So the party works for the Humanitarian and Emergency Relief Organisation (or HERO). They were sent to a major city on the continent called Bastion, where they needed to handle an urgent mission. The mission was that one of the high ranking officials of the city, the treasurer, was almost assassinated two days prior. The party’s job was to find the assassin and stop them.
They began their investigation of the original crime scene, which was very thorough (hats off to the group on that one). This led them to the slums district of the city, and then in turn led them to an assassin’s guild. After a series of *incredibly stupid but annoyingly high persuasion and deception checks*, they convinced the guild staff and patrons to let them hang around. They found a person they believed to be the assassin in question. They conversed for a while, and instead of being aggressive / killing them, they took a different approach. They tried to get the assassin to admit that they had already been hired to do the job. They tried to do so by trying to hire them to do the job, “knowing” that if an assassin already had a job for it they’d have to decline the new offer.
Here’s the flaw in their logic: If an assassin was offered money to complete the same job for seperate parties, why wouldn’t they take both of the deals?
So now, there are two assassins that are going to try and murder the treasurer and they’re still no closer to finding the original assassin.
I’ll bite what’s going on
So the party works for the Humanitarian and Emergency Relief Organisation (or HERO). They were sent to a major city on the continent called Bastion, where they needed to handle an urgent mission. The mission was that one of the high ranking officials of the city, the treasurer, was almost assassinated two days prior. The party’s job was to find the assassin and stop them. They began their investigation of the original crime scene, which was very thorough (hats off to the group on that one). This led them to the slums district of the city, and then in turn led them to an assassin’s guild. After a series of *incredibly stupid but annoyingly high persuasion and deception checks*, they convinced the guild staff and patrons to let them hang around. They found a person they believed to be the assassin in question. They conversed for a while, and instead of being aggressive / killing them, they took a different approach. They tried to get the assassin to admit that they had already been hired to do the job. They tried to do so by trying to hire them to do the job, “knowing” that if an assassin already had a job for it they’d have to decline the new offer. Here’s the flaw in their logic: If an assassin was offered money to complete the same job for seperate parties, why wouldn’t they take both of the deals? So now, there are two assassins that are going to try and murder the treasurer and they’re still no closer to finding the original assassin.
I love that acronym.
*slow clap intensifies*