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====== Caper 3: Falling Sandbag ======

Invida tips the party off to a potential client and sets up a meet. The client, a shifter named Munro feels slighted by her paramour Pietro, the director of a play in the Lower Central Plateau. She wants you to ruin his play and reputation, then murder Stamatina, the actress Pietro hired to replace her.

The Railjacks stake the theater out during the final dress rehearsal. Wix actually joins the cast as a supernumery actor, Echo steals some tickets for a private box (one in which the actual owners are presumed not to appear), and Scrip met a half-orc named Toof, the production designer. They formulated a plan to stage an accident during a climatic moment of the play, in order to disguise the killing and ruin the play in one fell swoop.

On opening night, the group entered the theater and went to the box to put their plan in motion. Wix fell in with the cast, waiting for the right moment to set some fires and create chaos. Scrip went and played dice with some of the stagehands, while Exile found a vantage point in the rafters, hidden from view.

As the play began, the announcer made a point to thank the Sharn Watch for its heroic deeds, and pointed out a large host of them in attendance, seated on the ground floor. Echo and Tusk snuck backstage, abandoning the box.

Echo went to plant some evidence on the director, to shift the blame off of them and onto him. Munro had prepared some complaints about Pietro ignoring safety regulations, and Echo managed to slip them into his safe unseen.

Tusk went invisible and attempted to learn some information about the understudy Stamatina, but was almost spotted when his spell ran out early. He tucked himself into a wardrobe, but didn't have a chance to escape until the play ended.

As the play reached a climax (a burst of fireworks from Toof's wand), the well-timed plan went into effect. Wix set the curtains on fire with his wand, and Exile sent the curtains falling with a well-placed arrow to the rigging lines. With another arrow, he dropped a heavy sandbag onto Stamatina, killing her almost instantly.

With the stage plunged into chaos, the heroes of the Watch leapt into action, to evacuate the theater patrons and assist the cast and crew. In the commotion, Echo filched the wand of Pyrotechnics from Toof, and the Railjacks escaped the theater relatively unscathed, and with a new appreciation of the dramatic arts.