Deals in the Dark: Episode 02

### YouTube VOD

***Deals in the Dark* Episode 2** was streamed on Arcadum's Twitch channel on October 25, 2019, and premiered on Arcadum's YouTube channel on January 7, 2020. The group proved themselves to Mr. Knuckles, and so they began their real job with him and his employers, and it starts with stealing a scroll case.

## Summary

The newly created group wakes up, Rivitah taking extra time to make up his bed to pristine hospital-like level of neat. After witnessing a daily blink of Torl, eating breakfast, and encountering a nasty man called Letty with a massive top hat, they began talking business with Mr. Knuckles.

Mr. Knuckles give them the real mission, to steal a scroll case and the contents inside that belonged to a person that will be arriving in the town soon, someone called Curtis Stone. This person is quite wealthy, hiring two mercenaries to guard him while he's travelling, and he's coming to the town of Bleak to meet a fashionable nobleman named Foley Furs who is an owner of a fancy tailor shop. The target will arrive at an alchemical district of the town in a few hours, and Mr. Knuckles has a contact there that can help them, explaining that his name is Tommy "Two-Hands", and the group departs. They have another nasty encounter with Letty, which made Rivitah leave the bar early, and he heard the frustrated sigh of a deep gnome before leaving.

Turr Khei mistook the gnome for his brother, and carry him to the group. He told them his story, his cart was stolen and all that was left are red, bloodied clothing. He told them that the wagon trails led to the alchemical district before he lost track of it, and he'll reward them a big diamond, estimated by Roz to worth 5000 gold pieces, if he can find his cart. Neve recognizes a symbol in Thieves' Cant on the clothing that meant The New Hand, which was one of the political factions of thieves in Bleak, and took it for investigation.

The group assured the gnome that they'll find the cart and departs to the alchemical district. They arrived in the district and met Tommy, who informs the group that Curtis is an illusionist wizard, albeit not a capable one, with pale skin and thin features, and confirms that he has two mercenary with him. He knows one of them, a druid by the name of Gross Derick who lives in the sewers. The other one is a man with moustache that Tommy never seen before, and purportedly he's good with a rapier.

Tommy also warns Neve about a rumor of an Inquisitor coming to Bleak, and allegedly this Inquisitor was one of the heroes that took down Marcelus Kingvale. Neve asked Tommy about The New Hand armband, and Tommy took it, telling her to stop by him again after their job while he looks out for information about it. She thanked Tommy with a secret handshake. Rivitah asked him about their mark, the scroll case, and Tommy informs them that Curtis was scared of it, either because he wasn't capable of handling it, or something else. This time, before he left, he warns them group to not enter the basement of Foley's manor.

The group plans to infiltrate the manor, discussing plans in the street of the Alchemical district. In the middle of their bickering, they noticed a man in Majitalian robes walking with two guards, and they noticed that they match the description Tommy said about Curtis and his entourage. Panicked, the party immediately improvised, either straight up accosts him, or pretending to be a hobo that bumps into Curtis and stealing the scroll. After all the mess, Neve finally enacts her plan of pretending to be an escort secretly sent from the Mages Guild for Curtis, and successfully deceive Curtis and his entourage. But Sir Dimple is still suspicious of her.

## Featured Characters

### Main Characters

* Rivitah
* Neve
* Madd Morc
* Turr Khei
* Argh'xl Roz

### New

* Equisiteen Buble-Schinslow Backslashinforth VIII
* Gross Derick
* Curtis Stone
* Sir Dimple Saucy

### Returning

* Torl
* Mr. Knuckles
* Hoto

## Trivia

* This is the session when Madd Morc first received his iconic top hat.