Shadow Thieves
The Shadow Thieves were a secretive and powerful consortium of thieves' guild in Wideberth long ago. Since then they have become more legend than a known player in the daily events of the world.
History
Barlo was followed by a Shadow Thieves operative and so he hid in an alley and ambushed him. After grabbing him, Barlo: "Who are you?" UNNAMED HALFLING SHADOW THIEF OPERATIVE: "I'm a shadow thief and if you don't let me go there will be 200 more that will be on your back in a second." Barlo: "Why are you following me?" UNNAMED HALFLING SHADOW THIEF OPERATIVE: "To gauge whether or not you deserve a second of respect or a knife in the back. Once again, I wiill ask you to let go and we can talk.. otherwise I will give a signal and there will be 200 on your back." Barlo takes a look around. As he does so he does see some shadows moving in unnatural ways, it sure does seem that way. Barlo spins them both around so their backs are to the walls Barlo: "What do you want to talk about?" UNNAMED HALFLING SHADOW THIEF OPERATIVE: "It's the cowl you wear, it's not yours. And you are not allowed to possess that." Barlo: "Well, I killed the one who wore it before, so I guess it's mine" UNNAMED HALFLING SHADOW THIEF OPERATIVE: "If the one who wore it before was one of ours, we have all rights to kill you. If it was someone who stole it from us that doesn't mean you get ownership." Barlo: "so, you work with Jacoby?" UNNAMED HALFLING SHADOW THIEF OPERATIVE: "I don't work with no jacoby. If this jacoby charcter is the one you stole it from, then he is the one who stole it from one of ours." Barlo: "What proof do i have of this organization" UNNAMED HALFLING SHADOW THIEF OPERATIVE: "besides that I wear the same cowl?" he then puts his arms up and behind him on a rooftop another humanoid appears out of the shadows wearing the same cowl Barlo: "listen, I've never heard of you guys or your group before and i've dealt in some shady shit." UNNAMED HALFLING SHADOW THIEF OPERATIVE: "We've done some research and we know some ROADS you've traveled. Some of them know who we are, but for the most part we stick to the shadows. In the past, when we let too many know who we were we were hunted. " Barlo: "So, you're not sure how Jacoby got the hood?" UNNAMED HALFLING SHADOW THIEF OPERATIVE: "no, and we're very curious on that. We were not aware of losing any in our ranks." Barlo: "I did kill him in combat, there's no claim that comes to me for killing him in combat?" UNNAMED HALFLING SHADOW THIEF OPERATIVE: "Not when it comes to our cowls, no. They are strictly our property, and in fact I should say if you continue to posses it, even before we kill you, because honestly killing is too easy. We will first send word to your Friends on that ROAD and we can have them blackball you and hunt you down." **terrible insight** There is no reason to question him, and he does seem very confident. Barlo is picking up that he is unaware of Jacoby and curious about that. Barlo: "Is there anything I can do to keep this? Because the jacoby that I took it from was actually a clon or a Simulacrum or some crap like that and that guy is still out there hunting me and my group. This kind of helps protoect me from him finding me specifecially" UNNAMED HALFLING SHADOW THIEF OPERATIVE: "Yeah, that's no concern of ours. I know there are paltry pendants that can stave off such scrys, but what you possess on your head is a sacred gift from Mask himself. " **Barlo has not heard of Mask** due to his background, he has. The god of shadows and thievery. Barlo: "so, worshipers of Mask, okay. I don't want to mess with your cult or what have you. Fuck, I really like this thing. Been saving my ass a lot lately. " Hesitates, looks around... "sucks you have me outnumbered" pulls it off and hands it over "This is so hard to give up, but you got me. Just let me know if there is any way I can earn one" UNNAMED HALFLING SHADOW THIEF OPERATIVE: "I don't know about earning it, but I'd say you got a little respect. I mean, to be fair, we. We're going to set you up for a murder. " Barlo: "A murder? " UNNAMED HALFLING SHADOW THIEF OPERATIVE: "Yeah. We were about to frame you for a murder tonight. " Barlo: "Wow. " UNNAMED HALFLING SHADOW THIEF OPERATIVE: "The fact that you've decided to make it a little bit less work for us, that's fine. We will definitely make sure that there's no bad words sent to your Friends and the road you got. " Barlo: "You know, that's much appreciated. Is there anything if I make contact with my people, is there any name I should give? If you have a name, " UNNAMED HALFLING SHADOW THIEF OPERATIVE: "I would prefer if you didn't put. " Barlo: "Okay. " UNNAMED HALFLING SHADOW THIEF OPERATIVE: "Those who are not everybody on your path obviously knows that we are still around and the more we can keep it that way, the better. And with that I will have to. bid you adiouo. " And he bends down, just gives you a little curtsey and with that, with a flash of smoke, he's gone.
