[AtB: A1.3] Streets of Wild Filly

Hook: Following a string of attacks on Cardanian assets, one foiled attack has led to evidence that implicates the Rodent Cartel in Filly.

Line: A paper trail from the Shifter Mouse that was hiring mercs and others to attack Cardanian sites (see HL&S "[AtB: A1.2] The Philly Connection") has implicated the Rodent Cartel of Filly as being involved. Cardania has directed the group to track down who within the Cartel is responsible and what their motives were.

Sinker: The Cartel, not wanting to take the blame for these attacks, fingers a young faction of the Cartel who has been running their operations without the permission of the Cartel-at-large. The faction of the Rodent Cartel responsible for the attacks against Cardania has retreated into the Wild Filly, a savage part of the city ruled by street gangs and ferral mutants. They can be found in an old building not far from the Wild Filly border, but has recruited several "natives" to provide security.

Once the characters are able to secure the factions leader, a mutant mouse named Rodney, he will be quick to spill the beans and tell the group that he was paid a large sum of money by the Free Rangers for weapons (explosives and rifles), and to set up their operative (the shifter mouse from "[AtB: A1.2] The Filly Connection") in Filly with protection (bodyguards), EoH documents, and connections (mercs and anti-Cardanians). They did not tell him why, but his spies in eastern Cardania indicate that the Free Rangers were using these attacks as a smokescreen while they prepared for an operation in Smoketown, though he doesn't know what that operation involves.

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Notes: Getting the information from the Cartel will require either a larger bribe, connections within the Cartel, or providing a service for the Cartel (run guns, provide information, rough someone up, etc.) Be creative. Once the Cartel is satisfied, they will give the group the location of the faction responsible for the actions in "[AtB: A1.2] The Filly Connection".