Our party consists of:
Falstor (kidlet): poacher, teenage girl, rebel
Wrayn Venture (myself): the money, mistborn (zinc)
(friend 1): shapeshifter, sweetheart
(friend 2): incompetent, mistborn (brass, steel)
(friend 3): boisterous, huge, guy who knows a guy
Our GM sets up the game by giving us a map of our little city and giving us a rundown of how things have gone from "pretty fucking oppressive" to "intolerable" over the last couple months. The head obligitor (the inspectors for the empire that call in the muscle if anything's out of line) is a total douchenozzle and he's making the whole city miserable. Plus, one of the steel inquisitors is already on the way to the city, and that's only going to cause more shit.
On the way to the safe house, one of our party (the loud guy) finds a girl swimming across the lake. He takes her with him, and she explains that the slums on the other side of the lake have been razed. It's decided that she can stay with Falstor's family for the time being. Meanwhile, we have other business to attend to. We decide our best tactic for our continued survival at this moment is to discredit the obligitor to reduce the imperial oversight of the city, and to accomplish this we need to make it look like he's slept with a skaa (filthy lower class) woman.
Set up: I work on starting rumors that he has a skaa mistress. They don't spread like wildfire, but there are at least mutterings. Meanwhile, our shapeshifter spends time observing the target so that she can impersonate him later. Falstor is planted as a serving girl in his retinue. We locate an abandoned house and a wagon.
Kidnapping: The wagon is set up behind the window on the noble's latrine in the pit (mine), with friends 1, 2, & 3 hidden inside. Falstor sneaks a heavy laxative in the obligitor's food, and I use magic to incite a riot among the miners (not terribly hard under the circumstances). The obligator rushes to deal with the situation and makes it for an admirable length of time before booking it for the latrine. There, friend 3 grabs him and pulls him into the wagon while friend 2 uses magic to keep him calm. Friend 1 assumes the obligitor's form and goes back to work.
The Smear: The shapeshifter, disguised as our target, puts on some half-assed "I'm trying to disguise myself!" clothes and sneaks in the most obvious fashion possible down to a low-class whorehouse. There, she hires a nice girl to come upstairs with her and play poker and chit-chat. For her own safety, the girl is given a handsome sum and told to get the fuck outta dodge after this is over, since the penalty for her would be death. By the time they're done in the whorehouse, there's a small crowd gathered outside to see what happened. As for the real obligitor, we douse him in alcohol and dump him in a public square a few hours later, wearing the same clothes the shapeshifter had on earlier. During his brief stay with us, we harass him enough to instill some pretty serious paranoia, and it makes him look like an even bigger jackass.
The Outcome: the obligator is run out of town. He tries to tell everyone he was kidnapped, and blames it on the house that owns the pit (Hasting), but everyone can see how patently ridiculous that would be. The hooker gets away, and none of our people are even suspected of anything. Success!
At this point, I put up two fingers and go "who's gonna do it with me?" The loud one volunteers.
