Player Plot: Blue Gold

[keenly]

WHO: Colin, Cyril, Julius, Anders, and Barnabas.
WHAT: Colin's lyrium-dealing has drawn the ire of the Carta. His friends race to save him.
WHEN: Justinian 2
WHERE: Kirkwall
NOTES: TWs for crime, hostage crud, everything to do with the Carta. Subtitle: "Sigh Hard."

You--

Your peddler friend came to the wrong city.

The game is over. The Carta is defending its territory. If you want your boy back, bring 500 sovereigns and his remaining lyrium to Lowtown as reparations for business lost by the Carta in the months he has been in Kirkwall. Not the stash in his store--we got that. Wherever the rest is, bring it to the cul-de-sac off the Blooming Rose in Hightown by dawn. Leave it in the barrel marked with a red X and go. If you linger afterward, you will be shot.

--"Len"

Comments

[overharrowed]

Julius shakes his head, but says, "Is there something other than cash that might get us anywhere? Favors or contacts? We're not representing the Inquisition, and speaking for myself... I didn't own anything prior to about three years ago, let alone Carta-appeasing amounts of coin."

He's never even seen a wagon full of gold. He deeply does not want to owe the Carta a favor, but on the other hand, he doesn't even know who he would ask for that much ready cash.

"I can't speak to the lyrium. I didn't know he was even dealing in it before today." So... it could exist, but if they're just hunting for it, the odds of finding it before dawn are slim at best.

[samahl]

"I could get coin, but it would take time and we don't have that," Cyril admits. He feels like this is probably going to end poorly but he doesn't want to give up on Colin just yet.

He likes the idea of trying some other form of payment, but he also isn't exactly sure what that would mean. It's not like they can use the Inquisition to leverage anything without approval, and approval takes time as well.