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Bregan D'aerthe#

Thieves guild with outposts in waterdeep and luskan.
https://forgottenrealms.fandom.com/wiki/Bregan_D%27aerthe

Developments#

  • pendle steals Javelin of Lightning from Gideon, granted entrance to guild in WD
  • Traded Rod of Overwhelming Energy (terahex modified) for Blackrazor.
  • Blackrazor was resold, and ended up through Irae with Umnos.
  • Met beniago in luskan
  • Did fun initiation quest, and beer boarded two goliaths (one later died)
  • Did spider quest, but never returned Araushnee's Stinger
  • beniago now a skeleton, but cannot care much for the betrayal

Members#

Listener jarlaxle
Speaker beniago

Ranks#

  • (Intern) Assassin
  • (Jr) Executioner
  • (Sr) Silencer
  • (Staff) Speaker
  • (Principal) Listener

Discounts: -15% per rank

Waterdeep Outpost#

Thieves guild / jarlaxle's mercenary hideout. 100 active in waterdeep at a time, but probably only 30 in various parts of the guild at a time. Screwed halfway between the sewers and the mountain. Quick escapes, but front is a façade. A shop of items. "Swords from luskan." Largely unpopular, but that's just a ruse. Everyone who knows about it must go through "initiation".

One Eyed Jax#

https://forgottenrealms.fandom.com/wiki/One-Eyed_Jax
Beniago's purple bird immediately kaws as you enter.

See beniago for the intro. He is operating a ship for Kurth. Badass.
See https://forgottenrealms.fandom.com/wiki/Beniago under Ship Kurth for favourable hiring of ships.

Password#

"Time is an illusion. Lunchtime doubly so." In response to "you're here early."

Sellers#

Inside#

Speakeasy for traders. 10 drow, 2 tiefling (1 warlock), 1 kenku, 2, changelings, 1 tabaxi.
One leader there atm: Sszaonar – Arachnomancer.
Other rooms:
- Caverns with various rooms. 4 drow in one room with maps. Another. 2 muscular drow males pleaing each other. Thamaturgy door shut after a smile.
- A super heavily locked passage leading to Jarlaxle's chamber.

Kant#

https://www.reddit.com/r/DnDBehindTheScreen/comments/8k8g8k/oh_yes_thieves_can_cant/

Lines#

  • We have many members who know the trade and are experienced shoppers.
  • We'd need to see that you are game and now how to business.
  • Go to Diamond Street corner in the evening and talk to the long haired guard, he'll find you a seller.

Luskan Quests#

Via beniago.
So, you're clearly pretty thieves already, but you haven't technically accomplished any tasks for us, so I will give you a freebie. We will grant you Swashbuckler rank if;
- Get Orena + Zanu drunk.

Drinking contest / deception / magic.

Alternate Short quest#

Steal something pointless from the captain.

Long quest 2#

Wants you to retrieve Araushnee's Stinger +3 dagger of Venom.

Defended by 2x Monolith Champions. Some of the most powerful constructs that we've seen. Anyone we've sent in has been dispatched with a blue flamed blade and our attacks might have pierced its armor, but after being hit, one of our mercenaries turned against us.

Beniago: "It's been hard to find people stupid enough to go in after that. Now, I realize I'm not making perhaps the most persuasive argument. But hear me out; my point is that we've seen you embark on quests most people have found foolish, and you've come out superior."

Keep what's in there. Quest for Faeynore? Drawings of Lolth.

Base dungeon on Dark Heart http://www.wizards.com/files/157_Dark_Heart.pdf - goes into the feywild post the obvious fake shrine parts.
http://www.wizards.com/files/366_mithrendain.pdf

Reward
More access to items!
Sell hit squads for N-thousand gold, depending on difficulty.

Final Long Quest#

Find and recover main kidnapped leader + item in Menzo.
Or perhaps ruathym?

EBA Quest#

Steal item from Mages Guild to frame someone. (Stealing totally bad idea against scrying mage).
If they get caught, he will add a parasite into the skull of the caught thief. -4 INT until removed + clairvoyance info. Want Cat Ear Headband stolen.
Alternatively, steal a ring and frame another ship?

Initiation Quest#

Steal javelin from Gideon

OR:
They'll meet Brian(fake name) and he'll give you the password to the guild.

Initiation Heist#

Cobbled streets around a mansion. Tall, three story house on other side of narrow cobbled street. Belongs to commoners. Mansion has walls that are hard to climb while being stealthy. No obvious holes in wall. Backside has guards visible. Guards on patrol very slowly. Gate is locked. Two more villas to the right of the main one.

Challenges#

Avoiding guards. Two downstairs. (Climb window stealthily).
Take out guards. Fast takedown or more appear.

Gideon#

Sleeping. Can be woken up. Annoying noble. Superiority, but nothing evil about him.
"well of course they complain, not everyone can be in charge of policies, and in times of decline, the sellers of the most superfluous goods always suffer first."
Sleeping in the room with the rake?

If they get caught#

They will have valuables stolen from them and they'll be locked away in chamber. And they'll have to escape.

Escape will be a dungeon where they are meant to rot, but end up having to break out inside castle waterdeep.
Or they can break locks to go back into thieves guild and find storage area. Where they can find all their loot along with tons of misc weaponry.

Inner: minor garden, window to kitchen. 2 guards in entranceway.
Standard Merchant Prince's Villa map from TOA.

Alternate version#

They ask around first, and one of them tells them:
"if you are game, you can prove yourself by doing some shopping for us."
"one of the lords, Aveyron, has a javelin on his wall in his upstairs library that we'd like to buy, unfortunately, he's been very busy lately, and almost impossible to reach."
"we'd recommend you wait for him outside, and make a deal with him, if you know what I mean."

Once inside stealth the way through.

More quest ideas#

  • Steal quests.
  • Create a heist.
  • Steal from famous people. Magisters.