Strife:Winner! (Camonna Tong)

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Overview
The Camonna Tong, professional writing club...
 * Quest Giver: Bobby.
 * Location(s): Hlaalu Council Manor.
 * Prerequisite Quest: Inquisitor's Raid.
 * Next Quest: Vaba Do'Shurh'do.
 * Reward: None.
 * Optional Bonus: None.

Quest start
After a couple of days and returning to Ibishammus, the players enter ''seeing Balz cleaning a large crossbow, almost as large as his own torso. He notices the players, and stands up, outstretching his arms and smiling as if to say 'look at me!'.'' This is an open ended interaction depending on how players react, so needs improvising. After, Balz will say: ''"Oh, Bobby's in the meeting room with Orvas. I'll take ya' to 'em." He walks through the corridor.''

The players enter the meeting room, of which ''Bobby and Orvas are sitting there. A group of Camonna Tong members were also sitting in the room, and now have gotten up, exiting the room. Bobby sees Balz and his eyes light up: "Lookin' good Balz!" Balz smiles, sitting down and leaning back in the chair. Orvas turns to Bobby, Bobby glances at him and says: "Oh! Yep. Right now need to put in the work to be able to fly under the radar, so we can move onto bigger and better things; there's this author, doesn’t have his name publicly known, just his face. He’s campaigning against us for some reason, an' his propaganda is working on people of power; we can't let our legitimacy be overturned. We couldn’t GET his name, but we got where he lives and how to get to him." Orvas grabs a map from a bag under the table, throws it to Bobby, who grabs it and spreads it out on the table, pointing to a location. He continues: "There is a writing competition we’ve found out about that invites the winners to a party in his mansion; we’ve got to add ourselves to the winners list. The ledger is kept somewhere in the Balmora council building." Balz chuckles, saying: "Winning a writing competition by writing only a couple 'a words, hah!" Bobby stands up and grabs his axes from below the table. As he gets himself ready, he says: "Hah, right! Let's focus on this first though, yeah? Next we'll regroup and plan situationally depending on how th-" Orvas interjects, chuckling: "You're a Kingpin now Bobby! Send them to go, you don’t have to no more!" Bobby replies: "I know" as he clips in his axes.''

Hlaalu Council Manor
Outside the manor, Bobby addresses the party: ''"Right, we know it's in the manor but just in case, we should be checking homes too. Me and Balz will check councillor homes, should be a breeze since they're all in there" he smiles and begins walking away, Balz waves. Bobby says: "y'all have the hard job!"''

Upon arrival to the Hlaalu Council Manor, there is nothing out of the ordinary there. The ledger is kept safe in a 94 locked chest (circled red) in the meeting and dining room on the first floor. It is in front of both Mervs Uvayn and Bolnor Andrani, so players must be careful committing crime in front of witnesses. Nileno Dorvayn has a key on her which players can pickpocket; she is also in-charge of the competition and chest. If they don’t do either of these and don’t know Nileno has a key, there is a chance Balz returns with Nileno’s key at the start of each day in Balmora, determined by a full party luck roll. Balz will say: "Nothin' found really except this? It's not a house key, and didn't find lockboxes in the house that fit it. Maybe ya' could use it."

Inside the chest is also 430 gold, a Diamond, 4 Emeralds, 3 Pearls, and a Ruby. The crime of unlocking the chest and taking the ledger cannot be interrupted but taking the gold and jewels can trigger an interruption and the competition cancelled if a bounty is gained for this, though the party is not (players will have to instead sneak in next mission).

Finishing the quest
Once players have the ledger, they can modify it to complete the mission, but it must be planted back there and relocked. Nileno is a mage; she will realise it’s been relocked with a spell if opened and relocked magically. Leading to the competition being cancelled as explained before, and instead the players must sneak into the mentioned party. She will not realise it's modification if a key or lockpick are used to open and re-lock the chest.

Upon leaving the building, the party only sees Bobby sitting outside the manor. The party may explain the situation, to which Bobby says: ''"Well uhh, well done. Yeah let's grab Balz, he's just eating, we need to get going to the manor." Bobby walks in-front of the party to the Council Club, to which Balz is just eating a Kwama egg omlette inside. Bobby says: "Yo, Balz, let's move." Balz picks the remaining omlette up with his hands, folding it in half and eating it while walking out of the club. He gives an arm outstretched thumbs up to the Dunmer barkeep, who nods. They all walk to a Silt Strider and get on, which Bobby pays for. They head on their way to Vivec City.

The party now has completed this quest and has now moved onto quest Vaba Do'Shurh'do.