Player: 1-2 needed Character(s): 2 needed Mission Duration: 1 day Mission Difficulty: ★★★☆☆ Mission Type: Drug buy and possible bust Projected Plot Impact: Information on where Dust is being supplied to the city from. Proposed Worldbuilding Changes: A better understanding of the illegal drug supply being fed into Keeliai as well as possible NPCs involved in its trafficking.
DOSSIER
Use of the drug known as Dust has been on a steady increase throughout the city and Evandau has reached the point where he's ready to try a sting operation, having up until now only been able to arrest users or bottom of the ladder sellers. He will need a pair of volunteers to set up a buy with Yengi, a known distributor. The caveat here is that Yengi will be very reluctant to sell to Foreigners, given their seeming allegiance to the Emperor. Your characters will have to put on a convincing act and may have to tell a lie close to the truth in order to sell their cover and even then success is not guaranteed -- and neither is their safety. These criminals are not shy about killing to protect their underground enterprise and the Emperor can provide a grim list of policekedan who have undertaken the same endeavor and where each of their body parts were found.
There are two options, Evandau explains. Either you can go in as a pair of buyers or one can take on a bodyguard position, either hidden or visible. It's very likely, he warns, that your character may be asked to take some of the Dust to prove they are indeed a user of it. The Palace will arrange for a suitable amount of juulan to buy the Dust, though Yengi may add a "Foreigner surcharge" to see if that will rattle them. The best case scenario is to make the successful buy AND track Yengi afterward, where supposedly he will be returning to pick up more supply for another sale. However if the operation goes sour, they may well have to defend themselves and likely they will not be able to track Yengi but rather have to kill him instead.
IF THE BUY IS SUCCESSFUL: The characters will be able to track Yengi to one of the Dust supply houses and witness a half dozen other kedan, the descriptions of which can then be reported to Evandau and duly rewarded for completing the mission successfully with their cover intact.
IF BEING CAUGHT IN THE ACT: The characters will be attacked in retaliation, either by Yengi alone or with his reinforcements and the outcome of this (who is injured, if anyone's killed, etc) is entirely player's choice but word will spread of their descriptions among the traffickers.
DUST (UNDERCOVER)
Character(s): 2 needed
Mission Duration: 1 day
Mission Difficulty: ★★★☆☆
Mission Type: Drug buy and possible bust
Projected Plot Impact: Information on where Dust is being supplied to the city from.
Proposed Worldbuilding Changes: A better understanding of the illegal drug supply being fed into Keeliai as well as possible NPCs involved in its trafficking.
DOSSIER
Use of the drug known as Dust has been on a steady increase throughout the city and Evandau has reached the point where he's ready to try a sting operation, having up until now only been able to arrest users or bottom of the ladder sellers. He will need a pair of volunteers to set up a buy with Yengi, a known distributor. The caveat here is that Yengi will be very reluctant to sell to Foreigners, given their seeming allegiance to the Emperor. Your characters will have to put on a convincing act and may have to tell a lie close to the truth in order to sell their cover and even then success is not guaranteed -- and neither is their safety. These criminals are not shy about killing to protect their underground enterprise and the Emperor can provide a grim list of policekedan who have undertaken the same endeavor and where each of their body parts were found.
There are two options, Evandau explains. Either you can go in as a pair of buyers or one can take on a bodyguard position, either hidden or visible. It's very likely, he warns, that your character may be asked to take some of the Dust to prove they are indeed a user of it. The Palace will arrange for a suitable amount of juulan to buy the Dust, though Yengi may add a "Foreigner surcharge" to see if that will rattle them. The best case scenario is to make the successful buy AND track Yengi afterward, where supposedly he will be returning to pick up more supply for another sale. However if the operation goes sour, they may well have to defend themselves and likely they will not be able to track Yengi but rather have to kill him instead.
IF THE BUY IS SUCCESSFUL: The characters will be able to track Yengi to one of the Dust supply houses and witness a half dozen other kedan, the descriptions of which can then be reported to Evandau and duly rewarded for completing the mission successfully with their cover intact.
IF BEING CAUGHT IN THE ACT: The characters will be attacked in retaliation, either by Yengi alone or with his reinforcements and the outcome of this (who is injured, if anyone's killed, etc) is entirely player's choice but word will spread of their descriptions among the traffickers.