Underbelly

The Underbelly

The Vale's rot under the carpet - The Underbelly is filled with The Scum of the society on the Flipside, it's inhabitants, also known as Scum, are outcasts from society surviving an overwhelming debt, and battle with lyfe itself, making ends meet by making shady dealings with Flipsiders.

Flipsiders in town, as in, the Keep, Church, and Towners, know of the Scum's existence. Depending on the morality of the characters, they can see them as what they wish: Scum, parasites trying to live off of The Vale's resources and coin, or fellow men and women who are just so truly down on their luck, beggars and vagabonds who just couldn't afford to lyve Flipside, and instead turn to this lyfe.

One thing is for certain: The Underbelly is so deep, the only Patron that hears the Scum, is Necra.

The Roles

THE UNDERBELLY

ROLE	PQ REQUIREMENT	Description	Expectations	Difficulty
GUTTER KING	110	You built something down here. Not a Kingdom - nobody'd call it that. But it runs, it pays, and when you say 'do it', people do it. The Keep above think they own this town. You own what's underneath it. Keep the Scum in line, keep the Flipside from burning you down, and don't get careless.	Manage The Scum. Keep relations stable. Don't piss the Keep off. Don't leave the hideout unless you really have to. Send your goons to do the dirty work for you. Convert people to Scum (willingly). Cry at the end of the round in OOC that your faction was fucking useless and didn't get the maximum reward tier.	DUKE
SCUM	50	Work for the Underbelly. Break legs, move cargo, disappear people, or keep the Flingers safe. It doesn't pay well, but it pays, and it beats starving Flipside. The Gutter King expects results. The kind that don't require explaining.	Protect the Underbelly. Protect Flingers by setting up ambush spots. Have Ultimate Swag. Play Dice with your fellow Scum in the common area. Gamble. Get skullcracked by the eventual Keepoid Deathball. Die and then salt in LOOC. Be the biggest threat in the server, technically.	HARD
FLESH TRADER	65	Organs fetch a good price if you know who to sell to. Kidneys, spleens, an appendix - nobody misses the small things. Arms and legs do pay better, but the paperwork gets complicated. The Trader takes what you bring. The Excidium already wants you. Try not to make it worse.	[1]Traffic Organs. Traffic People. Kidnap People. Get arrested by the Keep for those crimes. Get eventually bailed out by your Boss. Do it again. They don't arrest you and instead kill you now. Die and then salt in LOOC.	EXPERT
FLINGER	55	Coin is the only God worth worshipping, and you've devoted your lyfe to it. You have access to goods nobody Flipside can acquire legally, or easily - and a list of clients who will pay anything not to have their name associated with acquiring them. Keep it quiet. Keep it profitable.	Be the Emissary for the Underbelly. Be the sole reason the Underbelly has coin to begin with. Become completely untraceable with your hat that magically hides all your features. Get arrested anyway somehow, even though the guard cannot see your name, descriptors, gender or race. Give non-Scum fetch quests. Make a ton of coin.	THE STEWARD BUT HE'S ACTUALLY USEFUL FOR ONCE
RIPPER	70	Medicine for coin. Surgery for more coin. You'll do what the clinic won't - pull a crossbow bolt without asking how it got there, stitch a face closed that shouldn't be walking around, and charge accordingly. The Pestran relics you carry are not strictly legal. That suits everyone just fine.	Be the Underbelly Dr House. Revive the Scum that died for the 4th time in a row now. Give that person that's totally not a bandit an organ that makes them The Terminator - except if he was made out of paper, and fucking useless. Make potions. Sell two exclusive potions - one is all the healing pots combined, but it drains stats, and knocks you out, and the other is just giving someone a fever. Have the Flinger sell your potions.	MORE MOUSE BITES!!!

I am a X, what do I do if I see Scum?

This table should help you decide what your character should do.

I AM A	MY MORALITY IS	WHAT SHOULD I DO?	NOTE
KEEPOID	INTACT	Dismiss them. Send them back to their shithole. Give them a beating.	Generally speaking, it's more beneficial to release a Scum rather than killing them. They provide to the round, and aren't generally disruptive. This circumstance changes, of course, if they cause too much trouble. They are, after all, lower than dirt.
KEEPOID	GREY/NOT THERE	Make a deal with them. Hire them to kidnap someone or make them disappear. Ignore them	It can be seen as shameful/dishonorable to make deals with such Scum, however, it can be incredibly beneficial, as Scum provide you with plausible deniability and a layer of protection, considering the fact that they're not exactly looking to take the Keep or Church down, but rather pay off their debt, and survive in a shit-city.
CHURCHIE	INTACT	Ignore or dismiss them.	The Scum don't want to mingle in church affairs. They're Scum, not heretics. Generally, at least. Scum are just people down on their luck, some from town, that suffered a stroke of bad luck, Xylix truly abandoning them. Of course, this circumstance can change based on things going on.
TOWNER	INTACT		Generally speaking, Scum won't bother towners, since they have bigger issues. Though, A Flesh Trader might kidnap you for your precious kidney - otherwise, the rest will leave you alone.
TOWNER	GREY/NOT THERE	Make a deal with them. Make coin. Hire them to disappear your competition.	Scum are about the best way for Towners to get goods at a reduced price, bulk shipments of goods that would otherwise cost a lot more from the stockpile/vomitorium, and weaponry that would otherwise cost more at the smithy. And maybe even a gun! Though, what would you even need that for?
ADVENTURER/WRETCH	INTACT	Dismiss them. If you need to get into town, you can maybe talk to them to get you through their expansive sewer network.	Scum can offer adventurers safe passage into town for a price. They have a whopping EIGHT(8) exits all over Rockhill, so they can get around very fast. They likely, probably won't work with evil-ass-zizo necromancer, though.
ADVENTURER/WRETCH	GREY/NOT THERE	Make deals with them. Get into town for a price with their expansive sewer network.	Ditto as above. Except you can maybe buy stuff from them.
BANDIT/OTHER ANTAGS	DONT MATTER	Probably get shot or stabbed.	Scum will NEVER work with antagonists. Especially bandits. The Scum HATE bandits, because they steal their hard earned coin - even though they're poor as fuck (surely). Why would you even steal from a poor person???

THE LAWS OF THE SCUM

(these can be treated as game rules, but also an unspoken law between Scum. The Gutter King makes sure those are enforced)

1. Scum aren't murderers or rabid, mindless heretics. They wish to survive, and pay off their debt. They respond to The Gutter King first and foremost.
2. Scum will not dealmake with Bandits, period. It's already a stretch for them to do so with Wretches. Bandits look to steal our way of lyfe, by taking our coin that we could instead use to pay off our debt.
3. Scum are very hesitant on selling their incredibly expensive ranged weapons. They will never sell weapons to foreigners(wanderers) or bandits.
4. Strength in numbers. Generally, the more Scum, the easier it is to pay off the debt, and operations become a lot easier.
5. Based on the above, Scum should look to protect Flingers and Rippers. Most importantly, the Gutter King. Though, if they have a gun, they should look to be ambushers, rather than chasers. Losing that weapon and getting it in the hands of Bandits would be devastating.
6. Finally, the ordeals of the Keep and Church do not concern the Scum. They should concern themselves with their own people, the debt, and their survival. You can only break this rule if the survival of the Underbelly is at stake, for example, a Lich attack, or a vampyre takeover. The Gutter King decides what is best.