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16. Entry Sixteen (Dirty Habit Opening)
(Game Date: May 5th, 2016)
The opening party for the 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, 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 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 Tiger's Claw to tail him and find out where he went.
At the end of the party, a mysterious Rilmani named Jemorille appeared and gave 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 and researching their next step in the quest to topple the Black Lotus by venturing to the Gate Town of Torch. The Bishop also stopped in at the residence of 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.
