Strife:The Start of Forever (Camonna Tong)

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Overview
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 * Quest Giver: Bobby.
 * Location(s): Vivec Temple Canton, Vivec St. Delyn Canton, Vivec Redoran Canton.
 * Prerequisite Quest: Satakal's Approach.
 * Next Quest: None.
 * Reward: Loot from the Redoran Vaults.
 * Optional Bonus: None.

Quest start
The party must follow Bobby to the Redoran canton...

Throughout the quest the party fight alongside Bobby, Balz, and J'Krin.

The journey to the vaults
''Bobby walks far ahead with purpose and no weapons drawn, an opposite to the Balz and J'Krin walking with crossbow and fists at the ready for any one made enemy that attempts to attack their friend. Passing through the High Fane, some Ordinators mobilise into action with seeming attempts at an arrest; there is 6 of them at the ready, blocking the cantons exit. The helmet-less captain shouts: "Get down, NOW! You are ALL wanted for 13 counts of murder, a million septims in theft and damages including dru-" interrupted by a wordless Bobby's gun ripping a bullet through him, causing the 5 to charge.'' The group fights 5 Ordinators.

After the fight, ''Bobby continues to walk onwards. Covered in blood he and the party terrify the more populated area of Vivec. People night trading in the walkways of the St. Delyn canton begin running away and screaming after looking on in horror at the murder of 6 Ordinators beforehand. The only that do not are a group of Dunmer blocking the way forwards for the party. One of them addresses Bobby: "You're the one that killed Eldrar; I will kill you, beat your corpse, and FUCKING THROW IT into the river." The group charges.'' The party fight 8 of Eldrar's old gang, armed with only simple weapons. 3 have Chitin Clubs, 4 have Iron Daggers, two have Chitin Shortswords, and the final carries 20 Chitin Throwing Stars. They all have a rolled health of d76+24.

''Again, after the fight, Bobby continues to walk onwards. The group gets to the Redoran Canton, the streets are empty and the interior is too as the group sees when they enter. Everything is left, like people were forced out suddenly.'' Note that at this time if players try doors to shops and houses they are locked. ''Bobby walks with a purpose through, up the waistworks, and into the plaza to get to one building; the Redoran Treasury. Bobby makes an attempt at opening the door, only to find though the handle turns, it has been barred from the other side. He pulls his gun, and shoots at the doors waist. Shouting emanates from inside: "STOP! This is an Ordinator and if you come inside we WILL be forced into using serious force!" Bobby reloads a ball bearing aiming at the door once more, shooting through. He charges at the door, it moves slightly. He reloads again, shooting. The party hear a thud of wood on the other side, no shouting now. Bobby charges the door once more, it easily swinging open and thrusting him into 7 Ordinators waiting on the other side in a small room with a window, desk, and vault ledgers.'' The group fights 7 Ordinators.

Redoran Vaults
''After the fight is over, Bobby doesn't wait for Balz, walking up to the gate and shooting the lock, barging inside. This time, J'Krin and Balz stand back. J'Krin in concern and Balz in confused horror as Bobby walks into the room, tipping the room upside down shooting off lock after lock to be able to search everywhere for something, leaving over high end ebony weapons and enchanted items to look for something. From a chest Bobby picks up an amulet, examining it, but then throwing it to the ground in anger, heading downstairs to the lower floor, rinsing and repeating the same strategy as before, as if looking for something like a rabid animal, even searching the bodies of now dead Ordinators. Bobby mutters to himself: "I-I can't believe it, where IS it..." Clenching his fists in silence, he stands in the middle of the lower vault. He looks over at the party, J'Krin, and Balz. "Look at me, look where this GOT me... By mother's name I never wanted to take my time going to work... I got a carriage, boat, and a headquarters from this, murdering on the streets whenever I want!" He grabs his head, beginning to yell. "What power, what coin, I have all the septims in the world! I am the high king! I run the criminal underworld, I decide who does what, where they do it, I move the skooma of Vvardenfell! What am I- I gonna run around and act like I'm some worker or mercenary somewhere for somebody else's gold? I make the coin, I roll the septims, the gold, all of it is ours!" He looks back at the party, he is sweating hard. He quietens down: "I've always been told... Tu'whacca is watching... You're going to die... No... no no no they don't understand..." Bobby spreads out his arms, looking into the ceiling "I AM the beast I worship!" Breathing heavily, he looks around to see a mortified Balz and J'Krin standing there. J'Krin begins to walk forwards, as Balz stops her instead, walking himself over to Bobby. "Bobby, Bodean..." He hugs Bobby. "Please... I mean, you're clearly not okay, nor yourself... What is wrong..?" Bobby is stunned. After a minute of silence, he wells up, hugging Balz back. "T-The voices... Orvas... It never went away, it let something in. I went to Cyrdoiil on the return from Sentinel to find the one that gave it to him, I found him, but I-..." A pause goes by... "The power they gave me gives me more voices; to find a solution to the voices... It sounds stupid... Maybe it wasn't them..." Balz looks up at Bobby: "It doesn't matter, brother. You won't find it by yourself, and you won't fail with us around. When everything changes, you know who to turn to; we'll always be here. Come on, there's nothing to fear. Gulshun eb crun voshu ornim, being an Orc is to know loss brother... Let's go." Bobby nods; the pair begin to walk out. Bobby says to the players, "we're leaving; grab what you want, I need none of it."'' The players may collect all loot from the vaults.

''The group begins to walk out together, walking up the stairs Bobby and Balz are walking side by side, with J'Krin and the party shortly behind. Crossing the upper office area, almost at the door, a spectral, blue arrow emerges from the window, passing seamlessly through, and hitting Bobby in the skull, carrying his body to the wall. As the arrow passes straight through the wall, Bobby does not, his head hitting the stone, and body slumping to the ground. "BOBBY!" Balz yells sprinting over to the Redguard covered in his own blood, as J'Krin instead tackles Balz to the ground away from Bobby and round the corner into the vault, out of line of the window. Now looking back at Bobby, there is a young Altmer-looking boy standing over the unmoving body. "Corrupted by the darkness you fall into an endless sleep and other paths that result in failure and unacceptance. Now play dead, subject of I, stop your hurting." Balz looks at the boy, shocked. The boy approaches the party: "I told you I'd see you soon. You get your contract, I got my fun. And it WAS fun watching you prance around robbing mortals. But that had to come to an end; he almost figured it out. I met him in Cyrodiil as what he most wanted, I was the voice in his head, he had no power, no 'Heirloom'." The boy walks over to Balz, who's being held back at this point by J'Krin. "I guess he found what he wanted; a stop to the voices. Little did he know, his 'Heirloom' was death..." The boy looks at the body of Bobby. "Oh Bobby, you think you lose and that's the end. It's not..." The boy reaches down to Bobby ripping off a finger with his bare hands, and then casting a spell; Bobby disappearing into a yellow goo into the ground, like there was never anything there. Clavicus Vile turns to the party, peering over the finger: "Recognise this?" Vile lowers the finger holding it by their side. "If you'd never killed him he'd have died in his old age, and if you'd never joined your little gang he'd have died to guards.'' Note that if the party ask about their deaths or anyone else's, Vile can say: "Let's not get too ahead of outselves, shall we? ''Vile turns back to Balz, grinning wide: "Thanks, Balz. You were a real help. Bobby wouldn't have been here today without you..." Vile disappears, and the room silent.''

''The silence does not last long, guards are able to be heard approaching the building. J'Krin is the first to move, she lets go of Balz who is unmoving, and begins to hold the door quickly, which is met by banging of guards. She directs the party: "Hold this blockade, I'm going to smash the window." Once the party do so she punches through the window with her gauntlets, the glass cutting deep into her forearms, moving loose shards out of the way with the back of her hand to make a hole in the wall. She looks back at Balz, who is just sitting there. She runs to grab him, slinging him over her shoulder and jumping through the window.'' The party may follow through the window. ''Soon after the party let go of the door it is buckling hard from the push of the Ordinators. Looking out of the window the party see J'Krin sliding down the stonework supports on the canton's side still carrying Balz, to which she plunges down into the water. As the party attempt to go one by one through the window to do the same, the Ordinators burst through, just in time to see the last party member fit through the window, sliding, into the darkness below.''

Finishing the quest
''As the party land in the waters below, J'Krin hauls Balz onto a nearby tied up gondolier's boat, waving the party on. She sails the short distance from the waters of around the Redoran Canton to emerge on the shores near Ebonheart. She is tired, slumping down next to the party and Balz who is still in shock. Looking up at the 2AM night sky. Out of his frozen trance, Balz raises his crossbow into the air, looking at it steadily. He places it down and sits up now, looking over his Orcish bracers and hand crossbow attached to his arm. "I- He... It's my fau..?" J'Krin looks over, Balz tearing up as he begins sobbing quietly, unable to even continue his sentence. J'Krin embraces him, he embraces back: "It wasn't, lad." J'Krin looks at the party: "None of us could know what'd happen, it ain't no-ones." She looks back to Balz. "Let it out brother. Tears of a tiger, soul of a lion." Everything is quiet for a moment. "The best we could have done is support him and we did just that; who knows what someone's goin' through if they ain't tell you." She looks at the party. "The Camonna Tong's scattered. I'm goin' to try my best to get it back in order n' our crimes cleared; though it's gonna be from the ground up. Come find us n' the No Name Club in a week or so; you can have Ibishammus, don't think I wanna see that place again."''

The party now has completed this quest and the Camonna Tong questline, thanks for playing! I hope you and your players enjoyed. There is an epilogue encounter when the party decide to go to the No Name Club after a week, though not a quest. Also, if the party go back to Ibishammus, they see it has been ransacked and is in ruin; most possibly due to a search by Ordinators. It is completely empty of anything and everyone.

From the Redoran Vaults, available CC does not matter as J'Krin can help carry some. The players gathered:

Lower (scattered): Lower (in crates): Lower (in a 50 locked chest): Lower (in a 50 locked chest): Lower (in a 90 locked small chest): Lower (in a 90 locked small chest): Lower (in a small chest): Lower (in baskets): Lower (in a 50 locked chest): Lower (in a 50 locked chest):
 * Glass War Axe
 * Glass Dagger
 * Foeburner
 * Heart Wall
 * Storm Helm
 * 410 Gold
 * Ebony Mace
 * Ebony Greaves
 * Ebony Tower Shield
 * Ebony Cuirass
 * Ebony Shortsword
 * Dwarven Right Bracer
 * Dwarven Shorsword
 * Dwarven Mace
 * Dwarven Halberd
 * Dwarven Battle Axe
 * Glass Cuirass
 * Glass Greaves
 * 891 Gold
 * Dwarven Claymore
 * Merisan Cuirass
 * Emerald
 * 3 Pearls
 * Ruby
 * 354 Gold
 * 403 Gold
 * 401 Gold
 * 3 Diamonds
 * 2 Bottles
 * Cup
 * Bloat
 * Green Lichen
 * Racer Plumes
 * Wickwheat
 * Chokeweed
 * Roobrush
 * Sload Soap
 * Ebony Longsword
 * Ebony Shortsword
 * 5 Diamonds
 * Pearl
 * Ruby
 * 500 Gold
 * Dwarven War Axe
 * The Chiding Cuirass
 * Ruby
 * 360 Gold

Upper (scattered): Upper (in a 50 locked chest): Upper (in a small chest): Upper (in a small chest): Upper (in a 50 locked chest): Upper (in a 25 locked chest): Upper (in a 50 locked chest): Upper (in a 25 locked chest): Upper (in a crate): Upper (in baskets): Note that though some had locks, Bobby broke them all, so they had been picked up.
 * Orc Warhammer
 * Glass Longsword
 * 3 Glass Throwing Knives
 * Ebony Shortsword
 * Ebony Longsword
 * 7 Ebony Darts
 * 335 Gold
 * 2 Ebony spears
 * 5 Diamonds
 * 2 Emeralds
 * 2 Pearls
 * 500 Gold
 * Diamond
 * 5 Emerald
 * 3 Diamonds
 * 394 Gold
 * 882 Gold
 * Balm Amulet
 * Belt of Nimbleness
 * Exquisite Belt
 * Exquisite Shirt
 * Ring of Fleabite
 * Ring of Vampire's Kiss
 * Diamond
 * Ruby
 * 295 Gold
 * 918 Gold
 * Silver Claymore
 * Silver Dagger
 * Silver Dart
 * Silver Longsword
 * Silver Shortsword
 * Silver Spear
 * Silver Staff
 * Silver Throwing Star
 * Silver War Axe
 * Goblet
 * Bottle
 * Steel Firesword
 * Bowl