#northern shenanananiganery

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THE HEIST:

Disclaimer from our beloved DM: John Watsek was a real person who died young and was a member of the DM’s Highschool back in the day. 

SO. Our wonderful Dm made a horribly slimy conartist of a shopkeeper who conned a party member(Icarus) out of a dagger and a hammer(?). The shopkeep has done worse, mind you and I’ll list how our money system works and the members now before I continue. OH! and As payback, they stole a very expensive ring called “Fuck you in particular” and in response, not knowing who took it, the Shopkeep doubled the price of everything in the store.

The rest under the read-more bc it’s a long post.

Characters-Player:  Icarus-(Don’t have their handle yet) Chad & Solace- @flylikeacomet Erulisse- @azvede Vincent Dick- Yours truly

NPC’s in this session played by our nefarious dm that we love endlessly, @zkriiwewe: -Doctor Ismene -Tsubasa -Raynor(The Shopkeeper)

Money System: 100 Copper=1 Silver 10 Silver=1 Gold 1 Gold=1000Copper****This bit is important.

Now, on to the story. Given what I’ve already stated, it’s safe to assume that NO ONE LIKES RAYNOR. He even rigged the laws so he was the only shopkeep allowed to trade outside the keep. So no one was gonna say anything about who stole the ring of ‘fuck you in particular’, not even my paladin, Vincent or the Yarl, Lapushka. Solace walks into the Bazaar, knowing what happened and that the prices were doubled, but hoping to get a deal anyways. When a deal for Mica powder doesn’t go his way, Solace presents a gummy bracelet that says 'John Watsek - Forever a Falcon’ and claims that it’s an old relic from the old world(The world Icarus and Vincent spawned from). For a good 30 mins in game, it was a back ad forth bullshitting from Solace, to the point of even dragging in Chad to talk it up, depicting Watsek as an amazing warrior from the old world. Raynor, not buying it at all, says in annoyance “If you get me a book on this guy, then I’ll think about buying it.”

And SO THE HEIST BEGINS BC SOLACE COMES UP WITH AN AMAZING IDEA. IM TALKING FUCKING LEVERAGE LEVEL SHIT.

They go to Tsubasa and convince them to help them make a book about the stories of the Great Watsek, Tsubasa agreeing as long as they get 20% of the prize money and the others create the rough draft. Chad and Solace decide to drag in the rest of the party, Vincent and Icarus being key elements bc they’re both old worlders and make it believable, and the keeps doctor, who fucking hates raynor with a burning passion for fucking her over on her potion selling. After coming up with the rough draft, Tsubasa, Ismene and Vincent work on binding the final draft, doctoring it so it looks ancient and writing Vincent’s name in it so it looks like it came from his library.

Context: Vincent is considered the local tome hoarder. Him and his husband have walls full of incredibly rare and ancient texts, many of which are worth a pretty copper. More Context: Vincent *loves* books.Granted, He’d sell his entire collection for his loved ones in a heartbeat without a second thought. He just really fucking loves books and reading. So much so that if he doesn’t have to, convincing him to part with any of his books is a bitch of a nightmare and a half.

When they present the book to Solace to review, he rolls an Investigation to set the Investigation required to know it’s a fake and HE GETS A NAT 20.

When Solace then takes it to Raynor to sell, Raynor is shocked to say the least and they argue about a price for about 5 minutes before Raynor rolls to see through the bullshit….. and he gets… A. NAT. 1.

A NATURAL FUCKING 1!!!

Solace asks for 70 gold for it, but Raynor manages to haggle it down to 50 gold, the Mica powder and a 3 legged warhorse statue that can turn into an actual 3 legged warhorse.

Solace splits the money between the party, Tsubasa getting 10 gold pieces, Vincent, Ismene and Solace getting 7 and the rest getting 6.

Overall….. THE PARTY CONNED THIS ASSHOLE SHOPKEEP OUT OF 50,000$ WITH A BULLSHIT RELIC/HISTORY BOOK COMBO. NOT INCLUDING THE MAGIC STATUE, MAGIC RING AND MICA POWDER.

OUR DM: MAKES A SLEEZY SHOPKEEP THAT LITERALLY EVERYONE HATES OUR PARTY: WE 'BOUT TO END THIS MANS WHOLE CAREER