The Scrutator's Mask

Will the characters be able to withstand the seduction of a Satyxis female?

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Pitch

A beautiful black-haired woman approaches one of the male PCs, offering the chance of work. He stands awestruck by her beauty as she tells him to meet her at the Satyxis Wench, a notorious tavern on the harbour side of Five Fingers. Almost unable to resist, he either follows her immediately, or brings the rest of the PCs to the tavern.

The beautiful woman is at a table, with three others, but now she has one additional feature to her beautiful face: Satyx horns. She wants the PCs to get a 'certain chest' for her: she gives them the description, and says that there is a Scrutator's Mask in it - something she'd like to get her hands on.

"Back here in four days." She offers five priceless Satyx black pearls as a reward, something practically impossible to get and worth over a thousand crowns each. She also promises a 'token of safe passage among the Satyx' for each of them, should they succeed.

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Alternatives

• The PCs discover, or are told by the Satyxis, that the chest is on a steamship in the harbour, but there's one problem: it's the Black Cygnus of the Royal Cygnaran Navy. And the chest - covered with blue leather and with a golden Swan embossed on the top - is obviously military property. There is an agent of the CRS (Cygnaran Reconnaissance Service, the spy network of Cygnar) who wants them captured for what they know, and what they intended to do.
• The PCs choose to inform the Cygnarans. The CRS agent ropes them into transporting the chest up the river to Corvis for the Fraternal Order, with a combination of threats of 'wanted' posters all over Cygnar and promises of a large reward.
• A Menite Scrutator is in Five Fingers, incognito, visiting the faithful there. He confronts the PCs (either before or after they get the Mask), and demands they hand over the Mask, "Or face the wrath of the Lawgiver! That item was stolen from the faithful, and it shall be returned!" [Scrutator NPC Prestige Class in NQ8]
  

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