, my party immediately turned him into the Palantinate Justices demanding he take responsibility for at least the University theft).