- STR: 14
- INT: 14
- WIS: 12
- CON: 10
- DEX: 17
- CHA: 10
- COM: 10
- Hit Points: 16
- Wealth: 12 silver
- AC: 10 (7 w/dex)
| Age: 16 |  | |
| Class: 3rd level Thief | ||
| Alignment: Neutral | ||
Description: A perfectly ordinary urchin girl, wearing boy's clothes, a muffin cap, and
a large satchel.| Secondary Skill: Scrounging | Equipment: Satchel, Thieves pick and tools, rope, grappling hook, soft moccassins,
candles, tinderbox | |
Keys: Access to the Rookery (with sufficient bribes)
Character History: You broke the first rule of thievery--Don't get caught.
Well, really, you didn't get caught, but your little brother Franki did, and worse yet,
with a bag filled with Frau Kasterman's silverware. You, along with the other bag
and the silver coffee pot, disappeared over the next roof, but it was no good: You
weren't a member of the Rookery, and they weren't going to help you.
That, of course, is the nature of the Rooks. Stupid outsiders come up with silly ideas
like calling it the Thieves Guild, with thieves running around breaking each other's legs
for stealing without giving a cut and so on. This is hardly the case. Amateur talent is
free to do whatever they want, and unless it's a really big heist, or their money, the
Rooks don't care. The Rookery is just the club of the old and more professional
thieves, including a number who've gotten old and fat and gone on to more prosperous
professions, such as politicians and bailiffs and district judges. Who are of course
corrupt, but follow the practice of standard nepotism--leniency for those they know
and like, executions to "make an example" for those they don't.
By the time you found out where to turn, the sentence had already been handed down,
and all your silverware and the coffee pot was able to buy you was a stay of execution
for a month, mostly due to the fact that the monthly hangings are good business, and if
you put nine people on the scaffold instead of the regular eight, people will come to
expect it every month. Franki is now at the top of next month's list, and rotting in
prison until then.
You had one last avenue of recourse--the Suzereigna. The Empress could pardon
anything she damn well felt like, and the old lady makes a big show of listening to the
peasants complaints once a month. You showed up with the big crowd, watched her
pick out a couple of old women arguing over the placement of a fence and a laundry
line, and after a few things just as stupid, it was over, your hopes were dashed, and
then as everyone was filing out, a courtier asked you to one side, then led you into a
small room, where the Suzereigna gave you a private audience.
The Empress made it perfectly clear--someone had pinched the big diamond from the
top of her scepter and slipped in a piece of paste. She didn't want anyone to know
until she could be certain she was getting it back, then could make a big show of the
recovery, rewarding the rescuers and hanging the thieves.
The old bat is also sharp. She knows you're a thief, and doesn't care, so long as you
get her diamond back. Plus there's also the matter of her grandnephew, Parsival, who
looks like an ox, is almost as dumb, and is very, very green. He's going off on this
adventure too, and she wants you to make sure that he isn't killed, since you know the
streets that much better.
Get her diamond and keep Parsival alive (it's okay if he gets beat up, and in fact, she'd
prefer if he did) and you've got a pardon for your brother, plus a nice bit of loot for
yourself. Fail and he dies. Easy as that.
Very little difference between the Empress and the Rooks when you come right down
to it.
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