Enough Sightseeing

Strategic overview: Your party has come to Korvosa to track down the plague rats. From the Red Gull the rats were handed over to a minor crime boss and all round despicable guy, one Gaedran Lamm. You are now outside Lamm’s headquarters, an old fishery he uses as a front for a pick pocketing ring. A coach has just pulled up outside and from it have stepped an aristocratic woman and her two armed guards, all very out of place in this poorest district of town. The woman and one of the guards went directly into the fishery while the other guard stayed outside with the carriage.

Tactical overview: Sasha and Xer have been dispatched to reconnoitre the site: The dilapidated old building is two stories; one at street level, then one below that at water level. A walkway, old and rickety like the rest of the building, runs along the south side.. As Sasha and Xer creep partway onto this walkway they hear it groan under their combined weight and quickly back away. They also catch sight of a large finned shadow moving below the water’s surface, easily six feet long. Afterwards Malvick tells them this is most likely a Jigsaw shark – man eating scavengers that prowl the docks.

There is boat is butted right up against the fishery and it is clear that it will never sail again. A gangway is hidden under the building connecting the boat to the lower level.

There are two main entrances to the fishery. The main street entrance sees little use – occasional orphans scampering in and out - though this is the entrance the woman and her guard used. There is a cargo entrance to the south, which sees more traffic – fisherman come and go, dropping off their spoiled catches or picking up buckets of rendered chum to use as bait or turn into “dock dumplings.” Sasha’s attempts to bribe more information out of one of the children ends in failure, the children of the area are clearly terrified of whoever controls the fishery, and Sasha’s sweet pastries don’t go nearly far enough to winning their trust. With more time perhaps, she and Xer might be able to win over one of them, but the woman and her guards are surely here with a purpose, and time may be of the essence if your group does not want the plague rats to slip out of your grasp.

Your group needs to decide on a plan of action now. There is no more time for gathering facts or getting the lay of the land. Even now Lamm could be handing over the plague rats to the mysterious woman and her guard. Will you storm the front door? It is obvious that Lamm’s child labourers are hard at work inside. Will you steal around the back via the walkway? It is known to be unstable and the water around it is stalked by at least one marine predator. Will you wait here, across the road for the woman to return, ambushing her on the road, hoping that she is indeed the villain of the piece and not simply a merchant’s wife in the wrong place at the wrong time?