===== 16. Entry Sixteen (Dirty Habit Opening) =====

(Game Date: May 5th, 2016)

The opening party for the [[thedirtyhabit|Dirty Habit]] was finally at hand, and the Planeswalkers were all in attendance for the festivities. There was a joke contest, a pie eating contest, bands, performers, jugglers, musicians, and a stage performance of the two-act play "Olidammara and Andromalius". Quite by coincidence, a local festival in honor of the Elven pantheon was happening in [[sylvania|Sylvania]], which only brought more guests and revelers into the party.

During the party, however, a suspicious looking man was seen darting into the kitchen. After some of the Planeswalkers went to investigate, they found a man attempting to start a fire in the Dirty Habit's kitchen. Thankfully, with the help of a little magic, only some minor damage was suffered, and the would-be arsonist was questioned about who sent him and why. He revealed, while Charmed, that he was a house servant of Lord Trevor Pendleton, the former Ambassador of the Sensate Embassy who had been implicated in the slavery ring of the [[rise_of_the_swift|Rise of the Swift]] before. Lord Pendleton had bullied the servant into going to the party to start a fire, hoping to ruin the party as revenge for his own loss of face. The Planeswalkers sent the servant away unharmed, but sent a rogue from the [[tigers_claw|Tiger's Claw]] to tail him and find out where he went.

At the end of the party, a mysterious Rilmani named [[jemorille|Jemorille]] appeared and gave [[bishop_von_figaro|the Bishop]] a warning that his fledgling business was being sized up for a takeover by Shemeshka the Marauder, King of the Crosstrade and a notorious information broker/criminal mastermind in Sigil. If he was to survive, he said, the Dirty Habit would need a similarly wealthy and powerful patron to protect it.

After the party wound down, the Planeswalkers returned to Sigil and tended to various matters, including managing the [[weary_spirit|Weary Spirit]] and researching their next step in the quest to topple the [[black_lotus|Black Lotus]] by venturing to the Gate Town of Torch. The Bishop also stopped in at the residence of [[zadara|Zadara the Titan]], another famous moneylender and patron of the arts, and after a brief negotiation accepted her patronage in exchange for her taking a fifty percent stake in all present and future ventures.

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