Chapter Ten: Seeking out Power (rumor recap)

The following is a recap of rumors and information you have learned in Crescent City. Some of this information may be new:

• The swamp elves have been slaves for as long as anyone can remember, though there are rumours of an uprising.
• There are four competing crime lords running the city – Lord Raglan, Jimmy the Tailor, Little Reginald and Dark Mariah. If you commit a crime on their turf without their permission, then you are in a lot of trouble.
• On each crime lord's territory, there is one tavern where the crime lord's men rule the roost and can drink in safety; the landlord is in cahoots with them and will provide alibis and hiding places when needed.
• Lord Raglan's tavern is the Merry Jackdaw, Jimmy the Tailor's is the Pig and Hammer, Little Reginald's is the Chandler's Arms and Dark Mariah's crew drink at the Lifeless Lass.
• Lord Raglan's lieutenant, Jackary, is some kind of a vampire.
• Lord Malthus is the official governor and he seems to be doing very well so far, though nobody is entirely sure how.
• When the authorities crushed the old Rogues' Guild ten years ago, the King and Queen of Thieves hid some special treasures away somewhere in the testing maze under the guild house. Nobody has ever found it, though plenty of people have tried. The guild house is a hospice now, sacred to Saint Cecilia.
• Among the treasures hidden away by the King and Queen of Thieves was an artefact that they stole from the crypt of a hero who fell in a battle over a thousand years ago. According to legend, he was slain in battle but came back from the dead to help his comrades.
• There is a haunted plantation up the river somewhere.
• There is a whole plantation up the river that is completely deserted. The owners just fled one day without ever explaining why. Since they never sold the land to anyone, it is unused and the mansion house has gone to rack and ruin. If you go there on a dark night, you can hear screaming.
• The deserted plantation belonged to the Valjean family.
• When the Valjean family abandoned their plantation and headed overseas, they did not take their eldest son Michel with them.
• The King and Queen of Thieves survived their deaths somehow, though nobody has any idea where they are today.
• The central bank has some artefacts stored in it that have been there for centuries.
• A serial murderer is doing away with people. He mutilates the bodies in some horrible way.
• The serial murderer takes his victims' faces.
• Dark Mariah is half-drow; that is where she gets her dark skin tone.
• The crime lords have an agreement with the guards, meaning that their people can usually get away with petty crimes, so long as nobody is badly hurt.
• Lord Malthus is the official governor and he seems to be doing very well so far, though nobody is entirely sure how.
• There is a tavern in the centre of town called the Laughing Lord, which is the only neutral territory in the city as far as the crime lords are concerned. They meet there if they ever want to have a face-to-face discussion.
• The building that is now the Town Hall used to be a temple to the elven God Brith; there are rooms in there that nobody knows about.
• There are people in the city who are preparing to arm the swamp elves for revolution.
• The old Rogue's Guild was double-crossed – an insider let the authorities in, though nobody knows who or how.
• The central bank has some artefacts stored in it that have been there for centuries.
• The old rogue's guildhouse is now a hospital dedicated to Saint Cecilia of the Church of Marius. It is on Lord Raglan's territory.

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