Astrologer-Thieves
http://karloff-shelf.blogspot.com/2024/02/low-level-scenario-design-d.html
What nobody appreciates (except possibly the heroes, if they’ve been paying attention to those astrologers) is that the prognosticators are actually burglars.
The challenge will be giving players the clues to make that deduction themselves, without just telling them directly. Some clues, which should be dropped over the week:
- one is missing a hand, cut off at the wrist
- a PC sees one, out-of-costume, buying strong liquor, at a market
- one is bedecked with pouches of small tools and little fetishes
- one delivers a religious homily with the completely wrong emotional tone
- a third party approaches a rogue PC to broker an "opportunity", i.e. turning a blind eye
- one is found unconscious in the alley, actually just passed out drunk