Legend
You enter Father Alberto's room. You can't help but notice it's much bigger and more ornate than your own. Alberto sits at his desk looking worried as usual. He sees you and tells you to sit down.
"You've been a good servant of the One True God and have helped the Church gain more of a foothold here, I just wish it was at a better time, when we could really focus and get even more established, unfortunately the Dark One's evil never rests."
"What's going on now?" you ask.
"Well I don't know if you've noticed, but there's talk of rebellion. There have already been small riots put down by the Baron's guards. It's only a matter of time before the whole city goes under."
"Baron Varsakken? He's a corrupt tyrant of this city! I'm not surprised the people want to rebel!"
"Normally I'd agree, but regrettably he's the lesser of two evils in this case. The Baron is the one that allows freedom of religion in the city, mainly because he figures the more factions the less likely one is going to grow strong and pose a threat to him. As you can see, it's worked, but ironically it's also what's kept us afloat. I shutter to think what would happen if his son Farad took power."
"What do you mean?"
"The Dark One has agents everywhere, some even in high positions; however we aren't without agents of our own! We have it on a very reliable source that the Baron's son is a follower of the Dark One. We're pretty sure it is he who is actually instigating the rebellion, and attempting to manipulate things from behind the scenes in an attempt to overthrow his father. The citizens that the Baron has oppressed are just a means to an end, I guarantee Farad would be ten times worse than his father, we would no doubt either be banned from the city or more likely killed under some sort of false pretense."
"Well if we know all this why don't we do something about it?! Bring Farad down!" you ask.
"We're doing a lot more with you here now. You must realize that bringing down Farad isn't that simple. First of all, how would we go about accusing the Baron's son? We have no power to directly do anything to him and even if we did, we don't have any hard evidence. Let alone getting anyone of any influence to listen to us. All we can do is foil the plans we hear about, which brings us to your next mission. We know that The Dark One has a headquarter in the sewers somewhere, naturally trying to attack that directly would be suicide, but perhaps if we could find its whereabouts at least, we would have a better advantage."
"So you want me to find it right?"
"Yes, but the thing is you CANNOT let yourself be seen! Doing so would either just cause them to move it, or take a more violent approach and attack the Church. We aren't strong enough to survive an assault."
"Oh come on, surely they wouldn't risk attacking us directly."
"Perhaps not, but I don't want to take that risk and have it resulting in the deaths of innocents, like I said they still could move the location, so its still important that you aren't found out."
"Okay, so what do I do? Just wander the sewers until I stumble upon it?"
"Well you could that, or I suppose you could get a guide, but that might give you away especially if you ask the wrong person. I can only hope that the One True God guides YOU in the right path for this difficult task. May he be with you my son."
You leave Father Alberto pondering how you're going to approach this. Any guide to the sewers is going to be problematic at best, since most right thinking folks don't go mucking around down there. Only people with something to hide or are up to no good usually lurk down there, like thieves, and other criminal types.
"You've been a good servant of the One True God and have helped the Church gain more of a foothold here, I just wish it was at a better time, when we could really focus and get even more established, unfortunately the Dark One's evil never rests."
"What's going on now?" you ask.
"Well I don't know if you've noticed, but there's talk of rebellion. There have already been small riots put down by the Baron's guards. It's only a matter of time before the whole city goes under."
"Baron Varsakken? He's a corrupt tyrant of this city! I'm not surprised the people want to rebel!"
"Normally I'd agree, but regrettably he's the lesser of two evils in this case. The Baron is the one that allows freedom of religion in the city, mainly because he figures the more factions the less likely one is going to grow strong and pose a threat to him. As you can see, it's worked, but ironically it's also what's kept us afloat. I shutter to think what would happen if his son Farad took power."
"What do you mean?"
"The Dark One has agents everywhere, some even in high positions; however we aren't without agents of our own! We have it on a very reliable source that the Baron's son is a follower of the Dark One. We're pretty sure it is he who is actually instigating the rebellion, and attempting to manipulate things from behind the scenes in an attempt to overthrow his father. The citizens that the Baron has oppressed are just a means to an end, I guarantee Farad would be ten times worse than his father, we would no doubt either be banned from the city or more likely killed under some sort of false pretense."
"Well if we know all this why don't we do something about it?! Bring Farad down!" you ask.
"We're doing a lot more with you here now. You must realize that bringing down Farad isn't that simple. First of all, how would we go about accusing the Baron's son? We have no power to directly do anything to him and even if we did, we don't have any hard evidence. Let alone getting anyone of any influence to listen to us. All we can do is foil the plans we hear about, which brings us to your next mission. We know that The Dark One has a headquarter in the sewers somewhere, naturally trying to attack that directly would be suicide, but perhaps if we could find its whereabouts at least, we would have a better advantage."
"So you want me to find it right?"
"Yes, but the thing is you CANNOT let yourself be seen! Doing so would either just cause them to move it, or take a more violent approach and attack the Church. We aren't strong enough to survive an assault."
"Oh come on, surely they wouldn't risk attacking us directly."
"Perhaps not, but I don't want to take that risk and have it resulting in the deaths of innocents, like I said they still could move the location, so its still important that you aren't found out."
"Okay, so what do I do? Just wander the sewers until I stumble upon it?"
"Well you could that, or I suppose you could get a guide, but that might give you away especially if you ask the wrong person. I can only hope that the One True God guides YOU in the right path for this difficult task. May he be with you my son."
You leave Father Alberto pondering how you're going to approach this. Any guide to the sewers is going to be problematic at best, since most right thinking folks don't go mucking around down there. Only people with something to hide or are up to no good usually lurk down there, like thieves, and other criminal types.