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Three Rascals

by Jiba

"Hmm, let’s see… Holes filled with acids, melting your flesh while razor-sharp adamant spears fall from the ceiling and blood-sucking crows attack you. This is… say… 70 dinars. Pack your bags, guys, we'll break up soon!"

- Makoto Netsuma, making a deal

"I don’t care, what these Rascals do! What I care is that Netsuma’s daughter owes me money!"

- Yume Sukuchi

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The Three Rascals are a group of three chummy Scavenger Lords, who achieved a good reputation in Nexus for beeing quite successful on their trips to ancient ruins or magical places. However, their approaches in scavenging seem uncoordinated and weird. Among well-funded experts, they have the reputation of beeing blissfully ignorant, although this is, in fact, not the case. The Three Rascals began as students of the wise and famous First Age scholar Gurchuban Rainy Heart, who imigrated from the South to Nexus. He died six years ago of old age and is burried at the Site of Sweet Quiescence.

Nevertheless, the Three Rascals pretended to keep the memory of him alive and began to work as Scavenger Lords for hire. Their office is a small room in an old sandstone-house plastered with clay situated at Sentinell’s Hill at the border of the Firewander District. It is arranged with kludgy furniture and a lot of stuff like blueprints of Manses or tiny magical trinkets laying around chaotically. The Three Rascals used to live in a few small rooms behind the bureau, maintaining an apartment-sharing community, when they were younger, but when one of them, Makoto, married, the other two left the house to settle in a flat on the other side of the street. The office, however, is still there and in use. Besides, the Three Rascals also keep a small library and laboratory in the basement, which looks like the office in matters of tidiness.

The Three Rascals only work as a team, as everyone has his own speciality and own interests and knows the weaknesses and quirks of his companions. They have quite different personalities, but they complement one another fine and they do not demand much money for their services, but they are also not guaranteering for success. They love their job and try to do it as good as possible, but when this is not enough to complete a task properly, be it. The team includes three members.

Makoto Netsuma, who seems to be the leading part of the Three Rascals is a congenial, venturous man, who always seems to be in a good mood and ready for new adventures. His tousled, brown moustache looks like it is made of two brushes stroken by lightning and is some kind of hallmark to his person – everyone in the scavenger lord scene knows the „guy with the broom under the nose“. Makoto prefers comfortable, rough leatherclothing that keeps him warm, dry and, not to forget, physically hale. His speciality are artifacts.

Yatsu Sonam, a clumsy, strong guy, who does not quite fit the picture of the heroic scavenger lord. However, Yatsu is a gentle, caring person, whose robust body makes him the brawn of the team. On the other hand, he is a specialist in geomanty and manses. Yatsu wears light southern-style clothing and his dark teint and his black hair and beard give him an outlandish look. One of his most notable characteric traits is his seemingly bottomless stomach – Yatsu is everytime hungry.

Cohim Choyni, the third in the team is a strange person. Sometimes, he seems to be lost in his own thoughts. He stares into space having an unfixed, empty glance in his eyes and saying not a word. If he is not totally trapped in his own mind, he is a nervous, but aware character, who never acts due to a feeling, planing everything in detail. In addition, he is a lucky devil and never tapped into a trap in any of the Manses, the Three Rascals investigated. Cohim is a specialist in dealing with ghosts and magical wards.

A few weeks ago, the Three Rascals faced a great problem – the sudden vanishing of Makoto. Worrying, where he could be, Cohim and Yatsu search for him in every corner of Nexus, but they have no idea where he could be. Shinobe, Makoto’s seventeen-year-old, wild daughter, whose mother died, when she was born, has now problems to maintain the household, which could be related to her inability to deal with money.

Rumours

• Some customers are of the opinion, that Cohim is able to perceive the workings of destiny and when his look is milky and his mind absent, he suffers from terrible visions from the distant future. Cohim could actually be the child of a god or mighty Anathema without knowing it.
• Others claim, that Yatsu has made up a complex, elaborate plan to investigate the Tomb Of Shouting Gods without anyone of the team coming to harm. He spend years to watch the ongoings around it and studied the architecture and developing the plan costed him much free time and ressources. It is sure, he would carry it out soon, but one the most fundamental „instruments“ of his plan is lacking – his friend Makoto.

Secret

• Makoto’s daughter, Shinobe, is a recently chosen Solar Exalted of the Caste of Zenith. She met two other Solars, which were hunted by Wyld Hunt Agents and the pressure triggered the exaltation. At the moment, she is searching her father, following a letter from Cohim, who has given her some information of the vanishing of Makoto.

Comments

I just had to write this entry. These guys appear in my Solar campaign (Shinobe is one of the PCs). Hope you like it. - Jiba