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> Visit a new city
> After a while, start noticing odd things about it - city guard seems absolutely inept at anything except for harassing and jailing adventurers, the ruler is obviously corrupt...
> Wait...
> Start talking to townsfolk.
> Find out that there's some sort of all-powerful guild of thieves and assassins ruling the city from the shadows, and it's only talked about in hushed whispers.
> Fucking Lord, not again.
> Capture one of the crooks and interrogate him.
> "Is your leader some faceless figure cloaked in shadows and mystery?"
> "Nobody knows who he is and where he came from, but he knows everyone?"
> "Nobody knows where he lives and where he gets all the money from?"
> "You don't contact him, he contacts you? That sort of stuff?"
> Yep, ticks all the boxes.
I hope none of you guys do this.
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>>51095956
Oh shit, that's that Lich from forgotten realms, I forgot his name, looks after a settlement somewhere, always hidden behind a hood.
Isn't L or Spaz Tam tho.
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>>51095956
Of course not. Although there may be an entirely legitimate businessman who is unfortunately plagued by accusations and rumors that he's leading such an organization.
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>>51095956
I do this.
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>>51095956
You mean you don't do this?
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>>51095956
>Try to hunt him down
>Turns out he never existed and was basically a false face by the city leaders used to pretty much direct the thieves into being a secret police force without even knowing, their cut of the money going back into the city and productivity, allowing them to make fat stacks of cash by exporting assassinations to other Kingdoms.
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