Body Double

23 September 2010-

Despite fantasies of early retirement (to be funded by our presumptive sale of eMichael's dwarven drow-magnet to the drow, collecting the reward, and living to tell the tale), our party was still short on cash and in need of a subtle way to leave town. How fortunate, then, that such an opportunity came our way- though in a most unusual fashion.

While in the town marketplace, we intervened in an attempted kidnapping- which earned us a job. It turns out that our half-elf samurai bears enough of a resemblance to a local merchant's daughter (insert your own joke about the gender ambiguity of elves here) that the merchant has hired us to impersonate her for a little while. She is, it seems, going to get married to a man in a nearby city, but has been threatened with death by a rival merchant out to scare off her father. We are to leave the town and head for that city, drawing off the team of assassins sent to kill her long enough for her to get to her wedding safely. The journey will be perilous, of course, as it leads through a dangerous short-cut to the city in question, and will be even harder to manage since we need to fend off the yuan-ti assassin without killing him for at least three days, since that would alert the rival merchant to the nature of the deception.

We'll just paint a big target on the back of the samurai's frilly new dress...